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Titles - The:

• The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-), Tanguy VIEL
• The Accidental (A-), Ali SMITH
• The Accidental Woman (B-), Jonathan COE
• [The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, Gilbert ADAIR]
• The Adversary (A-), Emmanuel CARRÈRE
• The Aesthetics of Resistance (A+), Peter WEISS
• The Afterword (B-), Mike BRYAN
• The Amber Spyglass (B+), Philip PULLMAN
• The Ambitions of Curiosity (B+), G.E.R. LLOYD
• The American Boy (B+), Andrew TAYLOR
• [The American Enemy, Philippe ROGER]
• The Anathemata (A-), David JONES
• The Anatomy of Melancholy (A+), Robert BURTON
• The Annals of Chile (B+), Paul MULDOON
• The Antipeople (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• The Art of Murder (B), José Carlos SOMOZA
• The Art of Travel (B+), Alain DE BOTTON
• The Ascetic of Desire (B), Sudhir KAKAR
• The Assassination of Lumumba (-), Ludo DE WITTE
• The Assault (A), Harry MULISCH
• The Athenian Murders (B), José Carlos SOMOZA
• The Attack (B), Yasmina KHADRA
• The Aunt's Story (A-), Patrick WHITE
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (B+), Gertrude STEIN
• The Avengers (B), Toby MILLER
• The Award (A-), Lydie SALVAYRE
• The Bad Girl (B-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Ball (A-), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Ballad of Lee Cotton (A-), Christopher WILSON
• The Banquet in Blitva (B+), Miroslav KRLEŽA
• The Bear Boy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Beast in the Nursery (B), Adam PHILLIPS
• The Belly of the Atlantic (B+), Fatou DIOME
• The Biplane Houses (B+), Les MURRAY
• The Big Clock (B+), Kenneth FEARING
• The Big Over Easy (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• The Biographer's Tale (B+), A.S.BYATT
• The Black Sheep (A-), Augusto MONTERROSO
• The Book about Blanche and Marie (B+), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Book against God (B), James WOOD
• 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 Lost Books (B-), Stuart KELLY
• The Book of Margins (B), Edmond JABÈS
• The Book of Prefaces (A), Alasdair GRAY
• The Book of Proper Names (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Book of Trouble (B), Ann MARLOWE
• 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
• The Boys who Stole the Funeral (B+), Les MURRAY
• The Break of Day (C+), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• The Breakage (B), Glyn MAXWELL
• The Breath of Life (B-), David HARE
• The Budding Tree (B+), KITAHARA Aiko
• The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B), Wole SOYINKA
• The Business (B), Iain BANKS
• The Business of Books (B+), André SCHIFFRIN
• The Butterfly (B-), James M. CAIN
• The Cage (B), KITAKATA Kenzo
• The Cairo Trilogy (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Calcutta Chromosome (B), Amitav GHOSH
• The Calligraphers' Night (B+), Yasmine GHATA
• The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-), ed. Katherine E. KELLY
• The Cambridge Quintet (C-), John L. CASTI
• The Cannibal Galaxy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Captain of the Butterflies (B+), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• The Cartier Project (B), Miha MAZZINI
• The Case for Literature (B+), GAO Xingjian
• The Case of the Female Orgasm (B), Elisabeth A. LLOYD
• The Catastrophist (B), Ronan BENNETT
• The Cave (B+), Tim KRABBÉ
• The Centaur in the Garden (B+), Moacyr SCLIAR
• The Character of Rain (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Cheese Monkeys (B-), Chip KIDD
• The Child That Books Built (B), Francis SPUFFORD
• 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-)
• The Clerkenwell Tales (B), Peter ACKROYD
• The Closed Circle (B+), Jonathan COE
• The Clothes They Stood Up in (A-), Alan BENNETT
• 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+)
• The Cockatoos (B+), Patrick WHITE
• 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
• The Committee (B), Sun'allah IBRAHIM
• The Company of Ghosts (A-), Lydie SALVAYRE
• The Complete Poetry (A-), César VALLEJO
