User:Goochelaar/Writers
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This is an informal, unorganised list of authors and books I am interested in; I intend to create or add to the articles about them. It is mostly a "memo to self", but you are welcome to contribute suggestions, links etc.
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Author(s) | Title | First publ. | Notes |
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Una svolta da Chernobyl | 1986 | Collection of articles and interviews from Rinascita magazine about Chernobyl disaster | |
Do Anything Eat Wasps? and 101 Other Questions | 2006 | Mick O'Hare ed., published by New Scientist | |
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes | 2008 | see McSweeney's | |
Il mestiere di riflettere | 2008 | Chiara Manfrinato ed., about translation | |
amblerEric Ambler | Journey into Fear | 1940 | see the 1943 and the 1975 film versions |
armaroliNicola Armaroli and Vincenzo Balzani | Energia per l'astronave Terra | 2008 | about energy |
arrugaLorenzo Arruga | Suite algérienne | 2003 | |
atkinsPeter Atkins | The Periodic Kingdom | 1995 | |
attivissimoPaolo Attivissimo (see it:Paolo Attivissimo) | Luna? Sì, ci siamo andati | 2010 | about Moon landing conspiracy theories |
augiasCorrado Augias (see it:Corrado Augias) | I segreti di Roma | 2005 | see it:I segreti di Roma |
augiasCorrado Augias (see it:Corrado Augias) | I segreti di Londra | 2003 | |
avoledoTullio Avoledo | Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti | 2007 | |
avoledoTullio Avoledo | La ragazza di Vajont | 2008 | |
avoledoTullio Avoledo | L'ultimo giorno felice | 2008 | |
avoledoTullio Avoledo | L'anno dei dodici inverni | 2009 | |
banksIain Banks | The Steep Approach to Garbadale | 2007 | |
banksIain Banks | Matter | 2008 | as Iain M. Banks |
banksIain Banks | Transition | 2009 | |
bariccoAlessandro Baricco | Seta (Silk) | 1996 | see the 2007 same title film version |
barucciPiero Barucci (see it:Piero Barucci) | Adam Smith e la nascita della scienza economica | 1973 | about Adam Smith |
bartezzaghiStefano Bartezzaghi (see it:Stefano Bartezzaghi) | L'elmo di Don Chisciotte | 2009 | |
bayardPierre Bayard | Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? | 1998 | |
bayardPierre Bayard | Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus ? | 2007 | |
bennettAlan Bennett | The Uncommon Reader | 2007 | |
berkeleyAnthony Berkeley | The Whychford Poisoning Case | 1926 | |
berneEric Berne | Games People Play | 1964 | |
binmoreKen Binmore | Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction | 2008 | |
blakeNicholas Blake (= Cecil Day-Lewis) | A Penknife in my Heart | 1958 | |
blissettLuther Blissett | Q | 1999 | |
brechtBertolt Brecht | Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) | 1928 | |
brechtBertolt Brecht | Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe (Saint Joan of the Stockyards) | 1931 | |
brechtBertolt Brecht | Die Ausnahme und die Regel (The Exception and the Rule) | 1937 | |
bressaniniDario Bressanini | OGM tra leggende e realtà | 2009 | about genetically modified organisms |
brustSteven Brust | The Phoenix Guards | 1991 | |
burgerEdward B. Burger and Michael Starbird | Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz | 2005 | |
canforaLuciano Canfora (see it:Luciano Canfora) | La storia falsa | 2008 | |
canforaLuciano Canfora (see it:Luciano Canfora) | Critica della retorica democratica | 2002 | about democracy |
chabonMichael Chabon | A Model World and Other Stories | 1991 | |
chabonMichael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | 2007 | |
chabonMichael Chabon | Gentlemen of the Road | 2007 | |
charpakGeorges Charpak and Henri Broch (see fr:Henri Broch) | Devenez sorciers, devenez savants (see fr:Devenez sorciers, devenez savants) | 2002 | |
chekhovAnton Chekhov | Short stories | 1883-1903 | |
christieAgatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 1926 | |
christieAgatha Christie | The Mystery of the Blue Train | 1928 | |
