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• MA Ma Lay: Not Out of Hate (B)
• MAAR, Michael:
  • Speak, Nabokov (A-)
  • The Two Lolitas (B+)
• MABANCKOU, Alain:
  • African Psycho (B-)
  • Broken Glass (B+)
  • The Death of Comrade President (B+)
  • [The Lights of Pointe-Noire]
  • Memoirs of a Porcupine (B+)
  • The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix (B+)
  • The Tears of the Black Man (B)
• MACCABE, Colin: Performance (B+)
• MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-)
• MACDONALD, Ross:
  • Black Money (B+)
  • The Galton Case (B+)
  • The Goodbye Look (B)
  • The Instant Enemy (B)
  • The Underground Man (B+)
• MACÉ, Gérard: The Last of the Egyptians (B)
• MACFARLANE, Robert: Mountains of the Mind (B+)
• MACHADO DE ASSIS, Joaquim Maria:
  • Counselor Ayres' Memorial (B)
  • Dom Casmurro (A-)
  • Esau and Jacob (B)
  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (A-)
  • Resurrection (B)
• MACLEOD, Ken:
  • The Corporation Wars:
    1. Dissidence (B+)
    2. Insurgence (B)
    3. Emergence (B)
  • The Execution Channel (B+)
  • The Night Sessions (B)
  • The Restoration Game (B+)
• MAC ORLAN, Pierre: A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (B)
• MADANI, Rachida: Tales of a Severed Head (B)
• MADDEN, Matt:
  • Ex Libris (B+)
  • 99 Ways to Tell a Story (A)
• MAGDEN, Perihan:
  • Ali and Ramazan (B-)
  • Escape (B)
• MAGHA: The Killing of Shishupala (B+)
• MAGRIS, Claudio:
  • Blindly (A-)
  • Snapshots (B)
• MAGUEIJO, João: Faster Than the Speed of Light (B)
• MAGUIRE, Peter: Facing Death in Cambodia (B)
• MAHADEVA, Devanoora: Kusumabale (B)
• MAHAJAN, Karan: Family Planning (B)
• MAHARAJ, Rabindranath: A Perfect Pledge (B+)
• MAHFOUZ, Naguib:
  • See the complete review's Naguib Mahfouz page.
  • Adrift on the Nile (B)
  • Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (B+)
  • Arabian Nights and Days (A-)
  • Before the Throne (B)
  • The Beginning and the End (B+)
  • Cairo Modern (B+)
  • The Cairo Trilogy (A-)
    • Palace Walk (A-)
    • Palace of Desire (B+)
    • Sugar Street (B+)
  • The Coffeehouse (B)
  • The Day the Leader Was Killed (A-)
  • The Dreams (B)
  • Echoes of an Autobiography (B)
  • The Final Hour (B)
  • Heart of the Night (B)
  • The Final Hour (B)
  • In the Time of Love (B)
  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (A-)
  • Karnak Café (B)
  • Khufu's Wisdom (B+)
  • Life's Wisdom (-)
  • Love in the Rain (B)
  • Morning and Evening Talk (A-)
  • Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber (B)
  • Respected Sir (B+)
  • Rhadopis of Nubia (B)
  • Thebes at War (B+)
  • Wedding Song (B+)
• MAHOMED, Dean:
  • The Travels of Dean Mahomet (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B)
  • See also: The First Indian Author in English (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B+)
• MAI Jia: Decoded (B)
• MAILER, Norman: Deaths for the Ladies (and other disasters) (C)
• MAINARDI, Diogo: The Fall (B+)
• MAIRAL, Pedro:
  • The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra (B+)
  • The Woman from Uruguay (B)
• MAISTRE, Xavier de:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+)
  • The Leper of the City of Aosta (B)
• MAJDALANI, Charif: Beirut 2020 (B+)
• MAKINE, Andreï: The Life of an Unknown Man (B+)
• MAKKAI, Rebecca: I Have Some Questions for You (B)'
• MAKSIK, Alexander: The Long Corner (B)
• MALAPARTE, Curzio: The Kremlin Ball (B)