• The Condition of Muzak (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Confession (B+), Domenic STANSBERRY
• The Confusion (B), Neal STEPHENSON
• The Consolations of Philosophy (B-), Alain De BOTTON
• The Conversions (B+), Harry MATHEWS
• The Copenhagen Papers (B+) Michael FRAYN and David BURKE
• The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Corrections (A), Jonathan FRANZEN
• The Courilof Affair (B+), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Cows of Shambat (B), TABAN Lo Liyong
• The Creator's Map (B-), Emilio CALDERÓN
• The Crime of Father Amaro (A-), José Maria EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
• The Crime Studio (A-), Steve AYLETT
• The Crimson Labyrinth (B), KISHI Yusuke
• The Crystal Frontier (C), Carlos FUENTES
• The Cube and the Cathedral (D), George WEIGEL
• The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (B+), Lisa JARDINE
• The Curtain (B+), Milan KUNDERA
• The Damned Season (B+), Carlo LUCARELLI
• The Dancing Girl (B), Hasan SHAH
• The Dark Room of Damokles (A-), Willem Frederik HERMANS
• The Day the Leader Was Killed (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Days of Abandonment (B+), Elena FERRANTE
• The Deadly Ambition (B), Glaydah NAMUKASA
• The Deadly Percheron (B+), John Franklin BARDIN
• The Death of the Author (A), Gilbert ADAIR
• The Death of the Body (B+), C.K.STEAD
• The Death of the Little Match Girl (B+), Zoran FERIĆ
• The Death of Virgil (A), Hermann BROCH
• [The Delighted States (also: Miss Herbert), Adam THIRLWELL]
• The Diary of Lady Murasaki (B+), MURASAKI Shikibu
• The Diamond Age (B-), Neal STEPHENSON
• The Diamond Lady (B-), Mwangi RUHENI
• The Dilemma of a Ghost (B-), Ama Ata AIDOO
• The Din in the Head (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Dinner Club (B-), Saskia NOORT
• The Discomfort Zone (A-), Jonathan FRANZEN
• The Discovery of Dawn (B), Walter VELTRONI
• The Discovery of Heaven (A+), Harry MULISCH
• The Dissident (B), Nell FREUDENBERGER
• The Diving Pool (B+), OGAWA Yoko
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (B+), A.S.BYATT
• The Dream of Scipio (B+), Iain PEARS
• The Dream Room (A-), Marcel MÖRING
• The Dreams (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Dreamers (B), John Kendrick BANGS
• The Drover's Wife (A-), Murray BAIL
• The Dry Danube (B), Paul WEST
• The Dumb House (B), John BURNSIDE
• The Dwarves of Death (B), Jonathan COE
• The Eagle's Throne (B), Carlos FUENTES
• The Edge of the Horizon (B), Antonio TABUCCHI
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (B), Muriel BARBERY
• The Elementary Particles, (A-), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• The Elephanta Suite (B+), Paul THEROUX
• The Embroidered Couch (C+), LÜ Tiancheng
• The Emergence of Memory (B+), Lynne Sharon SCHWARTZ, ed.
• The Emperor of Ocean Park (B), Stephen L. CARTER
• [The Enchantress of Florence, Salman RUSHDIE]
• The End of Faith (B), Sam HARRIS
• The End of Mr. Y (A-), Scarlett THOMAS
• The Ends of Our Tethers (B+), Alasdair GRAY
• The English Assassin (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Ern Malley Affair (B+), Michael HEYWARD
• The Errol Flynn Novel (B-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Everlasting Story of Nory (C), Nicholson BAKER
• The Exception (B+), Christian JUNGERSEN
• The Execution (B-), Hugo WILCKEN
• The Executor (B+) , Michael KRÜGER
• The Experience (B-), Eneriko SERUMA
• The Eye of the Storm (A), Patrick WHITE
• The Eyre Affair (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• The Facade (A-), Libuse MONÍKOVÁ
• The Face of Another (B+), ABE Kobo
• The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (A-), Yury DOMBROVSKY
• The Falls (B), Ian RANKIN
• The Fascination of Evil (B+), Florian ZELLER
• The Feast of the Goat (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Female Athlete (-), eds. M.IRELAND and A.NATTIV
• The Figure in the Distance (B), Otto DE KAT
• The Final Bet (B), Abdelilah HAMDOUCHI
• The Final Programme (The Final Program) (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Finishing School (B), Muriel SPARK
