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Authors - I-J:

• IBRAHIM, Sonallah:
  • The Committee (B)
  • Zaat (A-)
• ICHIKAWA Takuji: Monkey Man (B)
• ICKS, Martijn: The Crimes of Elagabalus (B)
• ICZKOVITS, Yaniv: The Slaughterman's Daughter (B+)
• IDLE, Eric: The Road to Mars (C)
• IDRIS, Yusuf:
  • City of Love and Ashes (B)
  • Tales of Encounter (B)
• IGOV, Angel: A Short Tale of Shame (B)
• II Naoyuki: The Shadow of a Blue Cat (B)
• IKEZAWA Natsuki: The Navidad Incident (B)
• IKONNIKOV, Alexander: Lizka and her Men (B)
• ILBOUDO, Monique: So Distant From My Life (B)
• ILF and PETROV:
  • The Golden Calf (A-)
  • The Twelve Chairs (A-)
• ILIAZD: Rapture (B)
• ILIFFE, Rob: Priest of Nature (B+)
• IMAMURA Natsuko: The Woman in the Purple Skirt (B)
• INDIANA, Rita: Tentacle (B)
• INDRIĐASON, Arnaldur:
  • Jar City (B+)
  • Voices (B)
• INGELMAN-SUNDBERG, Catharina: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (B)
• INOSE Naoki: Persona (B+)
• INOUE Yasushi:
  • Bullfight (A-)
  • The Hunting Gun (B+)
  • Life of a Counterfeiter (B+)
  • Tun-Huang (B+)
• INUI Rokuro: Automatic Eve (B)
• IRELAND, Anthony J.: The Orthodontic Patient (-) (with Fraser McDonald)
• IRELAND, David: A Woman of the Future (B+)
• IRELAND, Mary (ed.): The Female Athlete (-) (with Aurelia Nattiv)
• IRVING, John:
  • In One Person (B)
  • The Last Chairlift (B-)
  • [Last Night in Twisted River]
  • My Movie Business (B+)
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (B+)
  • A Son of the Circus (B-)
  • Trying to save Piggy Sneed (B-)
  • Until I Find You (B-)
• IRWIN, Robert:
  • Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (B+)
  • The Runes Have Been Cast (A-)
• ISAACSON, K.G.:Removable Orthodontic Appliances (-)
• ISAKA Kotaro:
  • Bullet Train (B)
  • Remote Control (B)
  • Three Assassins (B+)
• ISAKSSON, Hans: Lars Gyllensten (B)
• ISEGAWA, Moses:
  • Abyssinian Chronicles (A-)
  • Snakepit (B-)
• ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
  • Klara and the Sun (B+)
  • Never Let Me Go (A-)
  • [Nocturnes]
  • When we were Orphans (B+)
• ISKANDER, Fazil: The Goatibex Constellation (B)
• ISMAILOV, Hamid: The Devils' Dance (B+)
• ITŌ Hiromi: The Thorn Puller (B+)
• ITOH, Project: Harmony (B)
• IWAKI Kei: Farewell, My Orange (B)
• IYER, Lars:
  • Spurious (B+)
  • Wittgenstein Jr (B+)
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Chourmo (B)
  • Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil (-)
  • [The Lost Sailors]
  • Solea (B)
  • Total Chaos (B+)
• JÄÄSKELÄINEN, Pasi Ilmari:
  • The Rabbit Back Literature Society (B+)
  • Secret Passages in a Hillside Town (B)
• JABER, Rabee: The Mehlis Report (B+)
• JABÈS, Edmond:
  • The Book of Margins (B)
  • A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Book (B)
  • See also Lavish Absence Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès by Rosmarie Waldrop (B+)
• JACKSON, Kevin:
  • Invisible Forms (B+)
  • The Verbals (with Iain Sinclair) (B)
• JACOBSEN, Jens Peter: Niels Lyhne (A-)
• JACOBSEN, Roy:
  • The Unseen (A-)
  • White Shadow (B)
• JACOBSON, Howard:
  • [Kalooki Nights]
  • The Making of Henry (B+)
  • The Mighty Walzer (A-)
  • Peeping Tom (B)
  • Who's Sorry Now ? (A-)
• JACQ, Christian: The Judgement of the Mummy (C)
• JACQUES, Norbert: Dr. Mabuse (B-)
• JAEGGY, Fleur:
  • S.S. Proleterka (B-) (UK title: Proleterka)
  • Sweet Days of Discipline (B)
• JAGADĒŚVARA Bhaṭṭāchārya: The Ocean of Mirth (B)
• VAN DER JAGT, Marek:
  • Monogaam (writing as Marek van der Jagt) (B-)
  • The Story of My Baldness (B+)
• JALAL, Ayesha: The Pity of Partition (B)
• JAMES, Clive: Cultural Amnesia (B+)
• JAMES, Harold: The Creation and Destruction of Value (B)
• JAMES, Henry:
  • The American (B+)
  • The Tragic Muse (B)
• JAMES, P.D.:
  • Death in Holy Orders (A-)
