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Titles - B:

• Baba Dunja's Last Love (B+), Aina BRONSKY
• Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (B+), Dubravka UGREŠIĆ
• Babel (B), Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison, Katrin Kohl, and Matthew Reynolds
• Babel Tower (A), A.S.BYATT
• Babelandia (B+), Demetrio AGUILERA MALTA
• The Babes in the Wood (B-), Ruth RENDELL
• Baburnama (B+), Zahiruddin Muhammad BABUR
• Babyfucker (B+), Urs ALLEMANN
• Babylon (B+), René CREVEL
• Babylon (B), Yasmina REZA
• [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.), Maurice G. DANTEC]
• Bacacay (B+), Witold GOMBROWICZ
• Backed Against the Sea (B), WANG Wen-Hsing
• Backlight (B), HANAWA Kanji
• The Backstreets (B), Perhat TURSUN
• Bäckström: He Who Kills the Dragon (B-), Leif GW PERSSON
• Bacons Finsternis (B), Wilfried STEINER
• The Bad Angel Brothers (B), Paul THEROUX
• Bad Eminence (B+), James GREER
• The Bad Girl (B-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Bad Kids (B), CHEN Zijin
• Bad Luck and Trouble (B), Lee CHILD
• Bad Nature (B+), Javier MARÍAS
• Badfellas (B), Tonino BENACQUISTA
• Bait (A-), David ALBAHARI
• Bait (B), Mahasweta DEVI
• Baking With Kafka (B+), Tom GAULD
• Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood (B+), Robert ELSIE (ed.)
• The Ball (Le Bal) (A-), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye (B+), Muriel SPARK
• The Ballad of Lee Cotton (A-), Christopher WILSON
• Balmoral (B), Michael FRAYN
• Baloney (A-), Maxime Raymond BOCK
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+), DAI Sijie
• Bambi (A-), Felix SALTEN
• Bamdad-e Khomar (B+), Fattaneh HAJ SEYED JAVADI
• Bandanna (B-), Paul MULDOON
• Bandit Love (B), Massimo CARLOTTO
• The Bandits of Bombay (B), Satyajit RAY
• The Banquet in Blitva (B+), Miroslav KRLEŽA
• Banquet of Lies (B+), Amin ZAOUI
• A Barbarian in Asia (A-), Henri MICHAUX
• Barbe bleue (B+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Barley Patch (A+), Gerald MURNANE
• The Baroque Cycle, Neal STEPHENSON:
  • I. Quicksilver (B+)
  • II. The Confusion (B)
  • III. The System of the World (B)
• Bartleby & Co. (B+), Enrique VILA-MATAS
• Bartleby, the Scrivener (A-), Herman MELVILLE
• A Basket of Leaves (-), Geoff WISNER
• Basrayatha (B), Mohammed KHUDAYYIR
• Basti (B+), Intizar HUSAIN
• The Bathroom (B+), Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT
• Battle Royale (B), TAKAMI Koushun
• Be as Children (B+), Vladimir SHAROV
• The Beach at Night (B+), Elena FERRANTE
• Bear (A), Marian ENGEL
• The Bear and the Paving Stone (B+), HORIE Toshiyuki
• The Bear Boy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Beast in the Nursery (B), Adam PHILLIPS
• Beast in View (B), Margaret MILLAR
• Beatles (B+), Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN
• [Beatrice and Virgil, Yann MARTEL]
• The Beautiful Bureaucrat (B), Helen PHILLIPS
• Beautiful Image (B), Marcel AYMÉ
• Beauty and Sadness (B+), KAWABATA Yasunari
• Beauty is a Wound (A-), Eka KURNIAWAN
• Beauty Salon (B-), Mario BELLATÍN
• Because She Never Asked (A), Enrique VILA-MATAS
• Becoming Abigail (B+), Chris ABANI
• Bed of Nails (B), Antonin VARENNE
• Bedlam Burning (A-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• Bee Time (B), Mark L. WINSTON
• Beer in the Snooker Club (B+), Waguih GHALI
• Beerholms Vorstellung (B), Daniel KEHLMANN
• Beethoven's Assassins (B), Andrew CRUMEY
• Before and During (A-), Vladimir SHAROV
• Before I Croak (B), Anna BABIASHKINA
• Before the Throne (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Beginning and the End (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Being Abbas el Abd (B+), Ahmed ALAIDY
