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• RABASA, Eduardo: A Zero-Sum Game (A-)
• RABASSA, Gregory: If This Be Treason (B)
• RABINOVICI, Doron: Die Außerirdischen (B)
• RADIGUET, Raymond: Count D'Orgel's Ball (B+)
• RAFEYENKO, Volodymyr: The Length of Days (B)
• RAFFA, Guy P.: Dante's Bones (B)
• RAGHAVANKA: The Life of Harishchandra (B+)
• RAGNA Sigurðardóttir: The Perfect Landscape (B-)
• RAHBARAN, Shiva: Iranian Writers Uncensored (B)
• RAHIMI, Atiq:
  • Earth and Ashes (B+)
  • The Patience Stone (B+)
  • A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (B+)
• RAHMAN, Zia Haider: In the Light of What We Know (B)
• RAITTILA, Hannu: Canal Grande (B+)
• RAJANIEMI, Hannu: The Quantum Thief (B)
• RAMÍREZ, Sergio:
  • Adiós muchachos (B)
  • Divine Punishment (B+)
  • Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea (B+)
  • The Sky Weeps for Me (B)
  • A Thousand Deaths Plus One (A-)
• RAMMSTEDT, Tilman: The King of China (B)
• RAMOS, Graciliano: São Bernardo (B+)
• RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand: The Young Man from Savoy (A-)
• RANKIN, Ian:
  • Black and Blue (B+)
  • Dead Souls (B+)
  • The Falls (B)
  • Fleshmarket Close (US title: Fleshmarket Alley) (B+)
  • A Good Hanging (B)
  • The Hanging Garden (B+)
  • Hide and Seek (B)
  • Knots and Crosses (B)
  • Let it Bleed (B+)
  • Mortal Causes (B)
  • The Naming of the Dead (B+)
  • A Question of Blood (B+)
  • Resurrection Men (B+)
  • Set in Darkness (B+)
  • Tooth and Nail (B+)
• RANSMAYR, Christoph:
  • Atlas of an Anxious Man (A-)
  • Cox (B+)
  • The Flying Mountain (A-)
• RANSOM, Roberto:
  • Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists (B)
  • A Tale of Two Lions (B)
• RAJA Rao:
  • Comrade Kirillov (B)
  • The Serpent and the Rope (B+)
• RAO, Ranga: Fowl-Filcher (B)
• RASPAIL, Jean: The Camp of the Saints (D)
• RAUD, Rein:
  • The Brother (A-)
  • The Reconstruction (B)
• RAVATN, Agnes: The Bird Tribunal (B)
• RAVN, Olga: The Employees (B)
• RAWET, Samuel: The Prophet (B+)
• RAWLEY, James A.: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (B)
• RAY, Jean: Malpertuis (B+)
• RAY, Satyajit:
  • The Buccaneer of Bombay (a.k.a. The Bandits of Bombay) (B)
  • The Golden Fortress (B)
• RAYMOND, Derek: He Died with His Eyes Open (A-)
• REBREANU, Liviu: Ciuleandra (B)
• REES, Emma L.E.: The Vagina (B-)
• REICHER ATIR, Yiftach: The English Teacher (B)
• REIG, Rafael:
  • Blood on the Saddle (B)
  • A Pretty Face (B)
• REIMANN, Brigitte:
  • Das Mädchen auf der Lotosblume (B+)
  • Die Denunziantin (B)
  • Franziska Linkerhand (A-)
  • I Have No Regrets (B+)
  • It All Tastes of Farewell (B)
  • Siblings (B+)
• REINERT, Sophus A.: The Academy of Fisticuffs (B+)
• REJTŐ Jenő: Quarantine in the Grand Hotel (B)
• REMIZOV, Alexei: Sisters of the Cross (B)
• RENDELL, Ruth:
  • The Babes in the Wood (B-)
  • Dark Corners (B)
  • A Sight for Sore Eyes (B+)
  • The Vault (B)
• RENOUARD, Maël: Fragments of an Infinite Memory (B)
• REPILA, Iván: The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse (A-)
• REVE, Gerard:
  • Childhood (B+)
  • The Evenings (A)
• REY ROSA, Rodrigo:
  • The African Shore (B)
  • The Country of Toó (B)
  • Human Matter (B)
  • Severina (B+)
• REYES, Emma: The Book of Emma Reyes (B+)
• REYMONT, Władysław: The Revolt of the Animals (B)
• REZA, Yasmina:
  • See the complete review's Yasmina Reza page
  • Adam Haberberg (B+)
  • 'Art' (B)
  • Babylon (B)
  • Conversations after a Burial (B-)
  • Dawn, Dusk or Night (B)
  • Desolation (B)
  • The God of Carnage (B)
  • Hammerklavier (B)
  • Life x 3 (B)
  • Nulle part (B)
  • The Unexpected Man (B)
• RHODES, Dan:
  • Anthropology (B-)
  • The Little White Car (C)
  • Sour Grapes (B-)
• RIBEIRO, João Ubaldo: House of the Fortunate Buddhas (B-)
• RICARD, François: Agnès's Final Afternoon (B)
• RICE, Ben: Pobby and Dingan (B+)
• RIFBJERG, Klaus: Witness to the Future (B-)
• RÍOS, Julián:
  • The House of Ulysses (B+)
  • Loves That Bind (B)
• RIVETTE, Kevin G.: Rembrandts in the Attic (with David Kline) (B)
• RIZAL, José:
  • El Filibusterismo (B+)
  • Noli Me Tangere (B+)
