52 Books in 52 Weeks - My 2016 List

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A Double Alphabet of Writers

- completed and forthcoming reviews -

• Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye (1988)
  Abe Kōbō: The Face of Another (1964), original Japanese title: 他人の顔
• Margarete Böhme: The Diary of a Lost Girl (1905), original German title: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
  Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
• Monica Cantieni: The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons (2011), original German title: Grünschnabel
  Camilo José Cela: The Hive (1951), original Spanish title: La colmena
• Daphne du Maurier: The Loving Spirit (1931)
  Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996)
• Annie Ernaux: A Man's Place (1984), original French title: La Place
  Endō Shūsaku: Silence (1966), original Japanese title: 沈黙
• Janet Frame: Owls Do Cry (1957)
  Max Frisch: Montauk (1975), original German title: Montauk
• Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House (1984), original Italian title: La città e la casa
  John Galsworthy: The Dark Flower (1913)
  
• Winifred Holtby: South Riding (1936)
  Michel Houellebecq: Submission (2015), original French title: Soumission
• Sylvia Iparraguirre: Tierra del Fuego (1998), original Spanish title: La Tierra del Fuego
  Ibuse Masuji: Black Rain (1966), original Japanese title: 黒い雨
• Else Jerusalem: The Red House (1908), original German title: Der Heilige Skarabäus
  Howard Jacobson: The Mighty Walzer (1999)
• Dorothy Koomson: The Rose Petal Beach (2012)
  Alfred Kubin: The Other Side (1909), original German title: Die andere Seite. Ein phantastischer Roman
• Margaret Landon: Anna and the King of Siam (1944)
  Primo Levi: If Not Now, When? (1982), original Italian title: Se non ora, quando?
• Rani Manicka: The Rice Mother (2002)
  Thomas Mann: Royal Highness (1909), original German title: Königliche Hoheit
• Nakamura Fuminori: The Thief (2009), original Japanese title: 掏摸
  Suzanne Normand: Five Women on a Galley (1927), original French title: Cinq femmes sur une galère 
• George Orwell: Burmese Days (1934)
  Ogawa Ito: The Restaurant of Love Regained (2008), original Japanese title: 食堂かたつむり
• Octavio Paz: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), original Spanish title: El mono gramático
  Vera Panova: The Train (1946), original Russian title: Спутники
• Raymond Queneau: The Blue Flowers (1965), original French title: Les fleurs bleues
  Sarah Quigley: The Conductor (2011) 
• Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
  Mercè Rodoreda: In Diamond Square (1962), original Catalan title: La Plaça del Diamant
• Isaac Bashevis Singer: Satan in Goray (1933), original Yiddish title: Der sotn in Goray
  Brigitte Schwaiger: Why Is There Salt in the Sea (1977), original German title: Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer?
• Peter Truschner: Serpent's Child (2001), original German title: Schlangenkind
  Tsuboi Sakae: Twenty-four Eyes (1952), original Japanese title: 二十四の瞳
  
• Miguel de Unamuno: Abel Sanchez and Other Stories (1917/1904/1931), original Spanish titles: Abel Sánchez; La Locura del Doctor Montarco; San Manuel Bueno, mártir
  Chika Unigwe: On Black Sisters' Street (2007), original Dutch title: Fata Morgana
• Timur Vermes: Look Who's Back (2012), original German title: Er ist wieder da
  Annie Vivanti: The Devourers (1910), title of the rewritten Italian edition: I divoratori (1911)
  
• Patrick White: The Tree of Man (1955)
  Christa Wolf: Cassandra (1983), original German title: Kassandra
• David Xavier: Bells Above Greens (2013)
  Françoise Xénakis: The Fig Tree (1970), original French title: Elle lui dirait dans l'ile
• Yoshikawa Eiji: The Heike Story (1951), original Japanese title: 新平家物語
  Yoshimoto Banana: The Lake (2005), original Japanese title: みずうみ
• Tirdad Zolghadr: Softcore (2007)
  Countess Zanardi Landi: The Secret of an Empress (1914)