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Authors - G:

• GADDAM, Sai: A Billion Wicked Thoughts (B) (with Ogi Ogas)
• GADDIS, William:
  • Agape Agape (B+)
  • J R (A-)
  • The Recognitions (A-)
  • The Rush for Second Place (B)
  • See also:Fire the Bastards ! (B), Jack GREEN
• GAFLA, Ofir Touché: The World of the End (B+)
• GAILIT, August: Toomas Nipernaadi (B+)
• GAILLY, Christian:
  • An Evening at the Club (B)
  • The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B)
  • Red Haze (B+)
• GÁL, Róbert:
  • Agnomia (B)
  • On Wing (B)
• GALA, Marcial: The Black Cathedral (B)
• GALCHEN, Rivka: Atmospheric Disturbances (B-)
• GALDÓS, Benito Pérez: Fortunata and Jacinta (A-)
• GALEY, Matthieu: With Open Eyes (B+) (with Marguerite Yourcenar)
• GALLAND, Nicole: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (B) (with Neal Stephenson)
• GALLEGO, Ruben: White on Black (B+)
• GAMBOA, Santiago:
  • Necropolis (B)
  • Night Prayers (B)
  • The Night Will Be Long (B)
  • Return to the Dark Valley (B)
• [GAMERRO, Carlos: The Islands]
• GANIEVA, Alisa: Bride and Groom (B)
• GAO Jianqun: Tongwan City (B)
• GAO Ming: The Lute (B+)
• GAO Xingjian: The Case for Literature (B+)
• GAPONENKO, Marjana: Who is Martha ? (B)
• [GAPPAH, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly]
• GARBORG, Arne: Weary Men (B+)
• GARDAM, Jane:
  • God on the Rocks (A-)
  • Last Friends (B+)
  • A Long Way From Verona (B+)
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat (A-)
  • Old Filth (A-)
• GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel:
  • Living to Tell the Tale (A)
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores (B+)
  • Until August (B)
• GARNIER, Pascal:
  • A Long Way Off (B+)
  • The A26 (B)
  • Boxes (B+)
  • C'est la Vie (B+)
  • The Eskimo Solution (B)
  • The Front Seat Passenger (A-)
  • How's the Pain ? (A-)
  • The Islanders (B)
  • Low Heights (A-)
  • Moon in a Dead Eye (B+)
  • The Panda Theory (A-)
  • Too Close to the Edge (B+)
• GARRÉTA, Anne:
  • In Concrete (B)
  • Not One Day (B+)
  • Sphinx (A-)
• GARRETT, Greg: Living with the Living Dead (B)
• GARY, Romain:
  • The Gasp (B-)
  • Hocus Bogus (B) (writing as Émile Ajar)
• GASS, William H.:
  • Reading Rilke (B+)
  • A Temple of Texts (A-)
  • Tests of Time (B+)
  • The Tunnel (A)
  • Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (B+)
  • See also Conversations With William H. Gass (B), ed. T.G. Ammon
• GAUDÉ, Laurent: Our Europe (B)
• GAULD, Tom: Baking With Kafka (B+)
• GAUZ': Comrade Papa (B)
• GAVALDA, Anna:
  • French Leave (UK title: Breaking Away) (B-)
  • I Wish Someone were Waiting for me Somewhere (B)
  • Life, Only Better (B)
  • Someone I loved (B-)
• GAVELIS, Ričardas: Sun-Tzu's Life (B)
• GAZDANOV, Gaito: The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (B)
• GE Fei:
  • The Invisibility Cloak (B+)
  • Peach Blossom Paradise (B)
• GÉBÉ: Letter to Survivors (B+)
• GEIGER, Arno:
  • The Old King in His Exile (B+)
  • We Are Doing Fine (B+)
• GEOGHEGAN, Thomas: The Law in Shambles (B+)
• GEORGET, Philippe: Summertime, all the Cats are Bored (B)
• GELASIMOV, Andrei: The Lying Year (B-)
• GERMAIN, Sylvie: The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague (B-)
• GERRITSEN, Esther:
  • Craving (B+)
  • Roxy (B)
• GERSÃO, Teolinda: City of Ulysses (B)
• [GESSEN, Keith: All the Sad Young Literary Men]
• GHAFFARZADEGAN, Davud: Fortune Told in Blood (B+)
• GHALI, Waguih: Beer in the Snooker Club (B+)
• GHANEM, Fathy: The Man Who Lost His Shadow (A-)
• GHANOONPARVAR, M.R.: Translating the Garden (B)
• GHATA, Yasmine: The Calligraphers' Night (B+)
• al-GHITANI, Gamal:
  • Pyramid Texts (B+)
  • Zayni Barakat (B+)
• GHOSH, Amitav:
  • The Calcutta Chromosome (B)
  • The Glass Palace (B)
• GIBBON, Edward: Memoirs of my own Life (B+)
• GIBSON, Melissa James: [sic] (B)
• GIDE, André:
  • Imaginary Interviews (B)
  • Marshlands (B)
• GILDER, Louisa: The Age of Entanglement (B+)
• GILL, Peter: Famine and Foreigners (B)
• GILLIAMS, Maurice: Elias (B)
• GILLIERON, Rebecca: The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-) (with Catheryn Kilgarriff)
• GILMAN, Rebecca:
  • Blue Surge (B)
  • Boy gets Girl (B)
  • The Glory of Living (B+)
  • Spinning into Butter (B+)
• GIMPO (Alan Goodrick): K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A) (with Chris Brook)
• GINGERICH, owen: The Book Nobody Read (B+)
• GINZBURG, Natalia: It's Hard to Talk About Yourself (B)
• GIONO, Jean: Melville (B+)
• GIORDANO, Paolo: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (B)
• GIRONDO, Oliverio: Decals (B)
• GLATTAUER, Daniel:
  • Every Seventh Wave (B-)
  • Love Virtually (B-)
• GLAVINIC Thomas:
  • The Camera Killer (B+)
  • Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (B)
  • Das bin doch ich (B+)
  • Herr Susi (B)
  • Das Leben der Wünsche (B)
  • Lisa (B-)
  • Night Work (B+)
  • Pull Yourself Together (B+)
• GLEICK, James:
  • The Information (A-)
  • Isaac Newton (B+)
• GODBOUT, Jacques:
  • Dragon Island (B)
  • Operation Rimbaud (B)
• GÖDEL, Kurt:
  • Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 1 / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 1 (-)
  • Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 2 / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 2 (-)
  • See also: Journey to the Edge of Reason, Stephen Budiansky
  • See also: Gödel, John L. Casti and Werner DePauli
  • See also: Reflections on Kurt Gödel, Hao Wang
  • See also: A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau
• GOETZ, Adrien: Villa of Delirium (B)
• GOLDBERG, Paul: The Yid (A-)
• GOLDING, William: The Paper Men (B+)
• GOLDSMITH, Kenneth: Wasting Time on the Internet (B)
• GOLDSTEIN, Rebecca Newberger:
  • [Plato at the Googleplex]
  • 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (B)
• GOLLA, Robert (ed.): Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov (B+)
• GOMBROWICZ, Witold:
  • Bacacay (B+)
  • A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes (-)
  • A Kind of Testament (B)
  • Polish Memories (B+)
  • Trans-Atlantyk (C-)
• GÓMEZ-JURADO, Juan: God's Spy (C-)
• GÓNGORA, Luís de: The Solitudes (-)
• GONZÁLEZ, Tomás: In the Beginning was the Sea (B+)
• GOPEGUI, Belén: Stay This Day and Night With Me (B)
• GOPNIK, Alison: The Philosophical Baby (B)
• GORGANI, Fakhraddin: Vis and Ramin (A-)
• GORTON, Gary B.: Misunderstanding Financial Crises (A-)
• GOSPODINOV, Georgi:
  • And Other Stories (B)
  • Natural Novel (B+)
  • The Physics of Sorrow (B+)
  • The Story Smuggler (A-)
  • Time Shelter (B+)
• GOTTHELF, Jeremias: The Black Spider (B+)
• GOYTISOLO, Juan:
  • See the complete review's Juan Goytisolo page
  • The Blind Rider (A-)
  • A Cock-Eyed Comedy (B-)
  • Exiled from Almost Everywhere (B)
  • Forbidden Territory (Memoirs 1931-1957) (A-)
  • The Garden of Secrets (A-)
  • Landscapes after the Battle (A-)
  • Landscapes of War (B)
  • Makbara (B-)
  • The Marx Family Saga (A+)
  • Quarantine (B)
  • Realms of Strife (Memoirs 1957-1982) (B+)
  • Space in Motion (B)
  • State of Siege (B+)
• GOYTISOLO, Luis: Antagony (A-)
• GRABIŃSKI, Stefan: The Dark Domain (B+)
• GRACIÁN, Baltasar: The Oracle (B+)
