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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force.
—attributed to Dorothy Parker, but likely Sid Ziff.
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edition of this work, is under construction. It covers all authors and titles in the source lists, even
those disqualified for one reason or another from the composite list. At present not all reviews cited
below are available; it takes time to bring together data on 189 different authors and 253 separate titles!
Entries are posted as time and inclination permit; when they do, I complete a couple a day, on average.
Completed entries are indicated by an asterisk. More will be added as they are written.
Arrangement of the reviews is alphabetical by author,
with different works by the same author grouped alphabetically under that author. If you are not certain
of the author of a particular work, use your browser's "find" feature to locate the title.
As the risk of disappointing the reader, I must confess that you will not find herein reviews of the
sort typified by the above quotation. This section's entries are reviews only in the sense that they
provide basic information on the authors and teasers for the books themselves, to help potential readers
determine whether they want to investigate the works or their authors further. I have attempted no general
evaluations of either, and any opinions expressed in these reviews should be considered supplementary, not
determining.
This site
being intended for a general audience, I have as a rule passed over potentially controversial issues in
author's backgrounds, while discretely pointing out if particular works deal with mature or divisive
topics, when I am aware of them. I intend in so doing neither to take sides nor express judgment; merely
to inform potential readers, recognizing the importance of such matters to many people in determining
their reading choices, particularly where issues of age-appropriateness arise.
Names and dates in the entries are from library databases, notably Stanford University's online
SearchWorks catalog, supplemented by my own investigations.
Entry content is based primarily on internet research, particularly but far from exclusively in
Wikipedia, along with my own reading and knowledge.
While attempting to recast all findings into my own words, I may sometimes inadvertantly repeat or echo
phrasing from sources consulted, or reproduce errors, misapprehensions, or misrepresentations from those
same sources. For any such errors I apologize. Corrections are appreciated.
Any corrections should be submitted via email to
Brian Kunde.
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<- *Achebe, Chinua, 1930-2013.
<- *Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
<- *Adams, Richard, 1920-2016.
<- *Agee, James, 1909-1955.
<- *Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
<- *Allende, Isabel, 1942-
<- *Allison, Dorothy, 1949-
<- *Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
<- *Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
<- *Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
<- *Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
<- *Baum, L. Frank, 1856-1919.
<- *Beerbohm, Max, 1872-1956.
<- *Bellow, Saul, 1915-2005.
<- *Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.
<- *Berg, Elizabeth, 1948-
<- *Blume, Judy, 1938-
<- *Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
<- *Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
<- *Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
<- *Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999.
<- *Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
<- *Brown, Rita Mae, 1944-
<- *Buck, Pearl S., 1892-1973.
<- *Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
<- *Burns, Olive-Ann, 1924-1990.
<- *Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.
<- *Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
<- *Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
<- *Byatt, A. S., 1936-
<- *Cain, James M., 1892-1977.
<- *Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
<- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
<- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
<- *Carr, Caleb, 1955-
<- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
<- Carter, Forrest, 1925-1979.
<- *Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
<- *Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.
<- *Cheever, John, 1912-1982.
<- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
<- *Clarke, Arthur C., 1917-2008.
<- *Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
<- *Conroy, Pat, 1945-2016.
<- Conway, Jill K., 1934-2018.
<- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
<- *de Bernières, Louis, 1945-
<- de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, 1900-1944.
<- *DeLillo, Don, 1936-
<- Dickey, James, 1923-1997.
<- Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.
<- Donleavy, J. P., 1926-2017.
<- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
<- *Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
<- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
<- Drury, Allen, 1918-1998.
<- Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
<- Duras, Marguerite, 1914-1996.
<- Durrell, Lawrence, 1912-1990.
<- *Ellison, Ralph, 1913-1994.
<- Farrell, James T., 1904-1979.
<- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
<- *Finney, Jack, 1911-1995.
<- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940.
<- Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
<- Forster, E. M., 1879-1970.
<- Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
<- Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
<- *Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-
<- Golding, William, 1911-1993.
<- Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014.
<- Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.
<- Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.
<- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
<- Green, Henry, 1905-1973.
<- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
<- Guest, Judith, 1936-
<- Guterson, David, 1956-
<- Haley, Alex, 1921-1992.
<- Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
<- *Heinlein, Robert A., 1907-1988.
<- *Heller, Joseph, 1923-1999.
<- *Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
<- Herbert, Frank, 1920-1986.
<- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976.
<- Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.
<- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
<- *Irving, John, 1942-
<- *Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
<- *James, Henry, 1843-1916.
<- *Jones, James, 1921-1977.
<- *Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
<- Keneally, Thomas, 1935-
<- Kennedy, William, 1928-
<- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
<- Kesey, Ken, 1935-2001.
<- King, Stephen, 1947-
<- Kingsolver, Barbara, 1955-
<- *Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
<- Knowles, John, 1926-2001.
<- Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983.
<- Kundera, Milan, 1929-2023.
<- Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930.
<- Lee, Harper, 1926-2016.
<- *Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013.
<- Lewis, C. S., 1898-1963.
<- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
<- London, Jack, 1876-1916.
<- Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957.
<- Mailer, Norman, 1923-2007.
<- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
<- Márquez, Gabriel García, 1927-2014.
<- *Maugham, W. Somerset, 1874-1965.
<- McBride, James, 1957-
<- McCourt, Frank, 1930-2009.
<- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
<- McCullough, Colleen, 1937-2015.
<- McMurtry, Larry, 1936-
<- Michener, James A., 1907-1997.
<- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
<- *Milne, A. A., 1882-1956.
<- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.
<- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.
<- Murdoch, Iris, 1919-1999.
<- *Nabokov, Vladimir, 1899-1977.
<- *Naipaul, V. S., 1932-2018.
<- *Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
<- *O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964.
<- *O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.
<- *Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
<- Pasternak, Boris, 1890-1960.
<- *Paton, Alan, 1903-1988.
<- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
<- Pilcher, Rosamunde, 1924-2019.
<- Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963.
<- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
<- *Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000.
<- Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
<- Proulx, E. Annie, 1935-
<- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
<- Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999.
<- *Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982.
<- *Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.
<- *Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970.
<- *Rhys, Jean, 1890-1979.
<- *Roth, Henry, 1906-1995.
<- *Roth, Philip, 1933-2018.
<- *Rushdie, Salman, 1947-
<- Salinger, J. D., 1919-2010.
<- Sendak, Maurice, 1928-1912.
<- Shaara, Michael, 1928-1988.
<- Shields, Carol, 1935-2003.
<- *Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
<- Smiley, Jane, 1949-
<- Smith, Betty, 1896-1972.
<- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 1918-2008.
<- Spark, Muriel, 1918-2006.
<- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.
<- *Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
<- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
<- Stone, Irving, 1903-1989.
<- *Styron, William, 1925-2006.
<- *Tan, Amy, 1952-
<- *Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
<- *Thompson, Hunter, 1937-2005.
<- *Tolkien, J. R. R., 1892-1973.
<- *Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
<- *Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
<- *Tyler, Anne, 1941-
<- *Updike, John, 1932-2009.
<- *Uris, Leon, 1924-2003.
<- *Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 1922-2007.
<- Walker, Alice, 1944-
<- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
<- Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
<- *Wells, H. G., 1866-1946.
<- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
<- West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.
<- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
<- White, E. B., 1899-1985.
<- *White, T. H., 1906-1964.
<- Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
<- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
<- Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013.
<- Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
<- *Wolfe, Tom, 1931-2018.
<- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
<- Wouk, Herman, 1915-2019.
<- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
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2nd web edition posted
6/24/05 (last updated
7/12/23).
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Additional material © 1999-2023 by Brian Kunde.
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