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• SÁ-CARNEIRO, Mário: Lúcio's Confession (A-)
• SABATINI, Rafael: Captain Blood (B+)
• SACHS, Jeffrey D.: The Price of Civilization (B)
• SADA, Daniel: Almost Never (B+)
• SAER, Juan José:
  • The Investigation (B+)
  • The Sixty-Five Years of Washington (B)
• SÆTERBAKKEN, Stig: Siamese (B)
• SAFOUAN, Moustapha: Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B)
• SAGAN, Françoise:
  • Bonjour Tristesse (B+)
  • A Certain Smile (B)
  • That Mad Ache (B-)
• SAID, Mekkawi: Cairo Swan Song (B)
• SAITO Sanki: The Kobe Hotel (B)
• SAKURAI Ami: Innocent World (B)
• SALMON, Catherine: Warrior Lovers (A-) (with Donald Symons)
• SALVAYRE, Lydie:
  • The Award (A-)
  • The Company of Ghosts (A-)
  • Everyday Life (B)
  • The Lecture (B)
  • Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal (B)
  • The Power of Flies (B+)
• SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL, Albert:
  • Cold Skin (B)
  • Pandora in the Congo (B)
• SANDS, Philippe: Lawless World (B+)
• SANSAL, Boualem: The German Mujahid (UK title: An Unfinished Business) (B)
• SARAMAGO, José:
  • Cain (B+)
  • Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (B+)
• SARASIN, Philipp: »Anthrax« (B-)
• SASAKI Joh: Zero Over Berlin (B)
• SATRAPI, Marjane:
  • Embroideries (B)
  • Persepolis (B)
  • Persepolis (vol. 3) (B)
• SCERBANENCO, Giorgio: A Private Venus (B+)
• SCHAMI, Rafik: The Dark Side of Love (B+)
• SCHEERBART, Paul: The Light Club of Batavia (-)
• SCHENKEL, Andrea Maria: The Murder Farm (B)
• SCHERTENLEIB, Hansjörg: A Happy Man (B+)
• SCHICKEL, Richard: Double Indemnity (B)
• SCHIFF, Stephen: Lolita: The Book of the Film (C+)
• SCHIFFRIN, André:
  • The Business of Books (B+)
  • Words and Money (B-)
• SCHLOSSER, Eric: Fast Food Nation (B)
• SCHMIDT, Arno:
  • See the complete review's Arno Schmidt page
  • Radio Dialogs I (A-)
  • Radio Dialogs II (A-)
  • The School for Atheists (A-)
  • [Zettel's Traum]
  • See also: Framing a Novelist (--), Robert Weninger
• SCHMITT, Eric-Emmanuel:
  • Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (B+)
  • The Most Beautiful Book in the World (C)
  • [La part de l'autre ]
• SCHNACKENBERG, Gjertrud:
  • A Gilded Lapse of Time (B+)
  • Heavenly Questions (B+)
  • The Lamplit Answer (B+)
  • Portraits and Elegies (B)
  • Supernatural Love (B+)
  • The Throne of Labdacus (B+)
• SCHOGT, Philibert: The Wild Numbers (B)
• SCHOTT, Ben:
  • Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany (-)
  • Schott's Original Miscellany (-)
• SCHRÖDER, Adolf: The Game of Cards (B)
• SCHWARTZ, Lynne Sharon (ed.): The Emergence of Memory (B+)
• SCHWEIZER, Bernard: Hating God (B)
• SCHWARTZ, Maxime: How the Cows Turned Mad (B)
• SCLIAR, Moacyr:
  • The Centaur in the Garden (B+)
  • Kafka's Leopards (A-)
  • Max and the Cats (B)
  • The War in Bom Fim (B)
• SCRUTON, Roger: The Uses of Pessimism (C)
• SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Simon: Stalin (A-)
• SEBALD, W.G.:
  • Campo Santo (B)
  • On the Natural History of Destruction (B-)
  • Unrecounted (-)
  • See also: The Emergence of Memory (B+), Lynne Sharon Schwartz, ed.
