My Fiction Reviews Bookshelf


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NovelsNovellas and Short Stories
Historical FictionHistorical Fiction Related to Spain
General Science FictionPost-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Science Fiction
Poetry



Novels

Richard Bach
Hypnotizing Maria

Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond

Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities

Jesús Carrasco
Out in the Open

Eileen Chang
Little Reunions
J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Shen Congwen
Border Town
Pat Conroy
The Lords of Discipline
Marian Engel
Bear
(Oso)
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Hausfrau
Tana French
The Secret Place
The Golden Lotus
(Jin Ping Mei)

Volume 1
The Golden Lotus
(Jin Ping Mei)

Volume 2
Xiaolu Guo
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Last Gift
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mohsin Hamid
Exit West
Christoper Hebert
Angels of Detroit
Michel Houellebecq
Submission
Michel Houellebecq
Serotonin
Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun
Ha Jin
The Crazed
Miranda July
The First Bad Man
Philip Kerr
A Philosophical Investigation
Mick Kitson
Sal
Volker Kutscher
Die Akte Vaterland (The Fatherland Files)
John Le Carré
Silverview
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Desert
Pierre Lemaitre
Alex
Pierre Lemaitre
Inhuman Resources
Pedro Mairal
La uruguaya
(The Uruguayan Woman)
Javier Marías
The Infatuations
Javier Marías
The Man of Feeling
Javier Marías
Berta Isla
Javier Marías
Thus Bad Begins
Qiu Miaojin
Last Words from Montmartre
Henry de Montherlant
Chaos and Night
Alberto Moravia
Agostino

Haruki Murakami
1Q84

Haruki Murakami
After Dark

Joyce Carol Oates
A Fair Maiden

Orhan Pamuk
Snow

Wang Ping
American Visa

Richard Powers
The Echo Maker

Richard Powers
The Overstory

Richard Powers
Bewilderment

Francine Prose
Blue Angel

Anna Quindlen
Miller's Valley

David Rabe
Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam

J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

Fritz Salten
Bambi

José Saramago
Death With Interruptions

José Saramago
Seeing

Emma Straub
All Adults Here

Magda Szabó
The Door

Gloria Vanderbilt
Obsession: An Erotic Tale

Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Reputations

Ernst Wiechert
Das einfache Leben
(The Simple Life)

C Pam Zhang
How Much of These Hills Is Gold


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Novellas and Short Stories
Rick Bass
The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness

Rick Bass
For a Little While

Miquel Bauçà
The Siege in the Room
Roberto Bolaño
The Return
Jorge Luis Borges The Library of Babel
Eileen Chang
Love in a Fallen City
James Clavell The Children's Story
Diane Cook
Man V. Nature
Don DeLillo
The Angel Esmeralda
Marco Denevi
Falsificaciones
(Falsifications)
Marco Denevi
El Jardín de las Delicias: Mitos Eróticos
(The Garden of Delights: Erotic Myths)
Daphne Du Maurier
Don't Look Now
Iñaki Ezkerra Tales of Love and Loathing
Mary Gaitskill Bad Behavior
Mavis Gallant
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
Julián Herbert and León Plascencia Ñol
Tratado de la infidelidad (Treatise on Infidelity)
Fernando León de Aranoa
Aquí yacen dragones (Here There Be Dragons)
Javier Marías
While the Women Are Sleeping
The Best of Richard Matheson
Colum McCann Thirteen Ways of Looking
Thomas McGuane Cloudbursts
Augusto Monterroso
The Black Sheep and Other Fables
(La oveja negra y demas fabulas)
Haruki Murakami Men Without Women
Donkeys donkeys donkeys and Nesreddin
Joyce Carol Oates
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates
Heat, and other stories
Annie Proulx
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Kristen Roupenian
You Know You Want This
José Saramago
The Lives of Things
Arthur Schnitzler
Fräulein Else
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Professor and the Siren
Mark Twain
The War Prayer
Bill Watterson and John Kascht
The Mysteries


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Poetry
Poems of Arab Andalusia
translated by
Cola Franzen
Fully Empowered
(Plenos Poderes)
Pablo Neruda
translated by
Alastair Reid
New and Selected Poems: Volume One
Mary Oliver
Desert Tracings
translated by
Michael A. Sells
Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy
translated by
Theoharis C. Theoharis
The Late Poems of Wang An-shih
translated by
David Hinton
Pilgrim
David Whyte


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Historical Fiction
Tariq Ali
Night of the Golden Butterfly
Jurek Becker
Jakob der Lügner (Jakob the Liar)
Eileen Chang
Naked Earth
Gabriel Chevallier
Fear: A Novel of World War I
Gérard de Villiers
The Madmen of Benghazi
Gérard de Villiers
Revenge of the Kremlin
Tahar Djaout
The Last Summer of Reason
Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower
Ken Follett
Fall of Giants
Alan Furst
The Spies of Warsaw
Ernst Haffner
Blutsbrüder
(Blood Brothers)
Philip Kerr
Berlin Noir
Philip Kerr
The Lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
The Other Side of Silence

Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna

Colum McCann
TransAtlantic

Kelly Rimmer
The Things We Cannot Say

Victor Serge
Unforgiving Years

John Spurling
The Ten Thousand Things


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Historical Fiction: Related to Spain
Anonymous
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Fernando Aramburu
Homeland
Camilo José Cela
San Camilo, 1936
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Heroes and Beasts of Spain
Miguel Delibes
The Heretic
Juan Eslava Galán
The Mule
Susana Fortes
Waiting for Robert Capa
Antonio Muñoz Molina
A Manuscript of Ashes
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Sun Over Breda


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Science Fiction: Apocalyptic, Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian

Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind
Lily Brooks-Dalton
Good Morning, Midnight
J M Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians
Diane Cook
The New Wilderness
Omar El Akkad
American War
William Forstchen
One Second After
Pat Frank
Alas, Babylon
Marlen Haushofer
Die Wand (The Wall)
Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker
Hugh Howey
Wool
Hugh Howey
Shift
Hugh Howey
Dust
Anna Kavan
Ice

Stephen King
The Stand
James Howard Kunstler
World Made By Hand
James Howard Kunstler
The Witch of Hebron
Edan Lepucki
California
Cixin Liu
Supernova Era
Ling Ma
Severance
Maureen F. McHugh
After the Apocalypse
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
Nevil Shute
On The Beach
Neal Stephenson
seveneves
George Stewart
Earth Abides
Sam Taylor
The Island at the End of the World
Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse
Ben H. Winters
The Last Policeman
Ben H. Winters
Countdown City
Ben H. Winters
World of Trouble
John Wyndham
The Chrysalids


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Science Fiction: General

Greg Bear
Eon
Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
Ted Chiang
Exhalation
Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
Joe Haldeman  
The Forever War
Frank Herbert
Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
Hugh Howey
Machine Learning
Meg Howrey
The Wanderers
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Death's End
Christopher Priest
Inverted World
Kim Stanley Robinson
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future
Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock
John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire
Robert Scheckley
Store of the Worlds
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Terrible Worlds: Revolutions
Jeff VanderMeer
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Andy Weir
The Martian
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary