Lizzy’s Literary Life

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65 The Murderer in Ruins – Cay Rademacher

64 Im Schloss – Theodor Storm

63 Viola Tricolor – Theodor Storm (1874)

62 Aftermath – Rhydian Brook (2013)

61 The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm (1993)

60 The Shortest History of Germany – James Hawes (2017)

59 Germanii – Vladistav Hristov (2017)

58 You Should Have Left – Daniel Kehlmann (2017)

57The Good People – Hannah Kent (2017)

56 Mirror, Shoulder, Signal – Dorthe Nors (2017)

55 The Unseen – Roy Jacobsen

54 Golden Hill – Francis Spufford

53 Death is A Welcome Guest – Louise Welsh

52 A Country Road, A Tree – Jo Baker

51 Into the Water – Paula Hawkins

50 The Moth – 50 Extraordinary True Stories

49 The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood

48 Fever Dream – Samatha Schweblin

47 The Bird Tribunal – Agnes Ravatn (2013/2016)

46 The Wednesday Club – Kjell Westö (2013/2016)

45 This Census Taker – China Miéville (2016)

44 To be Continued – James Robertson (2016)

43 Paradise Lodge – Nina Stibbe (2016)

42 The Truth and Other Lies – Sascha Arango

41 How to Cheat A Dragon’s Curse – Cressida Cowell

40 A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson

39 The Story Of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli

38 Confession of the Lioness – Mia Couto

37 The Hour of the Jackal – Bernhard Jaumann

36 Where Were You, Adam? – Heinrich Böll (1951)

35 Maigret’s Memoirs – Georges Simenon (1951)

34 My Cousin Rachel – Dapne Du Maurier (1951)

33 How to Speak Dragonese – Cresida Cowell

32 Sand – Wolfgang Herrndorf (2013/2017)

31 The Nightingale Question – 5 poets from Saxony (2004)

30 The Clown – Heinrich Böll (1963/2010)

29 Clara – Janice Galloway (2002)

28 Memoirs of A Polar Bear – Yoko Tawada (2014/2017)

27 The Intrusions- Stav Sherez (2017)

26 Billionaire’s Banquet – Ron Butlin (2017)

25 Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak (1958/1958)

24 Under A Pole Star – Stef Penney

23 What’s to become of the Boy? – Heinrich Böll

22 Things Look Different in the Light – Medardo Fraile

21 The Governess and Other Stories – Stefan Zweig (1903-1940/2011)

20 The Last Days – Laurent Selsik (2010/2013)

19 The Parrots – Filippo Bologna (2012/2013)

18 One Night, Markovitch – Ayelet Gundar Goshen (2012/2015)

17 Rasputin and Other Ironies – Teffi (<1952 / 2016)

16 Bullfight – Yasushi Inoue (1949 / 2013)

15 The Hunting Gun – Yasushi Inoue (1949 / 2014)

14 Stasi Wolf – David Young

13 Signs for Lost Children – Sarah Moss (2015)

12 Lesen und lesen lassen (Read and let read)

11 The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson (2014)

10 Stasi Child – David Young (2016)

09 The Jewel – Catherine Czerkawska (2016)

08 The Haunted Bookshop – Christopher Morley (1919)

07 Parnassus on Wheels – Christopher Morley (1917)

06 When the Doves Disappeared. – Sofi Oksanen

05 Woman of the Dead – Bernard Aichner (2014/2015)

04 Craving – Esther Gerritsen (2012/2015)

03 Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte (1847)

02 The Book Collector – Alice Thompson (2015)

01 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte (1848)

The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain

The Evenings - Gerard Reve

The 13 Problems - Agatha Christie

The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton

The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

The Boy - Wytske Versteeg

Beyond the Tweed - Theodor Fontane

The Golden Yarn - Cornelia Funke

Rummelplatz - Volker Bräunig

Gutenberg's Apprentice -Alix Christie

All Russians Love Birch Trees -Olja Grjasnowa

The Last Weynfeldt - Martin Suter

The Inspector Barlach Mysteries - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Case of the Golden Bullet - Augusta Groner

