The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You (82 page)

Kundera, Milan,
104
,
108
,
269
,
280

Kunkel, Benjamin,
196

Kureishi, Hanif,
119
,
372

Kurkov, Andrey,
299

Kyung-sook Shin,
226

Lahiri, Jhumpa,
181

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di,
29

Lanchester, John,
164
,
392

Lansdale, Joe R.,
222

Larsson, Stieg,
157

Laurence, Margaret,
269
,
345

Lawrence, D. H.,
282
,
386

Laxness, Halldór,
389

le Carré, John,
223

Lee, Harper,
344
,
364

Le Guin, Ursula K.,
261
,
323

L’Engle, Madeleine,
323

Lessing, Doris,
153
,
243

Lethem, Jonathan,
270
,
320

Levin, Ira,
179
,
186

Levy, Andrea,
376

Lewycka, Marina,
10

Lipsyte, Sam,
188

Lively, Penelope,
334

London, Jack,
185

Loos, Anita,
188

Lovelace, Earl,
386

Lowry, Malcolm,
16

Macaulay, Rose,
357

Mackay, Shena,
253

Maclean, Norman,
269

Malouf, David,
64

Mann, Thomas,
246
,
277
,
331
,
389

Mantel, Hilary,
101
,
270

Marani, Diego,
193

Marías, Javier,
159

Martel, Yann,
207

Martin, George R. R.,
261

Mason, Daniel,
273

Mason, Richard,
325

Matar, Hisham,
386

Matheson, Richard,
147

Maugham, W. Somerset,
366
,
386

Maupin, Armistead,
223

Maxwell, William,
159

Mayor, F. M.,
366

McCaffrey, Anne,
261

McCarthy, Cormac,
77
,
148
,
226

McCarthy, Mary,
372

McCarthy, Tom,
242

McCullers, Carson,
180
,
217

McDermott, Alice,
77

McEwan, Ian,
234

McGrath, Patrick,
348

McGregor, Jon,
266

McGuinness, Patrick,
113

McInerney, Jay,
306

McMillan, Terry,
77

McNeal, Tom,
304

Mehta, Gita,
269

Melville, Herman,
210
,
277
,
389

Miéville, China,
73

Miller, Rebecca,
243
,
283

Mistry, Rohinton,
13

Mitchell, David,
334
,
351

Mitchell, Margaret,
376

Mitford, Nancy,
257

Moggach, Deborah,
334

Montgomery, Lucy Maud,
350

Moore, Lorrie,
4

Moore, Susanna,
371

Morrison, Toni,
108
,
175

Mosley, Walter,
223

Mosse, Kate,
157

Mo Yan,
395

Moyes, Jojo,
227

Munif, Abdelrahman,
395

Murakami, Haruki,
144
,
373

Murdoch, Iris,
334

Musil, Robert,
346

Nabokov, Vladimir,
391

Naipaul, V. S.,
180
,
308

Narayan, R. K.,
269

Nelson, Antonya,
318

Nesbit, Edith,
67

Ness, Patrick,
61

Netzer, Lydia,
34

Nicholls, David,
91
,
227

Niffenegger, Audrey,
247

Nolan, William F.,
11

Obreht, Téa,
321

O’Brien, Flann,
221

O’Farrell, Maggie,
97

Ondaatje, Michael,
110
,
111
,
112
,
132

Orringer, Julie,
153

Orwell, George,
89
,
174

Ovid,
126

Oz, Amos,
389

Paasilinna, Arto,
245

Parker, John L., Jr.,
16

Pasternak, Boris,
91

Patchett, Ann,
5
,
230
,
257
,
334

Paton, Alan,
302

Peacock, Thomas Love,
269

Peake, Mervyn,
185

Pearson, Allison,
250

Peck, Winifred,
186

Penney, Stef,
153

Perec, Georges,
294

Perrotta, Tom,
186
,
189

Pessl, Marisha,
294

Pessoa, Fernando,
201

Petterson, Per,
345

Picano, Felice,
78

Pirsig, Robert M.,
313

Plath, Sylvia,
104
,
108

Portis, Charles,
265

Potok, Chaim,
84

Powell, Anthony,
296

Powers, Richard,
272

Powys, John Cowper,
202

Pratchett, Terry,
184
,
261

Proulx, Annie,
327

Proust, Marcel,
368

Puig, Manuel,
91

Pullman, Philip,
223

Pym, Barbara,
334

Pynchon, Thomas,
282
,
292
,
368

Rachman, Tom,
357

Radcliffe, Mark,
185

Réage, Pauline,
