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Authors - C:

• CABIYA, Pedro: Wicked Weeds (B)
• CAGNATI, Inès: Free Day (A-)
• CAILLÉ, Anne-Renée: The Embalmer (B)
• CAIN, James M.:
  • The Butterfly (B-)
  • The Cocktail Waitress (B)
  • Double Indemnity (A)
  • Galatea (B-)
  • Love's Lovely Counterfeit (B+)
  • Mildred Pierce (B)
  • The Postman always Rings Twice (A-)
  • Serenade (B)
  • Sinful Woman (B)
• CAIN, Paul: Fast One (B)
• CALDERÓN de la Barca, Pedro: Life Is a Dream (A)
• CALDERÓN, Emilio: The Creator's Map (B-)
• CALASSO, Roberto: The Art of the Publisher (B)
• CALINESCU, Matei: The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter (A-)
• CALLE, Sophie: The Address Book (B)
• CALLOW, Simon: The Night of the Hunter (B+)
• CAMBACERES, Eugenio: Pot Pourri (B+)
• CAMENISCH, Arno: The Alp (B)
• CAMILLERI, Andrea: Hunting Season (B)
• CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (B+)
• CAMUS, Albert: Algerian Chronicles (B)
• CANETTI, Elias:
  • "Dearest Georg" (B)
  • Party in the Blitz (B+)
• CANBY, Sheila R.: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (-)
• CANOBBIO, Andrea:
  • The Natural Disorder of Things (B)
  • Three Light-Years (B)
• CAO Naiqian: There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (B+)
• CAO Xueqin:
  • The Story of The Stone (A+)
  • See also: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B), Dore J. LEVY
• ČAPEK, Karel: The Absolute at Large (B)
• [CAPPELLANI, Ottavio: Who is Lou Sciortino ?]
• CARAGIALE, Mateiu: Rakes of the Old Court (B+)
• CAREY, Peter:
  • The Chemistry of Tears (B+)
  • His Illegal Self (B+)
  • My Life As a Fake (B+)
  • [Parrot and Olivier in America]
  • Theft (B+)
  • True History of the Kelly Gang (B)
  • The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (B)
  • Wrong About Japan (B)
• CARLEY, James P.: The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-)
• CARLOTTO, Massimo:
  • At the End of a Dull Day (B+)
  • Bandit Love (B)
  • Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores (B)
  • The Colombian Mule (B)
  • Death's Dark Abyss (B+)
  • For All the Gold in the World (B)
  • The Fugitive (B)
  • Gang of Lovers (B)
  • The Goodbye Kiss (B+)
  • The Master of Knots (B)
• CARLSON, Robert H.: Biology is Technology (B+)
• CARNAP, Rudolf:
  • Tagebücher Band 1: 1908–1919 (-)
  • Tagebücher Band 2: 1920–1935 (-)
• CAROFIGLIO, Gianrico:
  • The Cold Summer (B)
  • A Fine Line (B)
  • Involuntary Witness (B)
  • The Measure of Time (B+)
  • The Past is a Foreign Country (B-)
  • Reasonable Doubts (B)
  • Temporary Perfections (B)
  • A Walk in the Dark (B)
• CARPENTER, Humphrey: Dennis Potter (B)
• CARPENTIER, Alejo: The Lost Steps (A)
• CARRERA ANDRADE, Jorge: Micrograms (B)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel:
  • The Adversary (A-)
  • Class Trip (B+)
  • I am Alive and You are Dead (B)
  • The Kingdom (B)
  • Limonov (B+)
  • Lives Other Than My Own (B+)
  • The Mustache (B)
  • My Life as a Russian Novel (B) (UK title: A Russian Novel)
  • 97,196 Words (B)
  • Yoga (B)
• CARRIÈRE, Jean-Claude: The Sky Over the Louvre (-) (with Bernar Yslaire)
• CARROLL, Jonathan:
  • Glass Soup (B-)
  • The Marriage of Sticks (B+)
  • Mr. Breakfast (B+)
  • White Apples (B)
  • The Wooden Sea (C)
• CARSON, Anne: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (A-)
• CĂRTĂRESCU, Mircea: Nostalgia (B)
• CARTER, Angela:
  • Heroes and Villains (B+)
  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (A)
  • Shaking a Leg (B)
• CARTER, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park (B)
• CARTWRIGHT, Justin:
  • Leading the Cheers (B)
  • The Promise of Happiness (A-)
• CASANOVA, Pascale: The World Republic of Letters (A-)
• CASPARY, Vera: Laura (B)
• CASTAGNET, Martin Felipe: Bodies of Summer (B)
• CASTEL-BLOOM, Orly: Dolly City (A-)
• CASTELLANOS MOYA, Horacio:
  • Dance with Snakes (B)
  • Senselessness (B+)
  • The She-Devil in the Mirror (B+)
  • Tyrant Memory (B)
• CASTI, John L.:
  • The Cambridge Quintet (C-)
  • Gödel (B+) (with Werner DePauli)
• CATHER, Willa:
  • O Pioneers ! (A-)
  • See also: Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (B+), Joan ACOCELLA
• CATTON, Eleanor: The Rehearsal (A-)
• CAUTY, Jimmy:
  • 2023 (with Bill Drummond) (B)
  • The Manual (with Bill Drummond) (B+)
  • See also: K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A), Chris Brook,ed.
• CAUWELAERT, Didier van:
  • One-Way (B)
  • Out of my Head (also published as: Unknown) (B)
• CAVAZZONI, Ermanno: Brief Lives of Idiots (B)
• CAVES, Richard E.: Creative Industries (B+)
• CAYRE, Hannelore: The Godmother (B+)
• CELA, Camilo José:
  • The Hive (B+)
  • Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son (B+)
• CELAN, Paul: Romanian Poems (B+)
• CELATI, Gianni: Adventures in Africa (B)
• CELEDÓN, Matías: The Subsidiary (B)
• CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand:
  • Conversations with Professor Y (A-)
  • Journey to the End of the Night (B+)
  • Semmelweis (A-)
• CERCAS, Javier:
  • [The Anatomy of a Moment]
  • The Motive (B)
  • Outlaws (B)
  • Soldiers of Salamis (B+)
  • The Speed of Light (B+)
  • The Tenant (B)
• CHA, Louis:
  • The Book and the Sword (B+)
  • The Deer and the Cauldron (B+)
  • Legends of the Condor Heroes
    1. A Hero Born (B)
    2. A Bond Undone (B)
    3. A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
    4. A Heart Divided (B)
• CHACEL, Rosa:
  • Estación. Ida y vuelta. (B+)
  • Memoirs of Leticia Valle (B+)
• CH'AE Man-Sik: Turbid Rivers (B)
• CHAIX, Marie: The Summer of the Elder Tree (B+)
• CHAN Koonchung: The Fat Years (B-)
• CHANDRA, Vikram:
  • Geek Sublime (B) (title in India: Mirrored Mind)
  • Sacred Games (B+)
• CHANG, Eileen: Little Reunions (B)
• CHANG Hsi-Kuo :
  • The City Trilogy (B)
    • I. Five Jade Disks (B)
    • II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
    • III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
• CHANG Ta-Chun:
  • My Kid Sister (B+)
  • Wild Child (B)
  • See also: Wild Kids (B)
• CHANG Yu-Ko: Whisper (B)
• CHARITON: Callirhoe (B+)
• CHARPIN, Dominique: Reading and Writing in Babylon (B)
• CHART Korbjitti: Time (B)
• CHARU Nivedita: Zero Degree (B)
• CHATTERJEE, Bankim-Chandra: Krishnakanta's Will (B)
• CHATTERJEE, Upamanyu:
  • See the complete review's Upamanyu Chatterjee page
  • English, August (A-)
  • The Last Burden (A-)
  • The Mammaries of the Welfare State (B+)
• CHATTOPADHYAY, Saratchandra: Devdas (B+)
• CHAUDHURI, Amit:
  • Friend of My Youth (B+)
  • A New World (B)
  • Real Time (B)
  • Sojourn (B+)
• CHAVARRÍA, Daniel:
  • Adios Muchachos (B+)
  • [Tango for a Torturer]
• CHEHELTAN, Amir Hassan: آمریکایی کُشی در تهران (B)
• CHEN Xiwo: The Book of Sins (B)
• CHEN Zijin: Bad Kids (B)
• CHENEY-COKER, Syl: Sacred River (B+)
• CHESSEX, Jacques:
  • A Jew Must Die (B+)
  • The Tyrant (B+)
  • The Vampire of Ropraz (B+)
• CHETTRI, Lil Bahadur: Mountains Painted with Turmeric (B+)
• CHEVILLARD, Éric:
  • The Author and Me (B+)
  • Demolishing Nisard (B)
  • Museum Visits (B+)
  • The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster (B)
  • Prehistoric Times (B+)
  • The Valiant Little Tailor (B)
• CHI Ta-wei: The Membranes (A)
• CHIARA, Piero:
  • The Bishop's Bedroom (B)
  • The Disappearance of Signora Giulia (B-)
• CHIKWAVA, Brian: Harare North (B)
