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• S. (B), Harry MATHEWS, et al.
• Le Sabotage amoureux (also: Loving Sabotage) (A+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (B-), Victor PELEVIN
• Sacred Games (B+), Vikram CHANDRA
• Sad Bastard (B+), Hugo HAMILTON
• Safar (B+), Mahmud DOULATABADI
• Safe Food (B+), Marion NESTLE
• The Saga of Dharmapuri (B+), O.V.VIJAYAN
• Sakuntala, KALIDASA:
  • Abhijnanasakuntalam, (B) trans. (Chandra Rajan)
  • The Recognition of Sakuntala, (B+) trans. (Arthur W. Ryder)
  • Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, (B+) trans. (B.S. Miller)
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (B), Paul TORDAY
• Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (B), TSUTSUI Yasutaka
• Salvage (B+), Tom STOPPARD
• A Samba for Sherlock (B), Jô SOARES
• The Same Sea (A), Amos OZ
• Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (B), Daniela KAPITÁŇOVÁ
• Samskara (B+), U.R.ANANTHAMURTHY
• Sandalwood Death (A), MO Yan
• The Sandcastle (B), Iris MURDOCH
• Satantango (B+), KRASZNAHORKAI László
• Satisdiction (B+) , Ammon SHEA
• Saturday (A-), Ian McEWAN
• Savage (B+), Jacques JOUET
• The Savage Detectives (A-), Roberto BOLAÑO
• Sayonara Bar (A-), Susan BARKER
• Sayonara, Gangsters (B+), TAKAHASHI Genichiro
• The Scandals of Translation (B+), Lawrence VENUTI
• The Scapegoat (B), Daniel PENNAC
• The Scar (B+), China MIÉVILLE
• Scarred Hearts (B+), Max BLECHER
• Scenes from Village Life (B), Amos OZ
• The Scent of Your Breath (C-), Melissa P.
• Schädelbasislektion (A-), Durs GRÜNBEIN
• The Scheme for Full Employment (B), Magnus MILLS
• The School for Atheists (A-), Arno SCHMIDT
• The School Principal (B+), Jalal AL-E AHMAD
• School's Out (B), Christophe DUFOSSÉ
• Schopenhauers Kampf um sein Werk (B+), Alfred ESTERMANN
• Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany (-), Ben SCHOTT
• Schott's Original Miscellany (-), Ben SCHOTT
• Science in Translation (B+), Scott L. MONTGOMERY
• The Science of Illusions (B), Jacques NINIO
• The Scientific Buddha (B), Donald S. LOPEZ, jr.
• The Scientific Voice (B+), Scott L. MONTGOMERY
• The Scorpion's Sweet Venom (C-), 'Bruna SURFISTINHA' (Raquel Pacheco)
• The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow (B-), Pål H. CHRISTIANSEN
• The Scream (B), Laurent GRAFF
• Se perdre (B), Annie ERNAUX
• The Sea (A-), John BANVILLE
• The Sea came in at Midnight (B-), Steve ERICKSON
• The Sea, the Sea (B+), Iris MURDOCH
• The Seamstress and the Wind (B), César AIRA
• Search Sweet Country (B+), Kojo LAING
• Searching for Emma (B), Dacia MARAINI
• Season of Ash (B), Jorge VOLPI
• Season of Infidelity (B-), DAN Oniroku
• The Second Angel (B-), Philip KERR
• The Second Book (B+), Muharem BAZDULJ
• Second Person Singular (B), Sayed KASHUA
• The Second Plane (C), Martin AMIS
• Seconds Out (B), Martín KOHAN
• Secret (US title: Memory) (A-), Philippe GRIMBERT
• Secret Histories (B), Emma LARKIN
• [The Secret History of Costaguana, Juan Gabriel VÁSQUEZ]
• The Secret History of Modernism (B+), C.K.STEAD
• The Secret of Evil (B+), Roberto BOLAÑO
• The Secret of Fame (B+), Gabriel ZAID
• The Secret Sins of Economics (B), Deirdre McCLOSKEY
• Secularism Confronts Islam (B), Olivier ROY
• The Seducer (A-), Jan KJÆRSTAD
• The Seducer (B+), Henrik STANGERUP
• Seduction of the Innocent (B), Max Allan COLLINS
• See the Old Lady Decently (B+), B. S. JOHNSON
• Seed (B-), SEBHAT Gebre Egziabher