clarkeArthur C. Clarke | The City and the Stars | 1956 | |
clarkeArthur C. Clarke | The Lost Worlds of 2001 | 1972 | about the joint genesis of Clarke's novel A Space Odyssey and Stanley Kubrick's same name film. |
coeJonathan Coe | What a Carve Up! | 1994 | |
crichtonMichael Crichton | Odds On | 1966 | as John Lange |
crichtonMichael Crichton | State of Fear | 2004 | |
crichtonMichael Crichton | Airframe | 1996 | |
dazieriSandrone Dazieri | La bellezza è un malinteso | 2010 | |
deanGordon Dean | Report on the atom | 1954 | |
dewittHelen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff | Your Name Here | 2008 | unpublished |
dickPhilip K. Dick | Our Friends from Frolix 8 | 1970 | |
doctorowCory Doctorow | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | 2003 | |
doctorowCory Doctorow | Content | 2008 | essay collection |
dossenaGiampaolo Dossena (see it:Giampaolo Dossena) | Mangiare banane | 2007 | |
evangelistiValerio Evangelisti | La luce di Orione | 2007 | |
farmerPhilip José Farmer | The Maker of Universes | 1965 | see "World of Tiers" |
ffordeJasper Fforde | Lost in a Good Book | 2002 | |
ffordeJasper Fforde | The Well of Lost Plots | 2003 | |
ffordeJasper Fforde | Something Rotten | 2004 | |
ffordeJasper Fforde | First Among Sequels | 2007 | |
flemingIan Fleming | Casino Royale | 1953 | thrice adapted for the screen |
flemingIan Fleming | Moonraker | 1955 | see the 1979 film version, Moonraker |
flemingIan Fleming | Goldfinger | 1959 | see the 1964 film version, Goldfinger |
fontenailleÉlise Fontenaille | Unica | 2007 | Has won the Nouveau Grand Prix of French science fiction in 2008 |
forsterE. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | 1905 | |
freudSigmund Freud | Bruchstücke einer Hysterie-Analyse (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria) | 1905 | about a case of hysteria in his patient "Dora", in real life Ida Bauer |
frutteroCarlo Fruttero | Ti trovo un po' pallida | 1979 | |
frutterolucentiniCarlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini | La cosa in sé | 1982 | |
frutterolucentiniCarlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini | Enigma in luogo di mare | 1991 | |
fuchsMichael Stephen Fuchs | The Manuscript | 2006 | |
garfinkleRichard Garfinkle | Celestial Matters | 1996 | |
gardnererleErle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Cautious Coquette | 1949 | a Perry Mason novel |
gardnermartinMartin Gardner | Science: Good, Bad and Bogus | 1981 | |
gibsonWilliam Gibson | Spook County | 2007 | |
godelKurt Gödel | La prova matematica dell'esistenza di Dio | 2006 | Gabriele Lolli and Piergiorgio Odifreddi, eds. (about Gödel's ontological proof |
goldGlen David Gold | Carter Beats the Devil | 2001 | |
goldacreBen Goldacre | Bad Science | 2008 | |
goldsteinRebecca Goldstein | 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction | 2010 | |
goresJoe Gores | Gone, No Forwarding | 1978 | |
grotheMardy Grothe (see his personal webpage) | Viva la Repartee | 2005 | |
guglielminettiAmalia Guglielminetti | Quando avevo un amante | 1923 | |
hardT.W. Hard | Sum VII | 1979 | |
harrisonHarry Harrison | Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers | 1973 | |
heinPiet Hein | Grooks | 1966 | |
herbertFrank Herbert | Dune | 1965 | see the 1984 film version, Dune, and the 2000 TV miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune |
hodgeJonathan K. Hodge and Richard E. Klima | The Mathematics of Voting and Eelections | 2005 | |
hofstadterDouglas R. Hofstadter | Le Ton beau de Marot | 1997 | |
howardRobert E. Howard | The Conan Chronicles. Vol. 1: The People of the Black Circle | 1933-35 | first part of the collection of the stories about Conan the Barbarian |
iezziLuca Iezzi | Energia nucleare. Sì, grazie? | 2009 | about nuclear power, especially in Italy |
julyAndrew Kaufman (not to be confused with the entertainer Andy Kaufman) | All My Friends Are Superheroes | 2003 | |
kingStephen King | Needful Things | 1991 | |