• GRAFF, Laurent:
  • Happy Days (B+)
  • The Scream (B)
• GRAN, Sara:
  • The Book of the Most Precious Substance (B+)
  • Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (B+)
  • Come Closer (B+)
• GRASS, Günter:
  • The Box (B)
  • From Germany to Germany (B-)
  • [Peeling the Onion]
• GRAY, Alasdair:
  • See the complete review's Alasdair Gray page
  • The Book of Prefaces (A)
  • The Ends of Our Tethers (B+)
  • A History Maker (A-)
  • Mavis Belfrage (A-)
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla (A-)
  • Old Men in Love (A)
  • Old Negatives (B+)
  • Poor Things (A)
  • See also Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (A-), ed. Phil Moores
  • See also Stephen Bernstein's study, Alasdair Gray (B)
• GRAY, Simon:
  • Fat Chance (A-)
  • Dog Days (B+)
  • How's That for Telling 'em, Fat Lady ? (B)
  • Man in a Side-Car (B-)
  • Molly (B)
  • The Rear Column (B)
  • The Smoking Diaries (A-)
  • An Unnatural Pursuit (B)
  • The Year of the Jouncer (A-)
• GREEN, Anna Katharine: The Leavenworth Case (B)
• GREEN, Jack: Fire the Bastards ! (B)
• GREEN, Julien:
  • The Closed Garden (A-) (also: Adrienne Mesurat)
  • The Distant Lands (B+)
  • The Stars of the South (B+)
• GREEN, Stuart P.: Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle (B+)
• GREENLEE, Sonja: S. (B)
• GREER, James: Bad Eminence (B+)
• GRENIER, Roger:
  • Another November (B+)
  • Palace of Books (A-)
• GRIBOEDOV, Alexander: Woe from Wit (B+)
• GRIG: Jesus' Cat (B)
• GRIMBERT, Philippe: Secret (A-) (US title: Memory)
• GROSSMAN, David:
  • Lion's Honey (B+)
  • To the End of the Land (B+)
  • Writing in the Dark (B+)
• GROSSMAN, Edith: Why Translation Matters (B)
• GROSSMAN, Lev:
  • The Bright Sword (B-)
  • The Magician King (B)
  • The Magicians (B-)
• [GROSSMAN, Vasily: Life and Fate]
• GROTH, Janet: The Receptionist (B)
• GRÜNBEIN, Durs:
  • See the complete review's Durs Grünbein page
  • Ashes for Breakfast (B)
  • Erklärte Nacht (B+)
  • Das erste Jahr (B+)
  • Galilei vermißt Dantes Hölle (B+)
  • Grauzone morgens (B+)
  • Porzellan (B+)
  • Schädelbasislektion (A-)
  • Den Teuren Toten (B+)
  • Vom Schnee (B+)
  • Warum schriftlos leben (B)
• GRUNBERG, Arnon:
  • Het aapje dat geluk pakt (B+)
  • Amuse-Bouche (B)
  • De asielzoeker (B+)
  • Good Men (B+)
  • Het bestand (B)
  • Huid en haar (B)
  • The Jewish Messiah (B)
  • De man zonder ziekte (B+)
  • Monogaam (writing as Marek van der Jagt) (B-)
  • Onze oom (A)
  • Phantom Pain (B+)
  • Silent Extras (A-)
  • The Story of My Baldness (writing as Marek van der Jagt) (B+)
  • Tirza (A)
  • Het tweede bestand (B)
• GUARE, John: A Few Stout Individuals (B-)
• GUÐRÚN Eva Mínervudóttir: The Creator (B)
• GUÈNE, Faïza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (B+) (UK title: Just Like Tomorrow)
• GUIBERT, Hervé: Blindsight (B+)
• GUILLOUX, Louis: Blood Dark (B+)
• GÜIRALDES, Ricardo: Don Segundo Sombra (B+)
• GUIRAUDIE, Alain: Now the Night Begins (B)
• GUO Xiaolu:
  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B)
  • Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (B)
• GURNAH, Abdulrazak: Pilgrims Way (B+)
• GUSSOW, Mel: Conversations with Stoppard (B-)
• GUSTAFSON, Thane: Klimat (B+)
• GUSTAFSSON, Lars:
  • See the complete review's Lars Gustafsson page.
  • Dekanen (B)
  • Doktor Wassers recept (B)
  • Elegies (B+)
  • The Stillness of the World before Bach (B+)
  • Stories of Happy People (B+)
  • The Tale of a Dog (B+)
  • Tjänarinnan (B+)
  • Windy berättar (B)
• GUZMAN, Andrew T.: Overheated (B)

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