Index by Author

Last Updated: 12 January 2025

Here is an index by author of the reviews on this blog:

A

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel: My Life (2007)
Maya Angelou - Letter to My Daughter (2009)
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace (1996)

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake (2003)
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (2019)
Margaret Atwood - Dearly (2020)

Jessica Au - Cold Enough for Snow (2022)

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy (1985-1986)

B

Sarah Bailey - The Dark Lake (2017)

Julia Baird - Phosphorescence (2020)
Julia Baird - Victoria: The Queen (2017)

James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room (1956) 
Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls (2018)

Pat Barker - The Women of Troy (2021)

Pat Barker - The Voyage Home (2024)

Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (2011)

Belinda Bauer - Snap (2018)
Carol Baxter - Black Widow (2015)
Maxine Beneba Clarke - How Decent Folk Behave (2021)

Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader (2007)
Tegan Bennett Daylight - Six Bedrooms (2015)
Tegan Bennett Daylight - The Details (2020)

Brian Bilston - Diary of a Somebody (2019)
Emily Bitto - The Strays (2014)

Lech Blaine - Quarterly Essay 93 - Bad Cop (2024)

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
Jim Broadbent - Dull Margaret (2018)
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey (1847)

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Bronte - Shirley (1848)

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor (1857)

Brene Brown - The Gifts of Imperfection (2010)

James Brown - Quarterly Essay 62 - Firing Line (2016) 

Nick Bryant - The Forever War (2024)

Joey Bui - Lucky Ticket (2019)
Graeme Macrae Burnet - Case Study (2021)

Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project (2015)

C

Michael Caine - Blowing the Bloody Doors Off (2018)
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (1966)
Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik - Notorious RBG (2015)
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Raymond Carver - Will you please be quiet, please? (1976)

Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra (2023)

Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood (2023)

Lee Child - Killing Floor (2006)
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links (1923)
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi (2021)

Hillary Rodham Clinton - What Happened (2017)
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me (2015)
J M Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire (2009)

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (2008)

Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay (2010)

Mark Colvin - Light and Shadow - Memoir of a Spy's Son (2016)

Evan S Connell - Mrs Bridge (1959)

Evan S Connell - Mr Bridge (1969)

Miranda Cowley Heller - The Paper Palace (2021)

Annabel Crabb - Men at Work (2019)
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi - Finding Flow (1998)
Alan Cumming - Not My Father's Son (2014)

Rachel Cusk - Outline (2014)

D

Robertson Davies - The Manticore (1972)

Robertson Davies - Fifth Business (1970)

Alba De Cespedes - Forbidden Notebook (2023)

Claire Dederer - Monsters (2023)

Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
Garry Disher - Bitter Wash Road (2013)

Garry Disher - Peace (2019) 

Garry Disher - Consolation (2020)

Garry Disher - The Way it is Now (2021)

Garry Disher - Sanctuary (2024)

Jennifer Down - Bodies of Light (2021)

Nick Drnaso - Sabrina (2018)
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie (1900)

Daphne Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn (1936)

Daphne Du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel (1951)
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca (1938)

Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl (2014)
Carol S Dweck - Mindset (2006)

E
Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
Jennifer Egan - The Candy House (2022)

Barbara Ehrenreich - Smile or Die (2009)
Nora Ephron - Heartburn (1983)
Kajsa Ekis Ekman - Being and Being Bought (2013)
George Eliot - Silas Marner (1861)
Kate Ellis - Sex, Lies and Question Time (2021)

Anne Enright - The Gathering (2007)

Anne Enright - The Wren, The Wren (2023)

Janet Evanovich - Smokin' Seventeen (2011)

Janet Evanovich - Explosive Eighteen (2011)
Janet Evanovich - Notorious Nineteen (2012)
Janet Evanovich - Takedown Twenty (2013)

Percival Everett - The Trees (2021)

Percival Everett - James (2024)

F

Fleur Ferris - Risk (2015)
Sarah Firth - Eventually Everything Connects (2023)

Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist (2017)

Kitty Flanagan - 488 Rules for Life (2019)
Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013)
Richard Flanagan - Notes on an Exodus (2016)
Richard Flanagan - Question 7 (2023)

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (1856)

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (1953)

Gillian Flynn - Girl Gone (2012)
Gillian Flynn - Dark Places (2009)
Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (1895)

Clementine Ford - Fight Like a Girl (2016)

John Fowles - The Collector (1963)

Tana French - The Searcher (2020)

Tana French - The Hunter (2024)

Anna Funder - All That I Am (2011)

Anna Funder - Stasiland (2003)
Anna Funder - The Girl With the Dogs (2015)
Anna Funder - Wifedom (2023)

G

Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - The Cuckoo's Calling (2013)
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - The Silkworm (2014)
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - Career of Evil (2015)
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - Lethal White (2018)
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - Troubled Blood (2020)

Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - The Ink Black Heart (2022)

Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - The Running Grave (2023)

Helen Garner - Everywhere I Look (2016)
Helen Garner - This House of Grief (2014)
Helen Garner - The Spare Room (2008)
Helen Garner  - Stories (2017)
Helen Garner - Yellow Notebook (2019)
Helen Garner - One Day I'll Remember This (2020)