• Selected Declarations of Dependence (B), Harry MATHEWS
• Selected Non-Fictions (A), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Selected Writings (B), Leopoldo LUGONES
• Self-Portrait Abroad (B), Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT
• Sense (B), Arslan KHASAVOV
• The Sense of an Ending (B+), Julian BARNES
• Senselessness (B+), Horacio CASTELLANOS MOYA
• Serenade (B) James M. CAIN
• The Serious Game (B+), Hjalmar SÖDERBERG
• Serve the People ! (B+), YAN Lianke
• Set in Darkness (B+), Ian RANKIN
• Settlement (B+), Christoph HEIN
• Seven Brothers (B), Aleksis KIVI
• The Seven Churches (B), Miloš URBAN
• Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (B+), Fernando SORRENTINO
• Seven Days (B+), Deon MEYER
• Seven Houses in France (B), Bernardo ATXAGA
• The seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• Seven Stories (A-), Sigizmund KRZHIZHANOVSKY
• Seven Years (B), Peter STAMM
• 17 (B+), Bill DRUMMOND
• Severe (B-), Régis JAUFFRET
• A Severed Head (B+), Iris MURDOCH
• Sex Collectors (B), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Sextine Chapel (B), Hervé LE TELLIER
• The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (B), Leïla MAROUANE
• The Shade of Blossoms (B), OOKA Shohei
• Shadow Family (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• The Shadow of a Blue Cat (B), II Naoyuki
• The Shadow of Memory (B), Bernard COMMENT
• The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman (B+), Peter WEISS
• The Shadow of the Sun (B), A.S.BYATT
• The Shadow of the Sun (A-), Ryszard KAPUSCINSKI
• The Shadow of the Wind (B+), Carlos RUIZ ZAFÓN
• The Shadow of What We Were (B), Luis SEPÚLVEDA
• Shadow without a Name (A-), Ignacio PADILLA
• Shaking a Leg (B), Angela CARTER
• Shalimar the Clown (B), Salman RUSHDIE
• Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-), James BOYLE
• Shamanspace (B), Steve AYLETT
• Shame (B+), Annie ERNAUX
• Shame in the Blood (B+), MIURA Tetsuo
• The Shape of the Table (B), David EDGAR
• Shaping Life (B), John Maynard SMITH
• The Sharks (B+), Jens BJØRNEBOE
• The Shawl (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The She-Devil in the Mirror (B+), Horacio CASTELLANOS MOYA
• Sheba (B), Nicholas CLAPP
• Shedding Life (A), Mirolsav HOLUB
• Shelf Discovery (B), Lizzie SKURNICK
• Shengxia de dou shuyu ni (B), XU Xing
• Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (B), Pierre BAYARD
• Shining Brow (B+), Paul MULDOON
• Shinjuku Shark (C+), OSAWA Arimasa
• Shipwreck (B+), Tom STOPPARD
• Shivaji (B), James W. LAINE
• Shklovsky: Witness to an Era (B-), Serena VITALE
• Shooting Star (B), Robert BLOCH
• The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (B), Ashok MATHUR
• 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 Short Tale of Shame (B), Angel IGOV
• A Shortcut to Paradise (B), Teresa SOLANA
• Shroud (B+), John BANVILLE
• Shyness and Dignity (A), Dag SOLSTAD
• Siamese (B), Stig SÆTERBAKKEN
• [sic] (B), Melissa James GIBSON
• Siegfried (A-), Harry MULISCH
• Signal Driver (B), Patrick WHITE
• Signs of Life (B+), M. John HARRISON
• Sikandar Nama, e bara (A-), NIZAMI
• The Silence (B), Jens BJØRNEBOE
• Silence is Death (B+), Julija ŠUKYS
• Silent Extras (A-), Arnon GRUNBERG
• Silent House (B+), Orhan PAMUK
• Silentium ! (B), Wolf HAAS
• Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (B+), (anonymous)
• The Simmons Papers (B), Philippp BLOM
