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- Peter Adolphsen's Machine
- David Albahari's Götz and Meyer
- Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh
- Jacques-Pierre Amette's Brecht's Mistress
- Martin Amis' House of Meetings
- Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building
- Stéphane Audeguy's The Theory of Clouds
- Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory
- Chris Bachelder's U.S. !
- Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World
- Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
- Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives
- Bertolt Brecht's collection of Stories of Mr. Keuner
- Peter Carey's His Illegal Self
- Justin Cartwright's The Promise of Happiness
- Javier Cercas' The Speed of Light
- Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games
- Lil Bahadur Chettri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric
- Philippe Claudel's Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River)
- Jonathan Coe's The Rain before it Falls
- J.M.Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
- Jean-Paul Dubois' Vie Française (UK: A French Life)
- Jean Echenoz's Ravel
- Per Olov Enquist's The Book about Blanche and Marie
- Steve Erickson's Zeroville
- Jasper Fforde's First Among Sequels
- Mark Polizzotti's new translation of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Jon Fosse's Melancholy
- Rodrigo Fresán's Kensington Gardens
- Nell Freudenberger's first novel, The Dissident
- Carlos Fuentes' The Eagle's Throne
- William Gaddis' Agape Agape
- Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances
- Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood
- Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love
- Philippe Grimbert's Secret (US title: Memory)
- Arnon Grunberg's The Jewish Messiah
- Guo Xiaolu's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- James Hamilton-Paterson's Amazing Disgrace
- Han Shaogong's A Dictionary of Maqiao
- Robert Harris' Imperium
- James Hawes' Speak for England
- Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island
- Nancy Huston's Fault Lines
- Hwang Sok-Yong's The Guest
- Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip
- Christian Jungersen's The Exception
- Ismail Kadare's The Successor
- Imre Kertész's Fatelessness
- Imre Kertész's Kaddish for an Unborn Child
- Imre Kertész's Liquidation
- Khaled Al Khamissi's Cairo Taxi-tales
- Kim Young-ha's I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
- Kojima Nobuo's Embracing Family
- Fatos Kongoli's The Loser
- Anita Konkka's A Fool's Paradise
- Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
- Miroslav Krleža's The Banquet in Blitva
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Seven Stories
- Hari Kunzru's Transmission
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- J.M.Ledgard's Giraffe
- Giorgio Manganelli's Centuria
- Javier Marías' Your Face Tomorrow - 1. Fever and Spear
- David Markson's Vanishing Point
- Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men
- Tom McCarthy's Remainder
- Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
- Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon
- Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century
- David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
- Miura Tetsuo's Shame in the Blood
- Antonio Muñoz Molina's A Manuscript of Ashes
- Murakami Haruki's After Dark
- Murakami Ryu's Piercing
- V.S.Naipaul's Magic Seeds
- Irène Némirovsky's Suite française
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Cees Nooteboom's Lost Paradise
- Sibusiso Nyembezi's The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg
- Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost
- Three Novellas by Ogawa Yoko, The Diving Pool
- Okuda Hideo's Lala Pipo
- Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero
- Christian Oster's The Unforeseen
- Cynthia Ozick's Heir to the Glimmering World
- Orhan Pamuk's Snow
- Shahrnush Parsipur's Touba and the Meaning of Night
- David Peace's Tokyo Year Zero
- Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses
- Marie Phillips' Gods Behaving Badly
- Peter Pišt'anek's Rivers of Babylon
- Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
- Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind
- Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown
- Lydie Salvayre's The Company of Ghosts
- Arno Schmidt's supranovel The School for Atheists
- Iain Sinclair's Dining on Stones
- Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy
- Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity
- Vladimir Sorokin's Ice
- Neal Stephenson's The System of the World
- Mike Stocks White Man Falling
- Vikas Swarup's Q & A
- Paul Theroux's The Elephanta Suite
- Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y
- Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Altaf Tyrewala's No God In Sight
- A new translation of Ueda Akinari's Tales of Moonlight And Rain
- Dubravka Ugresic's The Ministry of Pain
- Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
- Mario Vargas Llosa's The Bad Girl
- Luis Fernando Verissimo's Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
- Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi
- Yan Lianke's Serve the People !
- Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations
- Florian Zeller's novel, The Fascination of Evil
- Zhang Guixing's My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
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- Walter Abish's self-portrait, Double Vision
- Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl
- Eric Alterman asks What Liberal Media ?
