Books Reviewed A-Z

2a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas
4 Brown Girls Who Write

A

A Boy in Winter
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
A Girl’s Story
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
A God in Every Stone
A God in Ruins
A Little Life
A Manual for Heartache
A Place for Us
A Robot in the Garden
A Secret Sisterhood
A Separation
A Small Silence
A Song for Issy Bradley
A Spool of Blue Thread
A Tale for the Time Being
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men 
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren 1939-45

Academy Street
After Before
After Me Comes the Flood
After You Die
Alarm Girl
Alif the Unseen
All the Beggars Riding
All the Birds, Singing
All the Good Things
All This Has Nothing to Do With Me
Almost English
Always Coca-Cola
America Is Not the Heart
American Housewife 
American Spy
Americanah
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
An Exclusive Love
An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Untamed State
Anatomy of a Night
Ancillary Justice
And Fire Came Down
Animals
Apple Tree Yard
Aren’t We Sisters?
At Hawthorn Time
At the Edge of the Orchard
Attrib. and other stories
Autobiography of Us

B

Baba Djuna’s Last Love
Back to Back
Bad Love
Baise-Moi 
Barkskins
Bedsit Disco Queen
Before the Fall
Before the Fire
Beloved
Bewitched
Big Brother
Black Water
Black Water Rising
Blonde Roots
Blood and Roses
Blood Orange
Bluebird, Bluebird
Boy Parts
Boy, Snow, Bird
Breasts and Eggs
Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
Brick Lane
Bring Up the Bodies
Burial Rites
Burnt Sugar
Butter
Butterflies in November
Buy Buy Baby
By Blood

C

Campari for Breakfast
Chaplin & Company 
Chinaski

Citizen: An American Lyric
Clever Girl
Closed Doors
Crooked Heart 
Cry, Mother Spain

D

Dark Chapter 
Daughters of Decadence

Days in the History of Silence
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Dead Romantic
Dear Committee Members
Dear Daughter
Dear Fang, With Love
Dear Thief
Die, My Love
Different Class
Difficult Women
Dodge and Burn
Dog Days
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Dot
Dreamers
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

E

Eileen
Eleven Days
Elizabeth Is Missing
Empress of the Night
Escape for the Summer
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Every Kiss a War
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Everything I Never Told You
Everywoman
Exposure
Exquisite
Exquisite Cadavers

F

Fallout
First Love
Fleishman Is In Trouble
Flesh of the Peach
Flight Behaviour 
Frenchman’s Creek

G

Geek Girl 
Geek Love

Ghana Must Go 
Ghostbird

Ghost Wall
Girl at War
Girl in a Band 
Glass Town
Good Girls Don’t Tell

Gorsky
Grow a Pair: 9 1/2 Fairytales About Sex

H

H is for Hawk
Hag-Seed 
Half Blood Blues

Hamnet
Harmless Like You
Hausfrau
He Said/She Said
Her 
Himself

Home Fire
Homegoing
Homesick for Another World
Hope Farm
Hot Milk
Hotel Iris
House of Ashes
Howards End Is on the Landing
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
How Should a Person Be?
How to Be a Heroine
how to be both
How to Get a (Love) Life
How to Stuff Up Christmas
Human Acts
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

I

I Am China
I Laughed, I Cried
I Take You
If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go 
If You Look for Me, I Am Not Here

Ignorance
In Search of Solace
In the Dream House
Instructions for a Heatwave
It Takes Blood and Guts

J

Jacob’s Folly 
Just Call Me Superhero

K

Kassandra and the Wolf 
Kill Me Again

Kindred
King Kong Theory
Kipling & Trix

L

Ladivine
Lamb
Landfalls
LaRose
Les Parisiennes
Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
Life After Life
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Lila
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Little Deaths
Little Eyes
LIVEwire
Longbourn
Look at Me
Lost & Found
Louis & Louise
Love After Love
Love And Other Thought Experiments
Love Me Back
Love, Nina

M

Maggot Moon 
Mãn

Man at the Helm
Manazuru
Manhattan Beach
Many People Die Like You
Martin John
Masked Dolls
Mateship with Birds
May We Be Forgiven
Me and Mr Booker
Melmoth
Mend the Living
Midwinter
Minor Detail
Missing, Presumed
Model Misfit (Geek Girl 2)
Mr Loverman
My Brilliant Friend 
My Mother Was an Upright Piano

My Name Is Leon
My Name Is Lucy Barton
My Salinger Year
My Shitty Twenties
My Sister, The Serial Killer

N

N-W 
Name Upon Name
 
Negroland

Night Film
Nights at the Circus 
Nina Is Not OK

Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu
Not Working
Nudibranch
Number One Chinese Restaurant

O

One Hundred Shadows
One Night, Markovitch
Orangeboy
Our Endless Numbered Days
Outline

P

Panty
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Paulina & Fran
Perfect
Pimp State
Pleasantville
Postcolonial Love Song
Prayers for the Stolen
Push

Q

Questions of Travel 
Quicksand and Passing

R

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Reasons She Goes to the Woods
Redemption in Indigo
Redhead By the Side of the Road
Relativity
Revenge
Ridley Road 
Ruby

Running Like a Girl
Rush, Oh!