• Simple Passion (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• The Simpsons (B-), John ORTVED
• Sinful Woman (B), James M. CAIN
• The Singing Detective (A), Dennis POTTER
• Single Spies: see An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution
• Singular Pleasures (B), Harry MATHEWS
• The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (B), Harry MATHEWS
• Sinners in Summertime (B), Sigurd HOEL
• Sir Vidia's Shadow (A), Paul THEROUX
• Sister Hollywood (B+), C.K.STEAD
• Die Situation (B+), Peter WEISS
• Six (B+), Jim CRACE
• The 65 Lakh Heist (B), Surender Mohan PATHAK
• The Sixty-Five Years of Washington (B), Juan José SAER
• 69 (B), MURAKAMI Ryu
• The Skating Rink (B+), Roberto BOLAÑO
• Skios (B), Michael FRAYN
• Skipping Towards Armageddon (B), Michael STANDAERT
• The Sky Over the Louvre (-), Bernar YSLAIRE and Jean-Claude CARRIÈRE
• Skylark (B+), KOSZTOLÁNYI Dezső
• Slaughtermatic (B), Steve AYLETT
• The Sleeping Dragon (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• The Sleepwalkers (A+), Hermann BROCH
• Slow Chocolate Autopsy (C), Iain SINCLAIR
• Slow Man (A), J.M.COETZEE
• Slumdog Millionaire (B-), Vikas SWARUP
• Smile as they Bow (B), NU Nu Yi
• Smile Awhile (B), Ogali OGALI
• The Smiles of the Saints (B+), Ibrahim FARGHALI
• The Smoking Diaries (A-), Simon GRAY
• A Snail in my Prime (A-), Paul DURCAN
• Snakepit (B-), Moses ISEGAWA
• Snakes and Earrings (B-), KANEHARA Hitomi
• Snow (B+), Orhan PAMUK
• Snow Crash (B+), Neal STEPHENSON
• Snow in Autumn (B+), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• [Snow Man, David ALBAHARI]
• Snow White must Die (B), Nele NEUHAUS
• The Snowflake Constant (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• The Snowman (B), Jo NESBØ
• So Long a Letter (B), Mariama BÂ
• So Many Books (A-), Gabriel ZAID
• Soap (B), Francis PONGE
• The Social Construction of What ? (B), Ian HACKING
• The Social Life of Information (A-), John Seely BROWN and Paul DUGUID
• Socrates' Ancestor (C+), Indra Kagis McEWEN
• Softcore (B), Tirdad ZOLGHADR
• The Sokal Hoax (B)
• Solar (B-), Ian McEWAN
• Solea (B), Jean-Claude IZZO
• Soledad's Sister (B+), Jose DALISAY
• Soldiers of Salamis (B+), Javier CERCAS
• The Solid Mandala (A-), Patrick WHITE
• The Solitary Vice (C), Mikita BROTTMAN
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers (B), Paolo GIORDANO
• The Solitudes (-), Luís de GÓNGORA
• Solomon and Marcolf (-), (Anonymous)
• Some Remarks (B), Neal STEPHENSON
• Some Thing Black (B+), Jacques ROUBAUD
• Someone I loved (B-), Anna GAVALDA
• Something Rotten (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• Something to Declare (B+), Julian BARNES
• A Son of the Circus (B-), John IRVING
• Song of Two Worlds (B), Alan LIGHTMAN
• Songs for the Missing (B), Stewart O'NAN
• Songs My Mother Never Taught Me (B), Selçuk ALTUN
• Songs of Innocence (B+), Richard ALEAS
• Sonnets of Love & Death (B-), Jean de SPONDE
• The Sopranos (B), Alan WARNER
• The Sorrow of Belgium (A), Hugo CLAUS
• Sorry (C), Zoran DRVENKAR
• Sorry Meniscus (A), Iain SINCLAIR
• The Sound of One Hand Killing (B), Teresa SOLANA
• The Sound of the Kiss (B+), Pingali SURANNA
• South of the Border, West of the Sun (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• Soy un escritor frustrado (B), José Ángel MAÑAS
• Space in Motion (B), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Spacebloom (-), Awk RO (ed.)
