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     What are the best books under review ? Here are the highest rated reviews at the complete review (those graded A+ or an A).

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Books Graded A+:

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter WEISS (novel)
An Accidental Man, Iris MURDOCH (novel)
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert BURTON (non-fiction)
Arcadia, Tom STOPPARD (drama)
Barley Patch, Gerald MURNANE (novel)
The Discovery of Heaven, Harry MULISCH (novel)
Exercises in Style, Raymond QUENEAU (variations on a theme)
Heartpiece, Heiner MÜLLER (dialogue)
The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura, Irmtraud MORGNER (novel)
Lolita, Vladimir NABOKOV (novel)
Loving Sabotage, Amélie NOTHOMB (novel)
The Marx Family Saga, Juan GOYTISOLO (novel)
Mischief, Chris WILSON (novel)
Mr. Bligh's Bad Language, Greg DENING (history)
Mr. Cogito, Zbigniew HERBERT (poetry)
Mister Pip, Lloyd JONES (novel)
Poems: Before and After, Miroslav HOLUB (poetry)
The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia OZICK (novel)
The Sleepwalkers, Hermann BROCH (novel)
The Story of The Stone, CAO Xueqin (novel)
2666, Roberto BOLAÑO (novel)
Voss, Patrick WHITE (novel)

Books Graded A:
    Fiction:

1Q84, MURAKAMI Haruki
Adam Buenosayres, Leopoldo MARECHAL
After the Circus, Patrick MODIANO
Anniversaries, Uwe JOHNSON
Arcadia, Iain PEARS
The Assault, Harry MULISCH
Atonement, Ian McEWAN
Babel Tower, A.S.BYATT
Bear, Marian ENGEL
Because She Never Asked, Enrique VILA-MATAS
Bleeding London, Geoff NICHOLSON
But Beautiful, Geoff DYER
Centuria, Giorgio MANGANELLI
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, B. S. JOHNSON
Cocaine, PITIGRILLI
Complete Works and Other Stories, Augusto MONTERROSO
The Corrections, Jonathan FRANZEN
Death and the Dervish, Mesa SELIMOVIC
The Death of the Author, Gilbert ADAIR
The Death of Virgil, Hermann BROCH
The Discoverer, Jan KJÆRSTAD
Double Indemnity, James M. CAIN
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark DUNN
The Evenings, Gerard REVE
The Eye of the Storm, Patrick WHITE
Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires, Julio CORTÁZAR
Ficciones, Jorge Luis BORGES
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump, Aharon MEGGED
The Following Story, Cees NOOTEBOOM
Honeymoon, Patrick MODIANO
Hopscotch, Julio CORTÁZAR
The Ice Palace, Tarjei VESAAS
In the Dutch Mountains, Cees NOOTEBOOM
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela CARTER
Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Imre KERTÉSZ
La Femme de Gilles, Madeleine BOURDOUXHE
The Last of the Vostyachs, Diego MARANI
The Last Samurai, Helen DEWITT
Life A User's Manual, Georges PEREC
Leg Over Leg (I), Ahmad Faris al-SHIDYAQ
The Life of Hunger, Amélie NOTHOMB
The Lost Steps, Alejo CARPENTIER
The Machine, Georges PEREC
Magic Seeds, V.S.NAIPAUL
Max Havelaar, MULTATULI
The Membranes, CHI Ta-wei
Middlemarch, George ELIOT
Milton in America, Peter ACKROYD
Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, Martin KESSEL
Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto BOLAÑO
99 Ways to Tell a Story, Matt MADDEN
Old Men in Love, Alasdair GRAY
Onze oom (A), Arnon GRUNBERG
Palinuro of Mexico, Fernando del PASO
Piano, Jean ECHENOZ
The Plot Against America, Philip ROTH
Poor Things, Alasdair GRAY
The Procedure, Harry MULISCH
Radiant Terminus, Antoine VOLODINE
Riders in the Chariot, Patrick WHITE
Rituals, Cees NOOTEBOOM
Reader's Block, David MARKSON
The Same Sea, Amos OZ
Sandalwood Death, MO Yan
Shyness and Dignity, Dag SOLSTAD
Slow Man, J.M.COETZEE
The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo CLAUS
Stories of Mr. Keuner, Bertolt BRECHT
Strange Tale of Panorama Island, EDOGAWA Ranpo
Such Small Hands, Andrés BARBA
Suite française, Irène NÉMIROVSKY
T Singer, Dag SOLSTAD
The Tartar Steppe, Dino BUZZATI
The Thought Gang, Tibor FISCHER
Tirza, Arnon GRUNBERG
The Tunnel, William H. GASS
The Valley of the Fallen, Carlos ROJAS
Waves, Eduard von KEYSERLING
Welcome to America, Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGÅRD
    Non-Fiction:

Bobby Fischer Goes to War, David EDMONDS and John EIDINOW
The Book of Prefaces, Alasdair GRAY
K Foundation burn a Million Quid, Chris BROOK
De toekomst van gisteren, Harry MULISCH
Georges Perec, David BELLOS
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Pierre BAYARD
Like a Fiery Elephant, Jonathan COE
Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Nine Suitcases, ZSOLT Béla
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, Eliot WEINBERGER
No Passion Spent, George STEINER
On Liberty, John Stuart MILL
Oulipo Compendium, ed. Harry MATHEWS
Pessoa, Richard ZENITH
Het seksuele bolwerk, Harry MULISCH
Selected Non-Fictions, Jorge Luis BORGES
Shedding Life, Miroslav HOLUB
Sir Vidia's Shadow, Paul THEROUX
Sorry Meniscus, Iain SINCLAIR
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos OZ
The Years, Annie ERNAUX
    Poetry:

Fredy Neptune, Les MURRAY
In Parenthesis, David JONES
Report from the Besieged City, Zbigniew HERBERT
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Trans. Edward FitzGerald)
Vanishing Lung Syndrome, Miroslav HOLUB
    Drama/Screenplays:

Copenhagen, Michael FRAYN
The Invention of Love, Tom STOPPARD
Life Is a Dream, Pedro CALDERÓN de la Barca
The Night of the Tribades, Per Olov ENQUIST
A Question of Attribution, Alan BENNETT
The Singing Detective, Dennis POTTER

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