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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
- Ali Bader's Papa Sartre
- Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin
- Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World
- Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
- Roberto Bolaño's 2666
- Bragi Ólafsson's The Pets
- Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip
- A.S.Byatt's The Children's Book
- Cao Naiqian's There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
- Peter Carey's His Illegal Self
- Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness
- Javier Cercas' The Speed of Light
- Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games
- Jacques Chessex's A Jew Must Die
- Lil Bahadur Chettri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric
- Philippe Claudel's Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River)
- J.M.Coetzee's Summertime
- Lester Dent's Honey in his Mouth
- 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
- Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone (UK title: Alone in Berlin)
- Macedonio Fernández's The Museum of Eterna's Novel
- Mark Polizzotti's new translation of Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet
- Rodrigo Fresán's Kensington Gardens
- Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Romain Gary's Hocus Bogus
- Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood
- Paolo Giordano's The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
- 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
- Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game
- Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Han Shaogong's A Dictionary of Maqiao
- Gail Hareven's The Confessions of Noa Weber
- Nancy Huston's Fault Lines
- Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver
- Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip
- Christian Jungersen's The Exception
- Karinthy Ferenc's Metropole
- Kertész Imre's The Union Jack
- 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 Memories of the Future
- Hari Kunzru's Transmission
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl who Played with Fire
- Éric Laurrent's Do Not Touch
- J.M.Ledgard's Giraffe
- Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
- Shahriar Mandanipour's Censoring an Iranian Love Story
- 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 Solar
- 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
- Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow
- 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
- Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death
- Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
- 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
- Peter Pišt'anek's Rivers of Babylon
- Richard Powers' Generosity
- Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
- Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
- Guillermo Rosales' The Halfway House
- Philip Roth's The Humbling
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind
- Arno Schmidt's supranovel The School for Atheists
- Victor Serge's Unforgiving Years
- Ana María Shua's Microfictions
- 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
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace
- Paul Theroux's The Elephanta Suite
- Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y
- Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- David Toscana's The Last Reader
- 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
- Fariba Vafi's My Bird
- Abdourahman A. Waberi's In the United States of Africa
- Donald E. Westlake's Memory
- Yan Lianke's Serve the People !
- Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations
- Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai
- Florian Zeller's novel, The Fascination of Evil
- Zhang Guixing's My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
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- Tilman Allert On The Meaning of a Gesture, in The Hitler Salute
- Aharon Appelfeld's memoir, The Story of a Life
- Lynn Barber's An Education
- 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
- Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, finally available again
- Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- Andrei Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide
- Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant
- James Currey on The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature, Africa Writes Back
- Robert A. Dahl wonders How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?
- Richard Dawkins takes on The God Delusion
- Bill Drummond's 17
- Ronald Dworkin wonders Is Democracy Possible Here ?
- Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith and Revolution
- Jennie Erdal's Ghosting
- Jonathan Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone
- Michael Frayn and David Burke tell Celia's Secret (US title: The Copenhagen Papers)
- Steve Fuller's Kuhn vs. Popper
- Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement
- Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff's The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs
- Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography
- Sam Harris' Letter to A Christian Nation
- Christopher Hitchens argues that god is not Great
- Clive James' Cultural Amnesia
- Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
- Lawrence Lessig's Remix
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Harry Mathews' My Life In CIA
- Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin
- Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid
- 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
- Oyekan Owomoyela's collection of Yoruba Proverbs
- Amos Oz's memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Cynthia Ozick's The Din in the Head
- 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 Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
- 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
- Ammon Shea's Reading the OED
- Philip Short's Pol Pot
- Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away
- Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax
- Francis Spufford's memoir of The Child That Books Built
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- George Steiner's My Unwritten Books
- Jacqueline Stevens' States without Nations
- Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Nobody's Home
- Mario Vargas Llosa's essays, The Language of Passion
- Michela Wrong's It's Our Turn to Eat
- 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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- 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
- Clayton Eshleman's translation of César Vallejo's The Complete Poetry
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