• MALIAN, Narek: Point Zero (B)
• MALIK, Kenan: From Fatwa to Jihad (B)
• MALJARTSCHUK, Tanja:
  • A Biography of a Chance Miracle (B)
  • Forgottenness (B)
• MALLARD, Alain-Paul: An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg (B)
• MALLO, Ernesto:
  • Needle in a Haystack (B+)
  • Sweet Money (B)
• MALLOCK: The Faces of God (B-)
• MALMSTEN, Bodil: The Price of Water in Finistère (B)
• MALVALDI, Marco:
  • Game for Five (B)
  • Three-Card Monte (B)
• MALZBERG, Barry N.:
  • The Destruction of the Temple (B)
  • Gather in the Hall of the Planets (B) (writing as: K. M. O'Donnell)
  • The Remaking of Sigmund Freud (B+)
• MAÑAS, José Ángel: Soy un escritor frustrado (B)
• MANCHETTE, Jean-Patrick:
  • Fatale (B)
  • Ivory Pearl (B+)
  • The Mad and the Bad (B+)
  • Nada (B+)
  • The N'Gustro Affair (B+)
  • No Room at the Morgue (B+)
  • The Prone Gunman (B)
  • Skeletons in the Closet (B)
  • Three To Kill (B+)
• MANDANIPOUR, Shahriar:
  • Censoring an Iranian Love Story (B)
  • Moon Brow (B)
• MANDOUR, Sahar: 32 (B)
• MANEA, Norman:
  • Exiled Shadow (A-)
  • The Lair (B)
• MANETTI, Giannozzo:
  • A Translator's Defense (B+)
  • On Human Worth and Excellence (-)
• MANGANELLI, Giorgio:
  • All the Errors (B)
  • Centuria (A)
• MANGUEL, Alberto:
  • All Men are Liars (B)
  • Fabulous Monsters (B+)
  • Into the Looking-Glass Wood (B)
  • The Library at Night (B)
  • Packing My Library (B)
  • A Reading Diary (B)
  • Stevenson under the Palm Trees (B)
  • With Borges (B+)
• MANGUNWIJAYA, Y.B.: Durga/Umayi (B-)
• MANNING, Sean (ed.): Bound to Last (B)
• MANTEL, Hilary:
  • See the complete review's Hilary Mantel page
  • A Change of Climate (B+)
  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (B+)
  • Every Day is Mother's Day (B+)
  • An Experiment in Love (B)
  • The Giant, O'Brien (B-)
  • Vacant Possession (B)
  • [Wolf Hall]
• MANUTIUS, Aldus: The Greek Classics (-)
• MANZINI, Antonio: Black Run (B)
• MÁRAI Sándor:
  • Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (B)
  • Embers (B+)
  • Esther's Inheritance (B)
  • Napló 1984-1989 (A-)
  • The Rebels (B)
• MARAINI, Dacia: Searching for Emma (B)
• MARANI, Diego:
  • The Celestial City (B)
  • God's Dog (B)
  • The Interpreter (B)
  • The Last of the Vostyachs (A)
  • New Finnish Grammar (B+)
• MARBER, Patrick: Closer (A-)
• MARÇAL, Maria-Mercè: The Passion according to Renée Vivien (B)
• MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations (A-)
• MARCUS, Greil: The Manchurian Candidate (B-)
• MARCUS, James: Amazonia (A-)
• MARCUS, Nathan: Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931 (B+)
• MARECHAL, Leopoldo: Adam Buenosayres (A)
• MARÉCHAL, Sylvain: The Woman Priest (B)
• MARGWELASCHWILI, Giwi: Officer Pembry (B+)
• MARÍAS, Javier:
  • Bad Nature (B+)
  • Berta Isla (A-)
  • Dark Back of Time (A-)
  • The Infatuations (A-)
  • The Man of Feeling (A-)
  • Thus Bad Begins (A-)
  • To Begin at the Beginning (B+)
  • Tomás Nevinson (A-)
  • When I Was Mortal (B)
  • While the Women are Sleeping (B)
  • Written Lives (B)
  • Your Face Tomorrow-trilogy:
    1. Fever and Spear (B+)
  • See also Gareth J. Wood on Javier Marías's Debt to Translation (A-)
• MARIENGOF, Anatoly:
  • Cynics (B+)
  • A Novel Without Lies (B+)
• MARINKOVIĆ, Ranko: Cyclops (B+)
• MARKARIS, Petros:
  • Deadline in Athens (UK title: The Late-night News) (B)
  • Zone Defence (B)
