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Forthcoming:
- Walter Veltroni's The Discovery of Dawn (September, 2008)
- Olivier Adam's Cliffs
- Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
- Peter Adolphsen's Machine
- S.Y.Agnon's To this Day
- César Aira's How I became a Nun
- Idris Ali's Poor
- Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh
- Martin Amis' House of Meetings
- Sinan Antoon's I'jaam
- Stéphane Audeguy's The Only Son
- Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory
- Chris Bachelder's U.S. !
- Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader
- Ronan Bennett's Zugzwang
- Chetan Bhagat's One night @ the call center
- Marek Bieńczyk's Tworki
- Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas
- Bernard du Boucheron's The Voyage of the Short Serpent
- Grégoire Bouillier's The Mystery Guest
- Emilio Calderón's The Creator's Map
- Peter Carey's His Illegal Self
- Massimo Carlotto's The Fugitive
- Javier Cercas' The Speed of Light
- Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games
- Lil Bahadur Chettri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric
- Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital
- 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
- Miguel Delibes' The Heretic
- Jean-Paul Dubois' Vie Française (UK: A French Life)
- Christophe Dufossé's School's Out
- Benoît Duteurtre's The Little Girl and the Cigarette
- Jean Echenoz's Ravel
- Alain Elkann's Envy
- Per Olov Enquist's The Book about Blanche and Marie
- Aslı Erdoğan's The City in Crimson Cloak
- Steve Erickson's Zeroville
- Dominique Fabre's The Waitress was New
- Ibrahim Farghali's The Smiles of the Saints
- Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter
- 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
- Christian Gailly's Red Haze
- Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances
- Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood
- Gamal al-Ghitani's Pyramid Texts
- Juan Gómez-Jurado's God's Spy
- Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love
- Philippe Grimbert's Secret (US title: Memory)
- Arnon Grunberg's The Jewish Messiah
- Guo Xiaolu's Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- Abdelilah Hamdouchi's The Final Bet
- Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- James Hamilton-Paterson's Amazing Disgrace
- Robert Harris' The Ghost
- Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island
- Nancy Huston's Fault Lines
- Hwang Sok-Yong's The Guest
- Jean-Claude Izzo's Total Chaos
- Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip
- Ismail Kadare's The Successor
- Kanehara Hitomi's Snakes and Earrings
- Christian Jungersen's The Exception
- Kertész Imre's The Pathseeker
- Khaled Al Khamissi's Cairo Taxi-tales
- Kim Young-ha's I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
- Kirino Natsuo's Real World
- Danilo Kiš' Mansarda
- Kishi Yusuke's The Crimson Labyrinth
- Kitahara Aiko's The Budding Tree
- Fatos Kongoli's The Loser
- Anita Konkka's A Fool's Paradise
- Helmut Krausser's Eros
- Michael Krüger's The Executor
- Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Carlo Lucarelli's The Damned Season
- Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho
- Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Modern
- Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men
- Harry Mathews' My Life In CIA
- Edna Mazya's Love Burns
- Tom McCarthy's Men in Space
- Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
- Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon
- Pierre Mérot's Mammals
- Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century
- David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
- Miyabe Miyuki's Crossfire
- Miura Tetsuo's Shame in the Blood
- Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Wolves of the Crescent Moon
- Gianluca Morozzi's Blackout
- Antonio Muñoz Molina's A Manuscript of Ashes
- Murakami Haruki's After Dark
- Murakami Ryu's Piercing
- The new Everyman's Library volume, collecting Irène Némirovsky's David Golder - The Ball - Snow in Autumn - The Courilof Affair
- Irène Némirovsky's Fire in the Blood
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Nonami Asa's Now You're One of Us
- Cees Nooteboom's Lost Paradise
- Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost
- Three Novellas by Ogawa Yoko, The Diving Pool
- Okuda Hideo's Lala Pipo
- Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero
- Ondjaki's Good Morning Comrades
- Ondjaki's The Whistler
- Christian Oster's The Unforeseen
- Klas Östergren's Gentlemen
- Patrik Ouředník's Europeana
- Cynthia Ozick's Dictation
- Leonardo Padura's Havana Gold
- Orhan Pamuk's Snow
- Shahrnush Parsipur's Touba and the Meaning of Night
- Edmundo Paz Soldán's Turing's Delirium
- 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
