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Forthcoming:
- Philippe Djian's Unforgivable (March, 2010)
- Christian Oster's In the Train (March, 2010)
- Roberto Bolaño's Antwerp (April, 2010)
- Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street (April, 2010)
- Léonora Miano's Dark Heart of the Night (April, 2010)
- Mo Yan's Change (April, 2010)
- Ogawa Yoko's Hotel Iris (April, 2010)
- Pierre Siniac's The Collaborators (April, 2010)
- César Aira's The Literary Conference (May, 2010)
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Self-Portrait Abroad (May, 2010)
- Jean-Christophe Valtat's 03 (June, 2010)
- Olivier Adam's Cliffs
- Peter Adolphsen's Machine
- S.Y.Agnon's To this Day
- César Aira's Ghosts
- Michal Ajvaz's The Other City
- Idris Ali's Poor
- Selçuk Altun's Many and Many a Year Ago
- Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace
- Charles Ardai's Fifty-to-One
- Alaa Al Aswany's Friendly Fire
- Stéphane Audeguy's The Only Son
- Fadhil al-Azzawi's Cell Block Five
- Ali Bader's Papa Sartre
- Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist
- Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin
- Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody (UK title: The Gourmet)
- Attila Bartis' Tranquility
- François Bégaudeau's The Class
- Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon
- Michèle Bernstein's All the King's Horses
- Sergio Bizzio's Rage
- Hassan Blasim's The Madman of Freedom Square
- Roberto Bolaño's Monsieur Pain
- Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Anonymous Celebrity
- Stefan Brijs' The Angel Maker
- 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
- Horacio Castellanos Moya's Dance with Snakes
- Horacio Castellanos Moya's The She-Devil in the Mirror
- Jacques Chessex's A Jew Must Die
- Brian Chikwava's Harare North
- Philippe Claudel's Brodeck's Report (US title: Brodeck)
- Hugo Claus' Wonder
- J.M.Coetzee's Summertime
- Pablo De Santis' The Paris Enigma
- Tom Dreyer's Equatoria
- Benoît Duteurtre's Customer Service
- Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Jean Echenoz's Running
- Alain Elkann's Envy
- Tarek Eltayeb's Cities without Palms
- Aslı Erdoğan's The City in Crimson Cloak
- Giorgio Faletti's I Kill
- Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone (UK title: Alone in Berlin)
- Ibrahim Farghali's The Smiles of the Saints
- Macedonio Fernández's The Museum of Eterna's Novel
- Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter
- Juan Filloy's Op Oloop
- Jon Paul Fiorentino's Stripmalling
- Richard Flanagan's Wanting
- Filip Florian's Little Fingers
- 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)
- Lev Grossman's The Magicians
- Guo Xiaolu's Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- Abdelilah Hamdouchi's The Final Bet
- Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Gail Hareven's The Confessions of Noa Weber
- Christoph Hein's Settlement
- Yoel Hoffmann's Curriculum Vitae
- Ninni Holmqvist's The Unit
- Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf
- Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver
- Jo Kyung-ran's Tongue
- Gert Jonke's Homage to Czerny
- Jacques Jouet's Savage
- Peter Stephan Jungk's Crossing the Hudson
- 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
- 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
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Memories of the Future
- Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting
- Stieg Larsson's The Girl who Played with Fire
- Éric Laurrent's Do Not Touch
- Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
- Naguib Mahfouz's Before the Throne
- Shahriar Mandanipour's Censoring an Iranian Love Story
- Márai Sándor's Esther's Inheritance
- Guillermo Martínez's The Book of Murder
- Tom McCarthy's Men in Space
- Ian McEwan's Solar
- Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon
- Mochizuki Aska's Spinning Tropics
- Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Wolves of the Crescent Moon
- Paul Morand's Hecate and Her Dogs
- 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
- Salwa Al Neimi's The Proof of the Honey
- Irène Némirovsky's Fire in the Blood
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Geoff Nicholson's Gravity's Volkswagen
- Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow
- Ogawa Yoko's The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Okuda Hideo's Lala Pipo
- Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero
- Ondjaki's Good Morning Comrades
- Ondjaki's The Whistler
- Christian Oster's The Unforeseen
- Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death
- Cynthia Ozick's Dictation
- Martin Page's The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection
- Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
- Iain Pears' Stone's Fall
- Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
- Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's Rupert: A Confession
- Jerzy Pilch's The Mighty Angel
- Peter Pišt'anek's Rivers of Babylon
- Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood
- Richard Powers' Generosity
- Marcel Proust's pastiches, The Lemoine Affair
- Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
- Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
- Sergio Ramírez's A Thousand Deaths Plus One
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's The Young Man from Savoy
- Charlotte Roche's Wetlands
- Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal
- Santiago Roncagliolo's Red April