S

Seduce
See What I Have Done
Seeing Red
Shame

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me 
Show Me a Mountain

Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sisterland
Sitting Ducks
Six Stories and an Essay 
Six Tudor Queens #1, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

Skint Estate
Sleeping on Jupiter
Small g 
Small Island
Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged
Soft in the Head
Soon
Spare Brides
Speak
Springfield Road
Station Eleven
Stay With Me 
Still Falling

Still Life with Breadcrumbs
Strange Beasts of China
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Such a Fun Age
Sugar Hall
Summertime 
Swing Time
Sympathy

T

Take a Look at Me Now 
Talk of the Toun

Tampa
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 
Tell No Tales

Tender Is the Flesh
Tentacle
Territory of Light
The Amber Fury 
The Anatomist’s Dream

The Argonauts 
The Arrival of the Missives

The Art of Asking
The Art of Baking Blind
The Art of Being a Woman
The Awakening
The Awakening of Miss Prim
The Ballroom
The Bass Rock
The Bear
The Beauty
The Bees
The Big Lie
The Blue Room
The Bone Season
The Book of Joan
The Book of Memory
The Bound Man and Other Stories
The Burgess Boys
The Butterfly Summer
The Chimes
The Colour of Milk
The Core of the Sun
The Country of Ice Cream Star 
The Crooked House

The Dark Circle
The Dead Wife’s Handbook
The Defenceless
The Devil in the Marshalsea
The Disappearance of Emily Marr
The Disaster Tourist
The Diving Pool
The Dogs of Littlefield
The Electric Michelangelo
The Enchanted
The End We Start From
The Engagement
The Engagements
The Essex Serpent
The Expatriates
The Fire Sermon
The First Bad Man
The First Book of Calamity Leek
The Flamethrowers
The Forrests
The Gender Games
The Girl of Ink and Stars
The Girl on the Train
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
The Girl with the Painted Face
The Girls
The Girls from Corona Del Mar
The Glorious Heresies
The Goldfinch
The Good Neighbour
The Gracekeepers
The Gravity of Birds
The Green Road
The Gustav Sonata
The Gypsy Goddess
The Handsworth Times
The Hourglass Factory
The House at the Edge of the World
The House in Smyrna
The House of Hidden Mothers
The House We Grew Up In
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Idiot
The Impossible Fairytale
The Improbability of Love
The Incarnations
The Innocents
The Interestings
The Island
The Joyce Girl
The Last Act of Love
The Last Boat Home
The Last Runaway
The Last Summer
The Last Wave
The Lemon Grove
The Lesser Bohemians
The Liars’ Gospel
The Lie
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
The Life of a Banana
The Living
The Lonely City
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
The Long Room
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
The Looking Glass Sisters
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
The Lowland
The Luminaries
The Mare
The Marlowe Papers
The Mental Load
The Miniaturist
The Muse
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Mussel Feast
The Naked Muse
The Natashas
The New Wilderness
The Night Guest
The Night Visitor
The Notebook
The Offering
The One Plus One
The Orphan Choir
The Other Half of Happiness
The Other Typist
The Palace of Curiosities
The Partner Track
The Paying Guests
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
The Perfume Collector
The Portable Veblen
The Power
The Private Life of Mrs Sharma
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Puttermesser Papers
The Quick
The Railwayman’s Wife
The Red Book
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
The Repercussions
The Rules Do Not Apply
The Secret Chord
The Shadow King
The Shadow Year
The Shining Girls
The Ship
The Shore
The Signature of All Things 
The Silence of the Girls
The Smart One
The Sport of Kings
The Strangler Vine
The Story of a New Name
The Summer of Secrets
The Table of Less Valued Knights
The Temporary Bride
The Trick to Time
The Trip to Echo Spring
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
The Tryst
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
The Undertaking
The Unmumsy Mum
The Vacationers 
The Vanishing Futurist

The Vegetarian
The Village
The Violet Hour
The Visionist
The Visitors
The Walk Home
The Wedding Gift
The White Road and Other Stories
The Wild Remedy
The Wolf Border
The Woman Next Door
The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Who Stole My Life
The Wrong Knickers
Thirst
This Is How It Ends
This Mournable Body
This Must Be the Place
Thornfield Hall
Three Things About Elsie
Through the Woods
Tirra Lirra By the River
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Transit
Twilight

U

Under the Udala Trees
Under the Visible Life
Unsheltered
Upstairs at the Party 
Uptown Thief

V

Vigilante 
Viral

W

Wake 
Waking Lions

Watch Her Disappear
We and Me
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Need New Names
Welcome to Lagos
What a Way to Go
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
When the Sky Fell Apart
When We Speak of Nothing
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Where the River Parts
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Whispers Through a Megaphone
White Feathers
Who Fears Death
With or Without You
Woman on the Edge of Time

X

Y

Y 
Yes Please

You Know You Want This

Z