• ADAIR, Gilbert:
  • The Evadne Mount Trilogy:
    1. The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (B)
    2. A Mysterious Affair of Style (B+)
    3. And Then There Was No One (B+)
  
  
• ADLER-OLSEN, Jussi:
  • Department Q-series:
    1. Mercy (US title: The Keeper of Lost Causes) (B+)
    2. Disgrace (US title: The Absent One) (B)
    3. Redemption (US title: A Conspiracy of Faith) (B)
  
  
• ASHK, Upendranath:
  • The Falling Walls-cycle:
    1. Falling Walls (B+)
    2. In the City a Mirror Wandering (B+)
  
  
• AYCKBOURN, Alan:
  • Damsels in Distress (B+):
    • GamePlan (B+)
    • FlatSpin (B)
    • RolePlay (B+)
  • House (B+) and Garden (B)
  
  
• AYLETT, Steve:
  • Accomplic Books:
    • 1. Only an Alligator (B)
    • 2. The Velocity Gospel (B)
  
  
• BALLE, Solvej:
  • On the Calculation of Volume-series:
    1. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) (A-)
    2. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) (B+)
  
  
• BALZAC, Honoré de:
  • Lost Illusions (A-)
  • A Harlot High and Low (A-) (sequel)
  
  
• BARNES, Julian:
  • Love, etc. (B+)
  • Talking it Over (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• BASARA, Svetislav:
  • The Cyclist Conspiracy (B)
  • In Search of the Grail: The Cyclist Conspiracy, Part Two (B)
  
  
• BATCHELOR, John Calvin:
  • Gordon Liddy is my Muse (B)
  • Walking the Cat (B-) (sequel)
  
  
• BJØRNEBOE, Jens:
  • The History of Bestiality trilogy:
    • Moment of Freedom (A-)
    • Powderhouse (B+)
    • The Silence (B)
  
  
• BROCH, Hermann: The Sleepwalkers (A+) (trilogy)
  
  
• BYATT, A.S.:
  • Frederica Potter quartet:
    • 1. Still Life (A-)
    • 3. Babel Tower (A)
    • 4. A Whistling Woman (A-)
  
  
• CARLOTTO, Massimo:
  • The Alligator series:
    • The Colombian Mule
    • The Master of Knots
    • Bandit Love
    • Gang of Lovers
    • For All the Gold in the World
    • Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores
  
  
• CAROFIGLIO, Gianrico:
  • Guido Guerrieri series:
    1. Involuntary Witness (B)
    2. A Walk in the Dark (B)
    3. Reasonable Doubts (B)
    4. Temporary Perfections (B)
    5. A Fine Line (B)
    6. The Measure of Time (B+)
  
  
• CARROLL, Jonathan:
  • White Apples (B)
  • Glass Soup (B-) (sequel)
  
  
• CHANG Ta-Chun:
  • Wild Kids (B):
    • My Kid Sister (B+)
    • Wild Child (B)
  
  
• CHATTERJEE, Upamanyu:
  • English, August (A-)
  • The Mammaries of the Welfare State (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• CHILD, Lee:
  • The Jack Reacher novels:
    • 1. Killing Floor (B)
    • 4. Running Blind (UK title: The Visitor) (B+)
    • 6. Without Fail (B)
    • 7. Persuader (B)
    • 8. The Enemy (B+)
    • 11. Bad Luck and Trouble (B)
    • 14. 61 Hours (B+)
    • 16. The Affair (B)
    • 18. Never Go Back (B+)
    • 19. Personal (B)
    • 20. Make Me (B)
  
  
• CHRISTENSEN, Lars Saabye (Norway):
  • Beatles (B+)
  • Bly (B) (sequel)
  
  
• CHURCH, James:
  • The Inspector O novels
    1. A Corpse in the Koryo (B)
  
  
• COE, Jonathan:
  • The Rotters' Club (B+)
  • The Closed Circle (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• COLEGATE, Isabel:
  • The Orlando Trilogy
    1. Orlando King (A-)
    2. Orlando at the Brazen Threshold (B)
    3. Agatha (B+)
  
