Here's a list of books which I reviewed on this blog and which I recommend for reading (in alphabetical order sorted by the family – not necessarily the last – names of the authors):= = A = =
- Abe Kōbō: The Face of Another (1964)
- André Aciman: Eight White Nights (2010)
- S. Y. Agnon: Only Yesterday (1945)
- Ilse Aichinger: The Greater Hope (1948)
- Isabel Allende: Portrait in Sepia (2000)
- Maria Àngels Anglada: The Auschwitz Violin (1994)
- António Lobo Antunes: The Return of the Caravels (1988)
- Ariyoshi Sawako: The River Ki (1959)
- Elizabeth von Arnim: Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther (1907)
- Miguel Ángel Asturias: The Green Pope (1954)
- Gertrude Atherton: Sleeping Fires (1922)
- Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye (1988)
- Marguerite Audoux: Marie Claire (1910)
- Paul Auster: 4 3 2 1 (2017)
= = B = =
- Mariama Bâ: So Long A Letter (1980)
- Ingeborg Bachmann: Letters to Felician (1946/1991)
- Enid Bagnold: The Happy Foreigner (1920)
- Bánffy Miklós: They Were Counted (1934)
- Anna Banti: Artemisia (1947)
- Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
- Elia Barceló: Heart of Tango (2007)
- Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
- Vicki Baum: The Christmas Carp (1941)
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Blood of Others (1945)
- Samuel Beckett: Murphy (1938)
- Louis Begley: Matters of Honor (2007)
- Saul Bellow: Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
- Tahar Ben Jelloun: A Palace in the Old Village (2009)
- Thomas Bernhard: Old Masters (1985)
- Mave Binchy: A Week in Winter (2012)
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: The Naked Lady (1906)
- Karen Blixen »»» see Isak Dinesen
- Antoine Blondin: A Monkey in Winter (1959)
- Margarete Böhme: The Diary of a Lost Girl (1905)
- Heinrich Böll: Billiards at Half Past Nine (1959)
- Elizabeth Bowen: A World of Love (1955)
- Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey (1847)
- John Buchan: Midwinter (1923)
- Pearl S. Buck: The Living Reed (1963)
= = C = =
- Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979)
- Albert Camus: The Plague (1947)
- Elias Canetti: Auto da Fé (1935)
- Veza Canetti: Yellow Street (1934/1990)
- Monica Cantieni: The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons (2011)
- Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
- David Allan Cates: X Out of Wonderland (2006)
- Camilo José Cela: The Hive (1951)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
- Chang Eileen: Red Rose, White Rose (1944)
- Agatha Christie Mallowan: Star Over Bethlehem (1965)
- Luísa Coelho: Monique (2003)
- J. M. Coetzee: Youth (2002)
- Teju Cole: Open City (2011)
- Colette: The Cat (1933)
- Elizabeth Cooper: My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard (1914)
- Michelle Cohen Corasanti: The Almond Tree (2012)
= = D = =
- Grazia Deledda: The Church of Solitude (1936)
- Erri de Luca: Three Horses (2002)
- Margriet de Moor: The Storm (2005)
- Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day (1980)
- Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen): Winter's Tales (1942)
- Philippe Djian: Betty Blue (1985)
- Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
- José Donoso: Hell Has No Limits (1966)
- Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996)
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Once a Greek (1955)
- Daphne du Maurier: The Loving Spirit (1931)
- Marguerite Duras: The Sailor from Gibraltar (1952)
- Cindy Dyson: And She Was (2005)
= = E = =
- José Maria de Eça de Queirós: The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900)
- Jean Echenoz: I'm Off (1999)
- Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery (2010)
- Dorothy Edwards: Winter Sonata (1928)
- Enchi Fumiko: A Tale of False Fortunes (1965)
- Endō Shūsaku: Silence (1966)
