User:Goochelaar/Writers

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.

Author(s)	Title	First publ.	Notes
	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
binmore Ken Binmore	Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction	2008
blake Nicholas Blake (= Cecil Day-Lewis)	A Penknife in my Heart	1958
blissett Luther 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
burger Edward 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 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 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
lovecraft Howard 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
priest Christopher Priest	The Prestige	1995	see the 2006 film version, The Prestige
pullmann Philip Pullmann	Northern Lights	1995	part of the His Dark Materials trilogy
pullmann Philip Pullmann	The Subtle Knife	1997	part of the His Dark Materials trilogy
pullmann Philip 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

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 (=
Parker
novels)
Stendhal, Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black, 1830)
Neal Stephenson, Anathem (2008)
Charles Stross, Halting State (2007)
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)
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)
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)