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• LA VILLE DE MIRMONT, Jean de: The Sundays of Jean Dézert (A-)
• LABATUT, Benjamín: When We Cease to Understand the World (B+)
• LACEY, Catherine: Biography of X (B)
• LÄCKBERG, Camilla: The Ice Princess (B)
• LACLAVETINE, Jean-Marie: Première ligne (B+)
• LAFAYETTE, Madame de: The Princesse de Clèves (B+)
• LAFERRIÈRE, Dany:
  • Eroshima (B)
  • How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (B+)
  • I am a Japanese Writer (B+)
  • Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex ? (B+)
• [LAFORET, Carmen: Nada]
• LAGE, Jorge Enrique: Freeway (B)
• LAGIOIA, Nicola: Ferocity (B+)
• LAHAV, Alexandra: In Praise of Litigation (B+)
• LAHIRI, Jhumpa:
  • The Clothing of Books (B)
  • In Other Words (B+)
  • Translating Myself and Others (B+)
• LAINE, James W.: Shivaji (B)
• LAING, Kojo: Search Sweet Country (B+)
• LAKATOS, Imre:
  • For and Against Method (B+) (with Paul Feyerabend)
  • Proofs and Refutations (A-)
• LAL, Deepak: In Praise of Empires (B)
• LALO, Eduardo:
  • Simone (B+)
  • Uselessness (B)
• LAMARTINE, Alphonse de: Graziella (B+)
• LAMPO, Hubert: The Coming of Joachim Stiller (B)
• LANÇON, Philippe: Disturbance (B)
• LANDERS, Clifford E.: Literary Translation (B)
• LANE, Eric: Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company (B)
• LANG, Luc: Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor (B)
• LANGE, John:
  • Binary (B)
  • Drug of Choice (B)
• LANGE, Monique: A Little Girl under a Mosquito Net (B)
• LANGE, Norah: People in the Room (A-)
• LAO Ma: Individuals (B)
• LAPEYRE, Patrick: Life is Short and Desire Endless (B)
• LAPIDUS, Jens: Easy Money (B-)
• LAPOUJADE, David: Worlds Built to Fall Apart (B)
• LARBAUD, Valery: Fermina Márquez (B+)
• LARKIN, Emma:
  • Everything is Broken (B)
  • Secret Histories (US title: Finding George Orwell in Burma) (B)
• LARSON, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer (B)
• LARSSON, Åsa: The Black Path (B)
• LARSSON, Björn: Den sanna berättelsen om Inga Andersson (B-)
• LARSSON, Stieg:
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (B)
  • The Girl who Played with Fire (B)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
• LASCANO TEGUI, Emilio:
  • Álbum de familia (B+)
  • On Elegance While Sleeping (A-)
• LASSAQUE, Aurélia: Solstice and Other Poems (B)
• [LAST, Nana: Wittgenstein's House]
• LATIMER, Jonathan: Solomon's Vineyard (B)
• LAURAIN, Antoine:
  • The President's Hat (B)
  • The Red Notebook (B)
• LAURENS, Camille: In Those Arms (US title: In His Arms) (B)
• LAURRENT, Éric: Do Not Touch (B+)
• LAVERDURE, Bertrand:
  • Readopolis (B)
  • Universal Bureau of Copyrights (B)
• LEBEDEV, Sergei: Untraceable (B)
• LEBERT, Hans: Die Wolfshaut (B+)
• LEBLANC, Suzanne: The Thought House of Philippa (B)
• LE CARRÉ, John:
  • Our Game (B+)
  • Silverview (A-)
• LECASBLE, Guillaume: Lobster (B+)
• LE CLÉZIO, Jean-Marie Gustave:
  • The African (B)
  • The Interrogation (B)
  • The Prospector (B+)
• LEDGARD, J.M.: Giraffe (A-)
• LEE Hyoseok: Endless Blue Sky (B)
• LEE Ki-Ho: At Least We Can Apologize (B+)
• LEE Seung-U:
  • The Private Lives of Plants (B)
  • The Reverse Side of Life (B+)
• LÉGER, Nathalie: Suite for Barbara Loden (B+)
• LEHMANN, Chris: Revolt of the Masscult (B-)
• LEHR, Thomas:
  • Nabokovs Katze (B)
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• LEHTOLAINEN, Leena: My First Murder (B)
• LEIRIS, Michel:
  • Manhood (B)