• The First Book of Grabinoulor (B), Pierre ALBERT-BIROT
• The First Indian Author in English (B+), Dean MAHOMED (ed. M.H.Fisher)
• The Flight from the Enchanter (B), Iris MURDOCH
• The Flight of Icarus (A-), Raymond QUENEAU
• The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump (A), Aharon MEGGED
• The Following Story (A), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• The Food Chain (B), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Force of the Past (B), Sandro VERONESI
• The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-), Jacques ROUBAUD
• The Fortress (B+), Mesa SELIMOVIC
• The Fourth Bear (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• The Fourth Circle (B+), Zoran ŽIVKOVĆ
• The French Mathematician (B), Tom PETSINIS
• The Fugitive (B), Massimo CARLOTTO
• The Future Leaders (B), Mwangi RUHENI
• The Game (A-), A.S.BYATT
• The Game of Cards (B), Adolf SCHRÖDER
• The Garden of Ediacara (B), Mark A.S. McMENAMIN
• The Garden of Secrets (A-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• The Gendered Atom (C-), Theodore ROSZAK
• The Generals (B-), Per WAHLÖÖ
• The Ghost (B), Robert HARRIS
• The Ghost of Patrice Lumumba (C), Ogali OGALI
• The Ghosts of Vasu Master (B+), Githa HARIHARAN
• The Giant, O'Brien (B-), Hilary MANTEL
• The Gift of a Cow (B+), PREMCHAND
• The Gift of Rain (B+), TAN Twan Eng
• The Girl from the Fiction Department (B), Hilary SPURLING
• The Girl who Played Go (B+), SHAN Sa
• The Glass Palace (B), Amitav GHOSH
• The Glory of Living (B+), Rebecca GILMAN
• The God Delusion (B+), Richard DAWKINS
• The God of Hope and the End of the World (--), John POLKINGHORNE
• The Golden Compass (B+), Philip PULLMAN
• The Goodbye Kiss (B+), Massimo CARLOTTO
• The Good Fairies of New York (B), Martin MILLAR
• The Governor's Daughter (B+), Paule CONSTANT
• The Grand Complication (B), Allen KURZWEIL
• The Grasshopper King (B+), Jordan ELLENBERG
• The Gravity of Sunlight (B), Rosa SHAND
• The Great Fire of London (A-), Jacques ROUBAUD
• The Great Longing (B), Marcel MÖRING
• The Ground beneath her Feet (B-), Salman RUSHDIE
• The Guest (B+), HWANG Sok-Yong
• The Guest from the Future (B), György DALOS
• The Half Brother (A-), Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN
• The Hanging Garden (B+), Ian RANKIN
• The Harmony Silk Factory (B+), Tash AW
• The Healers (A-), Ayi Kwei ARMAH
• The Hedge (A-), Miguel DELIBES
• The Helmet of Horror (B-), Victor PELEVIN
• The Heretic (A-),Miguel DELIBES
• The Hidden Force (A-), Louis COUPERUS
• The History Boys (A-), Alan BENNETT
• The History of Bestiality trilogy, Jens BJØRNEBOE:
  • Moment of Freedom (A-)
  • Powderhouse (B+)
  • The Silence (B)
• The Hollywood Dodo (B+), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Holy Innocents (B+), Gilbert ADAIR
• The House of Paper (UK: The Paper House) (B+) , Carlos María DOMÍNGUEZ
• The House of Sleep (A-), Jonathan COE
• The Human Country (B), Harry MATHEWS
• The Hunter (B-), NONAMI Asa
• The Ice Palace (A), Tarjei VESAAS
• The Immaculate Deception (B), Iain PEARS
• The Inflatable Volunteer (B), Steve AYLETT
• The Invention of Love (A), Tom STOPPARD
• The Invention of Peace (B), Michael HOWARD
• The Investigation (A-), Peter WEISS
• The Invisible Player (B+), Giuseppe PONTIGGIA
• The Jewish Messiah (B), Arnon GRUNBERG
• The Jingle Bell Principle (B-), Miroslav HOLUB
• The Job (B), William S. BURROUGHS
• The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Keeper of Antiquities (A-), Yury DOMBROVSKY
• [The Key of the Tower, Gilbert ADAIR]
• The Keys of Egypt (B), Lesley and Roy ADKINS
• The Kill (A-), Emile ZOLA
• The King of the Ants (B-), Zbigniew HERBERT
• The King of the Storeroom (B+), Antonio PORTA
• The Knot Garden (B+), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Lady in the Van (B+), Alan BENNETT
• The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+), Yahya HAKKI
• The Lamplit Answer (B+), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• The Land Leviathan (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Language of Genes (A-), Steve JONES