• Beirut 2020 (B+), Charif MAJDALANI
• The Bell (B), Iris MURDOCH
• The Bell in the Lake (B+), Lars MYTTING
• Belladonna (A-), Daša DRNDIĆ
• Belle de Jour (B), Joseph KESSEL
• The Belles Lettres Papers (B-), Charles SIMMONS
• Bellini and the Sphinx (B), Tony BELLOTTO
• The Belly of the Atlantic (B+), Fatou DIOME
• Berg (B), Ann QUIN
• Berge (B+), Jan KJÆRSTAD
• Bergeners (B+), Tomas ESPEDAL
• Berichte von Hinze und Kunze (B+), Volker BRAUN
• Berta Isla (A-), Javier MARÍAS
• Betrayal (A-), Giorgio SCERBANENCO
• Het bestand (B), Arnon GRUNBERG
• Bestseller (B), Beka ADAMASHVILI
• Betty Boo (B), Claudia PIÑEIRO
• Between Father and Son (B-), V. S. NAIPAUL
• Between Parentheses (A-), Roberto BOLAÑO
• Between Security and Insecurity (B-), Ivan KLÍMA
• Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (B), Leif GW PERSSON
• [Between the Assassinations, Aravind ADIGA]
• Beyond All Reasonable Doubt (B), Malin PERSSON GIOLITO
• Beyond Greek (B), Denis FEENEY
• Beyond Measure (--), Jim BAGGOTT
• Beyond Sleep (A-), Willem Frederik HERMANS
• Beyond Suspicion (B), Tanguy VIEL
• Beyond the Door of No Return (B+), David DIOP
• Beyond the Hoax (A-), Alan SOKAL
• Bharathipura (B), U.R.ANANTHAMURTHY
• Bhima (B), M.T. VASUDEVAN NAIR
• Bibliolepsy (A-), Gina APOSTOL
• Les Bienveillantes (C-), Jonathan LITTELL
• Big Blondes (B-), Jean ECHENOZ
• The Big Clock (B+), Kenneth FEARING
• Big Fiction (B), Dan SINYKIN
• Big Girls don't Cry (also: Big Women) (A-), Fay WELDON
• The Big Green Tent (B), Ludmila ULITSKAYA
• Big Noises (A-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Big Over Easy (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• Big Toys (B), Patrick WHITE
• Big Women (also: Big Girls don't Cry) (A-), Fay WELDON
• Bigot Hall (B), Steve AYLETT
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts (B), Ogi OGAS and Sai GADDAM
• Binary (B), Michael CRICHTON
• The Biographer's Tale (B+), A.S.BYATT
• Biographical and Autobiographical Writings (B+), Leon Battista ALBERTI
• Biographie de la faim (A), Amélie NOTHOMB
• A Biography of a Chance Miracle (B), Tanja MALJARTSCHUK
• Biography of X (B), Catherine LACEY
• Biology is Technology (B+), Robert H. CARLSON
• The Biplane Houses (B+), Les MURRAY
• The Bird Tribunal (B), Agnes RAVATN
• Birdbrain (B+), Johana SINISALO
• Birds (B+), ARISTOPHANES
• The Birds of Verhovina (B+), BODOR Ádám
• Birth of a Bridge (B+), Maylis de KERANGAL
• Birth of a Dream Weaver (B), NGŨGĨ wa Thiong'o
• The Birth of Kumára (B+), KĀLIDĀSA
• The Birthday Party (B), Laurent MAUVIGNIER
• The Bishop's Bedroom (B), Piero CHIARA
• Bitter Bitch (B), Maria SVELAND
• Bitter Drink (B), F.G.HAGHENBECK
• Black Air (B), Agustín FERNÁNDEZ PAZ
• Black and Blue (B+), Ian RANKIN
• Black Box (B+), Amos OZ
• The Black Cathedral (B), Marcial GALA
• The Black Cauldron (B), William HEINESEN
• Black Diamond (B-), Zakes MDA
• Black Empire (B), George S. SCHUYLER
• Black Money (B+), Ross MACDONALD
• The Black Path (B), Åsa LARSSON
• Black Run (B), Antonio MANZINI
• The Black Sheep (B+), Honoré de BALZAC
• The Black Sheep (A-), Augusto MONTERROSO
• The Black Signs (B), Lars Mørch FINBORUD
• Black Swan Green (B), David MITCHELL
• The Black Spider (B+), Jeremias GOTTHELF
• Blackmailer (B), George AXELROD
• Blackout (B), Gianluca MOROZZI
• Bleeding London (A), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth (B), VEERAPORN Nitiprapha
• The Blind Owl (A-), Sadegh HEDAYAT
• The Blind Rider (A-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• Blinding Light (B+), Paul THEROUX