- Guillermo Rosales' The Halfway House
- Philip Roth's The Humbling
- Mekkawi Said's Cairo Swan Song
- Lydie Salvayre's Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal
- Albert Sánchez Piñol's Pandora in the Congo
- Boualem Sansal's The German Mujahid (UK title: An Unfinished Business)
- Rafik Schami's The Dark Side of Love
- Andrea Maria Schenkel's The Murder Farm
- Hansjörg Schertenleib's A Happy Man
- Stig Sæterbakken's Siamese
- Victor Serge's Unforgiving Years
- Enrique Serna's Fear of Animals
- Khairy Shalaby's The Lodging House
- Ana María Shua's Microfictions
- Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy
- Dag Solstad's Novel 11, Book 18
- Vladimir Sorokin's Ice
- Ersi Sotiropoulos' Landscape With Dog
- Peter Stamm's On a Day Like This
- Domenico Starnone's First Execution
- Neal Stephenson's Anathem
- Suzuki Koji's Promenade of the Gods
- Szerb Antal's Oliver VII
- Takagi Nobuko's Translucent Tree
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace
- Gonçalo M. Tavares' Jerusalem
- Tawada Yoko's The Naked Eye
- M.M.Tawfik's Murder in the Tower of Happiness
- Lucian Dan Teodorovici's Our Circus Presents ...
- Jean Teulé's The Suicide Shop
- Tezuka Osamu's MW
- Paul Theroux's A Dead Hand
- Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y
- David Toscana's The Last Reader
- Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel of Hell
- A new translation of Ueda Akinari's Tales of Moonlight And Rain
- Dubravka Ugresic's The Ministry of Pain
- Mati Unt's Brecht at Night
- Fariba Vafi's My Bird
- Mario Vargas Llosa's The Bad Girl
- Walter Veltroni's The Discovery of Dawn
- Tanguy Viel's Beyond Suspicion
- Jorge Volpi's Season of Ash
- Ornela Vorpsi's The Country Where No One Ever Dies
- Abdourahman A. Waberi's In the United States of Africa
- Mahmoud Al-Wardani's Heads Ripe for Plucking
- Donald E. Westlake's Memory
- Yan Lianke's Serve the People !
- Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai
- Amin Zaoui's Banquet of Lies
- Florian Zeller's Artificial Snow
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- The anthology of Uncensored Iranian Voices, My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
- Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British-Protected Child
- Tilman Allert On The Meaning of a Gesture, in The Hitler Salute
- Lynn Barber's An Education
- Pierre Bayard's Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong
- Alan Beattie's False Economy
- Jeremy Bernstein's Quantum Leaps
- Bibish's The Dancer from Khiva
- William Goldbloom Bloch's The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
- Grégoire Bouillier's Report on Myself
- Mikita Brottman Against Reading, in The Solitary Vice
- Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods
- Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters
- Andrei Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide
- 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
- Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith and Revolution
- Gao Xingjian's The Case for Literature
- Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement
- Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff's The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs
- Alison Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby
- Clive James' Cultural Amnesia
- Daniel Kalder's Lost Cosmonaut
- Stuart Kelly's The Book of Lost Books
- Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
- Lawrence Lessig's Remix
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd on The Case of the Female Orgasm
- Joris Luyendijk's People Like Us
- 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 ?
- Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid
- 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
- My Little Red Book, edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
- Geoff Nicholson's The Lost Art of Walking
- John Ortved's The Simpsons
- Oyekan Owomoyela's collection of Yoruba Proverbs
- Georges Perec's Thoughts of Sorts
- 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
- Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
- Timothy W. Ryback's look at Hitler's Private Library
- Ammon Shea's Reading the OED
- Lizzie Skurnick's Shelf Discovery
- Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax
- Michael Standaert's Skipping Towards Armageddon
- Andrzej Stasiuk's Fado
- David I. Steinberg's Burma/Myanmar
- Jacqueline Stevens' States without Nations
- Thant Myint-U's Histories of Burma, The River of Lost Footsteps
- Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
- Adam Thirlwell's Miss Herbert
- Wojciech Tochman's Like Eating a Stone
- Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
- David Tresilian's A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
- Dubravka Ugrešić's Nobody's Home
- Mario Vargas Llosa's Wellsprings
- Hubert Védrine's History Strikes Back
- Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China
- Michela Wrong's It's Our Turn to Eat
- 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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- Roberto Bolaño's The Romantic Dogs
- Breyten Breytenbach's Voice Over
- Marie Étienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen
- Ko Un's The Three Way Tavern
- Alan Lightman's Song of Two Worlds
- 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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- 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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