• The Language of Passion (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Last Burden (A-), Upamanyu CHATTERJEE
• The Last Days (B-), Raymond QUENEAU
• The Last Dinosaur Book (C+), W.J.T. MITCHELL
• The Last King of Scotland (B+), Giles FODEN
• The Last Novel (A-), David MARKSON
• The Last of Philip Banter (B+), John Franklin BARDIN
• The Last Summer of Reason (B+), Tahar DJAOUT
• The Last Will and Testament of Sr. da Silva Araújo (B+), Germano ALMEIDA
• The Last Window-Giraffe (B+), ZILAHY Péter
• The Late-night News (B), Petros MARKARIS
• The Law in Shambles (B+), Thomas GEOGHEGAN
• The Laying on of Hands (B), Alan BENNETT
• The Lecture (B), Lydie SALVAYRE
• The Legends of Khasak (A-), O.V.VIJAYAN
• The Lemon Table (B+), Julian BARNES
• The Leper of the City of Aosta (B), Xavier de MAISTRE
• The Library at Night (B), Alberto MANGUEL
• The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura (A+), Irmtraud MORGNER
• The Life of Erasmus Darwin (B), Charles DARWIN
• The Life of Hunger (A), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Light of Day (B), Graham SWIFT
• The Lighthouse (B+), P.D.JAMES
• The Little Book of Plagiarism (B+), Richard A. POSNER
• The Little Friend (C), Donna TARTT
• The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-), Benoît DUTEURTRE
• The Little White Car (C), Dan RHODES
• The Living and the Dead (B+), Patrick WHITE
• The Living on the Dead (B+), Aharon MEGGED
• The Lodging House (B), Khairy SHALABY
• The Long Firm (C+), Jake ARNOTT
• The Loser (A-), Fatos KONGOLI
• The Lost Daughter (B+),Elena FERRANTE
• The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-), ALAIN-FOURNIER
• [The Lost Sailors, Jean-Claude IZZO]
• The Love Hexagon (B-), WIlliam SUTCLIFFE
• The Lunar Men (B+), Jenny UGLOW
• The Madonna of the Future (B), Arthur C. DANTO
• The Making of Henry (B+), Howard JACOBSON
• The Mammaries of the Welfare State (B+), Upamanyu CHATTERJEE
• The Man in the Mirror of the Book (also:Borges: A Life) (B+), James WOODALL
• The Man of Feeling (A-), Javier MARÍAS
• The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (B+), 'Biyi BANDELE-THOMAS
• The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book and Compass) (B), Simon WINCHESTER
• The Manchurian Candidate (B), Richard CONDON
• The Manchurian Candidate (B-), Greil MARCUS
• The Mannequin Man (B), Luca DI FULVIO
• The Manual (B+), Jimmy CAUTY and Bill DRUMMOND
• The Marriage of Sticks (B+), Jonathan CARROLL
• The Marsh (A-), Jafar MODARRES-SADEQI
• The Marx Family Saga (A+), Juan GOYTISOLO
• The Matter of Desire (B), Edmundo PAZ SOLDÁN
• The Meaning of Everything (B+), Simon WINCHESTER
• The Meaning of it All (B-), Richard P. FEYNMAN
• The Mechanical Turk (B+), Tom STANDAGE
• The Meme Machine (B+), Susan BLACKMORE
• The Mercy Room (B-), Gilles ROZIER
• The Messiah of Stockholm (B+), Cynthia OZICK
• The Metaphysical Club (A-), Louis MENAND
• The Method Actors (B), Carl SHUKER
• The Middle Mind (B+), Curtis WHITE
• The Mighty Walzer (A-), Howard JACOBSON
• The Mind Game (B-), Hector MACDONALD
• The Ministry of Pain (B+), Dubravka UGRESIC
• The Mirror of Ideas (B-), Michel TOURNIER
• The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (A-), Antonio TABUCCHI
• The Modern Antiquarian (A-), Julian COPE
• The Mourning of John Lennon (B), Anthony ELLIOTT
• The Movies of My Life (B), Alberto FUGUET
• The Murder Room (B+), P.D.JAMES
• The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (B+), Dubravka UGRESIC
• The Mystery Guest (B), Grégoire BOUILLIER
• The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• The Natural Disorder of Things (B), Andrea CANOBBIO
• The New Trial (B), Peter WEISS
• The Newtonian Moment (B+), Mordechai FEINGOLD
• The Night of the Hunter (B+), Simon CALLOW
• The Night of the Tribades (A), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Nineties (C), Michael BRACEWELL
• The North of England Home Service (A-), Gordon BURN
• The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (B), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• [The Novel, ed. Franco MORETTI]
