• As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter - American Writers Respond to Their French Counterparts
  
  
• ADAM, Olivier: Cliffs (B+)
• ALAIN-FOURNIER: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-)
• ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (B)
• AMETTE, Jacques-Pierre: Brecht's Mistress (B+)
• APPANAH, Nathacha: Blue Bay Palace (B)
• AUDEGUY, Stéphane:
  • The Only Son (B)
  • The Theory of Clouds (B+)
• AYMÉ, Marcel: Beautiful Image (B)
• BÂ, Mariama: So Long a Letter (B)
• BALZAC, Honoré de: A Harlot High and Low (A-)
• BARBERY, Muriel:
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog (B)
  • Gourmet Rhapsody (UK title: The Gourmet) (B)
• BARTHES, Roland: Mourning Diary (-)
• BÉGAUDEAU, François: The Class (C)
• BEIGBEDER, Frédéric: Windows on the World (B)
• BELLETTO, René:
  • Coda (B)
  • Dying (B)
• BÉNABOU, Marcel:
  • Dump This Book While You Still Can ! (B)
  • To Write on Tamara ? (B+)
• BENACQUISTA, Tonino:
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
• BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B)
• BERNSTEIN, Michèle: All the King's Horses (B)
• BETI, Mongo: The Story of the Madman (B)
• BOUCHERON, Bernard du: The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C)
• BOUILLIER, Grégoire:
  • The Mystery Guest (B)
  • Report on Myself (C+)
• BOULLE, Pierre:
  • Desperate Games (C-)
  • Planet of the Apes (B+)
  • Trouble in Paradise (C)
• BOVE, Emmanuel:
  • Armand (A-)
  • My Friends (B+)
  • A Winter's Journal (A-)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel:
  • The Adversary (A-)
  • Class Trip (B+)
  • I am Alive and You are Dead (B)
  • Lives Other Than My Own (B+)
  • The Mustache (B)
  • My Life as a Russian Novel (B) (UK title: A Russian Novel)
• CAUWELAERT, Didier van:
  • One-Way (B)
  • Out of my Head (also published as: Unknown) (B)
• CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Conversations with Professor Y (A-)
• CHESSEX, Jacques:
  • A Jew Must Die (B+)
  • The Vampire of Ropraz (B+)
• CHEVILLARD, Eric: Demolishing Nisard (B)
• CHUNG, Ook: L'Expérience interdite (B)
• CLARO: Electric Flesh (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe:
  • Brodeck's Report (US title: Brodeck) (B)
  • Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
• CONSTANT, Paule:
  • The Governor's Daughter (B+)
  • White Spirit (A-)
• COSSÉ, Laurence:
  • A Corner of the Veil (C)
  • A Novel Bookstore (B-)
• COSSERY, Albert:
  • The Colors of Infamy (B+)
  • The Jokers (A-)
  • Proud Beggars (B+)
  • A Splendid Conspiracy (B+)
• DAI Sijie:
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+)
  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (B)
• DANTEC, Maurice G.:
  • [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]
  • [Cosmos Incorporated]
• DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie:
  • My Phantom Husband (B-)
  • Pig Tales (B-)
  • Undercurrents (UK title: Breathing under Water) (B-)
  • White (B+)
• DELISLE, Guy: Burma Chronicles (B)
• DIDEROT, Denis: Jacques the Fatalist (A-)
• DIOME, Fatou: The Belly of the Atlantic (B+)
• DJAOUT, Tahar: The Last Summer of Reason (B+)
• DJIAN, Philippe: Unforgivable (C)
• DONGALA, Emmanuel:
  • Johnny Mad Dog (B+)
  • Little Boys Come from the Stars (B+)
• DORNER, Françoise: The Woman in the Row Behind (B)
• DUBOIS, Jean-Paul: Vie Française (UK title: A French Life) (B)
• DUFOSSÉ, Christophe: School's Out (B)
• DUMONTAIS, Sinclair: The Parachute (B-)