- Annie Ernaux: A Man's Place (1984)
- Jenny Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone (2015)
- Concha Espina: The Metal of the Dead (1920)
- Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
= = F = =
- Mary McNeil Fenollosa: The Dragon Painter (1906)
- Lion Feuchtwanger: This is the Hour (1951)
- Milena Michiko Flašar: I Called Him Necktie (2012)
- Katie Flynn: No Silver Spoon (1999)
- Dario Fo: The Pope's Daughter (2014)
- Aminatta Forna: The Hired Man (2013)
- Janet Frame: Owls Do Cry (1957)
- Anatole France: Penguin Island (1908)
- Viktor E. Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
- Max Frisch: Montauk (1975)
- Barbara Frischmuth: The Convent School (1968)
= = G = =
- John Galsworthy: The Dark Flower (1913)
- Patrícia Galvão: Industrial Park (1933)
- Gao Xingjian: One Man's Bible (1999)
- Gabriel García Márquez: Of Love and Other Demons (1994)
- Romain Gary: The Roots of Heaven (1956)
- André Gide: Lafcadio's Adventures (1914)
- Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House (1984)
- William Golding: Darkness Visible (1979)
- Nadine Gordimer: None to Accompany Me (1994)
- Maxim Gorky: The Artamonov Business (1925)
- Günter Grass: Crabwalk (2002)
- Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana (1958)
- Jay Griffiths: A Love Letter from a Stray Moon (2011)
- Evelyn Grill: Winter Quarters (1993)
- John Grisham: Skipping Christmas (2001)
- Paula Grogger: The Door in the Grimming (1926)
- Sabine Gruber: Roman Elegy (2011)
= = H = =
- Hella S. Haasse: The Tea Lords (1992)
- Erich Hackl: The Wedding in Auschwitz (2002)
- Maja Haderlap: Angel of Oblivion (2011)
- Knut Hamsun: The Women at the Pump (1920)
- Peter Handke: Short Letter, Long Farewell (1972)
- Marlen Haushofer: The Wall (1963)
- Mark Helprin: Winter's Tale (1983)
- Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha (1922)
- Elisabeth von Heyking: The Letters Which Never Reached Him (1903)
- Elizabeth Hickey: The Painted Kiss (2005)
- Hiraide Takashi: The Guest Cat (2001)
- Ninni Holmqvist: The Unit (2006)
- Winifred Holtby: South Riding (1936)
- Michel Houellebecq: Submission (2015)
= = I = =
- Ibuse Masuji: Black Rain (1966)
- Franz Innerhofer: Beautiful Days (1975)
- Sylvia Iparraguirre: Tierra del Fuego (1998)
- Margaret Irwin: The Galliard (1941)
- Christopher Isherwood: A Meeting by the River (1967)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Artist of the Floating World (1986)
- Ishimure Michiko: Lake of Heaven (1997)
= = J = =
- Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
- Howard Jacobson: The Mighty Walzer (1999)
- Tove Jansson: Fair Play (1989)
- Elfriede Jelinek: Women as Lovers (1975)
- Miljenko Jergović: The Walnut Mansion (2003)
- Else Jerusalem: The Red House (1908)
- Sadie Jones: Small Wars (2009)
- James Joyce: Dubliners (1914)
= = K = =
- Ismail Kadaré: Broken April (1978)
- Kakuta Mitsuyo: Woman on the Other Shore (2007)
- Ioanna Karystiani: Swell (2006)
- Kawabata Yasunari: The Old Capital (1962)
- Kawakami Hiromi: The Briefcase (2001)
- Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World (2005)
- Kertész Imre: Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990)
- Anna Kim: Anatomy of a Night (2012)
- Dorothy Koomson: The Rose Petal Beach (2012)
- Alfred Kubin: The Other Side (1909)
- Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978)
= = L = =
- Carmen Laforet: Nada (1944)
- Selma Lagerlöf: The Emperor of Portugallia (1914)
- Margaret Landon: Anna and the King of Siam (1944)
- Rolf Lappert: Islands of the Dying Light (2010)
- Nella Larsen: Passing (1929)
- Else Lasker-Schüler: My Heart (1912)
- Halldór Kiljan Laxness: Iceland's Bell (1943-46)
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: Desert (1980)
- Doris Lessing: The Good Terrorist (1985)
- Primo Levi: If Not Now, When? (1982)
- Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt (1922)
- Clarice Lispector: Água Viva (1973)
- Lu Xun: The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China (1923-1935)
- Robert Ludlum: The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
= = M = =
- Rose Macaulay: The World My Wilderness (1950)
- Naguib Mahfouz: Midaq Alley (1947)
- Rani Manicka: The Rice Mother (2002)
- Henning Mankell: Italian Shoes (2006)
- Thomas Mann: Royal Highness (1909)
- Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922)
- Dacia Maraini: Train to Budapest (2008)
- Ranko Marinković: Cyclops (1965)
- Carmen Martín Gaite: The Farewell Angel (1994)
- Ana María Matute: Celebration in the Northwest (1952)
- William Somerset Maugham: Christmas Holiday (1939)
- François Mauriac: Vipers' Tangle (1932)
- Margaret Mazzantini: Twice Born (2008)
- Alexander McCall Smith: Portuguese Irregular Verbs (1997)
- Eva Menasse: Vienna (2005)
- Pascal Mercier: Night Train to Lisbon (2004)
- Marga Minco: Bitter Herbs (1957)
- Miyamoto Teru: Kinshu. Autumn Brocade (1982)
- Mo Yan: Frog (2009)
- Patrick Modiano: So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood (2014)
- Nicholas Monsarrat: The Kappillan of Malta (1973)
- Elsa Morante: Arturo's Island (1957)
- Alberto Moravia: Boredom (1960)
- Mori Ōgai: The Wild Geese (1911-13)
- Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Herta Müller: The Passport (1986)
- Alice Munro: Dear Life (2012)
- Murakami Haruki: A Wild Sheep Chase (1982)
- Iris Murdoch: The Unicorn (1963)
- Michela Murgia: Accabadora (2009)
= = N = =
- Sten Nadolny: The Discovery of Slowness (1983)
- V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River (1979)
- Nakamura Fuminori: The Thief (2009)
- Natsume Sōseki: I Am a Cat (1905)
- Irène Némirovsky: The Courilof Affair (1933)
- Anaïs Nin: The Winter of Artifice (1939)
- Cees Nooteboom: The Following Story (1991)
- Suzanne Normand: Five Women on a Galley (1927)
- Mirjana Novaković: Fear and His Servant (2000)
= = O = =
- Ōe Kenzaburō: The Changeling (2000)
- Ogawa Ito: The Restaurant of Love Regained (2008)
- Ogawa Yōko: The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003)
- Sofi Oksanen: Purge (2008)
- George Orwell: Burmese Days (1934)
- Amos Oz: Black Box (1986)
= = P = =
- Pak Kyongni: The Curse of Kim's Daughters (1962)
- Orhan Pamuk: Snow (2002)
- Katherine Pancol: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2006)
- Vera Panova: The Train (1946)
- Octavio Paz: The Monkey Grammarian (1974)
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte: The Flanders Panel (1990)
- Leo Perutz: Little Apple (1928)
- Nélida Piñon: The Republic of Dreams (1984)
- Luigi Pirandello: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926)
- Pitigrilli (pseudonym of Dino Segre): The Man Who Searched for Love (1929)
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (1834)
= = Q = =
- Rachel de Queiroz: The Three Marias (1939)
- Raymond Queneau: The Blue Flowers (1965)
- Sarah Quigley: The Conductor (2011)
- Horacio Quiroga: The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (1907-1935)
= = R = =
- Julya Rabinowich: Splithead (2008)
- Domnica Radulescu: Train to Trieste (2008)
- Sergio Ramírez: To Bury Our Fathers (1978)
- Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead (1943)
- Erich Maria Remarque: The Night in Lisbon (1962)
- Jean Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
- Mazo de la Roche: Jalna (1927)
- Mercè Rodoreda: In Diamond Square (1962)
- Peter Rosegger: The Earth and the Fullness Thereof (1900)
- Joseph Roth: The Radetzky March (1932)
- Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
= = S = =
- Kurban Said: Ali and Nino (1937)
- Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
- Cora Sandel: Alberta and Jacob (1926)
- José Saramago: The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989)