Helen Garner - How to End a Story (2021)

Helen Garner - The Season (2024)

Roxane Gay - Bad Feminist (2014)
Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things (2013)
Julia Gillard - My Story (2014)
Julia Gillard - Not Now, Not Ever (2022)

Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (2008)
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha (1999)

Amy Goldstein - Janesville: An American Story (2017)

Anna Goldsworthy - Quarterly Essay 50 - Unfinished Business (2013)
Stan Grant - Quarterly Essay 64 - The Australian Dream (2016)
Kate Grenville  - One Life: My Mother's Story (2015)
Kate Grenville - A Room Made of Leaves (2020)
Kate Grenville - Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters (2022)

Kate Grenville - Restless Dolly Maunder (2023)

Dave Grohl - The Storyteller (2021)

Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants (2006)

H

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
Matt Haig - The Midnight Library (2020)

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West (2017)
Chris Hammer - Scrublands (2018)
Chris Hammer - Silver (2019)

Chris Hammer - Trust (2020)

Chris Hammer - Treasure and Dirt (2021)

Chris Hammer - The Tilt (2022)

Chris Hammer - The Seven (2023)

Chris Hammer - The Valley (2024)

Paul Harding - Tinkers (2010)
Jane Harper - The Dry (2016)
Jane Harper - Force of Nature (2017)
Jane Harper - The Lost Man (2018)
Jane Harper - The Survivors (2020)

Jane Harper - Exiles (2022)

Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark (2001)
Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas (2002)

Charlaine Harris - Club Dead (2003)
Charlaine Harris - Dead to the World (2004)
Robert Harris - Conclave (2016)

Samantha Harvey - Orbital (2023)

Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train (2015)
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and The Sea (1951)

Patricia Highsmith - Carol (1952)

Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water (1957)
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (1955)
Patricia Highsmith - The Tremor of Forgery (1969)
Patricia Highsmith - The Two Faces of January (1964)
Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness (1960)
David Hill - The Forgotten Children (2007)

Jess Hill - See What You Made Me Do (2019)
Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negroes (2007)

Susan Hill - The Various Haunts of Men (2004)

Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart (2005)

Susan Hill - The Risk of Darkness (2006)

Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence (2008)

Karen Hitchcock - Quarterly Essay 57 - Dear Life (2015)
Christopher Hitchens - Mortality (2012)
Sarah Holland-Batt - The Jaguar (2022)

Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty (2004)

Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008)

Chloe Hooper - The Arsonist (2018)
Janette Turner Hospital - Forecast: Turbulence (2012)

Dorothy B Hughes - In a Lonely Place (1947)

Zora Neale Hurston - Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020)

I
Samantha Irby - We are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun (2021)
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (2005)

J
Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales (2016)

Linda Jaivin - Quarterly Essay 52 - Found in Translation (2013)
Clive James - Collected Poems (2016)
Clive James -  Injury Time (2018)
PD James - Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage (2018)
Miranda July - All Fours (2024)

K

Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey (2015)
Rupi Kaur - The Sun and Her Flowers (2017)
Sean Kelly - The Game (2021)

Claire Keegan - Foster (2010)

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These (2021)

Hannah Kent - Burial Rites (2013)

Hannah Kent - Devotion (2021)

Hannah Kent - The Good People (2016)
David Kilcullen - Quarterly Essay 58 - Blood Year (2015)
Malcolm Knox - Secrets of the Jury Room (2005)
Alan Kohler - Quarterly Essay 92 - The Great Divide (2023)

Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner (2017)
Sarah Krasnostein - The Believer (2021)

L

John Lanchester - The Wall (2019)
Steig Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)
Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007)
Vicki Laveau-Harvie - The Erratics (2018)
Benjamin Law - Quarterly Essay 67 - Moral Panic 101 (2017)
Bri Lee - Eggshell Skull (2018)
Raven Leilani - Luster (2020)

James Lever - Me Cheeta (2009)
Andrea Levy - Small Island (2004)

Michael Lewis - The Fifth Risk (2018)
Penelope Lively - Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (1994)
Joan London - The Golden Age (2014)

Rob Lowe - Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011)

M

Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk (2014)
Sophie Mackintosh - Cursed Bread (2023)

Emily Maguire - An Isolated Incident (2016)
Emily Maguire - Love Objects (2021)

Emily St John Mandel - The Glass Hotel (2020)

Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven (2014)

Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility (2022)

Paddy Manning - The Successor (2023)

David Marr - Quarterly Essay 51 - The Prince (2013)
David Marr - Quarterly Essay 59 - Faction Man (2015)
David Marr - Quarterly Essay 65 - The White Queen (2017)
Yann Martel - Life of Pi (2001)

George R R Martin - A Game of Thrones (1996)
George R R Martin - A Clash of Kings (1999)
George R R Martin - A Storm of Swords - Part 1: Steel and Snow (2000)
George R R Martin - A Storm of Swords - Part 2: Blood and Gold (2000)
Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss (2020)

