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Titles - A:

• A Barbarian in Asia (A-), Henri MICHAUX
• A Bohemian Youth (B+), Josef HIRŠAL
• [A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed HANIF]
• A Castle in Romagna (B+), Igor ŠTIKS
• A Change of Climate (B+), Hilary MANTEL
• A Cleaning Woman (B), Christian OSTER
• A Closed Book (B+), Gilbert ADAIR
• A Cock-Eyed Comedy (B-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B), GUO Xiaolu
• A Darwinian Left (B-), Peter SINGER
• A Dictionary of Maqiao (B+), HAN Shaogong
• A Dog's Head (A-), Jean DUTOURD
• A Few Stout Individuals (B-), John GUARE
• A Fish in the Water (A-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• A Fool's Life (B+), AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke
• A Fool's Paradise (A-), Anita KONKKA
• A French Life (B), Jean-Paul DUBOIS
• A Fringe of Leaves (B), Patrick WHITE
• A Frozen Woman (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• A Gilded Lapse of Time (B+), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• A Good Hanging (B), Ian RANKIN
• A Guide to America's Sex Laws (--), Richard A. POSNER
• A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes (-), Witold GOMBROWICZ
• A Harlot High and Low (A-), Honoré de BALZAC
• A History Maker (A-), Alasdair GRAY
• A Kind of Testament (B), Witold GOMBROWICZ
• A kudarc (A-), Imre KERTÉSZ
• A Man Asleep (A-), Georges PEREC
• A Man in Full (B-), Tom WOLFE
• A Man's Place (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• A Matter of Death and Life (B), Andrey KURKOV
• A Modest Proposal (B), Régis DEBRAY
• A movie ... and a book (B-), Daniel WAGNER
• A New World (B), Amit CHAUDHURI
• A Nomad of the Time Streams (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• A Novel Without Lies (B+), Anatoly MARIENGOF
• A Perfect Pledge (B+), Rabindranath MAHARAJ
• A Play of Giants (B-), Wole SOYINKA
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (B+), John IRVING
• "A Problem from Hell" (A-), Samantha POWER
• A Question of Attribution (A), Alan BENNETT
• A Question of Blood (B+), Ian RANKIN
• A Rabbit's Eyes (B), HAITANI Kenjiro
• A Reader's Manifesto (B), B.R.MYERS
• A Reading Diary (B), Alberto MANGUEL
• A Samba for Sherlock (B), Jô SOARES
• A Short History of Myth (B-), Karen ARMSTRONG
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (B-), Marina LEWYCKA
• A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (B+), Peter DIMOCK
• A Snail in my Prime (A-), Paul DURCAN
• A Son of the Circus (B-), John IRVING
• A Stanislaw Lem Reader (B-), Peter SWIRSKI
• A Tale of Four Dervishes (B+), MIR AMMAN
• A Tale of Love and Darkness (A), Amos OZ
• A Tale of Two Gardens (B+), Octavio PAZ
• A Tale of Two Lions (B), Roberto RANSOM
• A Temple of Texts (A-), William H. GASS
• A Time for Machetes (US title: Machete Season) (B+), Jean HATZFELD
• A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (B+), Danilo KIŠ
• A Touch of Love (B+), Jonathan COE
• A Treatise of Civil Power (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• A Universe of Consciousness (B), Gerald EDELMAN and Giulio TONONI
• A Walk in the Dark (B), Gianrico CAROFIGLIO
• A Whistling Woman (A-), A.S.BYATT
• A Wild Haruki Chase (B)
• A World Without Time (B+), Palle YOURGRAU
• A Writer's Reality (B+), Mario Vargas LLOSA
  
  
• AA files 45/46: Georges Perec + Paris (B+)
• Abhijnanasakuntalam, (B) KALIDASA (trans. Chandra Rajan)
• The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-), Tanguy VIEL
• Abyssinian Chronicles (A-), Moses ISEGAWA
• The Accidental (A-), Ali SMITH
• The Accidental Woman (B-), Jonathan COE
• Acide sulfurique (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• [The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, Gilbert ADAIR]
• Acting Up (B-), David HARE
• Adam Haberberg (B+), Yasmina REZA
• Adelabu (B-), Ogali OGALI
• Adiós Hemingway (B+), Leonardo PADURA FUENTES
• Adios Muchachos (B+), Daniel CHAVARRÍA
• Adrift on the Nile (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Adventures in Africa (B), Gianni CELATI
• The Adversary (A-), Emmanuel CARRÈRE
• Advocaat van de hanen (B+), A.F.Th. VAN DER HEIJDEN
• The Aesthetics of Resistance (A+), Peter WEISS
• African Psycho (B-), Alain MABANCKOU
• After Dark (A-), MURAKAMI Haruki
• After Darwin (B), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• After the Quake (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• The Afterword (B-), Mike BRYAN
• Against the Day (B+), Thomas PYNCHON
• Agape Agape (B+), William GADDIS
• Agnes (A-), Peter STAMM
• Agnès's Final Afternoon (B), François RICARD
• Aiding and Abetting (B+), Muriel SPARK
• Alamut (B+), Vladimir BARTOL
• Alasdair Gray (B), Stephen BERNSTEIN
• Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (A-), ed. Phil Moores
• Albert Angelo (A-), B. S. JOHNSON
• All Quiet On The Orient Express (A-), Magnus MILLS
• All She was Worth (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• All Souls Day (B+), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• All the Errors (B), Giorgio MANGANELLI
• All the Poems of Muriel Spark (B+), Muriel SPARK
• [All the Sad Young Literary Men, Keith GESSEN]
• Allah is not obliged (B+), Ahmadou KOUROUMA
• Almost Like a Whale (A-), Steve JONES
• alphabet (B+), Inger CHRISTENSEN
• Alphabetical Africa (A-), Walter ABISH
• Amazing Disgrace (B+), James HAMILTON-PATERSON
• Amazonia (A-), James MARCUS
• The Amber Spyglass (B+), Philip PULLMAN
• Ambiguous Adventure (B), Cheikh Hamidou KANE
• The Ambitions of Curiosity (B+), G.E.R. LLOYD
• Amélie Nothomb de A à Z (B), Michel ZUMKIR
• The American Boy (B+), Andrew TAYLOR
• [The American Enemy, Philippe ROGER]
• American Nomad (B+), Steve ERICKSON
• American Tabloid (C+), James ELLROY
• American Whiskey Bar (B), Michael TURNER
• Amir Arsalan (A-), Muhammad 'Ali NAQIB al-MAMALIK
• Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (A-), Thomas BRUSSIG
• Amnesiascope (B), Steve ERICKSON
• Amsterdam (B-), Ian McEWAN
• Άμυνα ζώνης (B), Petros MARKARIS
• Amy's View (B-), David HARE
  
