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Titles - C:

• C (B+), Tom McCARTHY
• The Cabinet (B), KIM Un-su
• [Caesarion (US title: Little Caesar), Tommy WIERINGA]
• The Cage (B+), Alberts BELS
• The Cage (B), KITAKATA Kenzo
• A Cage in Search of a Bird (B)m Florence NOIVILLE
• Cain (B+), José SARAMAGO
• Cairo Modern (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Cairo Swan Song (B), Mekkawi SAID
• The Cairo Trilogy (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• The Calcutta Chromosome (B), Amitav GHOSH
• The Calligraphers' Night (B+), Yasmine GHATA
• Calligraphy Lesson (B), Mikhail SHISHKIN
• Callirhoe (B+), CHARITON
• The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-), ed. Katherine E. KELLY
• The Cambridge Companion to World Literature (-), eds. Ben ETHERINGTON and Jarad ZIMBLER
• The Cambridge Quintet (C-), John L. CASTI
• Camera (B), Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT
• The Camera Killer (B+), Thomas GLAVINIC
• Camille (B), Pierre LEMAITRE
• Camouflage (B), Yuz ALESHKOVSKY
• Camouflage (A-), Murray BAIL
• The Camp of the Saints (D), Jean RASPAIL
• Campo Santo (B), W.G.SEBALD
• Can a Darwinian be a Christian ? (B), Michael RUSE
• Canaan (B), Geoffrey HILL
• Canal Grande (B+), Hannu RAITTILA
• The Candidate (B), Zareh VORPOUNI
• candygirl (B), M.M.TAWFIK
• The Cannibal Galaxy (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• Can't and Won't (B+), Lydia DAVIS
• Canvas (B+), Adam ZAGAJEWSKI
• The Canvas (B+), Benjamin STEIN
• The Capital (B), Robert MENASSE
• Captain Blood (B+), Rafael SABATINI
• Captain Nemo's Library (A-), Per Olov ENQUIST
• The Captain of the Butterflies (B+), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• The Captain's Daughter (B+), Alexander PUSHKIN
• Captivity (A-), SPIRÓ György
• Card Catalogue (B), Alistair Ian BLYTH
• The Cardboard House (B), Martín ADÁN
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (B+), Tadeusz DOŁĘGA-MOSTOWICZ
• The Caretaker (B), Doon ARBUS
• A Caring Man (C), ARAI Akira
• Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (B), Thomas GLAVINIC
• Caroline the One-Guinea Girl (B-), Ogali OGALI
• Carte Blanche (B+), Carlo LUCARELLI
• The Cartier Project (B), Miha MAZZINI
• Casablanca Story (B), In Koli Jean BOFANE
• Casanova in Bolzano (UK title: Conversations in Bolzano) (B), MÁRAI Sándor
• Case Closed (A-), Patrik OUŘEDNÍK
• The Case for Literature (B+), GAO Xingjian
• Case Histories (A-), Kate ATKINSON
• [A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed HANIF]
• The Case of the Female Orgasm (B), Elisabeth A. LLOYD
• The Case of the General's Thumb (B), Andrey KURKOV
• The Case of the Girl in Grey (B), Jordan STRATFORD
• The Case of the Missing Moonstone (B), Jordan STRATFORD
• Case Study (B+), Graeme Macrae BURNET
• Cassandra (B+), Lesia UKRAINKA
• Castle Gripsholm (B), Kurt TUCHOLSKY
• A Castle in Romagna (B+), Igor ŠTIKS
• Catastrophe (B-), Richard POSNER
• The Catastrophist (B), Ronan BENNETT
• Caterva (B+), Juan FILLOY
• The Cathedral of Mist (B+), Paul WILLEMS
• Cavalcade (B), Walter SATTERTHWAIT
• The Cave (B+), Tim KRABBÉ
• The Cavemen Chronicle (B+), Mihkel MUTT
• The Caves of Alienation (B), Stuart EVANS
• La cazzaria: The Book of the Prick (B-), Antonio VIGNALI
• Ce qu'ils disent ou rien (B), Annie ERNAUX
• The Celestial City (B), Diego MARANI
• Celestina (B+), Fernando de ROJAS
• Celia's Secret (B+), Michael FRAYN and David BURKE
• Cell Block Five (B+), Fadhil al-AZZAWI
