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- César Aira's The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
- Urs Allemann's Babyf*cker
- Fahd al-Atiq's Life on Hold
- Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin
- Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
- Sabina Berman's Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
- Laurent Binet's HHhH
- Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo's 1946 novel, Where There's Love, There's Hate
- Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' Where Tigers are at Home
- Roberto Bolaño's Woes of the True Policeman
- James M. Cain's The Cocktail Waitress
- Massimo Carlotto's At the End of a Dull Day
- Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years
- Jacques Chessex's The Tyrant
- Eric Chevillard's Prehistoric Times
- Philippe Claudel's The Investigation
- J.M.Coetzee's Summertime
- Laurence Cossé's A Novel Bookstore
- Albert Cossery's The Jokers
- Albert Cossery's A Splendid Conspiracy
- Vlas Doroshevich's What the Emperor Cannot Do
- Jean Echenoz's Lightning
- Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot
- Jasper Fforde's The Woman who Died a Lot
- Mark Polizzotti's new translation of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Michael Frayn's Skios
- Carlos Fuentes' Adam in Eden
- Santiago Gamboa's Necropolis
- Jane Gardam's Last Friends
- Gebreyesus Hailu's The Conscript
- Eduardo Halfon's The Polish Boxer
- Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- Robert Harris' The Fear Index
- Andrea Hirata's The Rainbow Troops
- Ho Anh Thai's Apocalypse Hotel
- Kari Hotakainen's The Human Part
- Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory
- John Irving's In One Person
- Lars Iyer's Spurious
- Kawamata Chiaki's Death Sentences
- Yasmina Khadra's Cousin K
- Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Book Two (UK title: A Man in Love)
- Herman Koch's The Dinner
- Krasznahorkai László's Satantango
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's The Letter Killers Club
- Patrick Lapeyre's Life is Short and Desire Endless, now available in English
- 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
- Claudio Magris' Blindly
- Norman Manea's The Lair
- Diego Marani's The Last of the Vostyachs
- Ranko Marinković's Cyclops
- Tomás Eloy Martínez's Purgatory
- Ian McEwan's Solar
- Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- Deon Meyer's Seven Days
- David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Mo Yan's Sandalwood Death
- Murakami Ryu's Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Murakami Haruki's 1Q84
- Nakamura Fuminori's The Thief
- Nescio's Amsterdam Stories
- Amélie Nothomb's Hygiene and the Assassin
- Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow
- Ogawa Yoko's Revenge
- Sofi Oksanen's Purge
- Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death
- Orhan Pamuk's Silent House
- Shahrnush Parsipur's Touba and the Meaning of Night
- Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure
- Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol
- Qian Zhongshu's Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts
- Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
- Carlos Rojas' The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell
- Jacques Roubaud's Mathematics:
- Daniel Sada's Almost Never
- José Saramago's Cain
- Giorgio Scerbanenco's A Private Venus
- Arno Schmidt's supranovel The School for Atheists
- Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair
- Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's The Forbidden Kingdom
- Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- Goce Smilevski's Freud's Sister
- Sony Labou Tansi's Life and a Half
- Neal Stephenson's Reamde
- Maria Sveland's Bitter Bitch
- Vikas Swarup's Q & A
- Szentkuthy Miklós' Marginalia on Casanova
- Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists
- Gonçalo M. Tavares's Joseph Walser's Machine
- Gonçalo M. Tavares' The Neighborhood
- Tarun J. Tejpal's The Story of my Assassins
- Paul Theroux's The Lower River
- Kim Thúy's Ru
- Fariba Vafi's My Bird
- Enrique Vila-Matas' Dublinesque
- Abdourahman A. Waberi's Transit
- Ariel S. Winter's The Twenty-Year Death
- Gabrielle Wittkop's The Necrophiliac
- Yan Lianke's Lenin's Kisses
- A.B.Yehoshua's The Retrospective
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- Ai Weiwei's Weiwei-isms
- 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
- Sophie Calle's The Address Book
- Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- 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
- Geoff Dyer's Zona
- Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement
- James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Gary B. Gorton's Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming
- Edith Grossman's Why Translation Matters
- Andrew T. Guzman's Overheated
- Inose Naoki's Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima
- Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened to Modernism ?
- Kertész Imre's The Holocaust as Culture
- Emma Larkin's Everything is Broken
- Edouard Levé's Autoportrait
- Daniel Levin Becker's Many Subtle Channels
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Donald S. Lopez, jr.'s The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography
- Wallace Matson's Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs
- 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
- David Orrell's Truth or Beauty
- Francis Ponge's Mute Objects of Expression
- Pascal Quignard's The Roving Shadows
- Salman Rushdie's memoir, Joseph Anton
- Jeffrey D. Sachs' The Price of Civilization
- Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax
- Wole Soyinka's Of Africa
- 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
- Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal ?
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- David Auburn's The Columnist
- Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
- Elfriede Jelinek's Her Not All Her: on/with Robert Walser
- 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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