• The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah (B), Robert FRASER
• The Old Capital (B+), CHU T'ien-hsin
• The Oldest Orphan (B), Tierno MONÉNEMBO
• The One from the Other (B+), Philip KERR
• The Open Society and its Enemies (A-), Karl POPPER
• The Oracle (B+), Baltasar GRACIÁN
• The Orchards of Syon (B), Geoffrey HILL
• The Ordeal of the African Writer (B), Charles R. LARSON
• The Origin of Species (A-), Charles DARWIN
• The Orthodontic Patient (-), Anthony J.IRELAND and Fraser McDONALD
• The Oxford Murders (B+), Guillermo MARTÍNEZ
• The Pagan Rabbi (B-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Paper House (US: The House of Paper) (B+), Carlos María DOMÍNGUEZ
• The Parachute (B-), Sinclair DUMONTAIS
• The Passion of Dennis Potter (B), ed. V.W.GASS and John COOK
• The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B), Christian GAILLY
• The Pathseeker (B+), KERTÉSZ Imre
• The Pendragon Legend (A-), SZERB Antal
• The Penelopiad (B), Margaret ATWOOD
• The Perfect American (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• The Perpetual Orgy (A-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Philanthropist (B+), Christopher HAMPTON
• The Philosophy of Physics (B), Roberto TORRETTI
• The Physicists (A-), Friedrich DÜRRENMATT
• The Pied Piper's Poison (B), Christopher WALLACE
• The Pillowman (B), Martin McDONAGH
• The Plato Papers (A-), Peter ACKROYD
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (B), Richard P. FEYNMAN
• The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B), Jacques ROUBAUD
• The Plot Against America (A), Philip ROTH
• The Poet (B+), YI Mun Yol
• The Politics of Cultural Capital (B), Julia LOVELL
• The Polymath (A-), Bensalem HIMMICH
• The Pornographers (B), NOZAKA Akiyuki
• The Pornographer's Poem (B+), Michael TURNER
• The Possibility of an Island (B), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• The Postman always Rings Twice (A-), James M. CAIN
• The Power of Flies (B+), Lydie SALVAYRE
• The PowerBook (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The President of Good and Evil (B+), Peter SINGER
• The Price of Water in Finistère (B), Bodil MALMSTEN
• The Prince of Quotidian (B+), Paul MULDOON
• The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (B), Richard A. POSNER
• The Procedure (A), Harry MULISCH
• The Professor and the Madman (B+), Simon WINCHESTER
• The Promise of Happiness (A-), Justin CARTWRIGHT
• The Prophet (B+), Samuel RAWET
• The Prophet Murders (B), Mehmet Murat SOMER
• The Puttermesser Papers (A+), Cynthia OZICK
• The Quality of Sprawl (B+), Les MURRAY
• The Question (B+), Henri ALLEG
• The Rain before it Falls (B+), Jonathan COE
• The Rampage (A-), Miroslav HOLUB
• The Real Tadzio (B+), Gilbert ADAIR
• The Real Thing (A), Tom STOPPARD
• The Rear Column (B), Simon GRAY
• The Rebellion of the Beasts (B), Leigh HUNT
• The Rebels (B), MÁRAI Sándor
• The Recognition of Sakuntala, (B+) KALIDASA (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
• The Recognitions (A-), William GADDIS
• The Redbreast (B+), Jo NESBØ
• The Relic (B), José Maria EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (B), Mohsin HAMID
• The Rendezvous (B), Justine LÉVY
• The Reverse Side of Life (B+), LEE Seung-U
• The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg (B+), Sibusiso NYEMBEZI
• The Rider (A-), Tim KRABBÉ
• The River of Lost Footsteps (B), THANT Myint-U
• The Road to Lagoa Santa (B), Henrik STANGERUP
• The Road to Mars (C), Eric IDLE
• The Romantic Movement (B-), Alain DE BOTTON
• The Romantics (B), Pankaj MISHRA
• The Rotters' Club (B+), Jonathan COE
• The Royal Physician's Visit (A-), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (trans.: P. Avery and J. Heath-Stubbs) (B-)
• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (trans.: Edward FitzGerald) (A)
• The Rush for Second Place (B), William GADDIS
• The Same Sea (A), Amos OZ
• The Savage Detectives (A-), Roberto BOLAÑO
• The Scandals of Translation (B+), Lawrence VENUTI
• The Scapegoat (B), Daniel PENNAC
• The Scar (B+), China MIÉVILLE
• The Scent of Your Breath (C-), Melissa P.
