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Titles - B:

• Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (B+), Dubravka UGREŠIĆ
• Babel Tower (A), A.S.BYATT
• Baburnama (B+), Zahiruddin Muhammad BABUR
• Babyfucker (B+), Urs ALLEMANN
• [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.), Maurice G. DANTEC]
• Bacacay (B+), Witold GOMBROWICZ
• Backed Against the Sea (B), WANG Wen-Hsing
• Bacons Finsternis (B), Wilfried STEINER
• The Bad Girl (B-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Bad Nature (B+), Javier MARÍAS
• Badfellas (B), Tonino BENACQUISTA
• Bait (A-), David ALBAHARI
• Bait (B), Mahasweta DEVI
• Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood (B+), Robert ELSIE (ed.)
• The Ball (Le Bal) (A-), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Ballad of Lee Cotton (A-), Christopher WILSON
• Balmoral (B), Michael FRAYN
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+), DAI Sijie
• Bamdad-e Khomar (B+), Fattaneh HAJ SEYED JAVADI
• Bandanna (B-), Paul MULDOON
• Bandit Love (B), Massimo CARLOTTO
• The Banquet in Blitva (B+), Miroslav KRLEŽA
• Banquet of Lies (B+), Amin ZAOUI
• A Barbarian in Asia (A-), Henri MICHAUX
• Barley Patch (A+), Gerald MURNANE
• The Baroque Cycle, Neal STEPHENSON:
  • I. Quicksilver (B+)
  • II. The Confusion (B)
  • III. The System of the World (B)
• Bartleby & Co. (B+), Enrique VILA-MATAS
• Bartleby, the Scrivener (A-), Herman MELVILLE
• A Basket of Leaves (-), Geoff WISNER
• Basrayatha (B), Mohammed KHUDAYYIR
• Basti (B+), Intizar HUSAIN
• The Bathroom (B+), Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT
• Battle Royale (B), TAKAMI Koushun
• The Bear Boy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Beast in the Nursery (B), Adam PHILLIPS
• Beatles (B+), Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN
• [Beatrice and Virgil, Yann MARTEL]
• Beautiful Image (B), Marcel AYMÉ
• Beauty and Sadness (B+), KAWABATA Yasunari
• Beauty Salon (B-), Mario BELLATÍN
• Becoming Abigail (B+), Chris ABANI
• Bedlam Burning (A-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• Beerholms Vorstellung (B), Daniel KEHLMANN
• Before the Throne (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Being Abbas el Abd (B+), Ahmed ALAIDY
• The Belly of the Atlantic (B+), Fatou DIOME
• Berg (B), Ann QUIN
• Berichte von Hinze und Kunze (B+), Volker BRAUN
• Between Father and Son (B-), V. S. NAIPAUL
• Between Parentheses (A-), Roberto BOLAÑO
• Between Security and Insecurity (B-), Ivan KLÍMA
• Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (B), Leif GW PERSSON
• [Between the Assassinations, Aravind ADIGA]
• Beyond Measure (--), Jim BAGGOTT
• Beyond Sleep (A-), Willem Frederik HERMANS
• Beyond Suspicion (B), Tanguy VIEL
• Beyond the Hoax (A-), Alan SOKAL
• Les Bienveillantes (C-), Jonathan LITTELL
• Big Blondes (B-), Jean ECHENOZ
• The Big Clock (B+), Kenneth FEARING
• Big Girls don't Cry (also: Big Women) (A-), Fay WELDON
• Big Noises (A-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Big Over Easy (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• Big Toys (B), Patrick WHITE
• Big Women (also: Big Girls don't Cry) (A-), Fay WELDON
• Bigot Hall (B), Steve AYLETT
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts (B), Ogi OGAS and Sai GADDAM
• The Biographer's Tale (B+), A.S.BYATT
• Biographie de la faim (A), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Biology is Technology (B+), Robert H. CARLSON
• The Biplane Houses (B+), Les MURRAY
• Birdbrain (B+), Johana SINISALO
• Bitter Bitch (B), Maria SVELAND
• Bitter Drink (B), F.G.HAGHENBECK
• Black and Blue (B+), Ian RANKIN
• Black Box (B+), Amos OZ
• The Black Path (B), Åsa LARSSON
• The Black Sheep (A-), Augusto MONTERROSO
• Black Swan Green (B), David MITCHELL
• Blackmailer (B), George AXELROD
• Blackout (B), Gianluca MOROZZI
• Bleeding London (A), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Blind Owl (A-), Sadegh HEDAYAT
• The Blind Rider (A-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• Blinding Light (B+), Paul THEROUX
• Blindly (A-), Claudio MAGRIS
• Blindsight (B+), Hervé GUIBERT
• Blindsight (B), Rosmarie WALDROP
• Blood on the Saddle (B), Rafael REIG
• Blood Safari (B), Deon MEYER
• Bloodshed (B+), Cynthia OZICK