• DUTEURTRE, Benoît:
  • Customer Service (C+)
  • The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-)
• DUTOURD, Jean: A Dog's Head (A-)
• ECHENOZ, Jean:
  • Big Blondes (B-)
  • Chopin's Move (B)
  • I'm Gone (B+)
  • Lightning (A-)
  • Piano (A)
  • Ravel (A-)
  • Running (B+)
  • S. (B)
• ERNAUX, Annie:
  • See the complete review's Annie Ernaux page
  • Ce qu'ils disent ou rien (B)
  • Cleaned Out (A-)
  • L'ecriture comme un couteau (B)
  • A Frozen Woman (A-)
  • Happening (B+)
  • "I Remain in Darkness" (B-)
  • A Man's Place (A-)
  • L'occupation (B)
  • Se perdre (B)
  • Shame (B+)
  • Simple Passion (A-)
  • La vie extérieure (B+)
• ÉTIENNE, Marie: King of a Hundred Horsemen (B-)
• FABRE, Dominique: The Waitress was New (B+)
• FÉNÉON, Félix: Novels in Three Lines (-)
• FLAUBERT, Gustave:
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-)
  • Madame Bovary (A-)
• FOENKINOS, David: Delicacy (B-)
• GAILLY, Christian:
  • An Evening at the Club (B)
  • The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B)
  • Red Haze (B+)
• GARY, Romain: Hocus Bogus (B) (writing as Émile Ajar)
• GAVALDA, Anna:
  • French Leave (UK title: Breaking Away) (B-)
  • I Wish Someone were Waiting for me Somewhere (B)
  • Someone I loved (B-)
• GERMAIN, Sylvie: The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague (B-)
• GHATA, Yasmine: The Calligraphers' Night (B+)
• GRAFF, Laurent: Happy Days (B+)
• GRENIER, Roger: Another November (B+)
• GRIMBERT, Philippe: Secret (A-) (US title: Memory)
• GUÈNE, Faïza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (B+) (UK title: Just Like Tomorrow)
• GUIBERT, Hervé: Blindsight (B+)
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel:
  • The Elementary Particles, (A-) (UK title: Atomised)
  • Lanzarote (B+)
  • The Map and the Territory (B+)
  • Platform (B+)
  • The Possibility of an Island (B)
  • Whatever (B)
• HUSTON, Nancy: Fault Lines (B+)
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Chourmo (B)
  • [The Lost Sailors]
  • Solea (B)
  • Total Chaos (B+)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien: Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JOUET, Jacques:
  • Mountain R (B)
  • Savage (B+)
  • Upstaged (B+)
• KANE, Cheikh Hamidou: Ambiguous Adventure (B)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • The Attack (B)
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Dead Man's Share (B+)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KOUROUMA, Ahmadou:
  • See the complete review's Ahmadou Kourouma page
  • Allah n'est pas obligé (B+)
  • Monnew (B+)
  • The Suns of Independence (B+)
  • Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-)
• KRÁL, Petr: Working Knowledge (B)
• KUNDERA, Milan:
  • The Curtain (B+)
  • Identity (B)
  • See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
• LACLAVETINE, Jean-Marie: Première ligne (B+)
• LAFERRIÈRE, Dany:
  • Eroshima (B)
  • I am a Japanese Writer (B+)
  • Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex ? (B+)
• LANGE, Monique: A Little Girl under a Mosquito Net (B)
• LARBAUD, Valery: Fermina Márquez (B+)
• LAURENS, Camille: In Those Arms (US title: In His Arms) (B)
• LAURRENT, Éric: Do Not Touch (B+)
• LE CLÉZIO, Jean-Marie Gustave:
  • The Interrogation (B)
  • The Prospector (B+)
• LELORD, François:
  • Hector and the Search for Happiness (B)
  • Hector and the Secrets of Love (B)
• LE TELLIER, Hervé:
  • Enough about Love (B+)
  • The Intervention of a Good Man (B)