• RO, Awk (ed.): Spacebloom (-)
• ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain:
  • Repetition (B+)
  • A Sentimental Novel (-)
• ROBBERECHTS, Daniël: Arriving in Avignon (B)
• ROBERT, Denis: Happiness (C)
• ROBERTS, Adam: Jack Glass (B)
• ROBERTS, Alasdair: Four Crises of American Democracy (B+)
• ROBERTS, Geoffrey: Stalin's Library (B)
• ROBERTS, Jennifer Tolbert: Athens on Trial (B+)
• ROBINSON, Andrew: Cracking the Egyptian Code (B)
• ROBINSON, Kim Stanley:
  • Aurora (A-)
  • Blue Mars (B+)
  • Fifty Degrees Below (B)
  • Forty Signs of Rain (B)
  • Green Mars (B)
  • Red Mars (B+)
  • Sixty Days and Counting (B)
  • 2312 (B+)
• ROBINSON, Marilynne: Absence of Mind (B)
• ROCHE, Charlotte: Wetlands (B)
• ROCHE, Maurice: Compact (B)
• RODARI, Gianni: Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto (B-)
• RODDY, Nikki: How To Fight, Lie, and Cry Your Way to Popularity (and a Prom Date) (B)
• RODENBACH, Georges: Bruges-la-Morte (B+)
• [ROGER, Philippe: The American Enemy]
• ROHE, Oliver: Origin Unknown (B)
• ROHMER, Sax: The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (B-)
• ROJAS, Agustín de:
  • A Legend of the Future (B)
  • The Year 200 (B+)
• ROJAS, Carlos:
  • The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell (B+)
  • The Valley of the Fallen (A)
• ROJAS, Fernando de: Celestina (B+)
• ROKEYA Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana's Dream and Padmarag (B)
• ROLIN, Jean: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose (B)
• ROLIN, Olivier:
  • Hotel Crystal (B)
  • Paper Tiger (B)
  • S. (B)
• ROMAINS, Jules: Donogoo-Tonka (B)
• RONCAGLIOLO, Santiago:
  • Hi, This is Conchita (B)
  • Red April (B)
• ROSALES, Emili: The Invisible City (B)
• ROSALES, Guillermo: The Halfway House (B+)
• ROSE, Mark: Authors in Court (A-)
• ROSENFIELD, Israel: Freud's Megalomania (B-)
• ROSENHOUSE, Jason: Among the Creationists (B)
• ROSLUND, Anders (with Börge Hellström):
  • Box 21 (B)
  • Three Seconds (B)
• ROSSI, Paolo: Logic and the Art of Memory (B+)
• ROSZAK, Theodore: The Gendered Atom (C-)
• ROTH, Gerhard: the autobiography of albert einstein (B)
• ROTH, Philip:
  • American Pastoral (B+)
  • The Counterlife (A-)
  • The Ghost Writer (B+)
  • The Humbling (B)
  • Indignation (B)
  • Nemesis (B)
  • The Plot Against America (A)
  • The Prague Orgy (B)
• ROUBAUD, Jacques:
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-)
  • The Great Fire of London (A-)
  • Mathematics: (B+)
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B)
  • A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go (B+), with Pierre Lusson and Georges Perec
  • Some Thing Black (B+)
• ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (A-)
• ROY, Olivier: Secularism Confronts Islam (B)
• ROYLE, Nicholas:
  • Antwerp (B+)
  • First Novel (B+)
• RÓŻEWICZ, Tadeusz: Mother Departs (B+)
• ROZIER, Gilles: The Mercy Room (UK title: Love Without Resistance) (B-)
• RUBIN, Jay: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (B)
• RUBY, Ryan: Context Collapse (B+)
• RUFF, Matt: 88 Names (B)
• RUGE, Eugen:
  • Follower (B)
  • In Times of Fading Light (B)
• RUGGIERO, Guido: Love and Sex in the Time of Plague (B+)
• RUHENI, Mwangi:
  • The Diamond Lady (B-)
  • The Future Leaders (B)
• RUIZ ZAFÓN, Carlos:
  • [The Angel's Game]
  • The Shadow of the Wind (B+)
• RULFO, Juan: Pedro Páramo (A-)
• RUSE, Michael:
  • Can a Darwinian be a Christian ? (B)
  • Mystery of Mysteries (B)
• RUSEV, Bogdan: Come to Me (B)
• RUSH, Norman: Mating (B)
• RUSHDIE, Salman:
  • [The Enchantress of Florence]
  • The Ground beneath her Feet (B-)
  • Joseph Anton (B+)
  • Shalimar the Clown (B)
• RUSKOV, Milen: Thrown into Nature (B)
• RUSLI, Marah: Sitti Nurbaya (B+)
• RUSS, Joanna: We Who Are About To ... (A-)
• RUSSELL, R.B.: Fifty Forgotten Books (B)
• RUSSINOVICH, Mark: Zero Day (B-)
• RUSWA, Muhammad Hadi: The Madness of Waiting (-)
• RYANG, Sonia: Reading North Korea (B)
• RYBACK, Timothy W.: Hitler's Private Library (B+)
• RYBAKOVA, Maria: Gnedich (B+)
• RYSKAMP, John Henry: Nature Studies (C-)

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