  
• DAHL, Arne:
  • The 'Intercrime'-series:
    1. Misterioso (B-)
  
  
• DAVYS, Tim:
  • The Mollisan Town-quartet:
    1. Amberville (B-)
  
  
• DE ANGELIS, Augusto:
  • The Inspector De Vincenzi mysteries:
    • Death in a Bookstore (B-)
    • The Hotel of the Three Roses (B)
    • The Murdered Banker (B+)
    • The Mystery of the Three Orchids (B-)
  
  
• DE LA MOTTE, Anders:
  • The Game-trilogy:
    1. Game (B+)
    2. Buzz (B-)
  
  
• DELACORTA:
  • The Gorodish and Alba series:
    1. Nana (B+)
  
  
• DITLEVSEN, Tove:
  • The Copenhagen Trilogy - memoirs:
    1. Childhood (A-)
    2. Youth (B+)
    3. Dependency (B+)
  
  
• DÖBLIN, Alfred:
  • November 1918
    • I. Bürger und Soldaten 1918 (B+)
  
  
• DOULATABADI, Mahmud:
  • Kelidar - I (A-)
  • Kelidar - II (B+)
  
  
• DRNDIĆ, Daša:
  • Belladonna (A-)
  • EEG (B+)
  
  
• EDWARDSON, Åke:
  • Erik Winter series:
    • Sun and Shadow (B-)
  
  
• FERNÁNDEZ MALLO, Agustín:
  • The 'Nocilla'-trilogy:
    1. Nocilla Dream (B)
    2. Nocilla Experience (B)
  
  
• FFORDE, Jasper:
  • Thursday Next series:
    • 1. The Eyre Affair (B+)
    • 2. Lost in a Good Book (B+)
    • 3. The Well of Lost Plots (B+)
    • 4. Something Rotten (B+)
    • 5. First Among Sequels (B+)
    • 6. One of Our Thursdays is Missing (B)
    • 7. The Woman who Died a Lot (B+)
  • Nursery Crime series:
    • 1. The Big Over Easy (B+)
    • 2. The Fourth Bear (B+)
  
  
• FOSSE Jon:
  • Melancholy
  • Melancholia II (sequel)
  
  
• FRASER, George MacDonald:
  • Flashman series:
    • 1. Flashman (A-)
    • 11. Flashman and the Tiger (B+)
    • 12. Flashman on the March (B+)
  
  
• GARDAM, Jane:
  • Old Filth (A-)
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat (A-)
  • Last Friends (B+)
  
  
• GLATTAUER, Daniel:
  • Love Virtually (B-)
  • Every Seventh Wave (B-) (sequel)
  
  
• GREEN, Julien:
  • The Dixieseries:
    1. The Distant Lands (B+)
    2. The Stars of the South (B+)
  
  
• GROSSMAN, Lev:
  • The Magicians (B-)
  • The Magician King (B) (sequel)
  
  
• HAAS, Wolf:
  • The Simon Brenner series:
    1. Auferstehung der Toten (B+)
    2. Der Knochenmann (B)
    3. Komm, süßer Tod (B)
    4. Silentium ! (B)
    5. Wie die Tiere (B)
    6. Das ewige Leben (B+)
  
  
• HAMILTON-PATERSON, James:
  • Cooking with Fernet Branca (B)
  • Amazing Disgrace (B+) (sequel)
  • Rancid Pansies (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• HARKNESS, Deborah:
  • The All Souls Trilogy:
    1. A Discovery of Witches (B-)
  
  
• VAN DER HEIJDEN, A.F.Th.:
  • De tandeloze tijd series:
    • 1. Vallende ouders (B)
    • 4. Advocaat van de hanen (B+)
    • Intermezzo Weerborstels (B)
  
  
• HERRON, Mick:
  • The Slough House-sreies:
    1. Slow Horses (B+)
    2. Dead Lions (B+)
  
