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What are the best books under review ? Here are the highest rated reviews at the complete review (those graded A+ or an A).

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Books Graded A+:

• The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter WEISS (novel)
• The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert BURTON (non-fiction)
• Arcadia, Tom STOPPARD (drama)
• The Discovery of Heaven, Harry MULISCH (novel)
• The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura, Irmtraud MORGNER (novel)
• Lolita, Vladimir NABOKOV (novel)
• Loving Sabotage, Amélie NOTHOMB (novel)
• The Marx Family Saga, Juan GOYTISOLO (novel)
• Mischief, Chris WILSON (novel)
• Mr. Bligh's Bad Language, Greg DENING (history)
• Mr. Cogito, Zbigniew HERBERT (poetry)
• Mister Pip, Lloyd JONES (novel)
• Poems: Before and After, Miroslav HOLUB (poetry)
• The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia OZICK (novel)
• The Sleepwalkers, Hermann BROCH (novel)
• The Story of The Stone, CAO Xueqin (novel)
• Voss, Patrick WHITE (novel)

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Books Graded A:

    Fiction:

• Anniversaries, Uwe JOHNSON
• The Assault, Harry MULISCH
• Atonement, Ian McEWAN
• Babel Tower, A.S.BYATT
• Biographie de la faim, Amélie NOTHOMB
• Bleeding London, Geoff NICHOLSON
• But Beautiful, Geoff DYER
• Centuria, Giorgio MANGANELLI
• Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, B. S. JOHNSON
• Complete Works and Other Stories, Augusto MONTERROSO
• The Corrections, Jonathan FRANZEN
• Death and the Dervish, Mesa SELIMOVIC
• The Death of the Author, Gilbert ADAIR
• The Death of Virgil, Hermann BROCH
• Double Indemnity, James M. CAIN
• Ella Minnow Pea, Mark DUNN
• The Eye of the Storm, Patrick WHITE
• Ficciones, Jorge Luis BORGES
• The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump, Aharon MEGGED
• The Following Story, Cees NOOTEBOOM
• Hopscotch, Julio CORTÁZAR
• The Ice Palace, Tarjei VESAAS
• In the Dutch Mountains, Cees NOOTEBOOM
• Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Imre KERTÉSZ
• Life A User's Manual, Georges PEREC
• Magic Seeds, V.S.NAIPAUL
• Max Havelaar, MULTATULI
• Middlemarch, George ELIOT
• Milton in America, Peter ACKROYD
• Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, Martin KESSEL
• Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto BOLAÑO
• 99 Ways to Tell a Story, Matt MADDEN
• Old Men in Love -- Alasdair GRAY
• Oppdageren, Jan KJÆRSTAD
• Palinuro of Mexico, Fernando del PASO
• Piano, Jean ECHENOZ
• The Plot Against America -- Philip ROTH
• Poor Things -- Alasdair GRAY
• The Procedure, Harry MULISCH
• Riders in the Chariot, Patrick WHITE
• Rituals, Cees NOOTEBOOM
• Reader's Block, David MARKSON
• The Same Sea, Amos OZ
• Shyness and Dignity, Dag SOLSTAD
• Slow Man, J.M.COETZEE
• The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo CLAUS
• Stories of Mr. Keuner, Bertolt BRECHT
• Suite française, Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Tartar Steppe, Dino BUZZATI
• The Thought Gang, Tibor FISCHER
• The Tunnel, William H. GASS

    Non-Fiction:

• Bobby Fischer Goes to War, David EDMONDS and John EIDINOW
• The Book of Prefaces, Alasdair GRAY
• K Foundation burn a Million Quid, Chris BROOK
• De toekomst van gisteren, Harry MULISCH
• Georges Perec, David BELLOS
• How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Pierre BAYARD
• Like a Fiery Elephant, Jonathan COE
• Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
• Nine Suitcases, ZSOLT Béla
• No Passion Spent, George STEINER
• On Liberty, John Stuart MILL
• Oulipo Compendium, ed. Harry MATHEWS
• Het seksuele bolwerk, Harry MULISCH
• Selected Non-Fictions, Jorge Luis BORGES
• Shedding Life, Miroslav HOLUB
• Sir Vidia's Shadow, Paul THEROUX
• Sorry Meniscus, Iain SINCLAIR
• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos OZ

    Poetry:

• Fredy Neptune, Les MURRAY
• In Parenthesis, David JONES
• Report from the Besieged City, Zbigniew HERBERT
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Trans. Edward FitzGerald)
• Vanishing Lung Syndrome, Miroslav HOLUB

    Drama/Screenplays:

• Copenhagen, Michael FRAYN
• The Invention of Love, Tom STOPPARD
• Life Is a Dream, Pedro CALDERÓN de la Barca
• The Night of the Tribades, Per Olov ENQUIST
• A Question of Attribution, Alan BENNETT
• The Real Thing, Tom STOPPARD
• The Singing Detective, Dennis POTTER

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