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story (B), Shahriar MANDANIPOUR
• The Censor's Notebook (B), Liliana COROBCA
• The Centaur in the Garden (B+), Moacyr SCLIAR
• Centuria (A), Giorgio MANGANELLI
• A Certain Smile (B), Françoise SAGAN
• The Certificate (A-), Isaac Bashevis SINGER
• C'est la Vie (B+), Pascal GARNIER
• Chairman of Fools (B), Shimmer CHINODYA
• Chaka (B+), Thomas MOFOLO
• Cham (B), Jonathan TRIGELL
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary (-)
• Change (B), MO Yan
• Change Me (B), Andrej BLATNIK
• A Change of Climate (B+), Hilary MANTEL
• Chaos and All That (B+), LIU Sola
• Chaos in Kinshasa (B-), Barly BARUTI and Thierry BELLEFROID
• The Character of Rain (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Charles Bovary, Country Doctor (A-), Jean AMÉRY
• Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' (B), ed. Desmond KING-HELE
• Charlotte (C-), David FOENKINOS
• Charon (B), Giovanni Gioviano PONTANO
• Chasing Lolita (B), Graham VICKERS
• Chasing the Dream (B), Liane de POUGY
• Chaucer (B-), Peter ACKROYD
• Checkpoint (B+), David ALBAHARI
• Checkpoint (B+), Nicholson BAKER
• Cheese (B+), Willem ELSSCHOT
• The Cheese Monkeys (B-), Chip KIDD
• The Chemistry of Tears (B+), Peter CAREY
• Cheraghha ra man khamoosh mikonam (B+), Zoya PIRZAD
• The Chestnut Man (B), Søren SVEISTRUP
• Chicago (B), Alaa Al ASWANY
• Chief the Honourable Minister (B), T.M.ALUKO
• The Child (B), Pascale KRAMER
• [Child of All Nations, Irmgard KEUN]
• The Child That Books Built (B), Francis SPUFFORD
• Childhood (A-), Tove DITLEVSEN
• Childhood (B+), Gerard REVE
• Childish Literature (B), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• The Children Act (B+), Ian McEWAN
• Children Come by Ship (B), Oliver FRIGGIERI
• Children of Clay (B+), Raymond QUENEAU
• Children in Reindeer Woods (B+), KRISTÍN Ómarsdóttir
• The Children's Book (B+), A.S.BYATT
• Child's Play (B-), Carmen POSADAS
• Chilean Poet (B+), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• Chinaman (US title: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew) (B+), Shehan KARUNATILAKA
• Chinaman's Chance (A-), Ross THOMAS
• Chinese Letter (B+), Svetislav BASARA
• The Chinese Political Novel (B), Catherine Vance YEH
• 治療塔 (B), ŌE Kenzaburō
• 沈黙博物館 (B+), OGAWA Yoko
• Chitambo (B+), Hagar OLSSON
• Choice Cuts (B), BOILEAU-NARCEJAC
• Chopin's Move (B), Jean ECHENOZ
• Chourmo (B), Jean-Claude IZZO
• Chowringhee (B), SANKAR
• Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (A), B. S. JOHNSON
• Christmas Day (B+), Paul DURCAN
• Christopher Unborn (B), Carlos FUENTES
• Christ's Entry into Brussels (A-), Dimitri VERHULST
• A Chronicle of the Peacocks (B+), Intizar HUSAIN
• Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (B+), Wole SOYINKA
• La Chunga (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• The Church of Solitude (B), Grazia DELEDDA
• The Circus (B), Jonas KARLSSON
• The Circumcision (B), DALOS György
• Cities without Palms (B), Tarek ELTAYEB
• The City (-), Frans MASEREEL
• The City and its Uncertain Walls (A-), MURAKAMI Haruki
• City Folk and Country Folk (B+), Sofia KHVOSHCHINSKAYA
• The City in Crimson Cloak (B), Aslı ERDOĞAN
• City of Angels (B+), Christa WOLF
• City of Ash and Red (B+), PYUN Hye-Young
• City of Love and Ashes (B), Yusuf IDRIS
• City of Refuge (B+), KITAKATA Kenzo
• City of Ulysses (B), Teolinda GERSÃO
• A City on Mars (B), Kelly and Zach WEINERSMITH
• The City Trilogy (B), CHANG Hsi-Kuo