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's The Young Man from Savoy
- Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal
- Lydie Salvayre's The Power of Flies
- Albert Sánchez Piñol's Pandora in the Congo
- Adolf Schröder's The Game of Cards
- Enrique Serna's Fear of Animals
- Khairy Shalaby's The Lodging House
- Shan Sa's Alexander and Alestria
- Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy
- Mehmet Murat Somer's The Prophet Murders
- José Carlos Somoza's Zig Zag
- Vladimir Sorokin's Ice
- Peter Stamm's On a Day Like This
- Andrzej Stasiuk's Nine
- Neal Stephenson's Anathem
- Suzuki Koji's Promenade of the Gods
- Vikas Swarup's Q & A
- Szerb Antal's Oliver VII
- Takagi Nobuko's Translucent Tree
- Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain
- Tawada Yoko's Facing the Bridge
- Jean Teulé's The Suicide Shop
- Tezuka Osamu's MW
- Paul Theroux's The Elephanta Suite
- Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y
- Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Dumitru Tsepeneag's Vain Art of the Fugue
- Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel of Hell
- 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
- Mati Unt's Things in the Night
- Mario Vargas Llosa's The Bad Girl
- Paul Verhaeghen's Omega Minor
- Luis Fernando Verissimo's Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
- Graham Vickers' Chasing Lolita
- Angel Wagenstein's Farewell, Shanghai
- Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods
- Yamada Taichi's I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While
- Yan Lianke's Serve the People !
- Edwin M. Yoder jr.'s Lions at Lamb House
- Amin Zaoui's Banquet of Lies
- Florian Zeller's Julien Parme
- Zhang Guixing's My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
- Tirdad Zolghadr's Softcore
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- The anthology of Uncensored Iranian Voices, My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
- Martin Amis' The Second Plane
- Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- Jagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization
- Bibish's The Dancer from Khiva
- Mikita Brottman Against Reading, in The Solitary Vice
- Elias Canetti's Party in the Blitz
- 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
- Richard Dawkins takes on The God Delusion
- Bill Drummond's 17
- Shirin Ebadi's memoir, Iran Awakening
- Jennie Erdal's Ghosting
- Jonathan Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone
- Gao Xingjian's The Case for Literature
- Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff's The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs
- Simon Gray's The Year of the Jouncer
- Sam Harris' Letter to A Christian Nation
- Christopher Hitchens argues that god is not Great
- Clive James' Cultural Amnesia
- Daniel Kalder's Lost Cosmonaut
- Stuart Kelly's The Book of Lost Books
- Milan Kundera's The Curtain
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Michael Maar's study of The Two Lolitas
- Javier Marías' Written Lives
- Tom McCarthy's look at Cars, Consumers, and the Environment in Auto Mania
- Antonio Monda asks Do You Believe ?
- Nicholas Mosley's Time at War
- 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
- Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Geoff Nicholson on Sex Collectors
- Patrick O'Neill's Polyglot Joyce
- Oyekan Owomoyela's collection of Yoruba Proverbs
- Amos Oz on How to Cure a Fanatic
- Cynthia Ozick's The Din in the Head
- Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul
- John Allen Paulos' Irreligion
- 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 Posner's How Judges Think
- Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
- Ammon Shea's Reading the OED
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- George Steiner's My Unwritten Books
- Thant Myint-U's Histories of Burma, The River of Lost Footsteps
- Adam Thirlwell's Miss Herbert
- Wojciech Tochman's Like Eating a Stone
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Nobody's Home
- Mario Vargas Llosa's Wellsprings
- Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China
- Martin Wolf explains Why Globalization Works
- Palle Yourgrau on The Forgotten Legacy Of Gödel And Einstein in A World Without Time
- Gabriel Zaid considers The Secret of Fame
- J. Peder Zane edits The Top Ten
- Zilahy Péter's The Last Window-Giraffe
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- Thomas Bernhard's In Hora Mortis - Under the Iron of the Moon
- Hugo Claus' Greetings
- 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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- Alan Bennett's The History Boys
- David Hare's The Vertical Hour
- 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
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