I haven’t written anything here for a while — something will come soon, I promise — but meanwhile I’ve compiled an alphabetical list of all the books I’ve written about, together with the month they appeared, since this blog started early in 2017. To my surprise, it comes to a total of 55 …
Austen, Jane: Persuasion April 2023
Barbellion, W.N.P. Journal of a Disappointed Man April 2017
Bennett, Arnold: Clayhanger Feb 2019
Brownjohn, Alan: A Night in the Gazebo May 2017 (2nd of 2)
Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter’s night a Traveller Sept 2020
Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth Feb 2021
Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop Jan 2019
Coppard, A.E.: The Black Dog and other stories Sept 2022
DeLillo, Don: White Noise Oct 2018
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life … June 2018
Durcan, Paul: The Art of Life June 2019
Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Beginning of Spring March 2018
Gallie, Menna: The Small Mine Feb 2020
Goldie, Peter: On Personality April 2020
Greene, Graham: England Made Me Dec 2020
Heaney, Seamus: Seeing Things May 2018
Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native Sept 2023
Haruf, Kent: Eventide May 2020
Hughes, Richard: A High Wind in Jamaica Oct 2022
Lampedusa, G.T. di: The Leopard July 2020
Lessing, Doris: London Observed Aug 2018
Lodge, David: Small World Oct 2017
McCracken, Elizabeth: Niagara Falls Over Again April 2019
McGahern, John: That They May Face the Rising Sun Aug 2019
Manning, Olivia: The Danger Tree May 2017 (1st of 2)
Maugham, W. Somerset: Cakes and Ale Feb 2017 (1st of 2)
Midgley, Mary: The Ethical Primate July 2018
Moore, George: Esther Waters June 2023
Moore, Lorrie: Bark (and other stories) March 2020
Munro, Alice: The Progress of Love Jan 2018
Murdoch, Iris: Under the Net Aug 2021
O’Brian, Patrick: The Surgeon’s Mate March 2019
O’Brien, Flann: The Hard Life July 2022
Pasternak, Boris: Dr Zhivago Jan 2023
Paustovsky, Konstantin: In That Dawn Sept 2019
Peacock, Thomas Love: Nightmare Abbey Sept 2017
Richards, Alun: The Former Miss Merthyr Tydfil Oct 2021
Roth, Joseph: Hotel Savoy Feb 2018
Rutherford, Mark: Autobiography Feb 2017 (2nd of 2)
Schchedrin, Nikolai: The Golovlyov Family May 2019
Smith, Ken: You Again Jan 2020
Spark, Muriel: The Ballad of Peckham Rye July 2019
Stead, Christina: The Puzzleheaded Girl July 2017
Stevenson, R.L. Treasure Island Nov 2018
Swafford, Jan: Johannes Brahms, A Biography Dec 2018
Taylor, Peter: In the Miro District April 2018
Tiresias: Notes from Overground Nov 2017
Trollope, Anthony: Phineas Finn Dec 2019
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons Jan 2022
Tyler, Anne: The Tin Can Tree Aug 2017
Updike, John: Rabbit at Rest Oct 2019
Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat’s Cradle April 2022
Waugh, Evelyn: A Handful of Dust Nov 2019
Wells, H.G. Tono-Bungay Dec 2017
Wodehouse, P.G. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit April 2022
Wharton, Edith: Madame de Treymes Sept 2018
Old geezer re-reading 