  
• HIGASHINO Keigo:
  • The Detective Galileo series:
    • The Devotion of Suspect X (B-)
    • A Midsummer's Equation (B)
    • Silent Parade (B)
  • The Kyoichiro Kaga series:
    • 4. Malice (B-)
    • 8. Newcomer (B+)
  
  
• HILL, Geoffrey :
  • The Triumph of Love (B+)
  • Speech ! Speech ! (B+)
  • The Orchards of Syon (B)
  
  
• HODDER, Mark:
  • The Burton & Swinburne Adventure-series:
    1. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (B)
    2. The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (B-)
  
  
• HONDA Tetsuya:
  • The Reiko Himekawa-series:
    1. The Silent Dead (B)
    2. Soul Cage (B-)
  
  
• HOROWITZ, Anthony:
  • The Alex Rider-series:
    1. Stormbreaker (B-)
    2. Point Blanc (B-) (US title: Point Blank)
  
  
• HRABAL, Bohumil:
  • His autobiographical trilogy:
    1. In-House Weddings (B+)
    2. Vita Nuova (B+)
  
  
• INDRIĐASON, Arnaldur:
  • Inspector Erlendur series:
    • 3. Jar City (B+)
    • 5. Voices (B)
  
  
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Marseilles Trilogy:
    1. Total Chaos (B+)
    2. Chourmo (B)
    3. Solea (B)
  
  
• JACOBSEN, Roy:
  • The Barrøy Chronicles:
    1. The Unseen (A-)
    2. White Shadow (B)
  
  
• JAMES, P.D.:
  • Adam Dalgliesh mysteries:
    • Death in Holy Orders (A-)
    • The Murder Room (B+)
    • The Lighthouse (B+)
    • The Private Patient (B+)
  
  
• JIN Yong:
  • Legends of the Condor Heroes:
    1. A Hero Born (B)
    2. A Bond Undone (B)
    3. A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
    4. A Heart Divided (B)
  
  
• KAYAMA Shigeru:
  • Godzilla-novels
    • Godzilla (B-)
    • Godzilla Raids Again (B-)
  
  
• KEPLER, Lars:
  • Joona Linna thrillers:
    • The Hypnotist (B-)
    • The Nightmare (B)
  
  
• KERR, Philip:
  • Bernie Gunther novels:
    • The One from the Other (B+)
    • A Quiet Flame (B)
    • If the Dead Rise Not (B+)
  
  
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • Inspector Llob series:
    • 2. Double Blank (B)
    • 3. Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
    • Dead Man's Share (B+)
  
  
• KJÆRSTAD, Jan:
  • The Wergeland-trilogy:
    • I. The Seducer (A-)
    • II. The Conqueror (A-)
    • III. The Discoverer (A)
  
  
• KNAUSGAARD, Karl Ove:
  • The Morning Star:
    1. The Morning Star (B+)
    2. The Wolves of Eternity (B+)
    3. The Third Realm (B+)
  • My Struggle:
    • 1. My Struggle (UK title: A Death in the Family) (A-)
    • 2. My Struggle: Book Two (UK title: A Man in Love) (A-)
    • 6. My Struggle: Book Six (UK title: The End) (A-)
  
  
• KRAJEWSKI, Marek:
  • Eberhard Mock series:
    • 2. The End of the World in Breslau (B)
  
  
• KRLEŽA, Miroslav:
  • The Banquet in Blitva (B+)
  
  
• KURKOV, Andrey:
  • Death and the Penguin (A-)
  • Penguin Lost (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• LARSSON, Åsa:
  • Six-volume series:
    • 3. The Black Path (B)
  
  
• LARSSON, Stieg:
  • The Millennium-trilogy:
    1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
    2. The Girl who Played with Fire (B)
    3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (B)
  
  
• LELORD, François:
  • The Hector-books:
    • Hector and the Search for Happiness (B)
    • Hector and the Secrets of Love (B) (sequel)
  