  
• An Affair of State (A-), Richard A. POSNER
• An African Popular Literature (B), Emmanuel OBIECHINA
• An Englishman Abroad (A-), Alan BENNETT
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (B+), César AIRA
• An Equal Music (B-), Vikram SETH
• An Erotic Beyond: Sade (A-), Octavio PAZ
• An Evening at the Club (B), Christian GAILLY
• An Experiment in Criticism (B), C.S.LEWIS
• An Experiment in Love (B), Hilary MANTEL
• An Inexplicable Story (B), Josef SKVORECKY
• An Infamous Past (A-), Marta PETREU
• An Unnatural Pursuit (B), Simon GRAY
• An Unpardonable Crime (B+), Andrew TAYLOR
  
  
• Anathemata, The (A-), David JONES
• The Anatomy of Melancholy (A+), Robert BURTON
• And Other Stories (B), Georgi GOSPODINOV
• Angel Riding a Beast (B), Liliana URSU
• Angels and Insects (B+), A.S.BYATT
• Anglo-English Attitudes (B), Geoff DYER
• Anna Édes (B+), KOSZTOLÁNYI Dezső
• The Annals of Chile (B+), Paul MULDOON
• Anniversaries (A), Uwe JOHNSON
• Annual Report (A-), Bill DRUMMOND
• Another Beauty (B+), Adam ZAGAJEWSKI
• Another Last Word (B), TABAN Lo Liyong
• Another Life (B+), Micahael KORDA
• Another November (B+), Roger GRENIER
• Another Nigger Dead (B), TABAN Lo Liyong
• Anowa (B), Ama Ata AIDOO
• Anthology of Apparitions (B-), Simon LIBERATI
• »Anthrax« (B-), Philipp SARASIN
• Anthropology (B-), Dan RHODES
• Antichrista (B-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Antipeople (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• Antipodes (B-), Ignacio PADILLA
• Antwerp (B+), Nicholas ROYLE
• Any Human Heart (B+), William BOYD
• Apollo's Song (B), TEZUKA Osamu
• Approximately Nowhere (B), Michael HOFMANN
• Arcadia (A+), Tom STOPPARD
• Archangel (B+), Robert HARRIS
• Archibald Strohalm (B), Harry MULISCH
• Are you Experienced ? (B-), William SUTCLIFFE
• Armadillo (A-), William BOYD
• 'Art' (B), Yasmina REZA
• Art & Ardor (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• Art and Lies (A-), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The Art of Murder (B), José Carlos SOMOZA
• Art Objects (A-), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The Art of Travel (B+), Alain DE BOTTON
• Arthur & George (B+), Julian BARNES
• As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter
• The Ascetic of Desire (B), Sudhir KAKAR
• Ashes (B+), KITAKATA Kenzo
• Ashes for Breakfast (B), Durs GRÜNBEIN
• The Assassination of Lumumba (-), Ludo DE WITTE
• The Assault (A), Harry MULISCH
• Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (A+), Peter WEISS
• The Athenian Murders (B), José Carlos SOMOZA
• Athens on Trial (B+), Jennifer Tolbert ROBERTS
• Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (C+), Franco MORETTI
• Atmospheric Disturbances (B-), Rivka GALCHEN
• Atom (B), Steve AYLETT
• Atomised, (A-), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• Atonement (A), Ian McEWAN
• The Attack (B), Yasmina KHADRA
• Au pair (A-), Willem Frederik HERMANS
• Auf die schönen Possen (B+), Volker BRAUN
• The Aunt's Story (A-), Patrick WHITE
• Author Unknown (B+), Don FOSTER
• Auto da Fay (B+), Fay WELDON
• Auto Mania (B+), Tom McCARTHY
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (B+), Gertrude STEIN
• Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (A-) Julio CORTÁZAR and Carol DUNLOP
• Autumn of the Phantoms (B), Yasmina KHADRA
• Avantgarde Film (B), Peter WEISS
• The Avengers (B), Toby MILLER
• The Award (A-), Lydie SALVAYRE
• Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast (B-), Oge ODEGE

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