  • The Lighthouse (B+)
  • The Murder Room (B+)
  • The Private Patient (B+)
• JAMIESON, Dale: Reason in a Dark Time (B)
• JANCAR, Drago:
  • Mocking Desire (B)
  • Northern Lights (B+)
• JANG Eun-jin: No One Writes Back (A-)
• JANG Jung-il: When Adam Opens his Eyes (B)
• JANGFELDT, Bengt: Mayakovsky (B+)
• JANSSON, Tove:
  • Fair Play (B+)
  • The Summer Book (A-)
  • The True Deceiver (A-)
• JAPIN, Arthur:
  • In Lucia's Eyes (B+)
  • The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (B+)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien:
  • The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (B+)
  • One Deadly Summer (B)
  • Rider on the Rain (B)
  • The Sleeping-Car Murders (B) (also published as: The 10:30 from Marseilles)
  • Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JARDINE, Lisa: The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (B+)
• JARMAN, Derek: Wittgenstein: The Derek Jarman Film (B+)
• JASIEŃSKI, Bruno:
  • I Burn Paris (B)
  • The Legs of Izolda Morgan (B+)
• JAUFFRET, Régis:
  • Lacrimosa (B)
  • Severe (B-)
• JAVAKHISHVILI, Mikheil: Kvachi (B+)
• JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (B)
• JELINEK, Elfriede:
  • Greed (B)
  • Her Not All Her (A-)
• JENNINGS, Kate: Moral Hazard (B)
• JENSEN, Liz: The Rapture (B)
• JERSILD, P.C.: A Living Soul (B)
• JERUSALMY, Raphaël: Saving Mozart (B)
• JESCHKE, Wolfgang: The Cusanus Game (B)
• JIA Pingwa: Ruined City (A-)
• JIN, Ha: The Writer as Migrant (B)
• JIN Yong:
  • The Book and the Sword (B+)
  • The Deer and the Cauldron (B+)
  • Legends of the Condor Heroes (B+)
    1. A Hero Born (B)
    2. A Bond Undone (B)
    3. A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
    4. A Heart Divided (B)
• JIROTKA, Zdeněk: Saturnin (B)
• JO Kyung-ran: Tongue (B-)
• JODOROWSKY, Alejandro: Albina and the Dog-Men (A-)
• JOHNSON, B.S.:
  • See the complete review's B.S.Johnson page
  • Albert Angelo (A-)
  • Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (A)
  • House Mother Normal (B)
  • See the Old Lady Decently (B+)
  • See also Jonathan Coe's biography, Like a Fiery Elephant (A)
• JOHNSON, Uwe: Anniversaries (A)
• JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B)
• JOINER, David: Kanazawa (B)
• JOLY, Eva: The Eyes of Lira Kazan (B), with Judith Perrignon
• JONASSON, Jonas: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (C+)
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONES, Charlotte: Humble Boy (B+)
• JONES, David:
  • The Anathemata (A-)
  • In Parenthesis (A)
• JONES, Lloyd: Mister Pip (A+)
• JONES, Stanleigh H. (ed.): Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (B+)
• JONES, Steve:
  • Almost Like a Whale (A-) (US title: Darwin's Ghost)
  • The Language of Genes (A-)
• JONKE, Gert: Homage to Czerny (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JOSÉ, F. Sionil: Sin (B)
• JOSEPH, Manu:
  • The Illicit Happiness of Other People (B+)
  • Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous (B+)
• JOSIPOVICI, Gabriel: What Ever Happened to Modernism ? (B)
• JOUET, Jacques:
  • Mountain R (B)
  • My Beautiful Bus (B)
  • Savage (B+)
  • Two-Step (B+) (with Olivier Salon)
  • Upstaged (B+)
• JULLIEN, François: The Book of Beginnings (B+)
• JUNG Young-moon:
  • A Contrived World (B+)
  • Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River (B)
  • Vaseline Buddha (B)
• JÜNGER, Ernst: A German Officer in Occupied Paris (B+)
• JUNGERSEN, Christian:
  • The Exception (B+)
  • You Disappear (B)
• JUNGK, Peter Stephan:
  • Crossing the Hudson (B)
  • The Perfect American (B)
  • Tigor (UK title: The Snowflake Constant) (B)
• THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU: 2023 (B)
• JUUL, Pia: The Murder of Halland (B)
• JUVIN, Hervé: The Coming of the Body (B)

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