  
• LEMAITRE, Pierre:
  • The Commandant Camille Verhœven-trilogy:
    1. Irène (B-)
    2. Alex (B)
    3. Camille (B)
  
  
• LESSING, Doris:
  • The Canopus in Argos: Archives-series:
    1. Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (A-)
  
  
• LINDSAY, Jeff:
  
  • The Dexter-series:
    1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (B)
    2. Dearly Devoted Dexter (B)
    3. Dexter in the Dark (C+)
    4. Dexter by Design (B)
    5. Dexter is Delicious (B)
    6. Double Dexter (B)
    7. Dexter's Final Cut (B)
    8. Dexter is Dead (B)
  
  
• LUCARELLI, Carlo:
  • The De Luca-trilogy:
    1. Carte Blanche (B+)
    2. The Damned Season (B+)
  • The Ispettore Grazia Negro books:
    1. Almost Blue (B+)
  
  
• MACDONALD, Ross:
  • The Lew Archer novels:
    • Black Money (B+)
    • The Galton Case (B+)
    • The Goodbye Look (B)
    • The Instant Enemy (B)
    • The Underground Man (B+)
  
  
• MACLEOD, Ken:
  • The Corporation Wars-trilogy:
    1. Dissidence (B+)
    2. Insurgence (B)
    3. Emergence (B)
  
  
• MAHFOUZ, Naguib:
  • The Cairo Trilogy (A-)
    • Palace Walk (A-)
    • Palace of Desire (B+)
    • Sugar Street (B+)
  
  
• DE MAISTRE, Xavier:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• MALLO, Ernesto:
  • The Inspector Lascano mysteries:
    1. Needle in a Haystack (B+)
    2. Sweet Money (B)
  
  
• MALVALDI, Marco:
  • The Bar Lume mysteries:
    1. Game for Five (B)
    2. Three-Card Monte (B)
  
  
• MARÍAS, Javier:
  • Your Face Tomorrow-trilogy:
    1. Fever and Spear
  
  
• MARTÍNEZ, Guillermo:
  • The Oxford Murders (B+)
  • The Oxford Brotherhood (B) (sequel)
  
  
• MIÉVILLE, China:
  • Perdido Street Station (B+)
  • The Scar (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• MOORCOCK, Michael:
  • The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+):
    • The Condition of Muzak (B+)
    • A Cure for Cancer (B)
    • The English Assassin (B)
    • The Final Programme (The Final Program) (B)
  • A Nomad of the Time Streams (B):
    • The Warlord of the Air (B+)
    • The Land Leviathan (B)
    • The Steel Tsar (B)
  
  
• MUNIF, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān:
  • Cities of Salt:
    • 2. The Trench (A-)
    • 3. Variations on Night and Day (B)
  
  
• MUTIS, Álvaro:
  • The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll:
    1. The Snow of the Admiral (B+)
  
  
• NAIPAUL, V.S.:
  • Half A Life (B+)
  • Magic Seeds (A) (sequel)
  
  
• NESBØ, Jo:
  • The Harry Hole series
    • 3. The Redbreast (B+)
    • 4. Nemesis (B)
    • 5. The Devil's Star (B)
    • 7. The Snowman (B)
    • 8. The Leopard (B+)
  
  
• NESSER, Håkan:
  • Inspector Van Veeteren series:
    • Borkmann's Point (B)
  
  
• PADURA, Leonardo:
  • The Havana Quartet:
    1. Havana Blue (B+)
    2. Havana Gold (B)
    3. Havana Red (B+)
    4. Havana Black (B+)
  • Other Mario Conde books:
    1. Adiós Hemingway (B+)
    2. [Havana Fever]
  
  
• PATHAK, Surender Mohan:
  • Vimal series:
    • The 65 Lakh Heist (B)
  
  
• PEARS, Iain:
  • Art History Mystery/Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano-series:
    • 1. The Raphael Affair (B+)
    • 4. The Last Judgement (B)
    • 7. The Immaculate Deception (B)
  