  • I. Five Jade Disks (B)
  • II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
  • III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
• A City under Siege (B), Habib AHMADZADEH
• The City under the Skin (B+), Geoff NICHOLSON
• Ciuleandra (B), Liviu REBREANU
• Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (B+), Sara GRAN
• Clark Gifford's Body (B), Keneth FEARING
• The Class (C), François BÉGAUDEAU
• Class Trip (B+), Emmanuel CARRÈRE
• Cleaned Out (A-), Annie ERNAUX
• The Cleanest Race (B), B.R.MYERS
• A Cleaning Woman (B), Christian OSTER
• The Clerk (B), Guillermo SACCOMANNO
• The Clerkenwell Tales (B), Peter ACKROYD
• Cliffs (B+), Olivier ADAM
• Climate of Fear (B), Wole SOYINKA
• A Closed Book (B+), Gilbert ADAIR
• The Closed Circle (B+), Jonathan COE
• The Closed Garden (A-), Julien GREEN
• Closer (A-), Patrick MARBER
• The Clothes They Stood Up in (A-), Alan BENNETT
• The Clothing of Books (B), Jhumpa LAHIRI
• Cloud Atlas (B+), David MITCHELL
• The Cloud-Messenger, (B), KALIDASA (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
• The Cloud Messenger, (B), KALIDASA (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
• Clouds (B+), ARISTOPHANES
• The Club (B), Takis WÜRGER
• The Club of Angels (B), Luis Fernando VERISSIMO
• The Club of True Creators (B), Milan TRIPKOVIĆ
• Co-wives, Co-widows (B), Adrienne YABOUZA
• The Coast of Utopia (A-),Tom STOPPARD:
  • Part I - Voyage (A-)
  • Part II - Shipwreck (B+)
  • Part III - Salvage (B+)
• Cobra (B), Deon MEYER
• Cobralingus (A-), Jeff NOON
• Cocaine (A), PITIGRILLI
• The Cockatoos (B+), Patrick WHITE
• A Cock-Eyed Comedy (B-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• [Cockroach, Rawi HAGE]
• The Cocktail Waitress (B), James M. CAIN
• Coda (B), René BELLETTO
• Code - and other Laws of Cyberspace (A-), Lawrence LESSIG
• Coffee at Luke's (B) ed. Jennifer Crusie
• The Coffeehouse (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Cogwheels (B+), AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke
• Coincidance (B-), Robert Anton WILSON
• Cold Enough For Snow (A-), Jessica AU
• Cold Lazarus (B), Dennis POTTER
• Cold Shoulder (B+), Markus WERNER
• Cold Skin (B), Albert SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL
• The Cold Summer (B), Gianrico CAROFIGLIO
• The Cold War Swap (B), Ross THOMAS
• The Collaborators (B), Pierre SINIAC
• Collected Fictions (A-), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Collected Poems (B), David MARKSON
• The Collector Collector (B), Tibor FISCHER
• The Collector of Worlds (A-), Ilya TROYANOV
• The Collini Case (B), Ferdinand von SCHIRACH
• The Colombian Mule (B), Massimo CARLOTTO
• The Colonel (A-), Mahmoud DOWLATABADI
• Colonel Chabert (A-), Honoré de BALZAC
• Colonel Lágrimas (B), Carlos FONSECA
• The Colorado Kid (B), Stephen KING
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (B+), MURAKAMI Haruki
• The Colors of Infamy (B+), Albert COSSERY
• The Colour of Memory (B+), Geoff DYER
• The Columnist (B), David AUBURN
• Come Closer (B+), Sara GRAN
• Come to Me (B), Bogdan RUSEV
• Comedy in a Minor Key (B), Hans KEILSON
• The Comedy of Asses (B), PLAUTUS
• The Comely Cook (B), Mikhail CHULKOV
• Comic Potential (A-), Alan AYCKBOURN
• Coming from an Off-Key Time (B), Bogdan SUCEAVĂ
• Coming of Age at the End of History (B), Camille de TOLEDO
• The Coming of Joachim Stiller (B), Hubert LAMPO
• The Coming of the Body (B), Hervé JUVIN
• Commentary (B), Marcelle SAUVAGEOT
• The Committee (B), Sun'allah IBRAHIM