  • The Sextine Chapel (B)
  • A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (B+)
• LEVÉ, Edouard: Suicide (B)
• LÉVY, Justine:
  • The Rendezvous (B)
  • Nothing Serious (B)
• LIBERATI, Simon: Anthology of Apparitions (B-)
• LITTELL, Jonathan: The Kindly Ones (C-)
• LUCA, Ghérasim: The Passive Vampire (-)
• MABANCKOU, Alain:
  • African Psycho (B-)
  • Broken Glass (B+)
• MACÉ, Gérard: The Last of the Egyptians (B)
• MAISTRE, Xavier de:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+)
  • The Leper of the City of Aosta (B)
• MANCHETTE, Jean-Patrick:
  • Fatale (B)
  • The Prone Gunman (B)
  • Three To Kill (B+)
• MAROUANE, Leïla: The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (B)
• MÉROT, Pierre: Mammals (B)
• MICHAUX, Henri:
  • A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
  • Miserable Miracle (B)
  • Stroke by Stroke (-)
  • Tent Posts (B+)
• MIANO, Léonora: Dark Heart of the Night (B)
• MONÉNEMBO, Tierno:
  • The King of Kahel (B)
  • The Oldest Orphan (B)
• MORAND, Paul: Hecate and Her Dogs (B+)
• NÉMIROVSKY, Irène:
  • All Our Worldly Goods (B)
  • The Ball (Le Bal) (A-)
  • The Courilof Affair (B+)
  • David Golder (B+)
  • David Golder - The Ball - Snow in Autumn - The Courilof Affair (A-)
  • Dimanche (B)
  • Fire in the Blood (B)
  • Snow in Autumn (B+)
  • Suite française (A)
• NOTHOMB, Amélie:
  • See the complete review's Amélie Nothomb page
  • Antichrista (B-) (Antéchrista)
  • The Book of Proper Names (B) (Robert des noms propres)
  • The Character of Rain (A-) (Métaphysique des tubes)
  • Cosmétique de l'ennemi (A-)
  • Fear and Trembling (A-) (Stupeur et tremblements)
  • Hygiene and the Assassin (B+) (Hygiène de l'assassin)
  • The Life of Hunger (A) (Biographie de la faim)
  • Loving Sabotage (A+) (Le Sabotage amoureux)
  • Mercure (B)
  • Péplum (B+)
  • The Stranger next Door (B) (Les Catilinaires)
  • Sulphuric Acid (B) (Acide sulfurique)
  • Tokyo Fiancée (B+) (Ni d'Ève Ni d'Adam)
  • See also: Amélie Nothomb de A à Z (B), Michel ZUMKIR
• OLLIER, Claude: Wert and the Life Without End (B)
• OSTER, Christian:
  • A Cleaning Woman (B)
  • In the Train (B)
  • My Big Apartment (B+)
  • The Unforeseen (B+)
• OUOLOGUEM, Yambo:
  • Bound to Violence (B+)
  • See also: Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (B-)
• PAGANI, Robert: The Princess, the King, and the Anarchist (B+)
• PAGE, Martin:
  • The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection (B)
  • How I Became Stupid (B)
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
  • Passion Fruit (B)
  • The Scapegoat (B)
  • Write to Kill (B+)
• PEREC, Georges:
  • See the complete review's Georges Perec page
  • the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise (US title: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise) (-)
  • "53 Days" (-)
  • Je me souviens (B)
  • Life A User's Manual (A)
  • The Machine (A)
  • A Man Asleep (A-)
  • Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-)
  • Things (A-)
  • Thoughts of Sorts (A-)
  • Three (B)
  • See also: AA files 45/46: Georges Perec + Paris (B+)
  • See also: Georges Perec (A), David BELLOS
• PILLE, Lolita: Paris 75016 (D)
• PONGE, Francis:
  • Mute Objects of Expression (A-)
  • Soap (B)
• PROUST, Marcel: The Lemoine Affair (B+)
• QUENEAU, Raymond:
  • Children of Clay (B+)
  • Exercises in Style (A+)
  • The Flight of Icarus (A-)
  • The Last Days (B-)
  • We Always Treat Women Too Well (B)
  • Zazie in the Metro (B+)