  
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • Benjamin Malaussène/Belleville series:
    • The Scapegoat (B)
    • Write to Kill (B+)
    • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
    • Passion Fruit (B)
  
  
• PERSSON, Leif GW:
  • Trilogy:
    1. Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (B)
    2. Another Time, Another Life (A-)
    3. Free Falling, As If in a Dream (B+)
  • The Evert Bäckström novels:
    1. Linda, As in the Linda Murder (B)
    2. He Who Kills the Dragon (B-)
    3. The Sword of Justice (B)
  
  
• PIGLIA, Ricardo:
  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi-trilogy:
    1. Formative Years (B+)
    2. The Happy Years (B+)
    3. A Day in the Life (B+)
  
  
• PIŠT'ANEK, Peter:
  • The Rivers of Babylon-trilogy:
    1. Rivers of Babylon (A-)
    2. The Wooden Village (B+)
    3. The End of Freddy (A-)
  
  
• PULLMAN, Philip:
  • The Book of Dust - trilogy:
    • I. La Belle Sauvage (B)
  • His Dark Materials (B+)
    • I. Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass) (B+)
    • II. The Subtle Knife (B)
    • III. The Amber Spyglass (B+)
  
  
• RANKIN, Ian:
  • Inspector Rebus series:
    • 1. Knots and Crosses (B)
    • 2. Hide and Seek (B)
    • 3. Tooth and Nail (B+)
    • 6. Mortal Causes (B)
    • 7. Let it Bleed (B+)
    • 8. Black and Blue (B+)
    • 9. The Hanging Garden (B+)
    • 10. Dead Souls (B+)
    • 11. Set in Darkness (B+)
    • 12. The Falls (B)
    • 13. Resurrection Men (B+)
    • 14. A Question of Blood (B+)
    • 15. Fleshmarket Close (US title: Fleshmarket Alley) (B+)
    • 16. The Naming of the Dead (B+)
    • See also: A Good Hanging (B)
  
  
• RAY, Satyajit:
  • The Feluda series:
    • The Buccaneer of Bombay (a.k.a. The Bandits of Bombay) (B)
    • The Golden Fortress (B)
  
  
• REIMANN, Brigitte:
  • I Have No Regrets (B+) -- Diaries, 1955-1963
  • It All Tastes of Farewell (B) -- Diaries, 1964-1970
  
  
• RENDELL, Ruth:
  • A Sight for Sore Eyes (B+)
  • The Vault (B)
    
    
  • The Inspector Wexford series:
    • 19. The Babes in the Wood (B-)
    • 23. The Vault (B)
  
  
• RIZAL, José:
  • Noli Me Tangere (B+)
  • El Filibusterismo (B+)
  
  
• ROBINSON, Kim Stanley:
  • The Science in the Capital-trilogy
    1. Forty Signs of Rain (B)
    2. Fifty Degrees Below (B)
    3. Sixty Days and Counting (B)
    
    
  • The Mars Trilogy:
    1. Red Mars (B+)
    2. Green Mars (B)
    3. Blue Mars (B+)
  
  
• ROHMER, Sax:
  • The Fu-Manchu series:
    1. The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (B-)
  
  
• ROSLUND, Anders (with Börge Hellström):
  • The Ewert Grens thrillers:
    • 2. Box 21 (B)
    • 5. Three Seconds (B)
  
  
• SAN-ANTONIO:
  • 57. Knights of Arabia (B)
  • 39. Thugs and Bottles (B)
  • 16. Tough Justice (B)
  
  
• SARTRE, Jean-Paul:
  • The Roads to Freedom-series:
    1. The Age of Reason (B-)
  
  
• SATRAPI, Marjane:
  • Persepolis (B)
  • Persepolis (vol. 3) (B)
  
  
• SATTERTHWAIT, Walter:
  • The Pinkerton novels:
    1. Escapade (B+)
    2. Masquerade (B)
    3. Cavalcade (B)
  • The Lizzie Borden duet:
    1. Miss Lizzie (B)
    2. New York Nocturne (B)
  
  
• SCERBANENCO, Giorgio:
  • The Duca Lamberti quartet:
    1. A Private Venus (B+)
    2. Betrayal (US title: Traitors to All) (A-)
  
  
• SCHMIDT, Arno:
  • Radio Dialogs I (A-)
  • Radio Dialogs II (A-)
  
  
• SCHOTT, Ben:
  • Miscellanies:
    • Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany (-)
    • Schott's Original Miscellany (-)
  
  
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • The Inspector Maigret-novels:
    • 1. Pietr the Latvian (B+)
    • 2. The Late Monsieur Gallet (B)
    • 55. Maigret in Court (B+)
    • 56. Maigret and the Old People (B)
    • 58. Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (B+)
    • 59. Maigret and the Saturday Caller (A-)
    • 62. Maigret and the Ghost (B)
    • 66. Maigret's Pickpocket (B)
    • 67. Maigret Hesitates (A-)
  
  
• SJÖWALL, Maj and Per WAHLÖÖ:
  • The Martin Beck-series:
    1. Roseanna (B+)
    2. The Man who went up in Smoke (B)
  
  
• SLAUERHOFF, Jan Jacob:
  • The Forbidden Kingdom (A-)
  • Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (B+) (sequel)
  
  
• SOLANA, Teresa:
  • The Eduardo and Borja-series:
    1. A Not So Perfect Crime (B)
    2. A Shortcut to Paradise (B)
    3. The Sound of One Hand Killing (B)
  
  
• SOMER, Mehmet Murat:
  • The Hop-Çiki-Yaya-thrillers:
    • The Prophet Murders (B)
  
  
• STEPHENSON, Neal:
  • The Baroque Cycle:
    • I. Quicksilver (B+)
    • II. The Confusion (B)
    • III. The System of the World (B)
  
  
• STOPPARD, Tom:
  • The Coast of Utopia (A-):
    • Part I - Voyage (A-)
    • Part II - Shipwreck (B+)
    • Part III - Salvage (B+)
  
  
• STRATFORD, Jordan:
  • The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency-series:
    1. The Case of the Missing Moonstone (B)
    2. The Case of the Girl in Grey (B)
  
  
• SUTER, Martin:
  • The Allmen-series:
    1. Allmen and the Dragonflies (B+)
    2. Allmen and the Pink Diamond (B)
  
  
• SUZUKI Koji:
  • The Ring-trilogy:
    1. Ring (B)
    2. Spiral (B-)
    3. Loop (B-)
  
  
• TAKAMURA Kaoru:
  • Lady Joker (I) (-)
  • Lady Joker (II) (B)
  
  
• THILLIEZ, Franck:
  • The Franck Sharko/Lucie Henebelle-thrillers:
    • Syndrome E (C+)
    • Bred to Kill (B)
  
  
• THOMAS Scarlett:
  • The Lily Pascale-mysteries:
    1. Dead Clever (B)
    2. In Your Face (B)
    3. Seaside (B)
  
  
• VARGAS LLOSA, Mario:
  • In Praise of the Stepmother (A-)
  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (B) (sequel)
  
  
• WAHLÖÖ, Per:
  • The Inspector Jensen-diptych:
    1. Murder on the Thirty-First Floor (B+)
    2. The Steel Spring (B)
  
  
• WEISS, Peter:
  • Published together as Exile
    • Leavetaking (A-)
    • Vanishing Point (A-) (sequel)
• ŽIVKOVIĆ, Zoran:
  • The Papyrus Trilogy:
    1. The Last Book
    2. The Grand Manuscript
    3. Compendium of the Dead
• ZOLA, Emile:
  • Rougon-Macquart-series
    • 2. The Kill (A-)
    • 8. A Love Story (B+)
    • 11. The Ladies' Paradise (B+)
    • 12. The Bright Side of Life (B+)
    • 14. The Masterpiece (B+)
    • 16. The Dream (B+)

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