Five - Ursula P(oznanski) Archer

Goethesturm - Bernd Köstering

The Great Bagarozy - Helmut Krausser

Mozart's Journey to Prague - Eduard Mörike

A Very Special Year -Thomas Montasser

The Munich Art Hoard - Catherine Hickley

How to be a Pirate - Cressida Cowell

Mr M - Herman Koch

The Decision - Britta Böhler

The Ghosts of Altona - Craig Russell

Traitor's Gate -Michael Ridpath

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau - Graeme Macrae Burnet

The Trap - Melanie Raabe

Too Loud a Solitude - Borumil Hrabal

Innocence, or Murder on Steep Street - Heda Margolius Kovaly

How to Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell

American Housewife - Helen Ellis

Hotel Prague - Philip Kerr

Waking Lions - Ayelet Gunden-Goshar

The Knives - Richard T Kelly

The Other Mrs Walker - Mary Paulson-Ellis

The Trouble with Sheep and Goats - Joanna Cannon

Hotel Bosphorus - Esmahan Aykol

My Name is Shylock - Howard Jacobsen

The North Water - Ian McGuire

The Paper House - Carlos Maria Dominguez

The Happy City - Elvira Navarro

The Invention of Morel - Adolpho Bioy Casares

The Magicians of Scotland - Ron Butlin

The Death of All Things Seen - Michael Collins

This Must Be The Place - Maggie O'Farrell

The Great Swindle - Pierre LeMaître

The Gift of Reading - Robert MacFarlane

Tightrope - Simon Mawer

A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale

Jacob The Liar - Jurek Becker

Mrs Engels- Gavin McCrea

Sweet Caress - William Boyd

Come, Sweet Death - Wolf Haas

Salt Creek - Lucy Treloar

Ten Days - Gillian Slovo

Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann

The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf

Dialogue of the Dogs - Cervantes

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe

Mademoiselle Scudéri - E T A Hoffmann

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon

Death in Bordeaux - Allan Massie

Once Upon A Time - Marina Warner

The Looking-Glass Sisters - Gohril Gabrielsen

Reader for Hire - Raymond Jean

White Hunger - Aki Ollikainen

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything - Daniela Krien

Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig

The Caliber - Adolph Müllner

The Stopped Heart - Julie Myerson

Jonathan Unleashed - Meg Rosoff

When The Floods Came - Clare Morrall

Gertrude -Hermann Hesse

A Lovely Way to Burn - Louise Welsh

Imperium - Christian Kracht



The Infatuations - Javier Marías



My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout

Summerhouse, Later - Judith Hermann



Mona Lisa - Alexander Lernet-Holenia



I Was Jack Mortimer - Alexander Lernet-Holenia



So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson



I Am No One - Patrick Flanery



I Called Him Necktie - Milena Michiko Flašar


The Salzburg Connection - Helen MacInnes

Summer Before The Dark - Volker Weidermann



The Third Man - Graham Greene

The Age of Innocence -Edith Wharton

The Weight of Things - Marianne Fritz



When the Professor Who Got Stuck in the Snow - Dan Rhodes



Who Is Martha? - Marjana Gaponenko



A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler



Vienna Tales

Passenger 23



The Gap of Time - Jeanette Winterson



Coffin Road - Peter May



The Book of St Andrews



Pure - Andrew Miller




The Man in the High Castle - Philipp K Dick



A Doppelganger with Aquis Submersus - Theodor Storm


Confusion - Stefan Zweig



Late Fame - Arthur Schnitzler



We Are Doing Fine - Arno Geiger



Fly Away, Pigeon - Melinda Nadj Abonji



Erebos - Ursula Poznanski



Flood of Fire - Amitav Ghosh



The Rain Maiden and Other Fairy Tales - Theodor Storm


This Brave Balance - Ruselka Reh



The Secret of The Water Knight - Ruselka Reh


August - Christa Wolf



They divided the Sky - Christa Wolf



Wallenstein - Friedrich von Schiller



Schillers Frauen - Joseph Kiemeier-Debre



Schillers Bitt- und Bettelbriefe - ed. Christiana Engelmann


The Robbers - Friedrich von Schiller



Playthings - Alex Pheby



Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

The Last Bear - Mandy Haggith



The New Sorrows of Young W - Ulrich Plenzdorf


Red: The Natural History of The Redhead - Jackie Colliss Harvey


The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma



Faust - A Tragedy in Two Parts - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The Thing About Prague - Rachel Weiss



The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Dan Gunn



The Chimes - Anna Smail



Lila - Marilynne Robinson



Whispering Shadows - Jan Philipp Sendker



The Vegetarian - Han Kang



The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin - Georges Simenon


On Glasgow and Edinburgh - Robert Crawford


Jellyfish - Janice Galloway



Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy



While The Women are Sleeping - Javier Marias


The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare


Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh



Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh



The Hottest Dishes of The Tartar Cuisine - Alina Bronsky


Delirium - Laura Restrepo



The Dark Heart of the Night - Leonora Miano



101 Detectives - Ivan Vladislavic



Don't Try This at Home - Angela Readman


June - Gerbrand Bakker



The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton



Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood



The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark



Crime Fiction - A Very Short Introduction - Richard Bradford


Viper Wine - Hermione Eyre



The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins



Goetheglut - Bernd Köstering



Wallenstein - Friedrich Schiller



Silence - Mechthild Bormann



In the Beginning was the Sea -Thomas Gonzalez


Munich Airport - Greg Baxter



The Ludwig Conspiracy - Oliver Pötzsch


Rise - Karen Campbell




Will & Tom - Matthew Plampin



The Blue Horse - Philip Miller



The Lie - Helen Dunmore



Crime Novel - Petri Tamminen



The Brotherhood of Book Hunters - Raphael Jerusalmy



A Tabby Cat's Tale - Han Dong



Family Heirlooms - Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares



Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel



The Table of Less Valued Knights - Marie Phillips


The Franchise Affair - Josephine Tey



Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen



Glass - Alex Christoffi




Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes



Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts - Teresa Solana


The Miniaturist - Jesse Burton



The Temporary Gentleman - Sebastian Barry



The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro



Under The Tripoli Sky - Kamal Ben Hamada



The Blue Room - Hanne Orstavik



The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov



The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht



Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple



Whisky Galore - Compton MacKenzie



The Collini Case - Ferdinand von Schirach (2013)



The Girl Who Wasn't There - Ferdinand von Schirach (2015)



Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones - Bobbie Darbyshire (2010)


Losing It! - Helen Lederer (2015)



A Time of Gifts -Patrick Leigh Fermor (1977)



Mr Darwin's Gardener - Kristina Carlson (2013)



Dept of Speculation - Jenny Offill (2014)



The Pierced Heart - Lynn Shepherd (2014)



Runaway - Peter May (2015)



Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami (2014)


Eyrie - Tim Winton (2014)




Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (1956)



This Is Where I Am - Karen Campbell (2013)



The Battle of the Books - Jonathan Swift (1704)