- Nathalie Sarraute: Portrait of a Man Unknown (1948)
- Judith Schalansky: The Giraffe's Neck (2011)
- Rafik Schami: The Calligrapher's Secret (2008)
- Robert Schneider: Brother of Sleep (1992)
- Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else (1924)
- Brigitte Schwaiger: Why Is There Salt in the Sea? (1977)
- Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Lyric Novella (1933)
- Dino Segre »»» see Pitigrilli
- Annemarie Selinko: Désirée (1951)
- Matilde Serao: Souls Divided (1914)
- Clemens J. Setz: Indigo (2012)
- Elif Shafak: The Flea Palace (2002)
- Zeruya Shalev: The Remains of Love (2011)
- Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice (1950)
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää: People in the Summer Night (1934)
- Claude Simon: The Trolley (2001)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Satan in Goray (1933)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963)
- Muriel Spark: Memento Mori (1959)
- Chantal T. Spitz: Island of Shattered Dreams (1991)
- Eva Stachniak: The Winter Palace (2012)
- John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
- Irving Stone: Lust for Life (1934)
- Patrick Süskind: The Pigeon (1987)
- Sumii Sué: The River With No Bridge (1961)
- Martin Suter: The Chef (2010)
- Italo Svevo: Zeno's Conscience (1923)
- Szabó Magda: The Door (1986)
- Andrzej Szczypiorski: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (1986)
- Władysław Szpilman: The Pianist (1946)
= = T = =
- Antonio Tabucchi: Pereira Maintains (1994)
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World (1916)
- Bahaa Taher: Sunset Oasis (2007)
- Susanna Tamaro: Follow Your Heart (1994)
- Tanizaki Jun'ichirō: Quicksand (1928-30)
- Philip Teir: The Winter War (2013)
- Marcelle Tinayre: To Arms! (1915)
- Friedrich Torberg: Young Gerber (1930)
- Miguel Torga: Grape Harvest (1945)
- Peter Truschner: Serpent's Child (2001)
- Tsuboi Sakae: Twenty-four Eyes (1952)
= = U = =
- Linn Ullmann: Before You Sleep (1998)
- Regina Ullmann: The Country Road (1921)
- Miguel Unamuno: Abel Sanchez and Other Stories (1917/1904/1931)
- Sigrid Undset: Jenny (1911)
- Chika Unigwe: On Black Sisters' Street (2007)
- Uno Chiyo: Confessions of Love (1935)
- John Updike: S. (1988)
- Leon Uris: The Angry Hills (1955)
= = V = =
- Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Autumn and Winter Sonatas (1903/1905)
- Birgit Vanderbeke: The Mussel Feast (1990)
- Mario Vargas Llosa: The Way to Paradise (2003)
- Timur Vermes: Look Who's Back (2011)
- Boris Vian: Mood Indigo (1946)
- Clara Viebig: The Golden Hills (1927)
- Annie Vivanti: The Devourers (1910)
- Susan Vreeland: Clara and Mr. Tiffany (2011) - review forthcoming
= = W = =
- Sylvia Townsend Warner: Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927)
- Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One (1948)
- Fay Weldon: Puffball (1980)
- Franz Werfel: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
- Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)
- Patrick White: The Tree of Man (1955)
- Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March (1948)
- Katharina Winkler: Blue Jewellery (2016)
- Christa Wolf: Cassandra (1983)
- Viginia Woolf: Jacob's Room (1922)
= = X = =
- David Xavier: Bells Above Greens (2013)
- Françoise Xénakis: The Fig Tree (1970)
- Xinran: Sky Burial (2004)
- Xu Zechen: Running Through Beijing (2006)
= = Y = =
- William Butler Yeats: The Celtic Twilight (1902)
- Yoshikawa Eiji: The Heiké Story (1951)
- Yoshimoto Banana: The Lake (2005)
- Anne Youngson: Meet Me at the Museum (2018)
- Marguerite Yourcenar: The Abyss (1968)
= = Z = =
- Countess Zanardi Landi: The Secret of an Empress (1914)
- Juli Zeh: The Method (2009)
- Tirdad Zolghadr: Softcore (2007)
- Stefan Zweig: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1926)