• Speak for England (A-), JAmes HAWES
• Speak, Nabokov (A-), Michael MAAR
• The Speckled People (B), Hugo HAMILTON
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics (B-), Marisha PESSL
• Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-), Georges PEREC
• Speech ! Speech ! (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• The Speed of Light (B+), Javier CERCAS
• Spiderweb (B+), Robert BLOCH
• Spies (B+), Michael FRAYN
• The Spies (B), Luis Fernando VERISSIMO
• Spilt Milk (B), Chico BUARQUE
• Spinning into Butter (B+), Rebecca GILMAN
• Spinning Tropics (B-), MOCHIZUKI Aska
• Spiral (B-), SUZUKI Koji
• A Splendid Conspiracy (B+), Albert COSSERY
• Spring Awakening (A-), Frank WEDEKIND
• Spurious (B+), Lars IYER
• The Squirrel's Birthday (B), Toon TELLEGEN
• Sputnik Sweetheart (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• S.S. Proleterka (B-), Fleur JAEGGY
• Stadt der Engel (B+), Christa WOLF
• Stalemate (B+), Icchokas MERAS
• Stalin (A-), Simon Sebag MONTEFIORE
• Stalking (B), Bran NICOL
• Stalking Fiona (B-), Nigel WILLIAMS
• A Stanislaw Lem Reader (B-), Peter SWIRSKI
• State of Siege (B+), Juan GOYTISOLO
• States without Nations (B+), Jacqueline STEVENS
• Statistics on the Table (B), Stephen M. STIGLER
• Status Anxiety (B), Alain DE BOTTON
• The Steel Bonnets (B), George MacDonald FRASER
• The Steel Tsar (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• Stella (B), Siegfried LENZ
• Stella Descending (B+), Linn ULLMANN
• Steps Through the Mist (B+), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• Stet (B+), Diana ATHILL
• Stevenson under the Palm Trees (B), Alberto MANGUEL
• Still Life (A-), A.S.BYATT
• Still Life with a Bridle (B+), Zbigniew HERBERT
• Still Life with Volkswagens (B+), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Stillness of the World before Bach (B+), Lars GUSTAFSSON
• The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo (B), Rick PERLSTEIN
• The Stone Bridal Bed (B+), Harry MULISCH
• The Stone Gods (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The Stone Virgins (C-), Yvonne VERA
• Stone's Fall (B), Iain PEARS
• Stoppard's Theatre (B), John FLEMING
• Stories of Happy People (B+), Lars GUSTAFSSON
• Stories of Mr. Keuner (A), Bertolt BRECHT
• Stormbreaker (B-), Anthony HOROWITZ
• The Story Begins (B), Amos OZ
• The Story of a Life (A-), Aharon APPELFELD
• The Story of my Assassins (B+), Tarun J. TEJPAL
• The Story of My Baldness (B+), Arbon GRUNBERG (writing as Marek VAN DER JAGT)
• The Story of the Blue Planet (B-), ANDRI Snær Magnason
• The Story of the Madman (B), Mongo BETI
• The Story of the Stone (A+), CAO Xueqin
• The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas (B+), Dannie ABSE
• The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro (B), Paul THEROUX
• The Stranger next Door (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Stranger Shores (B), J.M.COETZEE
• Strangers (B), YAMADA Taichi
• The Strangers in the House (B+), Georges SIMENON
• Strife (B), Shimmer CHINODYA
• Strindberg's Star (C-), Jan WALLENTIN
• Stripmalling (B), Jon Paul FIORENTINO
• Stroke by Stroke (-), Henri MICHAUX
• Strong Motion (A-), Jonathan FRANZEN
• Stuff Happens (B+), David HARE
• The Stuff our Dreams are made of (B-), Thomas M. DISCH
• Stupeur et tremblements (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Style and Faith (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• The Subtle Knife (B), Philip PULLMAN
• The Successor (A-), Ismail KADARE
• The Succubus (B), Vlado ŽABOT
• Such is this World@sars.come (B), HU Fayun
• Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (B+), Amos OZ
• The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+), Ladislav KLÍMA
• Sugar Street (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Suicide (B), Edouard LEVÉ
• Suicide Bridge (B), Iain SINCLAIR
• The Suicide Shop (B), Jean TEULÉ
• Suite française (A), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• Sulphuric Acid (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Sultan Of Byzantium (B), Selçuk ALTUN
• The Summer Book (A-), Tove JANSSON
• Summertime (B+), J.M.COETZEE
• Sun and Shadow (B-), Åke: EDWARDSON
• The Sun in the Church (B), J.L. HEILBRON
• The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet (B), Freeman DYSON
• The Suns of Independence (B+), Ahmadou KOUROUMA
• Supermarket (B-), AZUCHI Satoshi
• Supernatural Love (B+), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• SuperTex (B+), Leon DE WINTER
• Supposed to Fly (B), Miroslav HOLUB
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne (B+), Simon WINCHESTER
• Suspensions of Perception (B-), Jonathan CRARY
• Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me (B+), Martin MILLAR
• Sweet Days of Discipline (B), Fleur JAEGGY
• Sweet Money (B), Ernesto MALLO
• Sweet Tooth (B+), Ian McEWAN
• Switching Languages (B), Steven G. KELLMAN (ed.)
• The Swordfish (B), Hugo CLAUS
• Sydänkohtauksia (B+), Kari HOTAKAINEN
• The Sympathetic Undertaker (B+), 'Biyi BANDELE-THOMAS
• Symphony of the Dead (A-), Abbas MAROUFI
• Syndrome E (C+), Franck THILLIEZ
• Syrup (B), Maxx BARRY
• The System of the World (B), Neal STEPHENSON

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