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Authors - B:

• BABUR, Zahiruddin Muhammad: Baburnama (B+)
• BACHELDER, Chris: U.S. ! (B)
• BADER, Ali: Papa Sartre (B)
• BAGGOTT, Jim: Beyond Measure (--)
• BAIL, Murray:
  • See the complete review's Murray Bail page
  • Camouflage (A-)
  • The Drover's Wife (also published as: Contemporary Portraits) (A-)
  • Eucalyptus (B)
  • Holden's Performance (B)
  • Homesickness (B)
• BAKER, Nicholson:
  • The Anthologist (B)
  • Checkpoint (B+)
  • The Everlasting Story of Nory (C)
• BAKKER, Gerbrand: The Twin (A-)
• BALASUBRAMANYAM, Rajeev: In Beautiful Disguises (B)
• BALLARD, J.G.: Crash (C+)
• BALZAC, Honoré de: A Harlot High and Low (A-)
• BANDELE-THOMAS, 'Biyi:
  • Burma Boy (US title: The King's Rifle) (B)
  • The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (B+)
  • The Sympathetic Undertaker (B+)
• BANGS, John Kendrick: The Dreamers (B)
• BANKS, Iain: The Business (B)
• BANVILLE, John:
  • Eclipse (A-)
  • [The Infinities]
  • The Sea (A-)
  • Shroud (B+)
• BARBERY, Muriel:
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog (B)
  • Gourmet Rhapsody (UK title: The Gourmet) (B)
• BARDIN, John Franklin:
  • The Deadly Percheron (B+)
  • Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly (B+)
  • The Last of Philip Banter (B+)
• BARKER, Susan: Sayonara Bar (A-)
• BARNES, Julian:
  • Arthur & George (B+)
  • England, England (A-)
  • The Lemon Table (B+)
  • Love, etc. (B+)
  • Nothing to be Frightened of (B)
  • Something to Declare (B+)
  • Talking it Over (B+)
• BARNSTONE, Willis: With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (B+)
• BARRY, Max(x):
  • Company (B-)
  • Jennifer Government (C-)
  • Syrup (B)
• BARTIS, Attila: Tranquility (B)
• BARTOL, Vladimir: Alamut (B+)
• BASARA, Svetislav: Chinese Letter (B+)
• BATCHELOR, John Calvin:
  • Gordon Liddy is my Muse (B)
  • Walking the Cat (B-)
• BAYARD, Pierre:
  • How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (A)
  • Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (B)
• BAYLEY, John: Elegy for Iris (also: Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch) (B+)
• BAZDULJ, Muharem: The Second Book (B+)
• BEARD, Steve: Digital Leatherette (B)
• BEATTIE, Alan: False Economy (B)
• BECKETT, Bernard: Genesis (B)
• BÉGAUDEAU, François: The Class (C)
• BEIGBEDER, Frédéric: Windows on the World (B)
• BELLATÍN, Mario: Beauty Salon (B-)
• BELLER, Mara: Quantum Dialogue (A-)
• BELLOS, David: Georges Perec (A)
• BELLOW, Saul: Ravelstein (B)
• BÉNABOU, Marcel:
  • Dump This Book While You Still Can ! (B)
  • To Write on Tamara ? (B+)
• BENACQUISTA, Tonino:
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
• BENNETT, Alan:
  • The Clothes They Stood Up in (A-)
  • An Englishman Abroad (A-)
  • Father ! Father ! Burning Bright (B+)
  • The History Boys (A-)
  • The Lady in the Van (B+)
  • The Laying on of Hands (B)
  • A Question of Attribution (A)
  • The Uncommon Reader (A-)
• BENNETT, Deborah J.: Randomness (B)
• BENNETT, Ronan:
  • The Catastrophist (B)
  • Double Jeopardy (B)
  • Havoc, In Its Third Year (B+)
  • Zugzwang (B)
• BENNI, Stefano: Margherita Dolce Vita (B)
• BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B)
• BERGER, John: King (C+)
• BERMAN, Paul: Power and the Idealists (B)
• BERNHARD, Thomas:
  • In Hora Mortis - Under the Iron of the Moon (A-)
  • Meine Preise (A-)
• BERNSTEIN, Jeremy: Quantum Leaps (B)
• BERNSTEIN, Michèle: All the King's Horses (B)
• BERNSTEIN, Stephen: Alasdair Gray (B)
• [BERRY, Jedediah: The Manual of Detection]
• BHAGAT, Chetan: One night @ the call center (C-)
• BHAGWATI, Jagdish: In Defense of Globalization (B)
• BI Feiyu: The Moon Opera (B)
• BIBISH, : The Dancer from Khiva (B-)
• BIEŃCZYK, Marek: Tworki (B+)
• [BIOY CASARES, Adolfo: Borges]
• BIRMAJER, Marcelo: Three Musketeers (B)
• BITOV, Andrei: Pushkin House (B+)
• BIZZIO, Sergio: Rage (B)
• BJØRNEBOE, Jens:
  • The History of Bestiality trilogy:
    • Moment of Freedom (A-)
    • Powderhouse (B+)
    • The Silence (B)
  • Without a Stitch (B)
• BLACKMORE, Susan: The Meme Machine (B+)
• BLASIM, Hassan: The Madman of Freedom Square (B)
• BLECHER, M.:
  • Scarred Hearts (B+)
  • Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată (B+)
• BLENSDORF, Jan: My Name Is Sei Shonagon (B)
• BLISSETT, Luther: Q (B)