  • Nights as Day, Days as Night (B)
• LEITHAUSER, Brad: Darlington's Fall (A-)
• LEITNER, Bernhard: The Wittgenstein House (-)
• LELORD, François:
  • Hector and the Search for Happiness (B)
  • Hector and the Secrets of Love (B)
• LEM, Stanislaw: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
• LEMAITRE, Pierre:
  • Alex (B)
  • Blood Wedding (B)
  • Camille (B)
  • The Great Swindle (B)
  • Inhuman Resources (B)
  • Irène (B-)
  • Three Days and a Life (B)
• LENNON, Ferdia: Glorious Exploits (B)
• LENZ, Siegfried: A Minute's Silence (US title: Stella) (B)
• LEONHARDT, Jürgen: Latin (B+)
• LEOPARDI, Giacomo: Zibaldone
• LERNET-HOLENIA, Alexander:
  • I Was Jack Mortimer (B)
  • Mona Lisa (B)
  • The Resurrection of Maltravers (B)
• LE ROUGE, Gustave:
  • The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (B)
  • The War of the Vampires (B)
• LESSER, Wendy: Scandinavian Noir (B)
• LESSING, Doris: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (A-)
• LESSIG, Lawrence:
  • Code - and other Laws of Cyberspace (A-)
  • Fidelity & Constraint (B+)
  • Free Culture (B+)
  • Remix (B)
• LESTARI, Dewi (Dee):
  • Paper Boats (B)
  • Supernova (B)
• LE TELLIER, Hervé:
  • All Happy Families (B+)
  • The Anomaly (B+)
  • Eléctrico W (B+)
  • Enough about Love (B+)
  • The Intervention of a Good Man (B)
  • The Sextine Chapel (B)
  • A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (B+)
• LEVÉ, Edouard:
  • Autoportrait (A-)
  • Newspaper (B)
  • Suicide (B)
  • Works (B+)
• LEVENTAL, Vadim: Masha Regina (B)
• LEVER, Evelyne: Marie Antoinette (B)
• LEVIN BECKER, Daniel:
  • Many Subtle Channels (B)
  • (ed.) All That is Evident is Suspect (B), with Ian Monk
• LEVRERO, Mario: The Luminous Novel (B)
• LÉVY, Bernard-Henri: Public Enemies (B-) (with Michel Houellebecq)
• LEVY, Dore J.: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B)
• LEVY Hideo: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (B)
• LÉVY, Justine:
  • The Rendezvous (B)
  • Nothing Serious (B)
• LEVY, Louis: Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah (B)
• LEVY, Marc:
  • All Those Things We Never Said (C+)
  • P.S. from Paris (B-)
  • Replay (B-)
• LÉVY-BERTHERAT, Déborah: The Travels of Daniel Ascher (B)
• LEWIS, C.S.: An Experiment in Criticism (B)
• LEWIS, Herbert Clyde: Gentleman Overboard (A-)
• LEWIS, Wyndham: One-Way Song (B+)
• LEWITSCHAROFF, Sibylle:
  • Apostoloff (B+)
  • Blumenberg (B+)
• LEWONTIN, Richard:
  • It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (B+)
  • The Triple Helix (A-)
• LEWY, Guenter: Harmful and Undesirable (B+)
• LEWYCKA, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (B-)
• LEYS, Simon: The Death of Napoleon (A-)
• LI Ang: The Lost Garden (B)
• LI Rui: Trees without Wind (B)
• LI Yu:
  • A Couple of Soles (B)
  • The Fragrant Companions (B+)
• LIBERA, Antoni: Madame (B)
• LIBERAKI, Margarita: Three Summers (B+)
• LIBERATI, Simon: Anthology of Apparitions (B-)
• LICHTENSTEIN, Rachel: Rodinsky's Room (with Iain Sinclair) (B+)
• [LIENHARDT, Patrick: The Life of Irène Némirovsky (with Olivier Philipponnat)]
• LIGHTMAN, Alan: Song of Two Worlds (B)
• LIMA BARRETO, Afonso Henriques de: The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (B+)
• LINDFORS, Bernth (ed): Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B)
• LINDGREN, Torgny: In Praise of Truth (A-)
• LINDLEY, David: Degrees Kelvin (B)
• LINDLEY-FRENCH, Julian: Future War and the Defence of Europe (-) (with John R. Allen and Frederick Ben Hodges)