• Blindly (A-), Claudio MAGRIS
• Blindsight (B+), Hervé GUIBERT
• Blindsight (B), Rosmarie WALDROP
• Bliss Was it in Bohemia (B+), Michal VIEWEGH
• Blitz (B), David TRUEBA
• The Blizzard (B), Vladimir SOROKIN
• Blood Crime (B-), Sebastià ALZAMORA
• Blood Dark (B+), Louis GUILLOUX
• The Blood of Angels (B), Johanna SINISALO
• Blood on the Saddle (B), Rafael REIG
• Blood Safari (B), Deon MEYER
• Blood Wedding (B), Pierre LEMAITRE
• Bloodshed (B+), Cynthia OZICK
• Blue Aubergine (B+), Miral al-TAHAWY
• Blue Bay Palace (B), Nathacha APPANAH
• The Blue Fox (B+), SJÓN
• Blue Has No South (B), Alex EPSTEIN
• Blue Label (B), Eduardo SÁNCHEZ RUGELES
• Blue Lard (B), Vladimir SOROKIN
• Blue Mars (B+), Kim Stanley ROBINSON
• Blue Remembered Hills (B+), Dennis POTTER
• The Blue Room (A-), Georges SIMENON
• Blue Surge (B), Rebecca GILMAN
• Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores (B), Massimo CARLOTTO
• Blumenberg (B+), Sibylle LEWITSCHAROFF
• Bly (B), Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN
• Boating for Beginners (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• Bobby Fischer Goes to War (A), David EDMONDS and John EIDINOW
• Bodies of Summer (B), Martin Felipe CASTAGNET
• A Bohemian Youth (B+), Josef HIRŠAL
• Bolshevik Salute (B), WANG Meng
• Bomb, Book and Compass (US title: The Man Who Loved China) (B), Simon WINCHESTER
• A Bond Undone (B), JIN Yong
• [Bonita Avenue, Peter BUWALDA]
• Bonjour Tristesse (B+), Françoise SAGAN
• Bonsai (B+), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• The Book about Blanche and Marie (B+), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Book against God (B), James WOOD
• The Book and the Brotherhood (B+), Iris MURDOCH
• The Book and the Sword (B+), Louis CHA (Jin Yong)
• Book Business (B+), Jason EPSTEIN
• The Book Censor's Library (B), Bothayna AL-ESSA
• The Book Nobody Read (B+), Owen GINGERICH
• The Book of Bachelors (B+), Philip TERRY
• The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (A-), Geoffrey HILL
• The Book of Beginnings (B+), François JULLIEN
• The Book of Chameleons (B+), José Eduardo AGUALUSA
• The Book of Collateral Damage (B+), Sinan ANTOON
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (B), Philip PULLMAN
• The Book of Emma Reyes (B+), Emma REYES
• The Book of Happenstance (B), Ingrid WINTERBACH
• The Book of Hrabal (A-), ESTERHÁZY Péter
• The Book of Lost Books (B-), Stuart KELLY
• The Book of Madness (B-), Levent ŞENYÜREK
• The Book of Margins (B), Edmond JABÈS
• The Book of Murder (B), Guillermo MARTÍNEZ
• Book of Numbers (B+), Joshua COHEN
• The Book of Prefaces (A), Alasdair GRAY
• The Book of Proper Names (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Book of Sins (B), CHEN Xiwo
• The Book of the Most Precious Substance (B+), Sara GRAN
• The Book of the Prick (B-), Antonio VIGNALI
• The Book of Travels (B+), Ḥannā DIYĀB
• The Book of Trouble (B), Ann MARLOWE
• [Book Self, C.K.STEAD]
• The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-), Rebecca GILLIERON and Catheryn KILGARRIFF
• Books (B), Charlie HILL
• The Books of Jacob (B+), Olga TOKARCZUK
• The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-), James P. CARLEY
• The Bookshop (A-), Penelope FITZGERALD
• A Bookshop in Algiers (B), Kaouther ADIMI
• The Boomer (B-), Marty ASHER
• Border Districts (A-), Gerald MURNANE
• Border Town (B+), SHEN Congwen
• [Borges, Adolfo BIOY CASARES]
• Borges: A Life (B+), Edwin WILLIAMSON
• Borges: A Life (also:The Man in the Mirror of the Book) (B+), James WOODALL
• Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (B+), Luis Fernando VERISSIMO