• Blue Aubergine (B+), Miral al-TAHAWY
• Blue Bay Palace (B), Nathacha APPANAH
• The Blue Fox (B+), SJÓN
• Blue Has No South (B), Alex EPSTEIN
• Blue Mars (B+), Kim Stanley ROBINSON
• Blue Remembered Hills (B+), Dennis POTTER
• Blue Surge (B), Rebecca GILMAN
• Bly (B), Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN
• Boating for Beginners (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• Bobby Fischer Goes to War (A), David EDMONDS and John EIDINOW
• A Bohemian Youth (B+), Josef HIRŠAL
• Bomb, Book and Compass (US title: The Man Who Loved China) (B), Simon WINCHESTER
• Bonjour Tristesse (B+), Françoise SAGAN
• Bonsai (B+), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• The Book about Blanche and Marie (B+), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Book against God (B), James WOOD
• Book Business (B+), Jason EPSTEIN
• The Book Nobody Read (B+), owen GINGERICH
• The Book of Bachelors (B+), Philip TERRY
• The Book of Chameleons (B+), José Eduardo AGUALUSA
• The Book of Happenstance (B), Ingrid WINTERBACH
• The Book of Hrabal (A-), ESTERHÁZY Péter
• The Book of Lost Books (B-), Stuart KELLY
• The Book of Madness (B-), Levent ŞENYÜREK
• The Book of Margins (B), Edmond JABÈS
• The Book of Murder (B), Guillermo MARTÍNEZ
• The Book of Prefaces (A), Alasdair GRAY
• The Book of Proper Names (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Book of the Prick (B-), Antonio VIGNALI
• The Book of Trouble (B), Ann MARLOWE
• [Book Self, C.K.STEAD]
• The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-), Rebecca GILLIERON and Catheryn KILGARRIFF
• The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-), James P. CARLEY
• The Boomer (B-), Marty ASHER
• Border Town (B+), SHEN Congwen
• [Borges, Adolfo BIOY CASARES]
• Borges: A Life (B+), Edwin WILLIAMSON
• Borges: A Life (also:The Man in the Mirror of the Book) (B+), James WOODALL
• Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (B+), Luis Fernando VERISSIMO
• Borges in/and/on Film (B), Edgardo COZARINSKY
• Borkmann's Point (B), Håkan NESSER
• Born Yesterday (B+), Gordon BURN
• Botchan (B+), NATSUME Soseki
• Bound to Last (B), ed. Sean MANNING
• Bound to Violence (B+), Yambo OUOLOGUEM
• Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-), Gustave FLAUBERT
• The Box (B), Günter GRASS
• Box 21 (B), Anders ROSLUND and Börge HELLSTRÖM
• Boy gets Girl (B), Rebecca GILMAN
• The Boys who Stole the Funeral (B+), Les MURRAY
• Branded Woman (B-), Wade MILLER
• The Break of Day (C+), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• The Breakage (B), Glyn MAXWELL
• Breaking Away (B-), Anna GAVALDA
• Breaking Knees (B), Zakaria TAMER
• Breaking the Deadlock (B), Richard POSNER
• Breaking the Real Axis of Evil (B), Mark PALMER
• Breaking the Spell (B+), Daniel C. DENNETT
• The Breath of Life (B-), David HARE
• Breathing under Water (B-), Marie DARRIEUSSECQ
• Brecht at Night (B+), Mati UNT
• Brecht in der Kritik (-), Monika WYSS (ed.)
• Brecht's Mistress (B+), Jacques-Pierre AMETTE
• A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (B), David TRESILIAN
• The Briefcase (B+), KAWAKAMI Hiromi
• Briefe (B), Peter WEISS
• Briefwechsel (B), Paul FEYERABEND and Hans ALBERT
• Brodeck's Report (also: Brodek) (B), Philippe CLAUDEL
• Broken Glass (B+), ALain MABANCKOU
• Broken Glass Park (B), Alina BRONSKY
• Bruges-la-Morte (B+), Georges RODENBACH
• Brummstein (B+), Peter ADOLPHSEN
• The Budding Tree (B+), KITAHARA Aiko
• [Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires, Gilbert ADAIR]
• Bulwer Lytton (B+), Leslie MITCHELL
• The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B), Wole SOYINKA
• Burma Boy (B), Biyi BANDELE
• Burma Chronicles (B), Guy DELISLE
• Burma/Myanmar (B), David I. STEINBERG
• Burn Rate (B), Michael WOLFF
• The Business (B), Iain BANKS
• The Business of Books (B+), André SCHIFFRIN
• Buster Keaton (A-), Kari HOTAKAINEN
• But Beautiful (A), Geoff DYER
• Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (B+), Pankaj MISHRA
• The Butterfly (B-), James M. CAIN
• Butterfly Burning (C+), Yvonne VERA
• Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion ? (B), Johan HARSTAD
• By a Slow River (A-), Philippe CLAUDEL
• By the Pen (B+), Jalal AL-E AHMAD

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