• LINDSAY, Jeff:
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter (B)
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter (B)
  • Dexter by Design (B)
  • Dexter in the Dark (C+)
  • Dexter is Dead (B)
  • Dexter is Delicious (B)
  • Dexter's Final Cut (B)
  • Double Dexter (B)
• LINDSTEDT, Laura: Oneiron (B)
• LINDSTRØM, Merethe: Days in the History of Silence (B+)
• LINGAM, Manasvi: Life in the Cosmos (-) (with Avi Loeb)
• LINK, Charlotte: Die Täuschung (B-)
• LIPSCOMB, Benjamin J.B.: The Women Are Up to Something (B+)
• LIPSKEROV, Dmitry: The Tool & the Butterflies (B+)
• LITTELL, Jonathan: The Kindly Ones (C-)
• LIU Cixin: The Three-Body Problem (B)
• LIU Sola: Chaos and All That (B+)
• LIU Xinwu: The Wedding Party (B)
• LIYONG Taban lo:
  • Another Last Word (B)
  • Another Nigger Dead (B)
  • The Cows of Shambat (B)
  • Fixions (B)
• LLESHANAKU, Luljeta: Fresco (B)
• LLOSA, Mario VARGAS:
  • See the complete review's Mario Vargas Llosa page
  • The Bad Girl (B-)
  • La Chunga (B+)
  • The Discreet Hero (B)
  • The Feast of the Goat (B+)
  • A Fish in the Water (A-)
  • In Praise of the Stepmother (A-)
  • Kathie and the Hippopotamus (B)
  • The Language of Passion (B+)
  • Letters to a Young Novelist (B)
  • The Neighborhood (B-)
  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (B)
  • The Perpetual Orgy (A-)
  • The Temptation of the Impossible (B+)
  • Three Plays (B)
  • The Way to Paradise (B)
  • Wellsprings (B+)
  • A Writer's Reality (B+)
  • The Young Lady from Tacna (B)
• LLOYD, Elisabeth A.: The Case of the Female Orgasm (B)
• LLOYD, G.E.R.: The Ambitions of Curiosity (B+)
• LLYWELYN, Robin: White Star (B-)
• LOEB, Avi: Life in the Cosmos (-) (with Manasvi Lingam)
• LOHR, Steve: Go To (B)
• LONDON, Jack: Martin Eden (B+)
• LONGERICH, Peter: Wannsee (B+)
• LOPE, Manuel de: The Wrong Blood (B)
• LOPEZ jr., Donald S.:
  • The Scientific Buddha (B)
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead (B+)
• LORRAIN, Jean: Monsieur de Bougrelon (B)
• LORCHENKOV, Vladimir: The Good Life Elsewhere (B+)
• LOUGHLIN, Martin: Against Constitutionalism (B+)
• LOUŸS, Pierre: The Woman and the Puppet (A-)
• LOVELL, Julia: The Politics of Cultural Capital (B)
• LOWENSTEIN, Roger: The End of Wall Street (B)
• LOWRY, Thomas P.: Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (B)
• LU Cai: The Misadventures of Master Mugwort (-)
• LÜ Tiancheng: The Embroidered Couch (C+)
• LU Xun:
  • Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk (B)
  • Wild Grass (B)
• LUCA, Ghérasim: The Passive Vampire (-)
• LUCARELLI, Carlo:
  • Almost Blue (B+)
  • Carte Blanche (B+)
  • The Damned Season (B+)
• LUCENTINI, Franco: Runaway Horses (B) (with Carlo Fruttero)
• LUGONES, Leopoldo: Selected Writings (B)
• LUISELLI, Valeria (Mexico):
  • Faces in the Crowd (B+)
  • The Story of My Teeth (B+)
• LUN, Aleksandra: The Palimpsests (A-)
• LUNDESTAD, Geir: 'The World's Most Prestigious Prize' (B)
• LUNGU, Dan: I'm an Old Commie! (B)
• LUSSON, Pierre: A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go (B+), with Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud
• LÜSCHER, Jonas: Kraft (B)
• LÜTHI, Louis: A Die With Twenty-Six Faces (B+)
• LUTTWAK, Edward N.: The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy (B)
• LUYENDIJK, Joris: People Like Us (B) (UK title: Hello Everybody !)

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