W Somerset Maugham - The Letter (1926)

Cormac McCarthy - The Road (2006)

Ian McEwan - Amsterdam (1998) 
Ian McEwan - Atonement (2001)

Ian McEwan - The Children Act (2014)
Ian McGuire - The North Water (2016)

Michelle McNamara - I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2016)

Dervla McTiernan - The Ruin (2018)

Dervla McTiernan - The Scholar (2019)

George Megalogenis - Quarterly Essay 61 - Balancing Act (2016)
Arthur Miller - All My Sons (1947)
Madeline Miller - Circe (2018)
Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles (2011)

Madeline Miller - Galatea (2013)

Louise Milligan - Pheasants Nest (2024)

Louise Milligan - Witness (2020)

Frank Moorhouse - Grand Days (1993)

Heather Morris - The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018)
Toni Morrison - Beloved (1987)   

Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater (1962)
Rick Morton - One Hundred Years of Dirt (2018)
Ottessa Moshfegh - Death in her Hands (2020)

Tara Moss - The War Widow (2019)

Tara Moss - The Ghosts of Paris (2022)

Alice Munro - Dear Life (2012)

N

Emily Nussbaum - I Like to Watch (2019)

O

Joyce Carol Oates - The (Other) You (2021)

Michelle Obama - Becoming (2018)
Edna O'Brien - August is a Wicked Month (1965)

Edna O'Brien - Down by the River (1996)
Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet (2020)
Maggie O'Farrell - The Marriage Portrait (2022)

Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) 

Mandy Ord - When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over (2019)
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Julie Otsuka - The Swimmers (2022)

Caroline Overington - Last Woman Hanged (2014)

P

Nigel Paine - The Learning Challenge (2014)
Intan Paramaditha - The Wandering (2020)

Dolly Parton - Songteller (2020)

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder (2011)
Ann Patchett - Tom Lake (2023)

Daniel Pink - Drive (2009)
Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes (2007)
Amy Poehler - Yes Please (2014)
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)
Philip Pullman - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2009)
Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage (2017)
John Purcell - The Girl on the Page (2018)

R

Ayn Rand - Anthem (1937)
Tom Rath - Strengths Finder 2.0 (2007)
Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017)

Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003)
Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science (2008)

Sally Rooney - Normal People (2018)

Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015)
Heather Rose - Bruny (2019)
Heather Rose - The Museum of Modern Love (2016)
Josephine Rowe - Here Until August (2019)
JK Rowling - Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2017)
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016)

Guy Rundle - Clivosaurus (Quarterly Essay 56) (2014)
Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa (2020)

S

Jennifer Saint - Ariadne (2021)

Jennifer Saint - Atalanta (2022)

JD Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
Margot Saville - The Teal Revolution (2022)

Niki Savva - The Road to Ruin (2016)
Niki Savva - Plots and Prayers (2019)
Niki Savva - Bulldozed (2022)

Bernhard Schlink - The Reader (1995)
Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Hayley Scrivener - Dirt Town (2022)

David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
David Sedaris - Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary (2011)

Lisa See - Lady Tan's Circle of Women (2023)

Asne Seierstad - One of Us (2015)
Asne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul (2002)
William Shakespeare - King Lear (1606)
William Shakespeare - Richard III (1591)

William Shakespeare - Macbeth (1611)
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham (2020)
Zadie Smith - The Wife of Willesden (2021)

Rebecca Solnit - Men Explain Things to Me (2014)
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me (2023)

Matthew Spencer - Black River (2022)

Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat (1970)

Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

ML Steadman - The Light Between Oceans (2012)

John Steinbeck - East of Eden (1952)
Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road (2016)
Julian Stodd - Social Leadership Handbook (2016)
Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo (2022)

T
Lisa Taddeo - Three Women (2019)
Grace Tame - The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner (2022)

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (2013)
Mark Tedeschi - Murder at Myall Creek (2016)
Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients (2013)
Miriam Toews - Women Talking (2018)

Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn (2009)

Colm Tóibín - Long Island (2024)

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937)
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1877)

Paul Toohey - Quarterly Essay 53 - That Sinking Feeling (2014)
Gillian Triggs - Speaking Up (2019)
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1886)

Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982)

V
JD Vance - Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
Elizabeth Von Arnim - Vera (1912)

W

Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)
Don Watson - Enemy Within (Quarterly Essay 63) (2016)

Don Watson - High Noon (Quarterly Essay 95) (2024)
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938)

Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust (1934)
Lindy West - Shrill (2016)
Tara Westover - Educated (2018)
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (1920)
Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters (1916)

Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys (2019)

Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle (2021)

Colson Whitehead - Zone One (2011)

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett - The Spirit Level (2009)
John Williams - Stoner (1965)

Sue Williams - Elizabeth and Elizabeth (2021)

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here (2019)

Sarah Winman - Still Life (2021)

Alice Winn - In Memoriam (2023)

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011)
Meg Wolitzer - The Wife (2003)
Charlotte Wood - The Natural Way of Things (2015)
Charlotte Wood - The Weekend (2019)
Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional (2023)

Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House (2018)

Evi Wyld - The Bass Rock (2020)