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A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
Index of Contemporary
American Fiction
under review
at
the complete review
More eclectic than the British Fiction under review, the complete review is still trying to gets its bearing re. American fiction.
Note that only books first published in 1946 or after are included here, therefore not all titles under review by some authors will be found here.
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Note: for books in square brackets ("[...]") we only offer review-overviews
- As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter - American Writers Respond to Their French Counterparts
- ABISH, Walter:
- ALEAS, Richard:
- ARDAI, Charles:
- ASHER, Marty: The Boomer (B-)
- AXELROD, George: Blackmailer (B)
- BACHELDER, Chris: U.S. ! (B)
- [BACIGALUPI, Paolo: The Windup Girl]
- BAKER, Nicholson:
- BARDIN, John Franklin:
- BATCHELOR, John Calvin:
- BELLOW, Saul: Ravelstein (B)
- [BERRY, Jedediah: The Manual of Detection]
- BLOCH, Robert:
- BREWER, Gil: The Vengeful Virgin (B)
- BRYAN, Mike: The Afterword (B-)
- BURROUGHS, William S.:
- CAIN, James M.:
- CARROLL, Jonathan:
- CARTER, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park (B)
- CASTI, John L.: The Cambridge Quintet (C-)
- CHURCH, James: A Corpse in the Koryo (B)
- [COHEN, Joshua: Witz]
- COLLINS, Max Allan: Seduction of the Innocent (B)
- CONDON, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (B)
- CRICHTON, Michael: Prey (B-)
- DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (B)
- DELILLO, Don:
- DENT, Lester: Honey in his Mouth (B)
- DIMOCK, Peter: A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (B+)
- DUNCAN, Lois:
- DUNN, Mark: Ella Minnow Pea (A)
- ELLENBERG, Jordan: The Grasshopper King (B+)
- ELLROY, James: American Tabloid (C+)
- EMERSON, Gloria: Loving Graham Greene (B-)
- ERICKSON, Steve:
- ESTRIN, Marc: Insect Dreams (B)
- EUGENIDES, Jeffrey:
- FAHY, Warren: Pandemonium (B)
- FEARING, Kenneth: The Big Clock (B+)
- FRANZEN, Jonathan:
- FREUDENBERGER, Nell:
- GADDIS, William:
- GALCHEN, Rivka: Atmospheric Disturbances (B-)
- GASS, William H.:
- [GESSEN, Keith: All the Sad Young Literary Men]
- GOLDSTEIN, Rebecca Newberger: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (B)
- GROSSMAN, Lev:
- HANSEN, Ron: Hitler's Niece (C)
- HARKNESS, Deborah: A Discovery of Witches (B-)
- HASTON, Meg: How to Rock Braces and Glasses (B-)
- IRVING, John:
- KEENE, Day: Home is the Sailor (B)
- KIDD, Chip: The Cheese Monkeys (B-)
- KING, Stephen:
- KUO, Alex: The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze (B-)
- KURZWEIL, Allen: The Grand Complication (B)
- LEITHAUSER, Brad: Darlington's Fall (A-)
- LEVY Hideo: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (B)
- LINDSAY, Jeff:
- LITTELL, Jonathan: The Kindly Ones (C-)
- MARKSON, David:
- MATHEWS, Harry:
- MILLER, Wade: Branded Woman (B-)
- NABOKOV, Vladimir:
- O'NAN, Stewart:
- [O'NEILL, Joseph: Netherland]
- [OZEKI, Ruth: A Tale for the Time Being]
- OZICK, Cynthia:
- PESSL, Marisha: Special Topics in Calamity Physics (B-)
- POWELL, Padgett:
- POWERS, Richard: Generosity (A-)
- PYNCHON, Thomas:
- ROBINSON, Kim Stanley:
- ROSENFIELD, Israel: Freud's Megalomania (B-)
- ROTH, Philip:
- RUSH, Norman: Mating (B)
- RUSSINOVICH, Mark: Zero Day (B-)
- RYSKAMP, John Henry: Nature Studies (C-)
- SHAND, Rosa: The Gravity of Sunlight (B)
- SIEGEL, Lee: Love in a Dead Language (C)
- [SITTENFELD, Curtis: American Wife]
- SLOAN, Robin: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (B)
- STANSBERRY, Domenic: The Confession (B+)
- STEPHENSON, Neal:
- STOLLER, Paul: Gallery Bundu (B)
- SWARTZ, Mark: Instant Karma (B)
- TARTT, Donna: The Little Friend (C)
- TELLER, Astro: Exegesis (D)
- THEROUX, Paul:
- TUROW, Scott: Reversible Errors (B)
- VIZENOR, Gerald: Hiroshima Bugi (A-)
- WAGNER, Bruce: I'm Losing You (B)
- WEISS, Daniel Evan: Honk if you love Aphrodite (A-)
- WEST, Paul: The Dry Danube (B)
- WESTLAKE, Donald E.: Memory (A-)
- WHITE, Curtis: Memories of My Father Watching TV (B)
- WINTER, Ariel S.: The Twenty-Year Death (B+)
- WOLFE, Tom:
- WOOD, Ed:
- YODER, Edwin M., jr.: Lions at Lamb House (B)
- YU, Charles: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (B+)
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