Reading the complete works of:
Niccolo Ammaniti
2003 I’m Not Scared ****
2006 Steal You Away
2009 The Crossroads ****
Jane Austen (England)
1811 Sense and Sensibility ****
1813 Pride and Prejudice *****
1814 Mansfield Park (1814)
1815 Emma (1815)
1817 Northanger Abbey ****
1817 Persuasion *****
1871 Lady Susan (Unfinished)
1871 The Watsons (Unfinished)
1925 Sanditon (Unfinished)
William Boyd (Novels) (England/Scotland?)
1981 A Good Man In Africa
1982 An Ice-Cream War ****
1984 Stars and Bars
1987 The New Confessions
1990 Brazzaville Beach ****
1993 The Blue Afternoon
1995 Transfigured Night
1998 Armadillo
1998 Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960
2002 Any Human Heart
2006 Restless
2009 Ordinary Thunderstorms
Michael Collins (Ireland)
1993 The Meat Eaters
1994 The Life and Times of a Teaboy **
1996 The Feminists go Swimming
1998 Emerald Underground **
2000 The Keepers of Truth ***
2002 The Resurrectionists ****
2003 Lost Souls *****
2004 Exodus (Listed on FantasticFiction but never actually published?)
2006 The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton ***1/2
2010 Midnight In A Perfect Life
Consolidated post on novels up to and including The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton here.
Janice Galloway (Scotland)
1989 The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
1991 Blood
1994 Foreign Parts
1996 Where You Find It
2002 Clara
2008 This Is Not About Me
Patricia Highsmith (Novels) ( USA)
1950 Strangers on a Train ****
1952 Carol
1955 The Talented Mr Ripley
1957 Deep Water
1958 A Game For The Living
1960 This Sweet Sickness
1962 The Cry of The Owl ****
1964 The Two Faces of January ***
1964 The Glass Cell
1965 A Suspension of Mercy
1966 The Blunderer
1967 Those Who Walk Away ***1/2
1969 The Tremor of Forgery
1970 Ripley Under Ground
1972 A Dog’s Ransom
1974 Ripley’s Game
1977 Edith’s Diary
1980 The Boy Who Followed Ripley
1983 People Who Knock On The Door
1986 Found In The Street
1991 Ripley Under Water
1995 Small G: A Common Idyll
Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland)
2004 Jar City *****
2005 Silence of the Grave ****
2006 Voices ***
2007 The Draining Lake
2008 Arctic Chill
2009 Hypothermia
Daniel Kehlmann (Germany)
2006 Measuring the World
2008 Me and Kaminski
2010 Fame – A Novel in Nine Stories
Camilla Läckberg (Sweden)
2008 The Ice Princess
2008 The Preacher
2009 The Stone Cutter
Andrea Levy (England)
1994 Every Light In the House Burning ****
1996 Never Far From Nowhere
1999 Fruit of The Lemon ***
2004 Small Island *****
2010 The Long Song
Henning Mankell (Kurt Wallander Novels) (Sweden)
1991 Faceless Killers ****
1992 The Dogs of Riga ***
1993 The White Lioness **
2005 The Man Who Smiled **
1995 Sidetracked ****
1996 The Fifth Woman *****
1997 One Step Behind ***
1998 Firewall ****
2008 The Pyramid
Eduardo Mendoza (Spain)
1990 The City of Marvels
1995 The Year of the Flood ***
2003 A Light Comedy
2007 No Word from Gurb
2008 The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
???? The Olive Labyrinth
David Mitchell (England)
1999 Ghostwritten
2001 Number9Dream
2004 Cloud Atlas ****
2006 Black Swan Green **
2010 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Brian Moore (Ireland / Canada)
1955 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1957 The Feast of Lupercal
1960 The Luck of Ginger Coffey
1962 An Answer from Limbo
1965 The Emperor of Ice-Cream
1968 I am Mary Dunne
1970 Fergus
1971 The Revolution Script
1972 Catholics
1975 The Great Victorian Collection
1976 The Doctor’s Wife
1979 The Mangan Inheritance
1981 The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
1983 Cold Heaven
1985 Black Robe
1987 The Colour of Blood
1990 Lies of Silence
1993 No Other Life
1995 The Statement
1997 The Magician’s Wife
Roger N Morris (England)
2007 A Gentle Axe
2008 A Vengeful Longing
2010 A Razor Wrapped in Silk
Carmen Posadas (Uruguay)
2003 Little Indiscretions
2005 The Last Resort
2008 Child’s Play
Matt Rees (Wales)
2007 The Bethlehem Murders ****
2008 The Saladin Murders
2009 The Samaritan’s Secret
2010 The Fourth Assassin
Philip Reeve (The Hungry City Chronicles) (England)
2001 Mortal Engines ****
2003 Predator’s Gold ****
2005 Infernal Devices ****
2006 A Darkling Plain
2009 Fever Crumb (Prequel)
2010 A Web of Air (Prequel II)
Jose Carlos Somoza (Spain)
2002 The Athenian Murders ****
2005 The Art of Murder *****
2007 Zig Zag
Colm Tóibín (Ireland)
Novels
1990 The South
1992 The Heather Blazing
1996 The Story of the Night
1999 The Blackwater Lightship
2004 The Master
2009 Brooklyn
Short Stories
2006 Mothers and Sons
Selected Non-Fiction
1990 Homage to Barcelona
Barry Unsworth (England)
1966 The Partnership
1970 The Hide
1973 Mooncranker’s Gift
1976 The Big Day
1980 Pascali’s Island
1980 The Idol Hunter
1982 The Rage of the Vulture
1985 Stone Virgin
1988 Sugar and Rum
1991 Sacred Hunger ****
1993 The Greeks Have a Word for It
1995 Morality Play ****
1996 After Hannibal ***
1999 Losing Nelson *****
2002 The Songs of the Kings
2006 The Ruby in Her Navel ***
2009 Land of Marvels ****
Fred Vargas (France)
2003 Have Mercy on Us All ****
2004 Seeking Whom He May Devour ***
2005 The Three Evangelists *****
2007 Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands *** 1/2
2008 This Night’s Foul Work
2009 The Chalk Circle Man
Richard Yates (USA)
1961 Revolutionary Road ****
1962 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
1969 A Special Providence
1975 Disturbing the Peace
1976 The Easter Parade
1978 A Good School
1981 Liars in Love
1986 Young Hearts Crying
1986 Cold Spring Harbor ****





I have four favorites among the writers listed here : Jane Austen, William Boyd, Barry Unsworth, and Richard Yates. I absolutely loved William Boyd’s early novels such as “A Good Man in Africa” and “The Ice Cream Wars” and “Brazzaville Beach”, but haven’t enjoyed so much his recent work.
I completely agree about Boyd’s early output being superior to his current thrillers. But I guess he has to pay the bills somehow …
Great list … and a lovely way of keeping track of favourite writers that you want to complete. One question though…I am intrigued by the dates you have given for the unfinished Jane Austens. I’m guessing they are the dates of first publication? They look weird because they are after her death…
Hi, I just thought I’d post and inform you that your website layout is really screwed up on the Firefox browser. Seems to work ok in Internet Explorer however. Anyhow keep up the good work.
Thanks for telling me. I’ll get onto WordPress as I’m using one of their templates.
What a great idea. Now you’ve got me wondering which authors deserve my commitment like this (although Austen is definitely already on there).
This is a great idea – I might pinch this! (with due credit to you, of course)
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I love these lists!