• SEBASTIAN, Mihail: The Accident (B)
• SEBHAT Gebre Egziabher: Seed (B-)
• SECORD, James A.: Victorian Sensation (A-)
• SEKSIK, Laurent: Les mauvaises pensées (B)
• SELF, Will:
  • Dorian (B+)
  • Feeding Frenzy (B)
  • Junk Mail (B)
• SELIMOVIC, Mesa:
  • Death and the Dervish (A)
  • The Fortress (B+)
• SEMBÈNE Ousmane: Xala (B-)
• SENA Hideaki: Parasite Eve (B)
• SENDKER, Jan-Philipp: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (B)
• SENGOOPTA, Chandak:
  • Imprint of the Raj (B+)
  • Otto Weininger (B+)
• ŞENYÜREK, Levent: The Book of Madness (B-)
• SEPÚLVEDA, Luis: The Shadow of What We Were (B)
• SERGE, Victor: Unforgiving Years (A-)
• SERNA, Enrique: Fear of Animals (B-)
• SERUMA, Eneriko: The Experience (B-)
• SETH, Vikram: An Equal Music (B-)
• SHAFEE, Magdy El: Metro (B-)
• SHAH, Hasan: The Dancing Girl (B)
• SHALABY, Khairy:
  • The Lodging House (B)
  • The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets (B)
• SHAN Sa:
  • Alexander and Alestria (C)
  • Empress (B)
  • The Girl who Played Go (B+)
• SHAND, Rosa: The Gravity of Sunlight (B)
• SHARAR, Abdul Halim: Paradise of the Assassins (B+)
• SHEA, Ammon: Reading the OED (UK pbk.title: Satisdiction) (B+)
• SHEN Congwen: Border Town (B+)
• SHIBLI, Adania: Touch (B)
• SHIN Kyung-sook: Please Look After Mom (B)
• SHISHKIN, Mikhail: Maidenhair (A-)
• SHKLOVSKY, Viktor:
  • A Hunt for Optimism (B)
  • Knight's Move (B)
  • Third Factory (B+)
  • See also Serena Vitale's Shklovsky: Witness to an Era (B-)
• SHORT, Philip: Pol Pot (A-)
• SHUA, Ana María:
  • Death as a Side Effect (B)
  • Microfictions (B+)
  • The Weight of Temptation (B)
  • Without a Net (B)
• SHUKER, Carl: The Method Actors (B)
• SIEGEL, Lee: Love in a Dead Language (C)
• SILVERSTEIN, Michael: Talking Politics (B)
• SIMATUPANG, Iwan: The Pilgrim (B+)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • The Engagement (B+)
  • The President (B)
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
• SINCLAIR, Iain:
  • See the complete review's Iain Sinclair page
  • Crash (B+)
  • Dining on Stones (A-)
  • Downriver (A-)
  • Landor's Tower (A-)
  • Lights out for the Territory (B)
  • Liquid City (with Marc Atkins) (A-)
  • London Orbital (B)
  • Lud Heat (B-)
  • Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein) (B+)
  • Slow Chocolate Autopsy (C)
  • Sorry Meniscus (A)
  • Suicide Bridge (B)
  • The Verbals (with Kevin Jackson) (B)
  • White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (B)
• SINGER, Peter:
  • A Darwinian Left (B-)
  • One World (B)
  • The President of Good and Evil (B+)
  • Pushing Time Away (B+)
• SINGH, Ajay: Give 'em Hell, Hari (B)
• SINIAC, Pierre: The Collaborators (B)
• SINISALO, Johanna:
  • Birdbrain (B+)
  • Not Before Sundown (US title: Troll) (B+)
• [SITTENFELD, Curtis: American Wife]
• SJÓN:
  • The Blue Fox (B+)
  • The Whispering Muse (B+)
• SJÖWALL, Maj:
  • The Man who went up in Smoke (B) (with Per Wahlöö)
  • Roseanna (B+) (with Per Wahlöö)