• MARKER, Chris: Early Film Writings (B+)
• [MARKOVIĆ, Barbi: Izlaženje]
• MARKS, Dennis: Wandering Jew (A-)
• MARKS, Leo: Peeping Tom (B+)
• MARKSON, David:
  • Collected Poems (B)
  • Epitaph for a Dead Beat (B+)
  • Epitaph for a Tramp (A-)
  • The Last Novel (A-)
  • Reader's Block (A)
  • This is Not a Novel (B+)
  • Vanishing Point (B+)
• MARLOWE, Ann:
  • The Book of Trouble (B)
  • How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z (B)
• MARLOWE, Derek:
  • A Dandy in Aspic (B+)
  • Echoes of Celandine (A-)
• MAROUANE, Leïla: The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (B)
• MAROUFI, Abbas: Symphony of the Dead (A-)
• MÁRQUEZ, Eduard: Brandes's Decision (B)
• MARS, Kettly: Savage Seasons (B+)
• MARSHALL, Andrew: The Trouser People (B-)
• MARTEL, Yann:
  • [Beatrice and Virgil]
  • [Life of Pi]
• MARTÍN, Luisgé: Woman in Darkness (B+)
• MARTÍN SÁNCHEZ, Pablo: The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (B+)
• MARTINET, Jean-Pierre: The High Life (B+)
• MARTINEZ, Cyrille:
  • The Dark Library (B)
  • The Sleepworker (B+)
• MARTÍNEZ, Guillermo:
  • The Book of Murder (B)
  • The Oxford Brotherhood (B)
  • The Oxford Murders (B+)
  • Regarding Roderer (B-)
• MARTÍNEZ, Tomás Eloy:
  • Purgatory (A-)
  • The Tango Singer (B)
• MARTINOVICH, Victor:
  • Мова (B)
  • Paranoia (B)
• MARTINSON, Harry: Aniara (B)
• MARTYNOVA, Olga: Mörikes Schlüsselbein (B+)
• MARUGG, Tip: The Roar of Morning (B+)
• MARUYA Saiichi: Grass for My Pillow (B+)
• MASEREEL, Frans: The City (-)
• MASTUR, Khadija: The Women's Courtyard (B+)
• MASUD, Naiyer: Essence of Camphor (B+)
• MATALON, Ronit: And the Bride Closed the Door (B)
• MATAR, Hisham: In the Country of Men (B-)
• MATAR, Selim: The Woman of the Flask (B)
• MATAYOSHI Naoki: Spark (B)
• MATHEWS, Adrian: Vienna Blood (B)
• MATHEWS, Harry:
  • See the complete review's Harry Mathews page.
  • The Conversions (B+)
  • The Human Country (B)
  • My Life In CIA (B+)
  • S. (B)
  • Selected Declarations of Dependence (B)
  • The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (B)
  • Singular Pleasures (B)
  • Tlooth (B-)
  • The Way Home (A-)
  • (ed.) Oulipo Compendium (A)
• MATHIEU, Nicolas: Rose Royal (B)
• MATHUR, Anurag: The Inscrutable Americans (B)
• MATHUR, Ashok:
  • Once upon an Elephant (B-)
  • The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (B)
• MATSON, Wallace: Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs (A-)
• MATSUMOTO Seichō:
  • Point Zero (B)
  • A Quiet Place (B)
• MATSUURA Hisaki: Triangle (B)
• MATSUURA Rieko: The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (B)
• MATTHIEUSSENT, Brice: Revenge of the Translator (B)
• MAUVIGNIER, Laurent: The Birthday Party (B)
• MAURENSIG, Paolo:
  • A Devil Comes to Town (B)
  • Game of the Gods (B)
• MAXIMUS of Tyre: Philosophical Orations (B+)
• MAXWELL, Glyn:
  • The Breakage (B)
  • Time's Fool (B+)
• MAZRUI, Ali A.: The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (B)
• MAZYA, Edna: Love Burns (B)
• MAZZINI, Miha: The Cartier Project (B)
• MAZZONI, Guido: Theory of the Novel (B+)
• McCABE, Cameron: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (A-)
• McCARTHY, Tom: Auto Mania (B+)
• McCARTHY, Tom:
  • C (B+)
  • Men in Space (B)
  • Remainder (A-)
• McCLOSKEY, Deirdre: The Secret Sins of Economics (B)
• McCRUM, Robert: My Year Off (B-)
• McDONAGH, Martin: The Pillowman (B)
• McDONALD, Fraser: The Orthodontic Patient (-) (with Anthony J. Ireland)