• CHILADZE, Otar: Avelum (A-)
• CHILADZE, Tamaz: The Brueghel Moon (B)
• CHILD, Lee:
  • The Affair (B)
  • Bad Luck and Trouble (B)
  • The Enemy (B+)
  • Killing Floor (B)
  • Make Me (B)
  • Never Go Back (B+)
  • Personal (B)
  • Persuader (B)
  • Running Blind (UK title: The Visitor) (B+)
  • 61 Hours (B+)
  • Without Fail (B)
• CHINODYA, Shimmer:
  • Chairman of Fools (B)
  • Strife (B)
• CHIRBES, Rafael:
  • La buena letra (B)
  • Cremation (A-)
  • Los disparos del Cazador (B)
  • Mimoun (B)
  • On the Edge (A-)
• CHITARRONI, Luis: The No Variations (B)
• CHIZIANE, Paulina: The First Wife (B)
• CHIZHOVA, Elena: Little Zinnobers (B)
• CH'OE In-ho: Another Man's City (B)
• CH'OE Yun: Mannequin (A-)
• CHOI In-Hun: The Square (B+)
• CHOI Jin-young: To the Warm Horizon (B+)
• CHOKHELI, Goderdzi: Human Sadness (B+)
• CHONG, Phillipa K.: Inside the Critics' Circle (B)
• CHREITEH, Alexandra: Always Coca-Cola (B)
• CHRISSOPOULOS, Christos: The Parthenon Bomber (B)
• CHRISTENSEN, Inger: alphabet (B+)
• CHRISTENSEN, Lars Saabye:
  • Beatles (B+)
  • Bly (B)
  • The Half Brother (A-)
  • The Joker (B)
• CHRISTIANSEN, Pål H.: The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow (B-)
• CHRISTIANSEN, Rupert: The Voice of Victorian Sex (B+)
• CHRISTIANSON, John Robert: On Tycho's Island (B)
• CHU T'ien-hsin: The Old Capital (B+)
• CHUGHTAI, Ismat: The Crooked Line (B+)
• CHUKOVSKAYA, Lydia: Sofia Petrovna (B+)
• CHULKOV, Mikhail: The Comely Cook (B)
• CHUNG, Ook: L'Expérience interdite (B)
• CHURCH, James: A Corpse in the Koryo (B)
• CLAPP, Nicholas: Sheba (B)
• CLARKE, Susanna:
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (A-)
  • Piranesi (A-)
• CLARO: Electric Flesh (B)
• CLASSEN, Albrecht: The Medieval Chastity Belt (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe:
  • Brodeck's Report (US title: Brodeck) (B)
  • Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
  • The Investigation (B)
• CLAUS, Hugo:
  • Desire (B+)
  • Even Now (B+)
  • Greetings (B+)
  • The Sorrow of Belgium (A)
  • The Swordfish (B)
  • Wonder (A-)
• CLEAVE, Chris: Incendiary (C-)
• CLERC, Thomas: Interior (B+)
• CLOSE, Frank: Neutrino (B)
• CODRESCU, Andrei: The Posthuman Dada Guide (B)
• COE, Jonathan:
  • See the complete review's Jonathan Coe page
  • The Accidental Woman (B-)
  • Bournville (B+)
  • The Closed Circle (B+)
  • The Dwarves of Death (B)
  • Expo 58 (B)
  • The House of Sleep (A-)
  • Like a Fiery Elephant (A)
  • Middle England (B+)
  • Mr. Wilder and Me (B)
  • Number 11 (B+)
  • The Rain before it Falls (B+)
  • The Rotters' Club (B+)
  • The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (B+)
  • A Touch of Love (B+)
  • What a Carve Up ! (also The Winshaw Legacy) (A-)
• COETZEE, J.M.:
  • Diary of a Bad Year (A-)
  • Disgrace (A-)
  • Elizabeth Costello (A-)
  • Life & Times of Michael K (B)
  • The Pole (A-)
  • Slow Man (A)
  • Stranger Shores (B)
  • Summertime (B+)
• COHEN, Joshua:
