The Fiction Faction - Archive - Chronological Index
Elizabeth Baines

Alphabetical index (by author)

 

September-December 2002
Setting up the group
November - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
December - True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey


January-June 2003
January - Happenstance,
Carol Shields
February - Rabbit, Run, John Updike
March - Atonement, Ian McEwan
April - Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
May - Affinity, Sarah Waters
June - Surfacing, Margaret Atwood

July- December 2003
July - Arcadia, Jim Crace
August - Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
September - Life of Pi, Yann Martel
October - If This is a Man, Primo Levi
November - A Bend in the River, V S Naipaul
December - Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre

January-June 2004
January - The Quiet American, Graham Greene
February - The Outsider, Albert Camus
March - The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
April - Blindness, Jose Saramago
May - Alma Cogan, Gordon Burn
June - The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills


July-December 2004
July - The Warden, Anthony Trollope
August - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
September - Under the Skin, Michel Faber
October - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
November - The Tortilla Curtain, T Coraghessan Boyle
December - The Pickup, Nadine Gordimer

January-June 2005
January - Double Vision, Pat Barker
February - How Many Miles to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
March - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
April - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
May - Atomised,
Michel Houellebecq
June - Frankie and Stankie, Barbara Trapido

July-December 2005
July - Our Lady of the Forest, David Guterson
September - Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
October - The Colour of Blood, Brian Moore
November - Small Island, Andrea Levy
December - The Kite Runner, Khaled Husseini

January - June 2006
January - A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
February - Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Manuel Puig
March - Snow, Orhan Pamuk
April - The Human Stain, Philip Roth
May - The Accidental, Ali Smith
June - The Reader, Bernhard Schlink


July-December 2006
July - Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
September - Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
October - In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
November - Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr
December - Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

January-June 2007
January - The Sea, John Banville
February -
Jack Maggs Peter Carey
March - Doctor Criminale Malcolm Bradbury
April
- Mother's Milk Eward St Aubyn
May - A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami
June - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers


July-December 2007
July - The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
August - White Noise Don DeLillo
September -Le Grand Meaulnes Alain-Fournier
October - Disgrace JM Coetzee
November - The Maze Panos Karnezis
December -
Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels

January-June 2008
January - Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene
February - Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
March - The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
April - The Hours Michael Cunningham
May -The Gathering Anne Enright
June - Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje


July-December 2008
July - Crash JG Ballard
August - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
September - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
October - The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
December - The Clothes on Their Backs Linda Grant

January-June 2009
January - The String of Pearls Joseph Roth
February - Chronicle in Stone Ismail Kadare
March - The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry
April 6 - Austerlitz W G Sebald
April 23 - The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm
May - Falling Man Don DeLillo
June - The Autograph Hound John Lahr


August-December 2009

August - Changes of Address Lee Langley
September - Nights at the Circus Angela Carter
October - Netherland Joseph O'Neill
November - The Road Cormac McCarthy
December - Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad


January-June 2010
January - The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
February - The Turn of the Screw Henry James
March - The Kindness of Women JG Ballard
April - Beloved - Toni Morrison
May - Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
June - Cloud Street - Tim Winton


July-December 2010
July - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
August - The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
September - Dirty Weekend - Helen Zahavi
October -The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
November - Carry Me Down - M J Hyland
December - The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West and Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion

January-May 2011
January - Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
February - Waterland - Graham Swift
March - Postcards - E Annie Proulx
April - Blood Meridian - Cormack McCarthy
May - Ingenious Pain - Andrew Miller

July-November 2011
July - Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
August -
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
September - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
October - The Spare Room - Helen Garner
November - Homer and Langley - E L Doctorow

March-June 2012
January - The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
March - Generation X - Douglas Coupland
April -
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
May - Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
June - A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro

July-November 2012
July - The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
August - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
September - Looking for Mr Goodbar - Judith Rossner

October - Dubliners - James Joyce
November - Roger Fishbite - Emily Prager

January-May 2013
January - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Feburary - A Jew Must Die - Jacques Chessex
March - Saturday - Ian McEwan
April - Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer
May - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
June - The End of Alice - A M Homes


July - September 2013
July - The Fancy Dress Party - Alberto Moravia
August - The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd
September - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
October - Machine Dreams - Jayne Ann Phillips
November - The Book of Daniel - E L Doctorow

January-June 2014
January - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
February - Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
March - Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
April 2 - Dark Water - Joyce Carol Oates
April 30 - Harriet Said - Beryl Bainbridge
June - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

July-December 2014
July - Ironweed - William Kennedy
August - The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
September - Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
October - Turbulence - Chico Buarque
December -All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

January-June 2015
January - The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
February - All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
March - Mrs Hemingway - Naomi Wood
April - Stoner - John Williams
May - The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
June - In Country - Bobbie Ann Mason

July-December 2015
July - Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas
August - The Bridge - Iain Banks
September - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - B S Johnson
October - The Quiet Soldier: Phuong's Story - Creina Mansfield
December -The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

January-June 2016
January - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
February - The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
March - Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
April - The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
June - A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

July-November 2016
July - Duplicate Keys - Jane Smiley
August - Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
September - All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
October - Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
November - The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante

January-June 2017
January - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
February - The Midnight Bell - Patrick Hamilton
March - Utz - Bruce Chatwin
April - For Two Thousand Years - Mihail Sebastian
May - In the Cut - Susanna Moore
June - The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

July-December 2017
July - Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
August - The Men's Club - Leonard Michaels
September - Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
October - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
November - The Fishermen - Chicozie Obioma
December - The Vegetarian - Han Kang

January-June 2018
January - Autumn - Ali Smith
February - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
April - Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor
May - Lullaby - Leila Slimani
June - The Spy who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre

July-December 2018
July - Harvest - Jim Crace
September - Moonglow - Michael Chabon
October - Bonjour Tristesse - Francois Sagan
December - Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

January-June 2019
January - Amongst Women - John McGahern
February - Cassandra at the Wedding - Dorothy Baker
March - A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
April - The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
May - The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
June - The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schultz

August-December 2019
August - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
October - In a Summer Season - Elizabeth Taylor
November - Milkman - Anna Burns
December - A Month in the Country - J L Carr

January-March 2020 -
January - Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
February - The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
March - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk

July-December 2020 -
July - The Braid - Laetitia Colombani
September - Elmet - Fiona Mozley
October - Distant Star - Roberto Bolano
November - Idaho - Emily Ruskovich
December - The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun

February-June 2021 -
February - Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
March - Where'd You Go Bernadette - Maria Semple
April - The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
May - The Notebook - Agota Kristof
June - My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout

July-December 2021 -
July - Old Filth - Jane Gardam
October - There There - Tommy Orange
November - Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
December - Nora Webster - Colm Toibin

January-June 2022 -
January - Candide - Voltaire
March - Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
April - The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
June - The Mountains Sing - Nguyen Phan Que Mai

July-December 2022
July - This Census Taker - China Mieville
October - Turbulence - David Szalay
November - As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
December - Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor

January-June 2023
January - Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
February -A Thousand Moons - Sebastian Barry
March - What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell
April - One Moonlit Night - Caradoc Prichard
June - The Girls - Emma Cline

July-August2023-
July - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
August - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

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