• McELHENY, Josiah: The Light Club (B+)
• McEWAN, Ian:
  • Amsterdam (B-)
  • Atonement (A)
  • The Children Act (B+)
  • Machines Like Me (B)
  • On Chesil Beach (B+)
  • Saturday (A-)
  • Solar (B-)
  • Sweet Tooth (B+)
• McEWEN, Indra Kagis: Socrates' Ancestor (C+)
• McGRATH, Alister: The Twilight of Atheism (B-)
• McGURL, Mark: Everything and Less (B+)
• McILVANNEY, William: Laidlaw (A-)
• McINTOSH, Matthew: theMystery.doc (B)
• McKINNEY, Chris: Midnight, Water City (B)
• McMENAMIN, Mark A.S.: The Garden of Ediacara (B)
• MDA, Zakes:
  • Black Diamond (B-)
  • The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (B)
  • Ways of Dying (A-)
• MEGGED, Aharon:
  • The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump (A)
  • The Living on the Dead (B+)
• MEHRING, Walter: The Lost Library (B)
• MEHTA, Ved: Delinquent Chacha (B-)
• MEIER, Gerhard: Isle of the Dead (B)
• MEISTER, Ernst: In Time's Rift (B+)
• MELASCHWILI, Tamta: გათვლა (B)
• MELO, Patricia: In Praise of Lies (B)
• MELTZER, Allan H.: Why Capitalism ? (B-)
• MELVILLE, Herman: Bartleby, the Scrivener (A-)
• MÉMOIRE, Danielle: Public Reading Followed by Discussion (B)
• MENAND, Louis: The Metaphysical Club (A-)
• MENANDER: Dyskolos (B)
• MENASSE, Robert:
  • The Capital (B)
  • Erklär mir Österreich (B-)
  • Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle (B)
• MENDELSUND, Peter:
  • The Delivery (B)
  • Same Same (B+)
  • What We See When We Read (-)
• MENDOZA, Eduardo:
  • An Englishman in Madrid (B)
  • The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt (B)
  • No Word From Gurb (B)
• MERAS, Icchokas: Stalemate (B+)
• MERCIER, Pascal: Night Train to Lisbon (A-)
• MÉROT, Pierre: Mammals (B)
• MERSAL, Iman: Traces of Enayat (B)
• MESA, Sara:
  • Among the Hedges (B+)
  • Four by Four (B)
  • Scar (B)
• MESKUB, Shahrokh: Dialogue in the Garden (B)
• Pseudo-METHODIUS: Apocalypse (-)
• METTLER, Michel: Die Spange (B+)
• MEYER, Deon:
  • Blood Safari (B)
  • Cobra (B)
  • Dead at Daybreak (B+)
  • Dead before Dying (B)
  • Devil's Peak (B+)
  • Heart of the Hunter (B+)
  • Icarus (B+)
  • Seven Days (B+)
  • Thirteen Hours (B)
  • Trackers (A-)
• MHLONGO, Niq:
  • After Tears (B)
  • Dog Eat Dog (B)
• MIANO, Léonora: Dark Heart of the Night (B)
• MICHAELIDES, Tefcros: Pythagorean Crimes (B)
• MICHAELS, Sean: Do You Remember Being Born ? (B)
• MICHAKA, Stéphane: Scissors (B)
• MICHALOPOULOU, Amanda: Why I Killed My Best Friend (B)
• MICHAUD, Andrée A.: Boundary (B)
• MICHAUX, Henri:
  • A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
  • Miserable Miracle (B)
  • Stroke by Stroke (-)
  • Tent Posts (B+)
• MICHON, Pierre: Rimbaud the Son (F)
• MICKEL, Karl: Einstein (A-)
• MIÉVILLE, China:
  • King Rat (B+)
  • The Last Days of New Paris (B)
  • Perdido Street Station (B+)
  • The Scar (B+)
• MIKAGE Eiji: Masquerade and the Nameless Women (B-)
• MILL, John Stuart: On Liberty (A)
• MILLAR, Margaret:
  • Beast in View (B)
  • The Listening Walls (B)
• MILLAR, Martin:
  • The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies (B)
  • The Good Fairies of New York (B)
  • Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me (B+)
• MILLÁS, Juan José:
  • From the Shadows (B)
  • Let No One Sleep (A-)
• MILLER, Philip: The Goldenacre (B)
• MILLER, Toby: The Avengers (B)
• MILLER, Wade: Branded Woman (B-)
• MILLS, Magnus:
  • See the complete review's Magnus Mills page.