  • Book of Numbers (B+)
  • The Netanyahus (A-)
  • [Witz]
• COHEN, Léa: Консорциум Alternus (B)
• [COLANZI, Liliana: Our Dead World]
• COLEGATE, Isabel:
  • Agatha (B+)
  • Orlando at the Brazen Threshold (B)
  • Orlando King (A-)
• COLLINS, Max Allan: Seduction of the Innocent (B)
• COLLINS, Stephen: The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil (B+)
• COMENSAL, Jorge: The Mutations (B)
• COMMENT, Bernard: The Shadow of Memory (B)
• COMPANY, Flavia: The Island of Last Truth (B)
• COMPTON, D.G.: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (also: The Unsleeping Eye) (A-)
• CONDÉ, Maryse: What is Africa to Me ? (B)
• CONDON, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (B)
• CONNOLLY, Cyril: The Unquiet Grave (A-)
• CONRAD, Patrick: No Sale (B)
• CONSTANT, Paule:
  • The Governor's Daughter (B+)
  • White Spirit (A-)
• CONSTANTINE, Murray: Swastika Night (A-)
• COOVADIA, Imraan:
  • The Institute for Taxi Poetry (B+)
  • A Spy in Time (B)
  • Tales of the Metric System (B+)
• COPE, Julian:
  • Head-On (memoirs 1976-82) (B+)
  • Repossessed (memoirs 1983-89) (B)
  • The Modern Antiquarian (A-)
• COPSON, Andrew: Secularism (B)
• CORDASCO, Rachel S.: Out of This World (-)
• CORLISS, Richard: Lolita (A-)
• CORNEO, Giacomo: Is Capitalism Obsolete ? (B+)
• COROBCA, Liliana: The Censor's Notebook (B)
• CORRINTH, Curt: Potsdamer Platz (B)
• CORTÁZAR, Julio:
  • Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (A-) (with Carol Dunlop)
  • Cronopios and Famas (A-)
  • Diary of Andrés Fava (B)
  • Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires (A)
  • Final Exam (B+)
  • From the Observatory (-)
  • Hopscotch (A)
• ĆOSIĆ, Bora:
  • Rasulo (B+)
  • Tutori (A-)
• COSSÉ, Laurence:
  • A Corner of the Veil (C)
  • A Novel Bookstore (B-)
• COSSERY, Albert:
  • The Colors of Infamy (B+)
  • The Jokers (A-)
  • Laziness in the Fertile Valley (B)
  • Proud Beggars (B+)
  • A Splendid Conspiracy (B+)
• COSTANTINI, Roberto: The Deliverance of Evil (B)
• COTTERILL, Colin: The Motion Picture Teller (B)
• COUPERUS, Louis:
  • Ecstasy (B)
  • Eline Vere (A-)
  • The Hidden Force (A-)
  • Inevitable (B+)
  • Psyche (A-)
• COUTO, Mia: The Tuner of Silences (B)
• COWEN, Tyler:
  • Creative Destruction (B)
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture (B)
  • What Price Fame ? (B)
• COZARINSKY, Edgardo: Borges in/and/on Film (B)
• CRACE, Jim: Six (B+) (US title: Genesis)
• CRARY, Jonathan: Suspensions of Perception (B-)
• [CRÉCY, Nicolas De: Glacial Period]
• CREVEL, René: Babylon (B+)
• CREWS, Frederick: Postmodern Pooh (B)
• CRICHTON, Michael:
  • Binary (B) (writing as John Lange)
  • Drug of Choice (B) (writing as John Lange)
  • Prey (B-)
• CRITCHLEY, Simon: Memory Theatre (B+)
• CRUMEY, Andrew: Beethoven's Assassins (B)
• CURREY, James: Africa Writes Back (B+)
• CUSHING, James T.: Philosophical Concepts in Physics (B+)

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