• The Scheme for Full Employment (B), Magnus MILLS
• The School for Atheists (A-), Arno SCHMIDT
• The School Principal (B+), Jalal AL-E AHMAD
• The Science of Illusions (B), Jacques NINIO
• The Scientific Voice (B+), Scott L. MONTGOMERY
• The Scorpion's Sweet Venom (C-), 'Bruna SURFISTINHA' (Raquel Pacheco)
• The Sea (A-), John BANVILLE
• The Sea came in at Midnight (B-), Steve ERICKSON
• The Sea, the Sea (B+), Iris MURDOCH
• The Second Angel (B-), Philip KERR
• The Second Book (B+), Muharem BAZDULJ
• The Second Plane (C), Martin AMIS
• The Secret of Fame (B+), Gabriel ZAID
• The Secret History of Modernism (B+), C.K.STEAD
• The Secret Sins of Economics (B), Deirdre McCLOSKEY
• The Seducer (A-), Jan KJÆRSTAD
• The Seducer (B+), Henrik STANGERUP
• The Serious Game (B+), Hjalmar SÖDERBERG
• The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• The Shade of Blossoms (B), OOKA Shohei
• 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 Shape of the Table (B), David EDGAR
• The Shawl (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (B), Ashok MATHUR
• The Silence (B), Jens BJØRNEBOE
• The Simmons Papers (B), Philippp BLOM
• The Singing Detective (A), Dennis POTTER
• The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (B), Harry MATHEWS
• The Sleepwalkers (A+), Hermann BROCH
• The Smiles of the Saints (B+), Ibrahim FARGHALI
• The Smoking Diaries (A-), Simon GRAY
• The Snowflake Constant (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• The Social Construction of What ? (B), Ian HACKING
• The Social Life of Information (A-), John Seely BROWN and Paul DUGUID
• The Sokal Hoax (B)
• The Solid Mandala (A-), Patrick WHITE
• The Solitary Vice (C), Mikita BROTTMAN
• The Sopranos (B), Alan WARNER
• The Sorrow of Belgium (A), Hugo CLAUS
• The Speckled People (B), Hugo HAMILTON
• The Speed of Light (B+), Javier CERCAS
• The Steel Bonnets (B), George MacDonald FRASER
• The Steel Tsar (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• 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
• 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
• The Strangers in the House (B+), Georges SIMENON
• The Stuff our Dreams are made of (B-), Thomas M. DISCH
• The Subtle Knife (B), Philip PULLMAN
• The Successor (A-), Ismail KADARE
• The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+), Ladislav KLÍMA
• The Suicide Shop (B), Jean TEULÉ
• The Summer Book (A-), Tove JANSSON
• 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
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne (B+), Simon WINCHESTER
• The Swordfish (B), Hugo CLAUS
• The Sympathetic Undertaker (B+), 'Biyi BANDELE-THOMAS
• The System of the World (B), Neal STEPHENSON
• The Tale of a Dog (B+), Lars GUSTAFSSON
• The Talking Cure (B), Christopher HAMPTON
• The Tango Singer (B), Tomás Eloy MARTÍNEZ
• The Tartar Steppe (A), Dino BUZZATI
• The Temple of Iconoclasts (B+), Juan Rodolfo WILCOCK
• The Temptation of the Impossible (B+), Mario Vargas LLOSA
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (B+), eds. Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (B+), Magnus FISKESJÖ
• The Theocrat (B), Bensalem HIMMICH
• The Theory of Clouds (B+), Stéphane AUDEGUY
• The Thought Gang (A), Tibor FISCHER
• The Three Way Tavern (B+), KO Un
• The Throne of Labdacus (B+), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• The Top Ten (-), J. Peder ZANE (ed.)