- Martin Amis' Koba the Dread
- Aharon Appelfeld's memoir, The Story of a Life
- Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- Paul Berman on Power and the Idealists
- Jagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization
- Jorge Luis Borges' lectures, This Craft of Verse
- Hermann Broch's essays, Geist and Zeitgeist
- Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, finally available again
- Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant
- Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop's Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
- Tyler Cowen on Creative Destruction
- Robert A. Dahl wonders How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?
- William Dalrymple's White Mughals
- Gregory Dart on Unrequited Love
- Charles Darwin's The Life of Erasmus Darwin
- Richard Dawkins takes on The God Delusion
- Alain de Botton on The Art of Travel
- Daniel C. Dennett's Breaking the Spell
- Bill Drummond's 17
- Ronald Dworkin wonders Is Democracy Possible Here ?
- David Edmonds and John Eidinow's account, Bobby Fischer Goes to War
- Jennie Erdal's Ghosting
- Patricia Fara on Newton
- Paul Feyerabend's final work, Conquest of Abundance
- Mark Ford's study of Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams
- Jonathan Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone
- Michael Frayn and David Burke tell Celia's Secret (US title: The Copenhagen Papers)
- Francis Fukuyama considers Our Posthuman Future
- Steve Fuller's Kuhn vs. Popper
- Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff's The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs
- Owen Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read
- James Gleick's biography of Isaac Newton
- Alasdair Gray's long-awaited anthology, The Book of Prefaces
- Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography
- Simon Gray's The Year of the Jouncer
- Malachi Haim Hacohen's study, Karl Popper: The Formative Years 1902-1945
- Hugo Hamilton's memoir of a half-Irish childhood, The Speckled People
- Sam Harris' Letter to A Christian Nation
- Jean Hatzfeld's Machete Season
- Christopher Hitchens argues that god is not Great
- Clive James' Cultural Amnesia
- Ryszard Kapuscinski in The Shadow of the Sun in Africa
- Manfred Kuehn's biography of Kant
- Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend argue For and Against Method
- Deepak Lal In Praise of Empires
- Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Michael Maar's study of The Two Lolitas
- Harry Mathews' My Life In CIA
- Leslie Mitchell's Bulwer Lytton
- Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin
- 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' notorious essay, A Reader's Manifesto
- Vladimir Nabokov's Nabokov's Butterflies
- Ramona Naddaff's Exiling the Poets
- Ira Nadel's Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard
- Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran
- V.S.Naipaul's Literary Occasions
- Marion Nestle on Safe Food
- Patrick O'Neill's Polyglot Joyce
- Riccardo Orizio' Encounters With Seven Dictators Talk of the Devil
- Oyekan Owomoyela's collection of Yoruba Proverbs
- Amos Oz on How to Cure a Fanatic
- Amos Oz's memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Cynthia Ozick's The Din in the Head
- Mark Palmer on Breaking the Real Axis of Evil
- Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul
- 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 Little Book of Plagiarism
- Samantha Power on "A Problem from Hell"
- Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
- Philippe Sands' Lawless World
- Eric Schlosser looks at the Fast Food Nation
- Arno Schmidt's Radio Dialogs II
- Maxime Schwartz on How the Cows Turned Mad
- W.G.Sebald On the Natural History of Destruction
- James A. Secord's look at a grand Victorian Sensation
- Ammon Shea's Reading the OED
- Philip Short's Pol Pot
- Iain Sinclair goes London Orbital
- Peter Singer's The President of Good and Evil
- Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away
- Francis Spufford's memoir of The Child That Books Built
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- George Steiner's My Unwritten Books
- Paul Theroux goes Overland from Cairo to Cape Town in Dark Star Safari
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Nobody's Home
- Mario Vargas Llosa's essays, The Language of Passion
- Andrew Warwick's Masters of Theory
- Eliot Weinberger's Bush Chronicles What Happened Here
- Fay Weldon's memoir, Auto da Fay
- Edwin Williamson's Borges: A Life
- Martin Wolf explains Why Globalization Works
- Béla Zsolt's memoir, Nine Suitcases
- Zilahy Péter's The Last Window-Giraffe
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- David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winning Proof
- Alan Bennett's The History Boys
- 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
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- Thomas Bernhard's In Hora Mortis - Under the Iron of the Moon
- Durs Grünbein's Ashes for Breakfast
- Geoffrey Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power
- Ko Un's The Three Way Tavern
- Les Murray's The Biplane Houses
- Jacques Roubaud's The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart
- Clayton Eshleman's translation of César Vallejo's The Complete Poetry
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