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Titles - C:

• The Cage (B), KITAKATA Kenzo
• Cairo Modern (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Cairo Trilogy (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Calcutta Chromosome (B), Amitav GHOSH
• The Calligraphers' Night (B+), Yasmine GHATA
• Callirhoe (B+), CHARITON
• The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-), ed. Katherine E. KELLY
• The Cambridge Quintet (C-), John L. CASTI
• Camouflage (A-), Murray BAIL
• Campo Santo (B), W.G.SEBALD
• Can a Darwinian be a Christian ? (B), Michael RUSE
• Canaan (B), Geoffrey HILL
• Canal Grande (B+), Hannu RAITTILA
• The Cannibal Galaxy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• Canvas (B+), Adam ZAGAJEWSKI
• Captain Blood (B+), Rafael SABATINI
• Captain Nemo's Library (A-), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Captain of the Butterflies (B+), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (B), Thomas GLAVINIC
• Caroline the One-Guinea Girl (B-), Ogali OGALI
• Carte Blanche (B+), Carlo LUCARELLI
• The Cartier Project (B), Miha MAZZINI
• Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (B), MÁRAI Sándor
• The Case for Literature (B+), GAO Xingjian
• Case Histories (A-), Kate ATKINSON
• [A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed HANIF]
• The Case of the Female Orgasm (B), Elisabeth A. LLOYD
• A Castle in Romagna (B+), Igor ŠTIKS
• Catastrophe (B-), Richard POSNER
• The Catastrophist (B), Ronan BENNETT
• The Cave (B+), Tim KRABBÉ
• La cazzaria: The Book of the Prick (B-), Antonio VIGNALI
• Ce qu'ils disent ou rien (B), Annie ERNAUX
• Celia's Secret (B+), Michael FRAYN and David BURKE
• The Centaur in the Garden (B+), Moacyr SCLIAR
• Centuria (A), Giorgio MANGANELLI
• Chairman of Fools (B), Shimmer CHINODYA
• A Change of Climate (B+), Hilary MANTEL
• Chaos and All That (B+), LIU Sola
• The Character of Rain (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' (B), ed. Desmond KING-HELE
• Chasing Lolita (B), Graham VICKERS
• Chaucer (B-), Peter ACKROYD
• Checkpoint (B+), Nicholson BAKER
• Cheese (B+), Willem ELSSCHOT
• The Cheese Monkeys (B-), Chip KIDD
• Cheraghha ra man khamoosh mikonam (B+), Zoya PIRZAD
• Chief the Honourable Minister (B), T.M.ALUKO
• The Child That Books Built (B), Francis SPUFFORD
• Children of Clay (B+), Raymond QUENEAU
• Chopin's Move (B), Jean ECHENOZ
• Chourmo (B), Jean-Claude IZZO
• Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (A), B. S. JOHNSON
• Christmas Day (B+), Paul DURCAN
• Christopher Unborn (B), Carlos FUENTES
• La Chunga (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Church of Solitude (B), Grazia DELEDDA
• The Circumcision (B), DALOS György
• The City in Crimson Cloak (B), Aslı ERDOĞAN
• The City Trilogy (B), CHANG Hsi-Kuo
  • I. Five Jade Disks (B)
  • II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
  • III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
• Cleaned Out (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• A Cleaning Woman (B), Christian OSTER
• The Clerkenwell Tales (B), Peter ACKROYD
• Cliffs (B+), Olivier ADAM
• Climate of Fear (B), Wole SOYINKA
• A Closed Book (B+), Gilbert ADAIR
• The Closed Circle (B+), Jonathan COE
• Closer (A-), Patrick MARBER
• The Clothes They Stood Up in (A-), Alan BENNETT
• Cloud Atlas (B+), David MITCHELL
• The Cloud-Messenger, (B), KALIDASA (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
• The Cloud Messenger, (B), KALIDASA (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
• The Club of Angels (B), Luis Fernando VERISSIMO
• The Coast of Utopia (A-),Tom STOPPARD:
  • Part I - Voyage (A-)
  • Part II - Shipwreck (B+)
  • Part III - Salvage (B+)
• Cobralingus (A-), Jeff NOON
• The Cockatoos (B+), Patrick WHITE
