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Forthcoming:
- César Aira's Varamo (February, 2012)
- Jussi Adler-Olsen's Mercy (US title: The Keeper of Lost Causes)
- Peter Adolphsen's Machine
- César Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind
- Michal Ajvaz's The Golden Age
- Urs Allemann's Babyf*cker
- Arai Akira's A Caring Man
- Alaa Al Aswany's Friendly Fire
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's The Greenhouse
- Esmahan Aykol's Hotel Bosphorus
- Fadhil al-Azzawi's The Traveler and the Innkeeper
- Ali Bader's Papa Sartre
- Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin
- John Banville's The Infinities
- Svetislav Basara's The Cyclist Conspiracy
- Reem Bassiouney's Professor Hanaa
- Edgar Bayley's The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi
- René Belletto's Coda
- René Belletto's Dying
- Thomas Bernhard's Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale
- Mohamed El-Bisatie's Drumbeat
- Hassan Blasim's The Madman of Freedom Square
- Andrej Blatnik's You Do Understand
- Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich
- Buddhadeva Bose's My Kind of Girl
- Bragi Ólafsson's The Ambassador
- Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Anonymous Celebrity
- Alina Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
- A.S.Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
- Horacio Castellanos Moya's Tyrant Memory
- Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years
- Eric Chevillard's Demolishing Nisard
- Jonathan Coe's The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
- J.M.Coetzee's Summertime
- Laurence Cossé's A Novel Bookstore
- Albert Cossery's The Colors of Infamy
- Philippe Djian's Unforgivable
- Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou's Logicomix
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's The Colonel
- Zoran Drvenkar's Sorry
- Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Jean Echenoz's Lightning
- Alain Elkann's The French Father
- Alex Epstein's Lunar Savings Time
- Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot
- Giorgio Faletti's I Kill
- Ibrahim Farghali's The Smiles of the Saints
- Macedonio Fernández's The Museum of Eterna's Novel
- Jasper Fforde's One of Our Thursdays is Missing
- Juan Filloy's Op Oloop
- Richard Flanagan's Wanting
- Filip Florian's The Days of the King
- David Foenkinos' Delicacy
- Susana Fortes' Waiting for Robert Capa
- Romain Gary's Hocus Bogus
- Anna Gavalda's French Leave (UK title: Breaking Away)
- Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood
- Paolo Giordano's The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Daniel Glattauer's Love Virtually
- Daniel Glattauer's Every Seventh Wave
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
- Juan Goytisolo's Exiled from Almost Everywhere
- Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love
- David Grossman's To the End of the Land
- Lev Grossman's The Magician King
- Johan Harstad's Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion ?
- Mela Hartwig's Am I a Redundant Human Being ?
- Higashino Keigo's The Devotion of Suspect X
- Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory
- Hu Fayun's Such is this World@sars.come
- Huang Fan's Zero and Other Fictions
- Ii Naoyuki's The Shadow of a Blue Cat
- Isaka Kotaro's Remote Control
- Lars Iyer's Spurious
- Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver
- Jo Kyung-ran's Tongue
- Gert Jonke's Homage to Czerny
- Jacques Jouet's Upstaged
- Ismail Kadare's The Accident
- Daniela Kapitáňová's Samko Tále's Cemetery Book
- Kawakami Hiromi's Manazuru
- Daniel Kehlmann's Fame
- Hans Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key
- Lars Kepler's The Hypnotist
- Kertész Imre's Fiasco
- Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia
- Khaled Al Khamissi's Cairo Taxi-tales
- Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Montecore
- Kim In-Suk's The Long Road
- Kim Young-ha's Your Republic is Calling You
