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An Alphabet of Book Titles
– planned and reviewed –
(subject to change)
- Maria Àngels Anglada: The Auschwitz Violin (1994), original Catalan title: El violí d’Auschwitz
- Jeannie Ebner: The Bengal Tiger (1983), original German title: Der Königstiger
- Barbara Fischmuth: Convent School (1968), original German title: Die Klosterschule
- Szabó Magda: The Door (1987), original Hungarian title: Az ajtó
- Peter Rosegger: The Earth and the Fullness Thereof (1900), original German title: Erdsegen
- Mo Yan: Frog (2009), original Chinese title: 蛙
- Jenny Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone (2015), original German title: Gehen, ging, gegangen
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World (1916)
- Maryse Condé: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1986), original French title: Moi, Tituba, sorcière... noire de Salem
- Rebecca West: The Judge (1922)
- André Kaminski: Kith and Kin (1986), original German title: Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem
- Elisabeth von Heyking: The Letters Which Never Reached Him (1903), original German title: Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten
- Lídia Jorge: The Migrant Painter of Birds (1998), original Portuguese title: O Vale da Paixão
- Vicente Blanco Ibáñez: The Naked Lady (1906), original Spanish title: La maja desnuda, also published in English as Woman Triumphant
- Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils (1986)
- Władysław Szpilman: The Pianist (1946), original Polish title: Śmierć miasta
- Tanizaki Jun'ichiro: Quicksand (1928-30), original Japanese title: 卍
- Robert Ludlum: The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
- Angela Carter: Shadow Dance (1966)
- Dacia Maraini: Train to Budapest (2010), original Italian title: Il treno dell’ultima notte
- Iris Murdoch: An Unofficial Rose (1963)
- François Mauriac: Vipers' Tangle (1932), original French title: Le Nœud de vipères
- Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood (1952)
- Zichao Deng: Xanadu (2013)
- J.M. Coetzee: Youth (2002)
- Italo Svevo: Zeno's Conscience (1923), original Italien title: La coscienza di Zeno