• BLOCH, Robert:
  • Shooting Star (B)
  • Spiderweb (B+)
• BLOCH, William Goldbloom: The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (B)
• BLOM, Philipp:
  • Luxor (B)
  • The Simmons Papers (B)
  • To Have and to Hold (B)
• BOLAÑO, Roberto:
  • Amulet (A-)
  • Distant Star (B+)
  • Monsieur Pain (B+)
  • Nazi Literature in the Americas (A)
  • The Romantic Dogs (B+)
  • The Savage Detectives (A-)
  • The Skating Rink (B+)
  • 2666 (A+)
• VAN DEN BOOGAARD, Oscar: Love's Death (B+)
• BORGES, Jorge Luis:
  • Collected Fictions (A-)
  • Ficciones (A)
  • Selected Non-Fictions (UK title: The Total Library) (A)
  • This Craft of Verse (A-)
  • Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, ed. Richard Burgin (B-)
  • See also: Borges in/and/on Film (B), Edgardo COZARINSKY
  • [See also: Borges, Adolfo BIOY CASARES]
  • See also: Borges: A Life (UK title: The Man in the Mirror of the Book) (B+), James WOODALL
  • See also: Borges: A Life (B+), Edwin WILLIAMSON
  • See also: The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (B), William Goldbloom BLOCH
  • See also: With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (B+), Willis BARNSTONE
  • See also: With Borges (B+), Alberto MANGUEL
• BOUCHERON, Bernard du: The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C)
• BOUILLIER, Grégoire:
  • The Mystery Guest (B)
  • Report on Myself (C+)
• BOULLE, Pierre:
  • Desperate Games (C-)
  • Planet of the Apes (B+)
  • Trouble in Paradise (C)
• BOVE, Emmanuel:
  • Armand (A-)
  • My Friends (B+)
  • A Winter's Journal (A-)
• BOWERS, Neal: Words for the Taking (A-)
• BOYD, William:
  • Any Human Heart (B+)
  • Armadillo (A-)
  • Fascination (B-)
• BOYER, Pascal: Religion Explained (B)
• BOYLE, James: Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-)
• BRACEWELL, Michael: The Nineties (When Surface was Depth) (C)
• BRAGI Ólafsson : The Pets (B+)
• BRANDÃO, Ignácio de Loyola: Anonymous Celebrity (B+)
• BRAUN, Volker:
  • Auf die schönen Possen (B+)
  • Berichte von Hinze und Kunze (B+)
  • Hinze-Kunze-Roman (A-)
  • Lustgarten, Preußen (A-)
  • Das unbesetzte Gebiet (A-)
  • Die Unvollendete Geschichte und ihr Ende (A-)
  • Das Wirklichgewollte (B+)
• BRECHT, Bertolt:
  • Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner - Zürcher Fassung (A-)
  • Stories of Mr. Keuner (A)
  • See also: Brecht in der Kritik (-), ed. Monika Wyss
• BREWER, Gil: The Vengeful Virgin (B)
• BREYTENBACH, Breyten: Voice Over (A-)
• BRICMONT, Jean: Fashionable Nonsense (B-), (with Alan Sokal)
• BRIJS, Stefan: The Angel Maker (B)
• VAN DEN BRINK, H.M.: On the Water (A-)
• BROCH, Hermann:
  • The Death of Virgil (A)
  • Geist and Zeitgeist (B+)
  • The Sleepwalkers (A+)
• BROCH DE ROTHERMANN, H.F.: Dear Mrs. Strigl/Liebe Frau Strigl (B)
• BROOK, Chris (ed.): K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A)
• BROOK, Timothy: Death by a Thousand Cuts (with Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue) (B)
• BROPHY, Brigid:
  • Flesh (B+)
  • In Transit (B+)
  • Palace without Chairs (B-)
• BROTTMAN, Mikita: The Solitary Vice (C)
• BROWN, James Robert: Who Rules in Science ? (B)
• BROWN, John Seely: The Social Life of Information (with Paul Duguid) (A-)
• BRUSSIG Thomas:
  • Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (A-)
  • Heroes like Us (B)
• BRYAN, Mike: The Afterword (B-)
• BUFALINO, Gesualdo: Tommaso and the Blind Photographer (B)
• BUIDA, Yuri: The Zero Train (B)
• BURKE, David: Celia's Secret (with Michael Frayn) (B+)
• BURN, Gordon:
  • Born Yesterday (B+)
  • Fullalove (B+)
  • The North of England Home Service (A-)
• BURNSIDE, John: The Dumb House (B)
• BURROUGHS, William S.:
  • Ghost of Chance (B-)
  • The Job (B)
• BURTON, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy (A+)
• BURUMA, Ian: Murder in Amsterdam (B+)
• BUZZATI, Dino:
  • Poem Strip (B)
  • The Tartar Steppe (A)
• BYATT, A.S.:
  • See the complete review's A.S.Byatt page
  • Angels and Insects (B+)
  • Babel Tower (A)
  • The Biographer's Tale (B+)
  • The Children's Book (B+)
  • The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (B+)
  • The Game (A-)
  • Little Black Book of Stories (B+)
  • [Possession]
  • The Shadow of the Sun (B)
  • Still Life (A-)
  • A Whistling Woman (A-)

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