kingStephen King | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | 1993 | short story collection |
kingStephen King | The Gunslinger | 1982 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | The Drawing of the Three | 1987 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | The Waste Lands | 1991 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | Wizard and Glass | 1997 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | Wolves of the Calla | 2003 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | Song of Susannah | 2004 | part of The Dark Tower series |
kingStephen King | The Dark Tower | 2004 | part of The Dark Tower series |
krajewskiMarek Krajewski | Śmierć w Breslau (Death in Breslau) | 1999 | |
labrancaTommaso Labranca (see it:Tommaso Labranca) | Estasi del pecoreccio | 1995 | |
lagerlofSelma Lagerlöf | Kejsarn av Portugallien (The Emperor of Portugallia) | 1914 | |
langewiescheWilliam Langewiesche | The Turn | 1998 | |
langewiescheWilliam Langewiesche | Rules of Engagement | 2006 | |
levyMatthys Levy and Mario Salvadori | Why Buildings Fall Down | 1992 | |
lovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | 1927/1941 | |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Shotgun | 1969 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Jigsaw | 1970 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here | 1971 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man | 1972 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Sadie When She Died | 1972 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Hail to the Chief | 1973 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | So Long as You Both Shall Live | 1976 | a 87th Precinct novel |
macbainEd McBain (= Evan Hunter) | Guns | 1976 | |
maccaffreyAnne McCaffrey | Dragonflight | 1968 | |
maccallsmithAlexander McCall Smith | Tears of the Giraffe | 2000 | |
maccarthyCormac McCarthy | The Road | 2006 | see the 2009 film version, The Road |
macclureJames McClure | The Caterpillar Cop | 1972 | a Kramer and Zondi novel |
magrelliValerio Magrelli (see it:Valerio Magrelli) | Nero sonetto solubile | 2010 | about the sonnet Recueillement by Charles Baudelaire |
mametDavid Mamet | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1982 | |
mancinelliLaura Mancinelli | I dodici abati di Challant-Il miracolo di santa Odilia-Gli occhi dell'imperatore | 1981 (?) | |
maraiSándor Márai | A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Embers) | 1942 | |
marinoGiambattista Marino | La strage degl'innocenti | 1632 | a poem about the slaughter of the innocents |
medvedHarry Medved and Michael Medved | The Golden Turkey Awards | 1980 | |
meneghelloLuigi Meneghello | I piccoli maestri (The Outlaws) | 1964 | |
meneghelloLuigi Meneghello | Fiori italiani | 1976 | |
mezrichBen Mezrich | Bringing Down the House | 2003 | |
mittelmarkHoward Mittelmark and Sandra Newman | How Not to Write a Novel | 2008 | |
mizzauMarina Mizzau | L'ironia. La contraddizione consentita | 1984 | an essay about irony |
moriniMassimiliano Morini | La traduzione | 2007 | an essay about translation |
moranteElsa Morante | La Storia (History: A Novel) | 1974 | |
nebbiaGiancarlo Nebbia | Nucleare: il frutto proibito | 2007 | an essay about nuclear physics and its applications |
neriGianluca Neri (see it:Gianluca Neri) | Il grande elenco telefonico della Terra e pianeti limitrofi (Giove escluso) | 2010 | |
pamukOrhan Pamuk | Beyaz Kale (The White Castle) | 1985 | |
pariseGoffredo Parise | Il prete bello | 1972/1982 | |
pascaleAntonio Pascale (see it:Antonio Pascale) | La manutenzione degli affetti | 2003 | |
pascaleAntonio Pascale (see it:Antonio Pascale) | Scienza e sentimento | 2008 | |
pascaleAntonio Pascale (see it:Antonio Pascale) | Questo è il paese che non amo | 2010 | |
pasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini | Una vita violenta | 1959 | |
pelevinVictor Pelevin | Проблема верволка в средней полосе (A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia) | 1998 | |
perrySteve Perry | The Albino Knife | 1991 | part of the Matador series |
