I am slowly working my way through the complete works of my favourite writers. I have started to compile a list of these writers and their works. Books in bold are read and those underlined are linked to where I have written about the book on this blog.
Margaret Atwood
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life Before Man (1979)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996)
- The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Oryx and Crake (2003)
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Year of the Flood (2009)
- MaddAddam (2013)
- The Heart Goes Last (2015)
- Hag-Seed (2016)
- The Testaments (2019)
- Dearly (2020)
Helen Garner
- Monkey Grip (1977)
- Honour and Other People's Children (1980)
- Moving Out (1983)
- The Children's Bach (1984)
- Postcards from Surfers (1985)
- Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
- The First Stone (1995)
- Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004)
- The Spare Room (2008)
- This House of Grief (2014)
- Stories (2017)
- Everywhere I Look (2016)
- Yellow Notebook (2019)
- One Day I'll Remember This (2020)
- How to End a Story (2021)
- The Season (2024)
Kate Grenville
- Lillian's Story (1984)
- Dreamhouse (1987)
- Joan Makes History (1988)
- Dark Places (1994)
- The Idea of Perfection (1999)
- The Secret River (2005)
- The Lieutenant (2007)
- Sarah Thorhill (2011)
- One Life: My Mother's Story (2015)
- The Case Against Fragrance (2017)
- A Room Made of Leaves (2020)
- Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters (2022)
- Restless Dolly Maunder (2023)
Elizabeth Strout
- Amy and Isabelle (1998)
- Abide with Me (2006)
- Olive Kitteridge (2008)
- The Burgess Boys (2013)
- My Name is Lucy Barton (2016)
- Anything is Possible (2017)
- Olive, Again (2019)
- Oh William! (2021)
- Lucy by the Sea (2022)
- Tell Me Everything (2024)
Anne Enright
- The Wig My Father Wore (1995)
- What Are You Like? (2000)
- The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
- The Gathering (2007)
- The Forgotten Waltz (2011)
- The Green Road (2015)
- Actress (2020)
- The Wren, The Wren (2023)
Hannah Kent
- Burial Rites (2013)
- The Good People (2016)
- Devotion (2021)
- Always Home, Always Homesick (2025)
Maggie O'Farrell
- After You'd Gone (2000)
- My Lover's Lover (2002)
- The Distance Between us (2004)
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)
- The Hand that First Held Mine (2010)
- Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
- This Must be the Place (2016)
- Hamnet (2020)
- The Marriage Portrait (2022)
Daphne Du Maurier
- The Loving Spirit (1931)
- I'll Never be Young Again (1932)
- Julius (1933)
- Jamaica Inn (1936)
- Rebecca (1938)
- Frenchman's Creek (1941)
- Hungry Hill (1943)
- The King's General (1946)
- The Parasites (1949)
- My Cousin Rachel (1951)
- The Birds and Other Stories (1952)
- Mary Anne (1954)
- The Scapegoat (1957)
- The Breaking Point (1959)
- Castle Dor (1961)
- The Glass-Blowers (1963)
- The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
- The House on the Strand (1969)
- Don't Look Now (1971)
- Rule Britannia (1972)
- The Doll: Lost Short Stories (2011)