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• S. (B), Harry MATHEWS, et al.
• Le Sabotage amoureux (also: Loving Sabotage) (A+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Sacred Games (B+), Vikram CHANDRA
• Sad Bastard (B+), Hugo HAMILTON
• Safar (B+), Mahmud DOULATABADI
• Safe Food (B+), Marion NESTLE
• 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
• Saturday (A-), Ian McEWAN
• 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
• 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 Voice (B+), Scott L. MONTGOMERY
• The Scorpion's Sweet Venom (C-), 'Bruna SURFISTINHA' (Raquel Pacheco)
• 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
• Searching for Emma (B), Dacia MARAINI
• The Second Angel (B-), Philip KERR
• The Second Book (B+), Muharem BAZDULJ
• The Second Plane (C), Martin AMIS
• Secret (US title: Memory) (A-), Philippe GRIMBERT
• The Secret History of Modernism (B+), C.K.STEAD
• 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
• See the Old Lady Decently (B+), B. S. JOHNSON
• Selected Declarations of Dependence (B), Harry MATHEWS
• Selected Non-Fictions (A), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Serenade (B) James M. CAIN
• The Serious Game (B+), Hjalmar SÖDERBERG
• Serve the People ! (B+), YAN Lianke
• Set in Darkness (B+), Ian RANKIN
• Seven Brothers (B), Aleksis KIVI
• The seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• Seven Stories (A-), Sigizmund KRZHIZHANOVSKY
• 17 (B+), Bill DRUMMOND
• Sex Collectors (B), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Shade of Blossoms (B), OOKA Shohei
• Shadow Family (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• 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
• 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 Shawl (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• Sheba (B), Nicholas CLAPP
• Shedding Life (A), Mirolsav HOLUB
• Shengxia de dou shuyu ni (B), XU Xing
• Shining Brow (B+), Paul MULDOON
• Shinjuku Shark (C+), OSAWA Arimasa
• Shipwreck (B+), Tom STOPPARD
• 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
• Shroud (B+), John BANVILLE
• Shyness and Dignity (A), Dag SOLSTAD
• [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
• The Simmons Papers (B), Philippp BLOM
• Simple Passion (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• 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
• Die Situation (B+), Peter WEISS
• Six (B+), Jim CRACE
• 69 (B), MURAKAMI Ryu
• Skipping Towards Armageddon (B), Michael STANDAERT
• Slaughtermatic (B), Steve AYLETT
• The Sleepwalkers (A+), Hermann BROCH
• Slow Chocolate Autopsy (C), Iain SINCLAIR
• Slow Man (A), J.M.COETZEE
• 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]
• The Snowflake Constant (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• 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)
• Solea (B), Jean-Claude IZZO
• The Solid Mandala (A-), Patrick WHITE
• The Solitary Vice (C), Mikita BROTTMAN
• Soldiers of Salamis (B+), Javier CERCAS
• 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
• Sonnets of Love & Death (B-), Jean de SPONDE
• The Sopranos (B), Alan WARNER
• The Sorrow of Belgium (A), Hugo CLAUS
• Sorry Meniscus (A), Iain SINCLAIR
• 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
• 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
• Spinning into Butter (B+), Rebecca GILMAN
• Spiral (B-), SUZUKI Koji
• Spring Awakening (A-), Frank WEDEKIND
• Sputnik Sweetheart (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• S.S. Proleterka (B-), Fleur JAEGGY
• 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
• 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 Descending (B+), Linn ULLMANN
• 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
• Stoppard's Theatre (B), John FLEMING
• Stories of Happy People (B+), Lars GUSTAFSSON
• Stories of Mr. Keuner (A), Bertolt BRECHT
• The Story Begins (B), Amos OZ
• The Story of a Life (A-), Aharon APPELFELD
• The Story of My Baldness (B+), Arbon GRUNBERG (writing as Marek VAN DER JAGT)
• 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
• 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 Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+), Ladislav KLÍMA
• Sugar Street (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Suicide Bridge (B), Iain SINCLAIR
• The Suicide Shop (B), Jean TEULÉ
• Suite française (A), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• Sulphuric Acid (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Summer Book (A-), Tove JANSSON
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Syrup (B), Maxx BARRY
• The System of the World (B), Neal STEPHENSON

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