TBR International Fiction

International Fiction

  • 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Elif Shafak

A.

  • Abide With Me | Elizabeth Strout
  • The Absolute Book | Elizabeth Knox
  • Actress | Anne Enright
  • The Alexandra Quartet | Lawrence Durrell
  • All the Little Live Things | Wallace Stegner
  • American Fiancee | Eric Dupont
  • American Wife | Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Amy and Isabelle | Elizabeth Strout
  • Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales
  • Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
  • An Artist in the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Arctic Summer | Damon Galgut
  • Ariadne | Jennifer Saint
  • Arlington Park | Rachel Cusk
  • Assembly | Natasha Brown
  • August Folly | Angela Thirkell

B.

  • The Balkan Trilogy | Olivia Manning
  • Barracoon | Zora Neal Hurston
  • The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak
  • Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney
  • The Bee Sting | Paul Murray
  • Before Lunch | Angela Thirkell
  • Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
  • Bewilderment | Richard Powers
  • Black Narcissus | Rumer Godden
  • The Blazing World | Siri Hudsvedt

C.

  • Casanova | Andrew Miller
  • Cheerfulness Break In | Angela Thirkell
  • The Children Act | Ian McEwan
  • China Room | Sunjeev Sahota
  • Circe | Madeline Miller
  • Clock Dance | Anne Tyler
  • The Complete Short Stories of Saki | H.H. Munro
  • The Complete Stories | Anita Desai
  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | Xiaolu Guo
  • Coromandel Sea Change | Rumer Godden

D.

  • The Day of the Scorpion | Paul Scott
  • The Daylight Gate | Jeanette Winterson
  • Delta of Venus | Anais Nin
  • A Division of the Spoils | Paul Scott
  • Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara
  • Ducks, Newburypost | Lucy Ellmann
  • Dune | Frank Herbert (reread)
  • The Dutch House | Ann Patchett

E.

  • The Enchantress of Florence | Salmon Rushdie
  • An Experiment in Love | Hilary Mantel

F.

  • The Famished Road | Ben Okri
  • Fire From Heaven | Mary Renault
  • Flaubert’s Parrot | Julian Barnes
  • The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak
  • Funeral Games | Mary Renault

G.

  • G | John Berger
  • The Gap of Time | Jeanette Winterson
  • A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
  • The Girl With the Louding Voice | Abi Dare
  • The Glass Hotel | Emily St John Mandel
  • Golden Hill | Francis Spufford
  • The Green Road | Anne Enright
  • Growing Up | Angela Thirkell

H.

  • Hagseed | Margaret Atwood
  • Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Headmistress | Angela Thirkell
  • The Heather Blazing | Colm Toibin
  • Heavens | Sandra Newman
  • High Rising | Angela Thirkell
  • The History of Rain | Niall Williams
  • The House with the Stained-Glass Windows | Zanna Slomiowska
  • How to Build a Boat | Elaine Feeney

I.

  • I Give It To You | Valerie Martin
  • I’d Die For You and other lost stories | F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Importance of Being Kennedy | Laurie Graham
  • In Ascension | Martin MacInnes
  • In Love With George Eliot | Kathy O’Shaughnessy
  • Ingenious Pain | Andrew Miller

J.

  • Jamrach’s Menagerie | Carol Birch
  • The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott
  • Juggling | Barbara Trapido

K.

  • Kudos | Rachel Cusk

L.

  • Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
  • The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
  • The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
  • Last Stories by William Trevor
  • Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Life of Rebecca Jones | Angharad Price

M.

  • The Magician | Colm Toibin
  • Maisie Dobbs #14 To Die But Once | Jacqueline Winspear
  • Maisie Dobbs #13 In This Grave Hour | Jacqueline Winspear
  • The Man Who Died Twice | Richard Osman
  • The Man Who Saw Everything | Deborah Levy
  • Marling Hall | Angela Thirkell
  • Mary and O’Neil | Justin Cronin
  • The Master | Colm Toibin
  • Medusa’s Ankles | A. S. Byatt
  • Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden
  • Memoirs of the Future | Siri Hustvedt
  • Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty
  • Milkman | Anna Burns
  • Miss Bunting | Angela Thirkell
  • Miss Carter and the Ifrit | Susan Alice Kerby
  • The Monster’s We Deserve | Marcus Sedgwick
  • A Month in the Country | J L Carr
  • Motherhood | Sheila Heti
  • The Mountains Sing | Nguyen Phan Que Mai
  • Murder in Midsummer
  • Murder Takes a Holiday
  • The Mysterious Mr Quinn | Agatha Christie

N.