pertempiSilvia Pertempi | Romanzi per il macero | 2004 | |
priestChristopher Priest | The Prestige | 1995 | see the 2006 film version, The Prestige |
pullmannPhilip Pullmann | Northern Lights | 1995 | part of the His Dark Materials trilogy |
pullmannPhilip Pullmann | The Subtle Knife | 1997 | part of the His Dark Materials trilogy |
pullmannPhilip Pullmann | The Amber Spyglass | 2000 | part of the His Dark Materials trilogy |
pushkinAlexander Pushkin | Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) | 1825-32 | |
pynchonThomas Pynchon | Inherent Vice | 2009 | |
rampinMatteo Rampin | L'arte dell'impossibile | 2004 | |
randiJames Randi | The Mask of Nostradamus | 1993 | |
rappuoliRino Rappuoli and Lisa Vozza | I vaccini dell'era globale | 2009 | about vaccines |
rebelloStephen Rebello | Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho | 1990 | |
resnikMichael D. Resnik | Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory | 1987 | about decision theory |
richlerMordecai Richler | Barney's Version | 1997 | |
salvadoriMario Salvadori | Why Buildings Stand Up | 1980 | |
saramagoJosé Saramago | Memorial do convento (Baltasar and Blimunda) | 1987 | |
sawyerRobert J. Sawyer | Flashforward | 1999 | see the 2009 TV series FlashForward |
sayersDorothy L. Sayers | Whose Body? | 1923 | |
sayersDorothy L. Sayers | Murder Must Advertise | 1933 | |
shawbBob Shaw | Night Walk | 1967 | |
shawbBob Shaw | The Two-Timers | 1968 | |
shawbBob Shaw | Orbitsville | 1975 | |
shawbBob Shaw | Orbitsville Departure | 1983 | |
shawbBob Shaw | The Peace Machine | 1985 | |
shawbBob Shaw | Orbitsville Judgement | 1990 | |
simenonGeorges Simenon | Signé Picpus | 1941-42 | known in English as To Any Lengths or Maigret and the Fortuneteller |
simenonMaj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö | Mannen på balkongen (The Man on the Balcony) | 1967 |
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- John Sladek, Alien Accounts, The New Apocrypha
- Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan, The Top 10 Myths about Evolution
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall (1941)
- Richard Stark (= Donald E. Westlake), Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot (Parker novels)
- Stendhal, Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black, 1830)
- Neal Stephenson, Anathem (2008)
- Charles Stross, Halting State (2007)
- Luca Surian, L'autismo (about autism)
- George G. Szpiro, Poincaré's Prize (about Poincaré conjecture)
- Wisława Szymborska, Koniec i początek (The End and the Beginning, 1993)
- Gino Tellini, Rifare il verso (2008)
- Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge (2008)
- Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me (1952)
- Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982)
- Pietro Trifone, Storia linguistica di Roma (2008)
- Gerard Unger (see nl:Gerard Unger), Terwijl je leest (While You're Reading, 1997)
- Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (2008)
- S. S. Van Dine (= Willard Huntington Wright), The Benson Murder Case (1926)
- Fred Vargas, Pars vite et reviens tard (Have Mercy on Us All, 2001; see the 2007 same name film)
- David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003)
- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (2007)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/91; see the 1945 same title film and the 2009 film version titled Dorian Gray)
- P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (1919), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Joy in the Morning (1946), Ring for Jeeves (1953), Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954), Jeeves in the Offing (1960), Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1982?), The Citadel of the Autarch (1983?), The Urth of the New Sun (1987)
- Cornell Woolrich, Rendezvous in Black (1948), The Bride Wore Black (1940; see the 1968 same name film)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, Мы (We, 1921)