  • All Quiet On The Orient Express (A-)
  • Explorers of the New Century (B+)
  • [The Maintenance of Headway]
  • [The Restraint of Beasts]
  • The Scheme for Full Employment (B)
  • Three to See the King (B)
• MILNE, A.A.: The Red House Mystery (B)
• MILO, Daniel S.: Good Enough (B)
• MIŁOSZ, Czesław: The Mountains of Parnassus (B)
• MIŁOSZEWSKI, Zygmunt: Entanglement (B)
• MINATO Kanae:
  • Confessions (B-)
  • Penance (B-)
• MINTON QUIGLEY, Jenny (ed.): Lolita in the Afterlife (B)
• MIR: Zikr-i Mir (B-)
• MIR AMMAN: A Tale of Four Dervishes (B+)
• MIRBEAU, Octave:
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid (B)
  • Torture Garden (B)
  • Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic (B)
• MISHIMA Yukio:
  • The Frolic of the Beasts (B+)
  • Life for Sale (B)
  • Star (B+)
  • See also: Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (B+), INOSE Naoki
  • See also: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B), Donald KEENE
• MISHRA, Pankaj:
  • Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (B+)
  • The Romantics (B)
• MISRA, Subimal:
  • This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale (B)
  • Wild Animals Prohibited (B)
• MITCHELL, David:
  • Black Swan Green (B)
  • Cloud Atlas (B+)
  • Ghostwritten (B)
  • number9dream (B)
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (A-)
• MITCHELL, Leslie: Bulwer Lytton (B+)
• MITCHELL, W.J.T.: The Last Dinosaur Book (C+)
• MITSUSE Ryu: Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights (B+)
• MIURA Shion: The Great Passage (B)
• MIURA Tetsuo: Shame in the Blood (B+)
• MIYABE Miyuki:
  • All She was Worth (B)
  • Crossfire (B)
  • The Devil's Whisper (B)
  • Shadow Family (B)
  • The Sleeping Dragon (B)
• MIYAMOTO Teru:
  • Kinshu (B+)
  • Phantom Lights (B+)
• MIZUMURA Minae:
  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English (B)
  • An I-Novel (B+)
  • Inheritance from Mother (B+)
  • A True Novel (B+)
• MO Yan:
  • Change (B)
  • Sandalwood Death (A)
• MOCHIZUKI Aska: Spinning Tropics (B-)
• MODARRES-SADEQI, Jafar: The Marsh (A-)
• MODIANO, Patrick:
  • After the Circus (A)
  • Afterimage (A-)
  • Flowers of Ruin (B+)
  • Honeymoon (A)
  • In the Café of Lost Youth (B+)
  • La Place de l'Étoile (B+)
  • Little Jewel (B+)
  • The Night Watch (B)
  • The Occupation Trilogy: see La Place de l'Étoile, The Night Watch, and Ring Roads
  • Paris Nocturne (B+)
  • Pedigree (A-)
  • Ring Roads (B)
  • Sleep of Memory (B+)
  • So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (B+)
  • Sundays in August (B+)
  • Suspended Sentences (B+)
• MOEIS, Abdoel: Never the Twain (B)
• MOFOLO, Thomas: Chaka (B+)
• MOGINET, Stefan F.: Writing Arabic (-)
• al-MOHAIMEED, Yousef:
  • Munira's Bottle (B)
  • Where Pigeons Don't Fly (B)
  • Wolves of the Crescent Moon (B+)
• MOHAMED, Deena: Shubeik Lubeik (UK title: Your Wish Is My Command) (B)
• MOHAMED, Mohamed Latiff: The Widower (B+)
• MOHAMMED, Aziz: The Critical Case of a Man Called K (B)
• MONDA, Antonio: Do You Believe ? (B)
• MONDRUP, Iben: Justine (B)
• MONÉNEMBO, Tierno:
  • The King of Kahel (B)
  • The Oldest Orphan (B)
• MONÍKOVÁ, Libuse:
  • The Facade (A-)
  • Der Taumel (B+)
• MONK, Ian:
  • Family Archaeology (B)
  • Writings for the Oulipo (B+)
  • (ed.) All That is Evident is Suspect (B), with Daniel Levin Becker
• MONTEFIORE, Simon Sebag: Stalin (A-)