283

Reyes, Alina,
283

Rhinehart, Luke,
161

Rhodes, Danuta de,
171

Rhys, Jean,
376
,
386

Rice, Ben,
211

Rice, Eva,
77

Rich, Simon,
93

Riley, Gwendoline,
257

Riley, Peggy,
91

Robbins, Tom,
11
,
290
,
348

Roberts, Gregory David,
86

Robinson, Marilynne,
132
,
371

Robison, Mary,
112

Roffey, Monique,
34

Rosoff, Meg,
344

Roth, Joseph,
389

Roth, Philip,
91
,
345
,
372

Rowling, J. K.,
270

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos,
157

Rush, Norman,
290

Rushdie, Salman,
37
,
153
,
261

Russo, Richard,
67
,
189
,
345

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von,
208
,
283

St. Aubyn, Edward,
108

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de,
65
,
156

Salinger, J. D.,
4
,
43
,
364

Salmon, Peter,
75

Salter, James,
342

Saramago, José,
79
,
341

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
77

Sayer, Paul,
235

Sayers, Dorothy L.,
223

Schaefer, Jack,
291

Schlink, Bernhard,
211

Sebold, Alice,
157

See, Lisa,
376

Selby, Hubert, Jr.,
48
,
77
,
108

Semple, Maria,
189

Seth, Vikram,
146
,
368

Shaffer, Mary Ann,
180

Shankman, Sarah,
320

Shapton, Leanne,
46

Shelley, Mary,
334

Shields, Carol,
153

Shriver, Lionel,
72

Shteyngart, Gary,
108
,
237

Shute, Jenefer,
129

Shute, Nevil,
290

Simenon, Georges,
67

Simonson, Helen,
108
,
390

Simpson, Mona,
180
,
314

Sinclair, Iain,
177

Sinclair, Upton,
366

Sittenfeld, Curtis,
239

Smart, Elizabeth,
108

Smith, Alexander McCall,
275
,
294
,
314

Smith, Ali,
115

Smith, Dodie,
108
,
394

Smith, Zadie,
273

Soueif, Ahdaf,
290

Spark, Murial,
235
,
275
,
364

Sparks, Nicholas,
91

Stead, Christina,
87

Stegner, Wallace,
180

Steinbeck, John,
53
,
117
,
166
,
184
,
269

Sterne, Laurence,
21

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
380

Stockett, Kathryn,
336

Stoker, Bram,
280

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
43

Styron, William,
91

Süskind, Patrick,
273

Swarup, Vikas,
395

Swift, Graham,
70
,
269
,
345

Swift, Jonathan,
280

Tabucchi, Antonio,
275

Takeyama, Michio,
395

Tao Lin,
112

Tartt, Donna,
372

Taylor, Elizabeth,
30

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
350
,
368

Theroux, Paul,
386

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa,
174

Thomas, D. M.,
179

Thompson, Hunter S.,
314

Thomson, Rupert,
291

Tóibín, Colm,
203

Tokarczuk, Olga,
395

Tolkien, J. R. R.,
261
,
339

Tolstoy, Leo,
7
,
46
,
179
,
368
,
369
,
389

Toole, John Kennedy,
114

Torday, Paul,
143

Towles, Amor,
350

Townsend, Sue,
135

Trapido, Barbara,
294

Tremain, Rose,
131
,
166

Trevor, William,
91

Trollope, Anthony,
366

Trollope, Joanna,
251
,
252

Tulloch, Lee,
386

Turgenev, Ivan,
230
,
345

Turner, Nancy,
306

Twain, Mark,
269

Tyler, Anne,
25
,
153

Tyszka, Alberto Barrera,
61

Undset, Sigrid,
368

Updike, John,
213

Urquhart, Jane,
132

Vann, David,
121
,
179
,
344

Vargas Llosa, Mario,
220

Verghese, Abraham,
395

Verne, Jules,
176

Vickers, Salley,
243

Vizinczey, Stephen,
171

Voltaire,
280

von Arnim, Elizabeth,
240

Vonnegut, Kurt,
112
,
364

Walker, Alice,
364

Wallace, David Foster,
368

Walls, Jeannette,