- Ladislav Klíma's Glorious Nemesis
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Memories of the Future
- Alex Kuo's The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
- Dany Laferrière's I am a Japanese Writer
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- François Lelord's Hector and the Secrets of Love
- Hervé Le Tellier's A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)
- Hervé Le Tellier's The Sextine Chapel
- Edouard Levé's Suicide
- Levy Hideo's A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard
- Jeff Lindsay's Double Dexter
- Alain Mabanckou's Broken Glass
- Naguib Mahfouz's The Coffeehouse
- Naguib Mahfouz's Heart of the Night
- Naguib Mahfouz's Love in the Rain
- Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack
- Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale
- Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar
- Leïla Marouane's The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
- Tomás Eloy Martínez's Purgatory
- Matsuura Rieko's The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P
- Tom McCarthy's C
- Ian McEwan's Solar
- Deon Meyer's Trackers
- Léonora Miano's Dark Heart of the Night
- Zygmunt Miłoszewski's Entanglement
- David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Mo Yan's Change
- Mochizuki Aska's Spinning Tropics
- Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Munira's Bottle
- Gianluca Morozzi's Blackout
- Antonio Muñoz Molina's A Manuscript of Ashes
- Murakami Haruki's 1Q84
- Murakami Ryu's Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Jo Nesbø's Headhunters
- Geoff Nicholson's Gravity's Volkswagen
- Amélie Nothomb's Hygiene and the Assassin
- Ogawa Yoko's Hotel Iris
- Sofi Oksanen's Purge
- Claude Ollier's Wert and the Life Without End
- Christian Oster's In the Train
- Patrik Ouředník's The Opportune Moment, 1855
- Amos Oz's Scenes from Village Life
- Robert Pagani's The Princess, the King, and the Anarchist
- Félix J. Palma's The Map of Time
- Martin Page's The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection
- Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
- Victor Pelevin's The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
- Georges Perec's the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise
- Claudia Piñeiro's All Yours
- Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog
- Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood
- Vyacheslav Pyetsukh's The New Moscow Philosophy
- Qian Zhongshu's Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts
- Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief
- Julián Ríos' The House of Ulysses
- Denis Robert's Happiness
- Charlotte Roche's Wetlands
- Jean Rolin's The Explosion of the Radiator Hose
- Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström's Three Seconds
- Milen Ruskov's Thrown into Nature
- Mark Russinovich's Zero Day
- José Saramago's Cain
- Moacyr Scliar's Kafka's Leopards
- Mihail Sebastian's The Accident
- Juan José Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
- Jan-Philipp Sendker's The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
- Luis Sepúlveda's The Shadow of What We Were
- Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom
- Pierre Siniac's The Collaborators
- Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold's The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I am
- Teresa Solana's A Shortcut to Paradise
- Sony Labou Tansi's Life and a Half
- Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the Oprichnik
- Ersi Sotiropoulos' Landscape With Dog
- Peter Stamm's Seven Years
- Neal Stephenson's Reamde
- Bogdan Suceavă's Coming from an Off-Key Time
- Maria Sveland's Bitter Bitch
- Takagi Nobuko's Translucent Tree
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace
- Gonçalo M. Tavares' Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique
- Tawada Yoko's The Naked Eye
- M.M.Tawfik's Murder in the Tower of Happiness
- Lucian Dan Teodorovici's Our Circus Presents ...