• MONTERO, Rosa: Tears in Rain (B-)
• MONTERROSO, Augusto:
  • The Black Sheep (A-)
  • Complete Works & Other Stories (A)
  • The Gold Seekers (A-)
• MONTES, Javier: The Hotel Life (B)
• MONTGOMERY, Scott L.:
  • Science in Translation (B+)
  • The Scientific Voice (B+)
• MONZÓ, Quim:
  • The Enormity of the Tragedy (A-)
  • Gasoline (B)
• MOOR, Margriet de: Sleepless Night (B+)
• MOORCOCK, Michael:
  • The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+):
    • The Condition of Muzak (B+)
    • A Cure for Cancer (B)
    • The English Assassin (B)
    • The Final Programme (The Final Program) (B)
  • King of the City (B-)
  • A Nomad of the Time Streams (B)
    • The Warlord of the Air (B+)
    • The Land Leviathan (B)
    • The Steel Tsar (B)
• MOORE, Steven: Dalkey Days (B)
• MORAND, Paul:
  • Hecate and Her Dogs (B+)
  • The Man in a Hurry (B)
• MORAVIA, Alberto:
  • Conjugal Love (A-)
  • Time of Desecration (C-)
• MORCHILADZE, Aka:
  • Journey to Karabakh (B)
  • Obolé (B+)
• MORENO-GARCIA, Silvia: The Seventh Veil of Salome (B)
• MORETTI, Franco:
  • Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (C+)
  • [Graphs, Maps, Trees]
  • [ed. The Novel]
• MORGAN, Ann: Reading the World (US title: The World Between Two Covers) (B)
• MORGNER, Irmtraud: The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura (A+)
• MORI Ogai: The Wild Geese (A-)
• MÖRING, Marcel:
  • The Dream Room (A-)
  • The Great Longing (B)
  • In a Dark Wood (B+)
  • In Babylon (A-)
• MOROZZI, Gianluca: Blackout (B)
• MORRILL, Donald: The Untouched Minutes (B)
• MORSELLI, Guido:
  • The Communist (B)
  • Dissipatio H.G. (A-)
• MOSEBACH, Martin: Der Mond und das Mädchen (B+)
• MOSKVITCH, Katia: Neutron Stars (B)
• MOSLEY, Nicholas:
  • Accident (A-)
  • Experience and Religion (B)
  • Inventing God (B)
  • Look at the Dark (B)
  • Time at War (B)
• MOTOYA Yukiko: The Lonesome Bodybuilder (B) (UK title: Picnic in the Storm)
• MOTTE, Warren: Mirror Gazing (B+)
• MOURON, Quentin: Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine (B-)
• MOYO, Dambisa:
  • Dead Aid (B-)
  • How the West Was Lost (C)
• MUKASONGA, Scholastique: Our Lady of the Nile (B)
• MUKHOPADHYAY, Shirshendu: The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die (B+)
• MUKOMA wa Ngugi: Nairobi Heat (B)
• MUKUNDAN, Maniyambath: Nrittam (Indian title: Dance) (C-)
• MULDOON, Paul:
  • See the complete review's Paul Muldoon page
  • The Annals of Chile (B+)
  • Bandanna (B-)
  • Hay (B+)
  • Madoc (A-)
  • Meeting the British (B+)
  • Moy Sand and Gravel (B+)
  • Mules (B+)
  • New Weather (B)
  • Poems 1968-1998 (A-)
  • The Prince of the Quotidian (B+)
  • Quoof (B+)
  • Shining Brow (B+)
  • To Ireland, I (B)
  • Why Brownlee Left (B+)
• MULISCH, Harry:
  • See the complete review's Harry Mulisch page
  • Archibald Strohalm (B)
  • The Assault (A)
  • Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann (B+)
  • The Discovery of Heaven (A+)
  • Last Call (A-)
  • The Procedure (A)
  • Het seksuele bolwerk (A)
  • Siegfried (A-)
  • The Stone Bridal Bed (B+)
  • Het theater, de brief en de waarheid (B+)
  • De toekomst van gisteren (A)
  • Two Women (B)
  • What Poetry Is (B)
• MÜLLER, Heiner: Heartpiece (A+)
• MÜLLER, Herta: See the complete review's Herta Müller page
• MULTATULI:
  • Max Havelaar (A)
  • The Oyster & the Eagle (B)