199

Walters, Jesse,
273

Warren, Robert Penn,
366

Waters, Sarah,
283
,
376

Watson, Winifred,
108

Waugh, Evelyn,
159
,
263

Weisberger, Lauren,
77

Welch, Denton,
4

Weldon, Fay,
335

Wells, H. G.,
141
,
168
,
323

Wells, Rebecca,
294

Welsh, Irvine,
124

Wharton, Edith,
53
,
77

White, Edmund,
283
,
364

White, Ethel Lina,
67

White, Patrick,
389

White, T. H.,
261

Whitehouse, David,
36

Wilde, Oscar,
376

Wilder, Laura Ingalls,
74

Wiles, Will,
189

Williams, Niall,
50

Wilson, Kevin,
108

Winsor, Kathleen,
376

Winterson, Jeanette,
78
,
324
,
372

Winton, Tim,
266
,
312

Wodehouse, P. G.,
189
,
207
,
239
,
269

Wolitzer, Meg,
58
,
186
,
259

Wong, David,
320

Woodward, Gerard,
88

Woolf, Virginia,
64
,
108
,
180
,
248

Wroblewski, David,
291
,
345

Wynd, Oswald,
259

Wyndham, John,
323

Yates, Richard,
47
,
108
,
153

Yoshikawa, Eiji,
380

Young, Louisa,
91

Zola, Émile,
57
,
261

Zusak, Markus,
364

Zweig, Stefan,
389

NOVEL TITLE INDEX

1Q84
(Haruki Murakami),
144

1984
(George Orwell),
174

2001: A Space Odyssey
(Arthur C. Clarke),
313

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(Jules Verne),
176

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Sherman Alexie),
364

Absurdistan
(Gary Shteyngart),
108

The Accidental Tourist
(Anne Tyler),
25

Across the River and into the Trees
(Ernest Hemingway),
132

The Adventures of Augie March
(Saul Bellow),
103

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Mark Twain),
269

The African Queen
(C. S. Forester),
185

After You’d Gone
(Maggie O’Farrell),
97

Agapanthus Tango
(David Francis),
255

The Age of Innocence
(Edith Wharton),
77

The Alexandria Quartet
(Lawrence Durrell),
384

Alias Grace
(Margaret Atwood),
273

All the King’s Men
(Robert Penn Warren),
366

Alone in Berlin
(Hans Fallada),
108

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
(Michael Chabon),
359

American Pastoral
(Philip Roth),
91
,
345

American Psycho
(Bret Easton Ellis),
338

Amity and Sorrow
(Peggy Riley),
91

Angel
(Elizabeth Taylor),
30

Angels Flight
(Michael Connelly),
222

Anna Karenina
(Leo Tolstoy),
7
,
46
,
179
,
369

Anne of Green Gables
(Lucy Maud Montgomery),
350

Any Human Heart
(William Boyd),
272

Anywhere But Here
(Mona Simpson),
180
,
314

The Art of Fielding
(Chad Harbach),
245

As I Lay Dying
(William Faulkner),
132

As It Is in Heaven
(Niall Williams),
50

Ask the Dust
(John Fante),
77

Asylum
(Patrick McGrath),
348

Atmospheric Disturbances
(Rivka Galchen),
193

Atonement
(Ian McEwan),
234

August
(Gerard Woodward),
88

Auntie Mame
(Patrick Dennis),
107

Ayesha: The Return of She
(H. Rider Haggard),
71

Bad Chili
(Joe R. Lansdale),
222

Bartleby the Scrivener
(Herman Melville),
210

The Bean Trees
(Barbara Kingsolver),
185

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
(J. P. Donleavy),
317

Beautiful Ruins
(Jesse Walters),
273

Bed
(David Whitehouse),
36

Bel Canto
(Ann Patchett),
230
,
257

The Bell Jar
(Sylvia Plath),
104
,
108

The Belly of Paris
(Émile Zola),
57

Beloved
(Toni Morrison),
175

Benediction
(Kent Haruf),
269

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