• Borges and the Literary Marketplace (-), Nora C. BENEDICT
• Borges in/and/on Film (B), Edgardo COZARINSKY
• Borkmann's Point (B), Håkan NESSER
• Born Yesterday (B+), Gordon BURN
• A Borrowed Man (B), Gene WOLFE
• Bot (B), Clemens J. SETZ
• Botchan (B+), NATSUME Soseki
• Bound to Last (B), ed. Sean MANNING
• Bound to Violence (B+), Yambo OUOLOGUEM
• Boundary (B), Andrée A. MICHAUD
• Bournville (B+), Jonathan COE
• Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-), Gustave FLAUBERT
• The Box (B), Günter GRASS
• Box 21 (B), Anders ROSLUND and Börge HELLSTRÖM
• Boxes (B+), Pascal GARNIER
• Boy gets Girl (B), Rebecca GILMAN
• The Boy in the Earth (B), NAKAMURA Fuminori
• The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse (A-), Iván REPILA
• The Boys who Stole the Funeral (A-), Les MURRAY
• Branded Woman (B-), Wade MILLER
• Brandes's Decision (B), Eduard MÁRQUEZ
• The Brass Go-Between (B+), Ross THOMAS (writing as Oliver Bleeck)
• The Break of Day (C+), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• The Breakage (B), Glyn MAXWELL
• Breaking Away (B-), Anna GAVALDA
• Breaking Knees (B), Zakaria TAMER
• Breaking the Deadlock (B), Richard POSNER
• Breaking the Real Axis of Evil (B), Mark PALMER
• Breaking the Spell (B+), Daniel C. DENNETT
• Breasts and Eggs (B+), KAWAKAMI Mieko
• The Breath of Life (B-), David HARE
• Breathing under Water (B-), Marie DARRIEUSSECQ
• Brecht at Night (B+), Mati UNT
• Brecht in der Kritik (-), Monika WYSS (ed.)
• Brecht's Mistress (B+), Jacques-Pierre AMETTE
• Bred to Kill (B), Franck THILLIEZ
• Bride and Groom (B), Alisa GANIEVA
• A Brief History of Portable Literature (B), Enrique VILA-MATAS
• A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (B), David TRESILIAN
• Brief Lives of Idiots (B), Ermanno CAVAZZONI
• The Briefcase (B+), KAWAKAMI Hiromi
• Briefe (B), Peter WEISS
• Briefwechsel (B), Paul FEYERABEND and Hans ALBERT
• The Bright Side of Life (B+), Émile ZOLA
• The Bright Sword (B-), Lev GROSSMAN
• Bright Young Things (B), Scarlett THOMAS
• Brisbane (B+), Eugene VODOLAZKIN
• Brodeck's Report (also: Brodek) (B), Philippe CLAUDEL
• Broken Glass (B+), ALain MABANCKOU
• Broken Glass Park (B), Alina BRONSKY
• The Brother (A-), Rein RAUD
• The Brueghel Moon (B), Tamaz CHILADZE
• Bruges-la-Morte (B+), Georges RODENBACH
• Brummstein (B+), Peter ADOLPHSEN
• The Buccaneer of Bombay (B), Satyajit RAY
• The Budding Tree (B+), KITAHARA Aiko
• [Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires, Gilbert ADAIR]
• The Bulgarian Truck (B), Dumitru TSEPENEAG
• Bullet Train (B), ISAKA Kotaro
• Bullfight (A-), INOUE Yasushi
• Bullseye ! (B), TSUTSUI Yasutaka
• Bulwer Lytton (B+), Leslie MITCHELL
• The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B), Wole SOYINKA
• Bürger und Soldaten 1918 (B+), Alfred DÖBLIN
• Burma Boy (B), Biyi BANDELE
• Burma Chronicles (B), Guy DELISLE
• Burma/Myanmar (B), David I. STEINBERG
• Burma Sahib (B+), Paul THEROUX
• Burn Rate (B), Michael WOLFF
• The Business (B), Iain BANKS
• The Business of Books (B+), André SCHIFFRIN
• Buster Keaton (A-), Kari HOTAKAINEN
• But Beautiful (A), Geoff DYER
• Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (B+), Pankaj MISHRA
• The Butterfly (B-), James M. CAIN
• Butterfly Burning (C+), Yvonne VERA
• Butterfly Wings (B), Mohamed SALMAWY
• Buzz (B-), Ander DE LA MOTTE
• Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion ? (B), Johan HARSTAD
• By a Slow River (A-), Philippe CLAUDEL
• By the Pen (B+), Jalal AL-E AHMAD
• By the Tungabhadra (B), Saradindu BANDOPADHYAY

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