• QUIGNARD, Pascal: On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia (B+)
• QUINTREAU, Laurent: Gross Margin (B)
• RADIGUET, Raymond: Count D'Orgel's Ball (B+)
• RAHIMI, Atiq: The Patience Stone (B+)
• RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand: The Young Man from Savoy (A-)
• REZA, Yasmina:
  • See the complete review's Yasmina Reza page
  • Adam Haberberg (B+)
  • 'Art' (B)
  • Conversations after a Burial (B-)
  • Dawn, Dusk or Night (B)
  • Desolation (B)
  • The God of Carnage (B)
  • Hammerklavier (B)
  • Life x 3 (B)
  • Nulle part (B)
  • The Unexpected Man (B)
• ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain: Repetition (B+)
• ROBERT, Denis: Happiness (C)
• RODENBACH, Georges: Bruges-la-Morte (B+)
• ROLIN, Jean: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose (B)
• ROLIN, Olivier:
  • Hotel Crystal (B)
  • Paper Tiger (B)
• ROUBAUD, Jacques:
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-)
  • The Great Fire of London (A-)
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B)
  • Some Thing Black (B+)
• ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (A-)
• ROZIER, Gilles: The Mercy Room (UK title: Love Without Resistance) (B-)
• SAGAN, Françoise:
  • Bonjour Tristesse (B+)
  • That Mad Ache (B-)
• SALVAYRE, Lydie:
  • The Award (A-)
  • The Company of Ghosts (A-)
  • Everyday Life (B)
  • The Lecture (B)
  • Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal (B)
  • The Power of Flies (B+)
• SANSAL, Boualem: The German Mujahid (UK title: An Unfinished Business) (B)
• SATRAPI, Marjane:
  • Embroideries (B)
  • Persepolis (B)
  • Persepolis (vol. 3) (B)
• SCHMITT, Eric-Emmanuel:
  • Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (B+)
  • The Most Beautiful Book in the World (C)
  • [La part de l'autre ]
• SEKSIK, Laurent: Les mauvaises pensées (B)
• SERGE, Victor: Unforgiving Years (A-)
• SHAN Sa:
  • Alexander and Alestria (C)
  • Empress (B)
  • The Girl who Played Go (B+)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • The Engagement (B+)
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
• SINIAC, Pierre: The Collaborators (B)
• SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (B-)
• STAROVA, Luan: Les livres de mon père (B+)
• TEULÉ, Jean: The Suicide Shop (B)
• THOMAS, Chantal: Farewell, My Queen (B+)
• TOUMI, Alek Baylee: Madah-Sartre (B)
• TOURNIER, Michel: The Mirror of Ideas (B-)
• TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe:
  • The Bathroom (B+)
  • Camera (B)
  • Making Love (B+)
  • Monsieur (A-)
  • Running Away (A-)
  • Self-Portrait Abroad (B)
  • Television (B+)
  • The Truth about Marie (B+)
• VALTAT, Jean-Christophe: 03 (B)
• VARGAS, Fred: Have Mercy on Us All (B)
• VIAN, Boris:
  • The Dead All Have the Same Skin (C+)
  • I Spit on Your Graves (B)
  • To Hell with the Ugly (B-)
• VIEL, Tanguy:
  • The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-)
  • Beyond Suspicion (B)
• VIGAN, Delphine de: [Underground Time]
• VOLODINE, Antoine: Minor Angels (B-)
• WABERI, Abdourahman A.:
  • In the United States of Africa (B)
  • Passage of Tears (B+)
• WITTKOP, Gabrielle: The Necrophiliac (B+)
• YSLAIRE, Bernar: The Sky Over the Louvre (-) (with Jean-Claude Carrière)
• ZAOUI, Amin: Banquet of Lies (B+)
• ZELLER, Florian:
  • Artificial Snow (B+)
  • The Fascination of Evil (B+)
  • Julien Parme (B)
  • Lovers or Something Like It (B+)
• ZOLA, Emile: The Kill (A-)

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