(Deborah Moggach),
334

The Best of Everything
(Rona Jaffe),
366

Betty Blue
(Philippe Djian),
108

Beware of Pity
(Stefan Zweig),
389

Beyond Black
(Hilary Mantel),
101

The Big Sleep
(Raymond Chandler),
112

Birdsong
(Sebastian Faulks),
150

The Birth of Love
(Joanna Kavenna),
68

Black Swan Green
(David Mitchell),
351

The Blackwater Lightship
(Colm Tóibín),
203

Bleak House
(Charles Dickens),
269

Blindness
(José Saramago),
79

The Blind Owl
(Sadegh Hedayat),
395

Blood Meridian
(Cormac McCarthy),
77

Blow Fly
(Patricia Cornwell),
33

The Blue Flower
(Penelope Fitzgerald),
352

The Bluest Eye
(Toni Morrison),
108

The Book of Disquiet
(Fernando Pessoa),
201

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
(Milan Kundera),
269

The Book Thief
(Markus Zusak),
364

Bound
(Antonya Nelson),
318

A Boy’s Own Story
(Edmund White),
283
,
364

Brave New World
(Aldous Huxley),
124
,
323

Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(Truman Capote),
64
,
137

Break In
(Dick Francis),
222

Breath
(Tim Winton),
312

Brick Lane
(Monica Ali),
181

Brideshead Revisited
(Evelyn Waugh),
263

The Bride Stripped Bare
(Nikki Gemmell),
283

Bridget Jones’s Diary
(Helen Fielding),
188

Bright Lights, Big City
(Jay McInerney),
306

Brother of the More Famous Jack
(Barbara Trapido),
294

The Brothers K
(David James Duncan),
368

The Buddha of Suburbia
(Hanif Kureishi),
372

Burglars Can’t Be Choosers
(Lawrence Block),
222

Burmese Days
(George Orwell),
89

The Butcher
(Alina Reyes),
283

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
(Elizabeth Smart),
108

Cain
(José Saramago),
341

Call Me by Your Name
(André Aciman),
46

The Call of the Wild
(Jack London),
185

Candide
(Voltaire),
280

Cannery Row
(John Steinbeck),
117

Capital
(John Lanchester),
392

Care of Wooden Floors
(Will Wiles),
189

Caribou Island
(David Vann),
121

Carry On, Jeeves
(P. G. Wodehouse),
239

Carter Beats the Devil
(Glen David Gold),
157

Catch-22
(Joseph Heller),
89
,
272

The Catcher in the Rye
(J. D. Salinger),
4
,
364

Cat’s Cradle
(Kurt Vonnegut),
112

Cat’s Eye
(Margaret Atwood),
55

The Cat’s Table
(Michael Ondaatje),
132

Charming Billy
(Alice McDermott),
77

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
(B. S. Johnson),
362

A Christmas Carol
(Charles Dickens),
72

The Chrysalids
(John Wyndham),
323

Cities of Salt
(Abdelrahman Munif),
395

The City and the City
(China Miéville),
73

City of Thieves
(David Benioff),
272

The City of Your Final Destination
(Peter Cameron),
180

Claudius the God
(Robert Graves),
224

Cleave
(Nikki Gemmell),
52

A Closed
Eye
(Anita Brookner),
179

Cloudstreet
(Tim Winton),
266

The
Coffee Story
(Peter Salmon),
75

Cold Comfort Farm
(Stella Gibbons),
81
,
108

Cold Mountain
(Charles Frazier),
377

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
(Michael Ondaatje),
112

The Color Purple
(Alice Walker),
364

The Colour
(Rose Tremain),
166

Comet in Moominland
(Tove Jansson),
77

The Comforters
(Muriel Spark),
235

The Comforts of Madness
(Paul Sayer),
235

Company
(Samuel Beckett),
112

A Confederacy of Dunces
(John Kennedy Toole),
114