• SKOMSVOLD, Kjersti Annesdatter: The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I am (B+)
• SKURNICK, Lizzie: Shelf Discovery (B)
• SKVORECKY, Josef:
  • An Inexplicable Story (B)
  • Two Murders in my Double Life (B)
• SLAUERHOFF, Jan Jacob: The Forbidden Kingdom (A-)
• SLAVNIKOVA, Olga: 2017 (B)
• SLOAN, Robin: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (B)
• SMILEVSKI, Goce:
  • Conversation with Spinoza (A-)
  • Freud's Sister (B)
• SMITH, A.C.H.:Orghast at Persepolis (B)
• SMITH, Alex: Four Drunk Beauties (B)
• SMITH, Ali:
  • The Accidental (A-)
  • Girl Meets Boy (B+)
  • Hotel World (B+)
  • The Whole Story (B)
• SMITH, John Maynard: Shaping Life (B)
• SMITH, Ken: Junk English (B)
• SOARES, Jô:
  • A Samba for Sherlock (B)
  • Twelve Fingers (B)
• SÖDERBERG, Hjalmar:
  • Doctor Glas (A-)
  • The Serious Game (B+)
• SOKAL, Alan:
  • Beyond the Hoax (A-)
  • Fashionable Nonsense (with Jean Bricmont) (B-)
  • See also: The Sokal Hoax (B)
• SOLANA, Teresa:
  • A Not So Perfect Crime (B)
  • A Shortcut to Paradise (B)
  • The Sound of One Hand Killing (B)
• SOLSTAD, Dag:
  • Armand V. (A-)
  • Novel 11, Book 18 (B+)
  • Professor Andersens natt (A-)
  • Shyness and Dignity (A)
• SOMER, Mehmet Murat: The Prophet Murders (B)
• SOMOZA, José Carlos:
  • The Art of Murder (B)
  • The Athenian Murders (B)
  • La dama número trece (B-)
  • Zig Zag (C+)
• SONNEVI, Göran: Mozart's Third Brain (B+)
• SONTAG, Susan: Where the Stress Falls (B)
• SONY Labou Tansi:
  • The Antipeople (B)
  • Life and a Half (B)
  • Parentheses of Blood (B+)
  • The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (B)
• SOROKIN, Vladimir:
  • Day of the Oprichnik (B-)
  • Ice (B+)
• SORRENTINO, Fernando: Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (B+)
• SOTIROPOULOS, Ersi: Landscape With Dog (B+)
• SOYINKA, Wole:
  • The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B)
  • Climate of Fear (B)
  • Of Africa (B+)
  • A Play of Giants (B-)
• SPACKS, Patricia Meyer: On Rereading (B)
• SPARK, Muriel:
  • Aiding and Abetting (B+)
  • All the Poems of Muriel Spark (B+)
  • The Finishing School (B)
  • Loitering with Intent (A-)
• SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (B-)
• SPUFFORD, Francis: The Child That Books Built (B)
• SPURLING, Hilary: The Girl from the Fiction Department (B)
• STALLABRASS, Julian: High Art Lite (B)
• STAMM, Peter:
  • Agnes (A-)
  • On a Day Like This (B+)
  • Seven Years (B)
• STANDAERT, Michael: Skipping Towards Armageddon (B)
• STANDAGE, Tom: The Mechanical Turk (also: The Turk) (B+)
• STANGERUP, Henrik:
  • The Road to Lagoa Santa (B)
  • The Seducer (B+)
• STANSBERRY, Domenic: The Confession (B+)
• STARK, Freya: The Valleys of the Assassins (B+)
• STARNONE, Domenico: First Execution (B)
• STAROVA, Luan: Les livres de mon père (B+)
• STASIUK, Andrzej:
  • Fado (B+)
  • Nine (B)
• STEAD, C.K:
  • [Book Self]
  • The Death of the Body (B+)
  • [My Name was Judas]
  • The Secret History of Modernism (B+)
  • Sister Hollywood (B+)
  • Talking about O'Dwyer (B+)
• STEIN, Benjamin:
  • The Canvas (B+)
  • Replay (B)
• STEIN, Gertrude:
  • Writings 1903-1932 (B+)
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (B+)
  • Everybody's Autobiography (B+)
  • Tender Buttons (B)
  • Three Lives (B)
• STEINBERG, David I.: Burma/Myanmar (B)
• STEINER, George:
  • Errata (C+)
  • Grammars of Creation (A-)
  • Lessons of the Masters (B)
  • My Unwritten Books (A-)
  • No Passion Spent (A)
• STEINER, Wilfried:
  • Bacons Finsternis (B)
  • Der Weg nach Xanadu (B)
• STEPHENSON, Neal:
  • Anathem (B)
  • The Baroque Cycle:
    • I. Quicksilver (B+)
    • II. The Confusion (B)
    • III. The System of the World (B)
  • Cryptonomicon (A-)
  • The Diamond Age (B-)
  • In the Beginning ... was the Command Line (A-)
  • Reamde (B+)
  • Snow Crash (B+)
  • Some Remarks (B)
  • Zodiac (B)
• STEVENS, Jacqueline: States without Nations (B+)
• STIGLER, Stephen M.: Statistics on the Table (B)
• ŠTIKS, Igor: A Castle in Romagna (B+)
• STOCKS, Mike: White Man Falling (A-)
• STOLLER, Paul: Gallery Bundu (B)
• STOPPARD, Tom:
  • See the complete review's Tom Stoppard page
  • Arcadia (A+)
  • The Coast of Utopia (A-):
    • Part I - Voyage (A-)
    • Part II - Shipwreck (B+)
    • Part III - Salvage (B+)
  • Enter a Free Man (B)
  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (B)
  • Hapgood (B+)
  • The Invention of Love (A)
  • Jumpers (B+)
  • Night and Day (B)
  • Professional Foul (B+)
  • The Real Thing (A)
  • Rock 'n' Roll (B+)
  • Conversations with Stoppard (with Mel Gussow) (B-)
  • See also: The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-), ed. K.E.Kelly
  • See also: Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (also: Tom Stoppard: A Life) (B+), Ira NADEL
  • See also: Stoppard's Theatre (B), John FLEMING
• STRUBEL, Antje Rávic: Tupolew 134 (A-)
• STRUGATSKY, Arkady and Boris: Roadside Picnic (A-)
• SUCEAVĂ, Bogdan: Coming from an Off-Key Time (B)
• ŠUKYS, Julija: Silence is Death (B+)
• SŪRANNA, Piṅgaḷi:
  • The Demon's Daughter (B)
  • The Sound of the Kiss (B+)
• SURFISTINHA, Bruna: The Scorpion's Sweet Venom (C-)
• SUTCLIFFE, William:
  • Are you Experienced ? (B-)
  • The Love Hexagon (B-)
  • New Boy (B-)
• Al-SUWAIDI, Thani: The Diesel (B)
• SUZUKI Koji:
  • Dark Water (B)
  • Loop (B-)
  • Promenade of the Gods (B-)
  • Ring (B)
  • Spiral (B-)
• SVELAND, Maria: Bitter Bitch (B)
• SWARTZ, Mark: Instant Karma (B)
• SWARUP, Vikas: Q & A (B-) (also published as: Slumdog Millionaire)
• SWEILEH, Khalil: Writing Love (B)
• SWIFT, Graham: The Light of Day (B)
• SWIRSKI, Peter: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (B-)
• SYJUCO, Miguel: Ilustrado (B)
• SYMONS, Donald: Warrior Lovers (A-) (with Catherine Salmon)
• [SZATHMÁRI Sándor: Voyage to Kazohinia]
• SZÉCSI Noémi: The Finno-Ugrian Vampire (B)
• SZÉKELY János: Temptation (B+)
• SZENTKUTHY Miklós: Marginalia on Casanova (A-)
• SZERB Antal:
  • Journey by Moonlight (B+)
  • Oliver VII (B+)
  • The Pendragon Legend (A-)

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