  • Narrow Land | Hickey
  • The Native Heath | Elizabeth Fair
  • The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich
  • Noah’s Compass | Anne Tyler
  • Nocturnes | Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Normal People | Sally Rooney
  • Northbridge Rectory | Angela Thirkell
  • Nothing But Blue Sky | Kathleen MacMahon
  • Nothing to See Here | Kevin Wilson
  • Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | Andrew Miller

O.

  • Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout
  • On the Black Hill | Bruce Chatwin
  • One Morning Like a Bird | Andrew Miller
  • The Only Story | Julian Barnes
  • Outline | Rachel Cusk
  • The Overstory | Richard Powers

P.

  • Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
  • The Painted Drum | Louise Erdrich
  • The Parisian | Isabella Hammad
  • Peace Breaks Out | Angela Thirkell
  • The Peacock Spring | Rumer Godden
  • The Penelopiad | Margaret Atwood
  • The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
  • Philida | Andre Brink
  • Piranesi | Suzanne Clarke
  • A Place of Greater Safety | Hilary Mantell
  • The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich
  • Plan for Chaos | John Wyndham
  • The Pleasure Seekers | Tishani Doshi
  • Pompeii | Robert Harris
  • The Powerbook | Jeanette Winterson
  • Prophet Song | Paul Lynch

Q.

R.

  • Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
  • The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
  • Restoration | Rose Tremain
  • The Return of the Soldier | Rebecca West
  • Rites of Passage by William Golding
  • The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie
  • The Rotter’s Club by Jonathan Coe
  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  • The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner

S.

  • Sansei and Sensibility | Karen Tei Yamashita
  • The Satapur Moonstone | Jujata Massey
  • Secret People | John Wyndham
  • Seldon Seen | Sarah Ridgard
  • Selected Stories Vol 2 | William Trevor
  • The Siege of Krishnapur | J G Farrell
  • Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker
  • The Singapore Sling | J G Farrell
  • The Sisters Brothers | Patrick de Witt
  • The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
  • The Sorrows of an American | Siri Hudsvedt
  • South Riding | Winifred Holtby
  • Spam Together | Verily Anderson
  • The Spectator Bird | Wallace Stegner
  • A Start in Life | Anita Brookner
  • Strangers | Anita Brookner
  • Summer Half | Angela Thirkell

T.

  • Temples of Delight | Barbara Trapido
  • The Temporary | Rachel Cusk
  • They | Kay Dick
  • To Calais in Ordinary Times | James Meek
  • Tom Lake | Ann Patchett
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Towers of Silence | Paul Scott
  • Transit | Rachel Cusk

U.

  • The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Unicorn | Iris Murdoch

V.

  • The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett
  • The Virgin in the Garden | A S Byatt

W.

  • Warlight | Michael Ondaatje
  • Washington Black | Esi Edugyan
  • Waterland | Graham Swift
  • The Weatherhouse | Nan Shepherd
  • The Western Wind | Samantha Harvey
  • When I Lived in Modern Times | Linda Grant
  • Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens
  • White Houses | Amy Bloom
  • White Teeth | Zadie Smith
  • Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead | Barbara Comyns
  • The Widows of Malabar Hill | Jujata Massey
  • Wild Strawberries | Angela Thirkell

X.

Y.

  • The Year Without Summer | Guinevere Glasfurd
  • Yellowface | Rebecca F Kuang

Z.

  • The Zigzag Way | Anita Desai

The Second-Hand Inheritance TBR – from the libraries of Mr Books’ parents and secondhand book finds of mine.

  • Tales from Chaucer in Prose | Charles Cowden Clarke (first published 1833)
  • Mary Anne | Daphne du Maurier (1955 – first published 1954)
  • The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot (inscribed 13/5/1906 – first published 1860)
  • A Modern Comedy | John Galsworthy (1952 – first published 1929)
  • Madame Castel’s Lodger | Frances Parkinson Keyes (1963 – first published 1962))
  • The Last Days of Pompeii | Lord Lytton (inscribed Xmas 1936 – first published 1834)
  • Mauprat | George Sand (1923 – first published 1837)
  • The Story of Early English Travel & Discovery | A Waddington Seers (1928 – first published 1923)
  • Beyond the Black Stump | Nevil Shute (1956)
  • Requiem For a Wren | Nevil Shute (1955)
  • Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson (1947 – first published 1886)
  • Easter and Other Plays | August Strinberg (1929 – first published 1901))
  • The Heritage of Poetry | edited by Philip Wayne (1945 – first published 1940)

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