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Book authors

Authors I like and which of their books I’ve read…

Celia Fremlin (pictured in header)

1958 – The Hours Before Dawn ✓✓✓
1959 – Uncle Paul ✓✓✓
1961 – Seven Lean Years (US: Wait for the Wedding) ✓✓✓
1963 – The Trouble Makers ✓✓
1964 – The Jealous One ✓✓✓
1967 – Prisoner’s Base
1969 – Possession
1972 – Appointment with Yesterday ✓✓✓
1975 – The Long Shadow ✓✓
1977 – The Spider-Orchid ✓✓✓
1980 – With No Crying
1982 – The Parasite Person
1990 – Listening in the Dusk
1991 – Dangerous Thoughts
1993 – The Echoing Stones
1994 – King of the World
Collections
1970 – Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
1974 – By Horror Haunted
1984 – A Lovely Day to Die ✓✓✓
2019 – Ghostly Stories ✓

Kent Haruf (Plainsong series)

  1. Plainsong  ✓✓✓
  2. Eventide  ✓✓
  3. Benediction  ✓✓✓

Kent Haruf (stand-alone novels)

  1. The Tie That Binds  ✓✓✓
  2. Where You Once Belonged  ✓✓✓
  3. Our Souls at Night  ✓✓✓

Frédéric Dard

(He wrote hundreds of novels, though not many have been translated!)

  1. The Gravediggers’ Bread ✓✓✓
  2. Bird in a Cage ✓✓✓
  3. The Executioner Weeps ✓✓✓
  4. Crush ✓✓✓
  5. The King of Fools ✓✓✓
  6. The Wicked Go to Hell ✓

Steve Cavanagh (Eddie Flynn novels)

  1. The Cross (prequel novella)
  2. The Defence ✓
  3. The Plea
  4. The Liar  ✓✓✓
  5. Thirteen
  6. Fifty-Fifty ✓✓
  7. The Devil’s Advocate ✓✓
  8. The Accomplice ✓

Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

1. Roseanna ✓✓✓
2. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke ✓✓✓
3. The Man on the Balcony ✓✓✓
4. The Laughing Policeman ✓✓✓
5. The Fire Engine That Disappeared ✓✓✓
6. Murder at the Savoy ✓✓✓
7. The Abominable Man ✓✓✓
8. The Locked Room ✓
9. Cop Killer ✓✓
10. The Terrorists ✓✓

Patricia Highsmith

  1. Strangers on a Train ✓✓✓
  2. The Price of Salt / Carol
  3. The Blunderer ✓✓✓
  4. Deep Water
  5. A Game for the Living
  6. This Sweet Sickness
  7. The Cry of the Owl ✓✓
  8. The Two Faces of January
  9. The Glass Cell ✓
  10. A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller
  11. Those Who Walk Away ✓✓✓
  12. The Tremor of Forgery
  13. A Dog’s Ransom
  14. Edith’s Diary ✓
  15. People Who Knock on the Door
  16. Found in the Street
  17. Small g

Patricia Highsmith (Ripley novels)

  1. The Talented Mr. Ripley
  2. Ripley Under Ground
  3. Ripley’s Game
  4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley
  5. Ripley Under Water ✓

Laura Lippman (stand-alone novels)

  1. Every Secret Thing
  2. To The Power of Three
  3. What the Dead Know (Little Sister, in the UK) ✓✓
  4. Life Sentences
  5. I’d Know You Anywhere (Don’t Look Back, in the UK)
  6. The Most Dangerous Thing
  7. And When She Was Good ✓✓✓
  8. After I’m Gone
  9. Wilde Lake
  10. Sunburn ✓✓✓
  11. Lady in the Lake ✓
  12. Dream Girl
  13. The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan series) ✓
  14. Seasonal Work (short stories) ✓✓✓

Margaret Millar (stand-alone novels)

  1. Fire Will Freeze
  2. Experiment in Springtime
  3. It’s All in the Family
  4. The Cannibal Heart
  5. Do Evil in Return
  6. Vanish in an Instant ✓✓
  7. Rose’s Last Summer / The Lively Corpse
  8. Wives and Lovers
  9. Beast In View ✓
  10. The Soft Talkers / An Air That Kills
  11. The Listening Walls ✓✓✓
  12. A Stranger in My Grave ✓✓
  13. How Like an Angel
  14. The Fiend
  15. Beyond This Point Are Monsters
  16. Banshee
  17. Spider Webs

Anne Tyler

  1. If Morning Ever Comes
  2. The Tin Can Tree
  3. A Slipping-Down Life
  4. The Clock Winder
  5. Celestial Navigation ✓
  6. Searching for Caleb
  7. Earthly Possessions ✓✓✓
  8. Morgan’s Passing
  9. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ✕
  10. The Accidental Tourist
  11. Breathing Lessons
  12. Saint Maybe
  13. Ladder of Years ✓✓✓
  14. A Patchwork Planet
  15. Back When We Were Grownups
  16. The Amateur Marriage ✓✓✓
  17. Digging to America
  18. Noah’s Compass ✓✓✓
  19. The Beginner’s Goodbye
  20. A Spool of Blue Thread ✕
  21. Vinegar Girl ✓
  22. Clock Dance
  23. Half-truths and Semi-miracles
  24. Redhead by the Side of the Road ✓✓✓
  25. Teenage Wasteland
  26. French Braid
  27. Three Days in June ✓✓

T C Boyle

  1. Water Music
  2. Budding Prospects
  3. World’s End
  4. East Is East
  5. The Road to Wellville
  6. The Tortilla Curtain ✓✓✓
  7. Riven Rock
  8. A Friend of the Earth
  9. Drop City
  10. The Inner Circle
  11. Talk Talk ✓
  12. The Women
  13. When the Killing’s Done
  14. San Miguel
  15. The Harder They Come ✓✓
  16. The Terranauts
  17. Outside Looking In
  18. Talk to Me
  19. Blue Skies
  20. No Way Home
  21. The Relive Box (short stories) ✓✓✓

Angela Lambert

  1. Love Among the Single Classes (1989) ✓✓
  2. No Talking After Lights (1990)
  3. A Rather English Marriage (1992) ✓✓✓
  4. The Constant Mistress (1994)
  5. Kiss and Kin (1997)
  6. Golden Lads and Girls (1999)
  7. The Property of Rain (2001)

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