• A Cock-Eyed Comedy (B-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Code - and other Laws of Cyberspace (A-), Lawrence LESSIG
• Coffee at Luke's (B) ed. Jennifer Crusie
• Cogwheels (B+), AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke
• Coincidance (B-), Robert Anton WILSON
• Cold Lazarus (B), Dennis POTTER
• Cold Skin (B), Albert SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL
• Collected Fictions (A-), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Collected Poems (B), David MARKSON
• The Collector Collector (B), Tibor FISCHER
• The Collector of Worlds (A-), Ilya TROYANOV
• The Colorado Kid (B), Stephen KING
• The Colour of Memory (B+), Geoff DYER
• Comic Potential (A-), Alan AYCKBOURN
• Coming of Age at the End of History (B), Camille de TOLEDO
• The Committee (B), Sun'allah IBRAHIM
• Communicating Doors (A-), Alan AYCKBOURN
• Company (B-), Max BARRY
• The Company of Ghosts (A-), Lydie SALVAYRE
• The Complete Poetry (A-), César VALLEJO
• Complete Works & Other Stories (A), Augusto MONTERROSO
• Comrade Kirillov (B), Raja RAO
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B), GUO Xiaolu
• The Condition of Muzak (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• Conduct Unbecoming (B), T.M.ALUKO
• Confabulario (B), Juan José ARREOLA
• The Confession (B+), Domenic STANSBERRY
• The Confusion (B), Neal STEPHENSON
• Conjugal Love (A-), Alberto MORAVIA
• The Conqueror (A-), Jan KJÆRSTAD
• Conquest of Abundance (B+), Paul K. FEYERABEND
• Conscious and Verbal (B), Les MURRAY
• The Consolations of Philosophy (B-), Alain De BOTTON
• Contemporary Portraits (A-), Murray BAIL
• Conversation with Spinoza (A-), Goce SMILEVSKI
• Conversations (B-), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Conversations after a Burial (B-), Yasmina REZA
• Conversations in Bolzano (US title: Casanova in Bolzano) (B), MÁRAI Sándor
• Conversations with Ayckbourn (B+), Ian WATSON
• Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B), ed. Bernth Lindfors
• Conversations with Professor Y (A-), Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
• Conversations with Stoppard (B-), Tom STOPPARD and Mel GUSSOW
• Conversations With William H. Gass (B), ed. Theodore G. Ammon
• The Conversions (B+), Harry MATHEWS
• Cooking with Fernet Branca (B), James HAMILTON-PATERSON
• Copenhagen (A), Michael FRAYN
• The Copenhagen Papers (B+) Michael FRAYN and David BURKE
• The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Corrections (A), Jonathan FRANZEN
• Cosmétique de l'ennemi (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• [Cosmos Incorporated, Maurice G. DANTEC]
• Cotton (A-), Christopher WILSON
• The Courilof Affair (B+), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Cows of Shambat (B), TABAN Lo Liyong
• Crash (C+), J.G. BALLARD
• Crash (B+), Iain SINCLAIR
• Cream in my Coffee (B), Dennis POTTER
• Creative Destruction (B), Tyler COWEN
• Creative Industries (B+), Richard E. CAVES
• The Creator's Map (B-), Emilio CALDERÓN
• Credible Witness (B-), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• The Crime of Father Amaro (A-), José Maria EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
• The Crime Studio (A-), Steve AYLETT
• Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann (B+), Harry MULISCH
• The Crimson Labyrinth (B), KISHI Yusuke
• Cronopios and Famas (A-), Julio CORTÁZAR
• Crossfire (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• [Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, Peter HANDKE]
• Cryptonomicon (A-), Neal STEPHENSON
• The Crystal Frontier (C), Carlos FUENTES
• The Cube and the Cathedral (D), George WEIGEL
• Cultural Amnesia (B+), Clive JAMES
• A Cure for Cancer (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (B+), Lisa JARDINE
• The Curtain (B+), Milan KUNDERA
• Cynics (B+), Anatoly MARIENGOF

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