• Communicating Doors (A-), Alan AYCKBOURN
• The Communist (B), Guido MORSELLI
• Compact (B), Maurice ROCHE
• Company (B-), Max BARRY
• The Company of Ghosts (A-), Lydie SALVAYRE
• Compass (A-), Mathias ÉNARD
• Compendium of the Dead (B), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• The Complete Poetry (A-), César VALLEJO
• {The Complete Review: Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews, M.A.ORTHOFER}
• Collected Works (B), Lydia SANDGREN
• Complete Works & Other Stories (A), Augusto MONTERROSO
• Comrade Kirillov (B), Raja RAO
• Comrade Papa (B), GAUZ'
• Comrade Sahib (B+), Rohit HANDA
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B), GUO Xiaolu
• Conclave (B), Robert HARRIS
• Conclave (B), Roberto PAZZI
• The Condition of Muzak (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• Conduct Unbecoming (B), T.M.ALUKO
• The Conductor (B+), Jean FERRY
• Confabulario (B), Juan José ARREOLA
• The Confession (B+), Domenic STANSBERRY
• Confessions (B-), MINATO Kanae
• Confessions of a Young Novelist (B), Umberto ECO
• Confessions of an Italian (B), Ippolito NIEVO
• The Confessions of Noa Weber (A-), Gail HAREVEN
• The Confusion (B), Neal STEPHENSON
• Confusion (B+), Stefan ZWEIG
• Congo Inc. (B+), In Koli Jean BOFANE
• Conjugal Love (A-), Alberto MORAVIA
• The Conqueror (A-), Jan KJÆRSTAD
• Conquest of Abundance (B+), Paul K. FEYERABEND
• Conscious and Verbal (B), Les MURRAY
• The Conscript (B), Gebreyesus HAILU
• Consequences (B), Philippe DJIAN
• The Consequences (B+), Niña WEIJERS
• The Consolations of Philosophy (B-), Alain De BOTTON
• A Conspiracy of Faith (B), Jussi ADLER-OLSEN
• The Constant Rabbit (B), Jasper FFORDE
• Constant Reader (B), Dorothy PARKER
• Constellation (B), Adrien BOSC
• Contemporary Portraits (A-), Murray BAIL
• Context Collapse (B+), Ryan RUBY
• The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (A-), D.G.COMPTON
• A Contrived World (B+), JUNG Young-moon
• Convenience Store Woman (B+), MURATA Sayaka
• Conversation with Spinoza (A-), Goce SMILEVSKI
• Conversations (B-), Jorge Luis BORGES
• Conversations after a Burial (B-), Yasmina REZA
• Conversations in Bolzano (US title: Casanova in Bolzano) (B), MÁRAI Sándor
• Conversations with Ayckbourn (B+), Ian WATSON
• Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B), ed. Bernth Lindfors
• Conversations with James Joyce (B+), Arthur POWER
• Conversations with Professor Y (A-), Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
• Conversations with Stoppard (B-), Tom STOPPARD and Mel GUSSOW
• Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov (B+), ed. Robert GOLLA
• Conversations With William H. Gass (B), ed. Theodore G. Ammon
• The Conversions (B+), Harry MATHEWS
• Cooking with Fernet Branca (B), James HAMILTON-PATERSON
• Copenhagen (A), Michael FRAYN
• The Copenhagen Papers (B+), Michael FRAYN and David BURKE
• The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove DITLEVSEN:
  1. Childhood (A-)
  2. Youth (B+)
  3. Dependency (B+)
• The Core of the Sun (B), Johanna SINISALO
• The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• A Corner of the Veil (C), Laurence COSSÉ
• Corporate Atyaachaar (B-), Abhay NAGARAJAN
• The Corporation Wars: Dissidence (B+), Ken MacLEOD
• The Corporation Wars: Emergence (B), Ken MacLEOD
• The Corporation Wars: Insurgence (B), Ken MacLEOD
• A Corpse in the Koryo (B), James CHURCH
• The Corpse Washer (B), Sinan ANTOON
• The Corrections (A), Jonathan FRANZEN