• The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-86 (A), Jorge Luis BORGES
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade (B), James A. RAWLEY
• The Transport of Love, (B), KALIDASA
• The Travels of Dean Mahomet (B), Dean MAHOMED (ed. M.H.Fisher)
• The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (B), Ali A. MAZRUI
• The Triple Helix (A-), Richard LEWONTIN
• The Triumph of Love (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• The Trouser People (B-), Andrew MARSHALL
• [The Truth about Sascha Knisch, Aris FIORETOS]
• The Tunnel (A), William H. GASS
• The Turk (B+), Tom STANDAGE
• The Twelve Chairs (A-), ILF and PETROV
• The Twenty-Seventh City (B), Jonathan FRANZEN
• The Twilight of Atheism (B-), Alister McGRATH
• The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (B+), Arthur JAPIN
• The Two Lolitas (B+), Michael MAAR
• The Twyborn Affair (A-), Patrick WHITE
• The Tyrant's Novel (B+), Thomas KENEALLY
• The Uncommon Reader (A-), Alan BENNETT
• The Unexpected Man (B), Yasmina REZA
• The Unforeseen (B+), Christian OSTER
• The Unquiet Grave (A-), Cyril CONNOLLY
• The Untouched Minutes (B), Donald MORRILL
• The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (B), Peter CAREY
• The Valleys of the Assassins (B+), Freya STARK
• The Vanishing (B+), Tim KRABBÉ
• The Velocity Gospel (B), Steve AYLETT
• The Vengeful Virgin (B), Gil BREWER
• The Verbals (B), Iain SINCLAIR and Kevin JACKSON
• The Vertical Hour (B), David HARE
• The Virgin Suicides (B+), Jeffrey EUGENIDES
• The Vivisector, The (B+), Patrick WHITE
• The Voice of Victorian Sex (B+), Rupert CHRISTIANSEN
• The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C), Bernard du BOUCHERON
• The Wages of Destruction (A-), Adam TOOZE
• The Waitress was New (B+), Dominique FABRE
• The War against Cliché (A-), Martin AMIS
• The Warlord of the Air (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Wars of our Ancestors (B+), Miguel DELIBES
• The Way Home (A-), Harry MATHEWS
• The Way of all Flesh (B+), Midas DEKKERS
• The Way to Paradise (B), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Well of Lost Plots (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• The Whistler (B), ONDJAKI
• The White Tiger (B-), Aravind ADIGA
• The Whole Story (B), Ali SMITH
• The Wicked Queen (B+), Chantal THOMAS
• The Wild Numbers (B), Philibert SCHOGT
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (A-), MURAKAMI Haruki
• The Winshaw Legacy (also What a Carve Up ! ) (A-), Jonathan COE
• The Wittgenstein House (-), Bernhard LEITNER
• The Woman in the Row Behind (B), Françoise DORNER
• The Wooden Sea (C), Jonathan CARROLL
• The Works and Days of Svistonov (B), Konstantin VAGINOV
• The World and Other Places (B), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The World Republic of Letters (A-), Pascale CASANOVA
• The Worst Enemy of Science ? - Essays in memory of Paul Feyerabend (B+)
• [The Worst Intentions, Alessandro PIPERNO]
• The Writer and the World (B), V.S.NAIPAUL
• The Wurd (B), Chris WILSON
• The Yacoubian Building (B+), Alaa Al ASWANY
• The Year of the Hare (B+), Arto PAASILINNA
• The Year of the Jouncer (A-), Simon GRAY
• The Years with Laura Díaz (B), Carlos FUENTES
• The Yellow Sofa (B), José Maria EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
• The Young Lady from Tacna (B), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Zero Train (B), Yuri BUIDA

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