- Jean Teulé's The Suicide Shop
- Tezuka Osamu's MW
- Paul Theroux's A Dead Hand
- Adam Thirlwell's The Escape
- Scarlett Thomas' Our Tragic Universe
- Vladislav Todorov's Zift
- David Toscana's The Last Reader
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint's The Truth about Marie
- Dubravka Ugresic's The Ministry of Pain
- Ludmila Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Interpreter
- Mati Unt's Brecht at Night
- Fariba Vafi's My Bird
- Sandro Veronesi's Quiet Chaos
- Boris Vian's To Hell with the Ugly
- Enrique Vila-Matas' Never any End to Paris
- Juan Pablo Villalobos' Down the Rabbit Hole
- Ornela Vorpsi's The Country Where No One Ever Dies
- Abdourahman A. Waberi's Passage of Tears
- Mahmoud Al-Wardani's Heads Ripe for Plucking
- Donald E. Westlake's Memory
- Ingrid Winterbach's The Book of Happenstance
- Gabrielle Wittkop's The Necrophiliac
- Yan Geling's The Flowers of War
- Yoshida Shuichi's Villain
- Yoshimoto Banana: The Lake
- Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- Vlado Žabot's The Succubus
- Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
- Alejandro Zambra's The Private Lives of Trees
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- The Novelist's Lexicon (November, 2010)
- Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British-Protected Child
- Johanna Adorján's An Exclusive Love
- Lila Azam Zanganeh's The Enchanter
- Lynn Barber's An Education
- Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary
- Alan Beattie's False Economy
- David Bellos' Is That a Fish in Your Ear ?
- Thomas Bernhard's My Prizes (November, 2010)
- Jeremy Bernstein's Quantum Leaps
- William Goldbloom Bloch's The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
- Roberto Bolaño's Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
- Jorge Luis Borges' On Argentina, On Mysticism , and On Writing
- Grégoire Bouillier's Report on Myself
- Mikita Brottman Against Reading, in The Solitary Vice
- Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods
- Emmanuel Carrère's My Life as a Russian Novel
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- Frank Close's Neutrino
- Milad Doueihi's Digital Cultures
- Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith and Revolution
- Umberto Eco's Confessions of a Young Novelist
- Gao Xingjian's The Case for Literature
- Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement
- Peter Gill's Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
- James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Alison Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby
- Edith Grossman's Why Translation Matters
- David Harvey on The Enigma of Capital
- Stéphane Hessel's Time for Outrage !
- Harold James on The Creation and Destruction of Value
- Hemmi Yo's Gush
- Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened to Modernism ?
- Hervé Juvin's The Coming of the Body
- Jonathon Keats' Virtual Words
- Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
- Amitava Kumar's A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Bomb
- Emma Larkin's Everything is Broken
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Joris Luyendijk's People Like Us
- Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov
- Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad
- Javier Marías' Written Lives
- Dambisa Moyo's How the West Was Lost
- 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
- My Little Red Book, edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a Time of War
- Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam's A Billion Wicked Thoughts
- John Ortved's The Simpsons
- Orhan Pamuk's The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
- William Patry on How to Fix Copyright
- Georges Perec's Thoughts of Sorts
- Marta Petreu on E.M.Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania in An Infamous Past
- Francis Ponge's Mute Objects of Expression
- Richard A. Posner's The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
- Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
- Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind
- Jeffrey D. Sachs' The Price of Civilization
- André Schiffrin's Words and Money
- Bernard Schweizer on The Untold Story of Misotheism, Hating God
- Lizzie Skurnick's Shelf Discovery
- Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- Andrzej Stasiuk's Fado
- David I. Steinberg's Burma/Myanmar
- Jacqueline Stevens' States without Nations
- Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
- John B. Thompson's Merchants of Culture
- Wojciech Tochman's Like Eating a Stone
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- David Tresilian's A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Karaoke Culture
- Mario Vargas Llosa's Wellsprings
- Vlatko Vedral's Decoding Reality
- Simon Winchester's The Alice behind Wonderland
- Michela Wrong's It's Our Turn to Eat
- Gabriel Zaid considers The Secret of Fame
- J. Peder Zane edits The Top Ten
- Anton Zeilinger goes From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation in Dance of the Photons
- Zilahy Péter's The Last Window-Giraffe
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- Roberto Bolaño's Tres
- Breyten Breytenbach's Voice Over
- Marie Étienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen
- Ko Un's The Three Way Tavern
- Alan Lightman's Song of Two Worlds
- Les Murray's Taller when Prone
- 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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- Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
- Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll
- Alek Baylee Toumi's play about The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Madah-Sartre
- Peter Weiss' Hölderlin
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