The Confessions of Max Tivoli
(Andrew Sean Greer),
280

Corelli’s Mandolin
(Louis de Bernières),
290

The Corrections
(Jonathan Franzen),
13
,
270

The Count of Monte Cristo
(Alexandre Dumas),
157

Crash
(J. G. Ballard),
313

Crime and Punishment
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky),
169

The Crimson Petal and the White
(Michel Faber),
18

Crossing to Safety
(Wallace Stegner),
180

Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder
(Mike Befeler),
132

The Crying of Lot
49
(Thomas Pynchon),
292

Cry, the Beloved Country
(Alan Paton),
302

The Cuckoo Boy
(Grant Gillespie),
6

A Curious Earth
(Gerard Woodward),
345

Cutting for Stone
(Abraham Verghese),
395

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
(Fannie Flagg),
159

Daisy Miller
(Henry James),
64

A Dance to the Music of Time
(Anthony Powell),
296

Daniel Deronda
(George Eliot),
159

The Darling Buds of May
(H. E. Bates),
305

Daughters-in-Law
(Joanna Trollope),
251
,
252

The Day of the
Triffids
(John Wyndham),
323

Death
and the Penguin
(Andrey Kurkov),
299

The Death of a Beekeeper
(Lars Gustafsson),
289

A Death in the Family
(James Agee),
56

Death in Venice
(Thomas Mann),
277

The Debt to Pleasure
(John Lanchester),
164

The Debut
(Anita Brookner),
159

Deep River
(Shusaku Endo),
269

Desperate Characters
(Paula Fox),
42

Devil in a Blue Dress
(Walter Mosley),
223

The Devil Wears Prada
(Lauren Weisberger),
77

The Diaries of Jane Somers
(Doris Lessing),
153

Diary of a Bad Year
(J. M. Coetzee),
112

Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Sue Kaufman),
186

The Dice Man
(Luke Rhinehart),
161

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
(Anne Tyler),
153

Disgrace
(J. M. Coetzee),
153

The Diviners
(Margaret Laurence),
345

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
(Rebecca Wells),
294

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
(Philip K. Dick),
64

Doctor Faustus
(Thomas Mann),
331

Doctor Zhivago
(Boris Pasternak),
91

Doing It
(Melvin Burgess),
283

Don Quixote
(Miguel de Cervantes),
218

Downriver
(Iain Sinclair),
177

Dracula
(Bram Stoker),
280

Dragonflight
(Anne McCaffrey),
261

Dreams of Leaving
(Rupert Thomson),
291

The Drowned World
(J. G. Ballard),
323

The Dud Avocado
(Elaine Dundy),
340

Dune
(Frank Herbert),
324

The Edge of Reason
(Helen Fielding),
294

Election
(Tom Perrotta),
189

Elliot Allagash
(Simon Rich),
93

Emma
(Jane Austen),
95
,
257

Empire Falls
(Richard Russo),
67

The Empress of Ice Cream
(Anthony Capella),
368

The Enchanted April
(Elizabeth von Arnim),
240

The End of the Affair
(Graham Greene),
46

The End of the
Story
(Lydia Davis),
46

English Passengers
(Matthew Kneale),
350

The English Patient
(Michael Ondaatje),
111

The Enigma of Arrival
(V. S. Naipaul),
308

Essays in Love
(Alain de Botton),
350

Even Cowgirls Get the
Blues
(Tom Robbins),
290

Everything Is Illuminated
(Jonathan Safran Foer),
158

The Exorcist
(William Peter Blatty),
143

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(Jonathan Safran Foer),
98

Fabulous Nobodies
(Lee Tulloch),
386

Fahrenheit 451
(Ray Bradbury),
172