• MUMCU, Özgür: The Peace Machine (B-)
• MUNCH-PETERSEN, Thomas: Fatal Error (B+)
• MUNIF, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān:
  • The Trench (A-)
  • Variations on Night and Day (B)
• MUÑOZ MOLINA, Antonio:
  • In her Absence (A-)
  • Like a Fading Shadow (B+)
  • A Manuscript of Ashes (B+)
• MURAKAMI Haruki:
  • See the complete review's Murakami Haruki page
  • 1Q84 (A)
  • After Dark (A-)
  • After the Quake (B+)
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (B+)
  • The City and its Uncertain Walls (A-)
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (B+)
  • First Person Singular (B+)
  • Hear the Wind Sing (B+)
  • Kafka on the Shore (B+)
  • Killing Commendatore (B)
  • Men without Women (B)
  • Norwegian Wood (A-)
  • Novelist as a Vocation (B+)
  • Pinball, 1973 (B)
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun (B+)
  • Sputnik Sweetheart (B+)
  • The Strange Library (B+)
  • Underground (B+)
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (B)
  • Wind/Pinball: see Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (A-)
  • See also A Wild Haruki Chase (B) - Reading Murakami Around the World
  • See also: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (B), Jay Rubin
  • See also: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B), David Karashima
• MURAKAMI Ryu:
  • Audition (B)
  • From the Fatherland, with Love (B)
  • In the Miso Soup (B-)
  • Piercing (B)
  • Popular Hits of the Showa Era (B)
  • 69 (B)
  • Tokyo Decadence (B)
• MURASAKI Shikibu: The Diary of Lady Murasaki (B+)
• MURATA Sayaka:
  • Convenience Store Woman (B+)
  • Earthlings (B+)
• MURDOCH, Iris:
  • An Accidental Man (A+)
  • The Bell (B)
  • The Book and the Brotherhood (B+)
  • The Flight from the Enchanter (B)
  • The Sandcastle (B)
  • The Sea, the Sea (B+)
  • A Severed Head (B+)
  • The Time of the Angels (B+)
  • Under the Net (B)
  • An Unofficial Rose (A-)
  • The Unicorn (A-)
  • A Word Child (B+)
  • See also: Iris, John Bayley
• MURNANE, Gerald:
  • Barley Patch (A+)
  • Border Districts (A-)
  • Inland (B)
  • A Lifetime on Clouds -- see:A Season on Earth
  • A Season on Earth (B+)
• MURONG Xuecun: Leave Me Alone (B-)
• MURPHY, R.Taggart: Japan and the Shackles of the Past (A-)
• MURRAY, Janet H.: Hamlet on the Holodeck (B-)
• MURRAY, Les:
  • See the complete review's Les Murray page
  • The Biplane Houses (B+)
  • The Boys who Stole the Funeral (A-)
  • Conscious and Verbal (B)
  • Fredy Neptune (A)
  • Killing the Black Dog (B+)
  • Learning Human (A-)
  • Poems the Size of Photographs (A-)
  • The Quality of Sprawl (B+)
  • Taller when Prone (B)
  • Translations from the Natural World (A-)
• MURRAY, Paul: The Mark and the Void (B-)
• MUSCHG, Adolf: Löwenstern (B+)
• MUSGRAVE, David: Lambda (B+)
• MUSSER, George: Spooky Action at a Distance (B+)
• MUSSO, Guillaume: The Reunion (B)
• MUTIS, Álvaro:
  • Maqroll's Prayer (B+)
  • The Snow of the Admiral (B+)
• MUTT, Mihkel: The Cavemen Chronicle (B+)
• al-MUWAYLIḤĪ, Muḥammad: What ʻĪsā Ibn Hishām told us (B)
• MWANZA MUJILA, Fiston:
  • Tram 83 (B+)
  • The Villain's Dance (B+)
• MYERS, B.R.:
  • The Cleanest Race (B)
  • Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (B)
  • A Reader's Manifesto (B)
• MYNONA: The Creator (B+)
• MYTTING, Lars: The Bell in the Lake (B+)

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