• Corridors of Shadow (B), Agustín FERNÁNDEZ PAZ
• Cosmétique de l'ennemi (A-), Amélie NOTHOMB
• [Cosmos Incorporated, Maurice G. DANTEC]
• Cotton (A-), Christopher WILSON
• The Council of Egypt (B+), Leonardo SCIASCIA
• Counselor Ayres' Memorial (B), Joaquim Maria MACHADO DE ASSIS
• Count D'Orgel's Ball (B+), Raymond RADIGUET
• The Counterlife (A-), Philip ROTH
• Countries That Don't Exist (B), Sigizmund KRZHIZHANOVSKY
• The Country of Toó (B), Rodrigo REY ROSA
• The Country Where No One Ever Dies (B), Ornela VORPSI
• Coup de Grâce (A-), Marguerite YOURCENAR
• A Couple of Soles (B), LI Yu
• The Courilof Affair (B+), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• Cousin K (B), Yasmina KHADRA
• Cowboy Graves (B+), Roberto BOLAÑO
• The Cows of Shambat (B), TABAN Lo Liyong
• Cox (B+), Christoph RANSMAYR
• A Crack in the Wall (B), Claudia PIÑEIRO
• Cracking the Egyptian Code (B), Andrew ROBINSON
• Crash (C+), J.G. BALLARD
• Crash (B+), Iain SINCLAIR
• Crashed (B+), Adam TOOZE
• Craving (B+), Esther GERRITSEN
• Cream in my Coffee (B), Dennis POTTER
• The Creation and Destruction of Value (B), Harold JAMES
• Creative Destruction (B), Tyler COWEN
• Creative Industries (B+), Richard E. CAVES
• The Creativity Code (B), Marcus DU SAUTOY
• The Creator (B), GUÐRÚN Eva Mínervudóttir:
• The Creator (B+), MYNONA
• The Creator's Map (B-), Emilio CALDERÓN
• Credible Witness (B-), Timberlake WERTENBAKER
• Cremation (A-), Rafael CHIRBES
• The Crime of Father Amaro (A-), José Maria EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
• The Crime Studio (A-), Steve AYLETT
• The Crimes of Elagabalus (B), Martijn ICKS
• Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann (B+), Harry MULISCH
• Criminals (B+), Ferdinand BRUCKNER
• Crimson (B), Niviaq KORNELIUSSEN
• The Crimson Labyrinth (B), KISHI Yusuke
• The Crimson Thread of Abandon (B), TERAYAMA Shūji
• Crisis (B+), Karin BOYE
• The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy (B), Richard A. POSNER
• The Crisis of Narration (B), Byung-Chul HAN
• The Critical Case of a Man Called K (B), Aziz MOHAMMED
• The Crocodile (B), Maurizio DE GIOVANNI
• Cronopios and Famas (A-), Julio CORTÁZAR
• The Crooked Line (B+), Ismat CHUGHTAI
• Crossfire (B), MIYABE Miyuki
• Crossing the Hudson (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• [Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, Peter HANDKE]
• Cruel is the Night (B-), Karo HÄMÄLÄINEN
• Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor (B), Luc LANG
• Crush (B+), Frédéric DARD
• The Cry of Winnie Mandela (B+), Njabulo S. NDEBELE
• Cryptonomicon (A-), Neal STEPHENSON
• The Crystal Frontier (C), Carlos FUENTES
• Crystal Silence (B), FUJISAKI Shingo
• The Cube and the Cathedral (D), George WEIGEL
• Cuckold (B+), Kiran NAGARKAR
• Cult X (B), NAKAMURA Fuminori
• Cultural Amnesia (B+), Clive JAMES
• A Cup of Rage (B+), Raduan NASSAR
• A Cure for Cancer (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (B-), Mark HODDER
• The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (B+), Lisa JARDINE
• Curl (B), T.O.BOBE
• Curriculum Vitae (B+), Yoel HOFFMANN
• The Curtain (B+), Milan KUNDERA
• The Cusanus Game (B), Wolfgang JESCHKE
• The Custom of the Country (A-), Edith WHARTON
• Customer Service (C+), Benoît DUTEURTRE
• Cut Guavas (B), Robert ANTONI
• The Cyclist Conspiracy (B), Svetislav BASARA
• Cyclops (B+), Ranko MARINKOVIĆ
• Cynics (B+), Anatoly MARIENGOF

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