Web-log book reviews (fiction)
This is an index page for the web-log reviews
I’ve written of fiction. Sometimes the “reviews”
linked to are a bit terse, and more can be garnered by reading up the
page to see if I’ve written anything in the various “Still
reading:” entries from before the final summing up.
Check the date at the bottom of the page to see when it was last
updated.
All reviews
| Non-fiction index
By author
- Margaret Atwood, A
handmaid’s tale.
- Paul Auster, Timbuktu.
- Jane Austen, Persuasion.
- Jane Austen, Pride and
prejudice.
- Jane Austen, Sense and
sensibility.
- Murray Bail, Eucalyptus.
- Iain Banks, The
Business.
- Iain Banks, Walking on
glass.
- Iain M. Banks, The
algebraist.
- Iain M. Banks, Consider
Phlebas.
- Iain M. Banks, Excession.
- Iain M. Banks, Inversions.
- Iain M. Banks, Look to
windward.
- Iain M. Banks, The player of
games.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of
weapons.
- Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s
mandolin.
- Anita Brookner, Undue
influence.
- Peter Carey, The tax
inspector.
- Eoin Colfer, Artemis
Fowl.
- Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl:
the Arctic incident.
- Eoin Colfer, Artemis
Fowl: the Eternity Code.
- Joseph Conrad, Almayer’s
folly.
- Joseph Conrad, The
arrow of gold.
- Joseph Conrad, Chance.
- Joseph Conrad, An outcast of the
islands.
- Joseph Conrad, The rescue.
- Joseph Conrad, The
rover.
- Joseph Conrad, The secret
agent.
- Joseph Conrad, The secret
sharer.
- Joseph Conrad, A
set of six.
- Joseph Conrad, The shadow
line.
- Joseph Conrad, Tales of
unrest.
- Joseph Conrad, Typhoon and other
tales.
- Joseph Conrad, Under western
eyes.
- Joseph Conrad, Victory.
- Joseph Conrad, Within the
tides.
- Roald Dahl, The
BFG.
- Roald Dahl, Complete tales of
the unexpected.
- Roald Dahl, Matilda.
- Roald Dahl, The Twits.
- Robertson Davies, The Cornish
trilogy.
- Robertson Davies, The Deptford
trilogy.
- Philip K. Dick, The father
thing.
- Charles Dickens, Great
Expectations.
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit.
- Charles Dickens, Martin
Chuzzlewit.
- Charles Dickens, Our mutual
friend.
- Apostolis Doxiadis, Uncle Petros and the
Golbach Conjecture.
- Michael Ende, Momo.
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre
affair.
- Antonia Forest, Autumn
term.
- E. M. Forster, Howard’s
end.
- E. M. Forster, The longest
journey.
- E. M. Forster, Maurice.
- E. M. Forster, A
passage to India.
- E. M. Forster, A room
with a view.
- E. M. Forster, Where
angels fear to tread.
- Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna’s
daughters.
- Janice Galloway, Clara.
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and
daughters.
- Julia Glass, Three Junes.
- Graham Greene, The confidential
agent.
- Graham Greene, A gun for
sale.
- Graham Greene, Ministry of
Fear.
- Graham Greene, Our man in
Havana.
- Graham Greene, Stamboul
train.
- Graham Greene, The third
man.
- Joanne Harris, Chocolat.
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22.
- Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla’s feeling for
snow.
- Nick Hornby, About a
boy.
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An artist of the
floating world.
- Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood.
- James Joyce, Portrait of the artist as a young
man.
- James Joyce, Ulysses.
- Jack Kerouac, On the
road.
- Matthew Kneale, English
passengers.
- Elizabeth Knox, The vintner’s
luck.
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of
maladies.
- John Lanchester, Mr. Phillips.
- Alexander McCall Smith, Heavenly date and
other flirtations.
- Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1
Ladies’ Detective Agency.
- Alexander McCall Smith, Portuguese
irregular verbs.
- Todd McEwen, Arithmetic.
- Rohinton Mistry, Family
matters.
- Rohinton Mistry, A fine balance.
- Walter Moers, The
13½ lives of Captain Bluebear.
- E. Nesbit, The railway
children.
- Patrick O’Brian, Master and
commander.
- Patrick O’Brian, Post
captain.
- Patrick O’Brian, H.M.S. Surprise.
- Patrick O’Brian, The Mauritius
command.
- Patrick O’Brian, Desolation
Island.
- Patrick O’Brian, The fortune of
war.
- Patrick O’Brian, The surgeon’s
mate.
- Patrick O’Brian, The Ionian
mission.
- Patrick O’Brian, Treason’s
harbour.
- Patrick O’Brian, The far side of the
world.
- Patrick O’Brian, The reverse of the
medal.
- Patrick O’Brian, The letter of
marque.
- Patrick O’Brian, The thirteen-gun
salute.
- Patrick O’Brian, The nutmeg of
consolation.
- Patrick O’Brian, Clarissa
Oakes.
- Patrick O’Brian, The wine-dark
sea.
- Terry Pratchett,
Carpe
jugulum.
- Terry Pratchett,
Equal
rites.
- Terry Pratchett,
The fifth
elephant.
- Terry Pratchett,
Hogfather.
- Terry Pratchett,
The last
continent.
- Terry Pratchett,
Thief of
time.
- Terry Pratchett, The truth.
- Philip Pullman,
Northern
lights.
- Philip Pullman,
The subtle
knife.
- Philip Pullman, The amber
spyglass.
- Thomas Pynchon, The crying of
Lot 49.
- Arthur Ransome, Swallows and
Amazons.
- Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale.
- Arthur Ransome, Winter
holiday.
- Arthur Ransome, Coot Club.
- Arthur Ransome, Pigeon
post.
- Alistair Reynolds, Revelation
Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution
Gap.
- Joseph Roth, The Radetzky
March.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix.
- Vikram Seth, A
suitable boy.
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- Zadie Smith, White
teeth.
- W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The hobbit.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The lord of the rings.
- Anthony Trollope, Dr. Thorne.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse
5.
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith.
- T. H. White, The once and future
king.
- Oscar Wilde, The
picture of Dorian Gray.
- P. G. Wodehouse, Plums of
P. G. Wodehouse.
