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- Peter Adolphsen's Machine
- Michal Ajvaz's The Golden Age
- Urs Allemann's Babyf*cker
- Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh
- Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building
- Ali Bader's Papa Sartre
- John Banville's The Infinities
- Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin
- Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
- Andrej Blatnik's You Do Understand
- Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich
- Bragi Ólafsson's The Pets
- Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip
- A.S.Byatt's The Children's Book
- Cao Naiqian's There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
- Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness
- Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years
- Jacques Chessex's A Jew Must Die
- Jonathan Coe's The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
- J.M.Coetzee's Summertime
- Laurence Cossé's A Novel Bookstore
- Albert Cossery's The Jokers
- Albert Cossery's A Splendid Conspiracy
- Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou's Logicomix
- Jean Echenoz's Lightning
- Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot
- Mark Polizzotti's new translation of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Romain Gary's Hocus Bogus
- Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood
- Paolo Giordano's The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
- Günter Grass' The Box
- Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love
- David Grossman's To the End of the Land
- Lev Grossman's The Magician King
- Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory
- Lars Iyer's Spurious
- Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver
- Hans Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key
- Lars Kepler's The Hypnotist
- Kertész Imre's The Union Jack
- Khaled Al Khamissi's Cairo Taxi-tales
- Kim Young-ha's I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
- Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Memories of the Future
- 'Viscount' Lascano Tegui's On Elegance While Sleeping
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Éric Laurrent's Do Not Touch
- Levy Hideo's A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard
- Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
- Alain Mabanckou's Broken Glass
- Shahriar Mandanipour's Censoring an Iranian Love Story
- Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar
- Ranko Marinković's Cyclops
- Tomás Eloy Martínez's Purgatory
- Ian McEwan's Solar
- Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon
- Deon Meyer's Trackers
- David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Murakami Ryu's Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Murakami Haruki's 1Q84
- Irène Némirovsky's Suite française
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Amélie Nothomb's Hygiene and the Assassin
- Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow
- Sofi Oksanen's Purge
- Okuda Hideo's Lala Pipo
- Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death
- Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
- Shahrnush Parsipur's Touba and the Meaning of Night
- Georges Perec's the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise
- Per Petterson's I Curse the River of Time
- Peter Pišt'anek's Rivers of Babylon
- Henrik Pontoppidan's Lucky Per
- Richard Powers' Generosity
- Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
- Qian Zhongshu's Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts
- Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
- Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief
- Julián Ríos' The House of Ulysses
- Philip Roth's Nemesis
- José Saramago's Cain
- Arno Schmidt's supranovel The School for Atheists
- Moacyr Scliar's Kafka's Leopards
- Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom
- Olga Slavnikova's 2017
- Sony Labou Tansi's Life and a Half
- Neal Stephenson's Reamde
- Maria Sveland's Bitter Bitch
- Vikas Swarup's Q & A
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace
- Paul Theroux's The Elephanta Suite
- Scarlett Thomas' Our Tragic Universe
- David Toscana's The Last Reader
- Fariba Vafi's My Bird
- Abdourahman A. Waberi's Passage of Tears
- Donald E. Westlake's Memory
- Gabrielle Wittkop's The Necrophiliac
- Yoshimoto Banana: The Lake
- Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
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- Lila Azam Zanganeh's The Enchanter
- Lynn Barber's An Education
- David Bellos' Is That a Fish in Your Ear ?
- Roberto Bolaño's Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
- Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, finally available again
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- Andrei Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide
- Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant
- James Currey on The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature, Africa Writes Back
- Richard Dawkins takes on The God Delusion
- Bill Drummond's 17
- Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith and Revolution
- Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement
- James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Edith Grossman's Why Translation Matters
- David Harvey on The Enigma of Capital
- Stéphane Hessel's Time for Outrage !
- Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened to Modernism ?
- Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
- Emma Larkin's Everything is Broken
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov
- Dambisa Moyo's How the West Was Lost
- Harry Mulisch's Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
- Murakami Haruki's memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- B.R.Myers on How North Koreans See Themselves -- and Why It Matters, in The Cleanest Race
- Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran
- My Little Red Book, edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a Time of War
- Amos Oz's memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Cynthia Ozick's The Din in the Head
- Marta Petreu on E.M.Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania in An Infamous Past
- Francis Ponge's Mute Objects of Expression
- Gail Pool's Faint Praise
- Richard A. Posner's The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
- Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
- Jeffrey D. Sachs' The Price of Civilization
- Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- George Steiner's My Unwritten Books
- Jacqueline Stevens' States without Nations
- John B. Thompson's Merchants of Culture
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Karaoke Culture
- Vlatko Vedral's Decoding Reality
- Simon Winchester's The Alice behind Wonderland
- Michela Wrong's It's Our Turn to Eat
- Zilahy Péter's The Last Window-Giraffe
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- David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winning Proof
- Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
- Michael Frayn's Democracy
- David Hare's Stuff Happens
- David Hare's The Vertical Hour
- Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman
- Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll
- Peter Weiss' Hölderlin
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- Roberto Bolaño's The Romantic Dogs
- Breyten Breytenbach's Voice Over
- Geoffrey Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power
- Ko Un's The Three Way Tavern
- Ruth Padel's Darwin
- Jacques Roubaud's The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg's Heavenly Questions
- Göran Sonnevi's Mozart's Third Brain
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