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• La Belle Roumaine (B), Dumitru TSEPENEAG
• La Belle Sauvage (B), Philip PULLMAN
• La Boutique Obscure (B), Georges PEREC
• La buena letra (B), Rafael CHIRBES
• La cazzaria: The Book of the Prick (B-), Antonio VIGNALI
• La Chunga (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• La dama número trece (B-), José Carlos SOMOZA
• La Femme de Gilles (A), Madeleine BOURDOUXHE
• La Madre (B+), Grazia DELEDDA
• La nostalgie heureuse (B+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• [La part de l'autre, Eric-Emannuel SCHMITT]
• La Petite (B+), Michèle HALBERSTADT
• La Place de l'Étoile (B+), Patrick MODIANO
• La sexta lámpara (B), Pablo DE SANTIS
• La Superba (B+), Ilja Leonard PFEIJFFER
• La traducción (B), Pablo DE SANTIS
• La vie extérieure (B+), Annie ERNAUX
  
  
• L.A. Trip (B), Mohammed DIB
• Labor Relations (C), WATANABE Kazuo
• A Labour of Moles (B+), Ivan VLADISLAVIĆ
• Labyrinths (B+), Christopher OKIGBO
• Lacrimosa (B), Régis JAUFFRET
• The Ladies' Paradise (B+), Émile ZOLA
• Ladivine (A-), Marie NDIAYE
• The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (B+), Sébastien JAPRISOT
• The Lady in the Van (B+), Alan BENNETT
• The Lady in White (A-), Christian BOBIN
• Lady Joker (I) (-), TAKAMURA Kaoru
• Lady Joker (II) (B), TAKAMURA Kaoru
• L'affaire Courilof (B+), Irène NÉMIROVSKY
• Laidlaw (A-), William McILVANNEY
• The Lair (B), Norman MANEA
• The Lairds of Cromarty (B+), Jean-Pierre OHL
• The Lake (B), KAWABATA Yasunari
• The Lake (B), YOSHIMOTO Banana
• Lala Pipo (B+), OKUDA Hideo
• Lambda (B+), David MUSGRAVE
• Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto (B-), Gianni RODARI
• The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+), Yahya HAKKI
• The Lamplit Answer (B+), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• The Land Leviathan (B), Michael MOORCOCK
• A Land without Jasmine (B), Wajdi al-AHDAL
• Landnahme (B+), Christoph HEIN
• Landor's Tower (A-), Iain SINCLAIR
• Landscape With Dog (B+), Ersi SOTIROPOULOS
• Landscapes after the Battle (A-), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Landscapes of War (B), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (B), Jeffrey M. BINDER
• The Language of Genes (A-), Steve JONES
• The Language of Passion (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Lanzarote (B+), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• Lars Gyllensten (B), Hans ISAKSSON
• The Last Book (B+), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• The Last Burden (A-), Upamanyu CHATTERJEE
• Last Call (A-), Harry MULISCH
• The Last Chairlift (B-), John IRVING
• The Last Chapter (B), Leila ABOUZEID
• The Last Children of Tokyo (B), TAWADA Yoko
• The Last Days (B-), Raymond QUENEAU
• The Last Days of El Comandante (B), Alberto BARRERA TYSZKA
• The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (B+), Thomas DE QUINCEY
• The Last Days of New Paris (B), China MIÉVILLE
• The Last Dinosaur Book (C+), W.J.T. MITCHELL
• Last Friends (B+), Jane GARDAM
• The Last Interview (B), Eshkol NEVO
• The Last Judgement (B), Iain PEARS
• The Last King of Scotland (B+), Giles FODEN
• Last Loosening (B+), Walter SERNER
• [Last Man in Tower, Aravind ADIGA]
• Last Night at the Lobster (B+), Stewart O'NAN
• Last Night in Nuuk (B), Niviaq KORNELIUSSEN
• [Last Night in Twisted River, John IRVING]
• Last Nights of Paris (B), Philippe SOUPAULT
• The Last Novel (A-), David MARKSON
• The Last of Philip Banter (B+), John Franklin BARDIN
• The Last of the Angels (B), Fadhil al-AZZAWI
• The Last of the Egyptians (B), Gérard MACÉ
• The Last of the Empire (B), SEMBENE Ousmane
• The Last of the Vostyachs (A), Diego MARANI
• The Last One (B), Fatima DAAS
• The Last Reader (A-), David TOSCANA
• The Last Samurai (A), Helen DEWITT
• The Last Samurai Reread (B), Lee KONSTANTINOU
• The Last Summer of Reason (B+), Tahar DJAOUT
• The Last Weynfeldt (B), Martin SUTER
• The Last Will and Testament of Sr. da Silva Araújo (B+), Germano ALMEIDA
• The Last Window-Giraffe (B+), ZILAHY Péter
• Last Winter, We Parted (B), NAKAMURA Fuminori
• Last Words from Montmartre (B+), QIU Miaojin
• Last Words on Earth (B+), Javier SERENA
• Late Fame (B), Arthur SCHNITZLER
• Late Fragments (B), Charles BAUDELAIRE
• The Late Monsieur Gallet (B), Georges SIMENON
• The Late-night News (B), Petros MARKARIS
• Latin (B+), Jürgen LEONHARDT
• Launch Something ! (B), BAE Myung-hoon
• Laura (B), Vera CASPARY
• Laurus (B+), Eugene VODOLAZKIN
• Lavish Absence (B+), Rosmarie WALDROP
• The Law in Shambles (B+), Thomas GEOGHEGAN
• Lawless World (B+), Philippe SANDS
• The Laying on of Hands (B), Alan BENNETT
• Layli and Majnun (B), NEZAMI Ganjavi
• Lazarus is Dead (B), Richard BEARD
• Laziness in the Fertile Valley (B), Albert COSSERY
• The Lazy Ones (B), Albert COSSERY
• Le crime du comte Neville (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Le Fanu's Angel (B+), Brian KEOGH
• Le voyage d'hiver (B+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Leading the Cheers (B), Justin CARTWRIGHT
• Learning English (B), Rachid al-DAIF
• Learning Human (A-), Les MURRAY
• Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique (B), Gonçalo M. TAVARES
• Leave Me Alone (B-), MURONG Xuecun
• The Leavenworth Case (B), Anna Katharine GREEN
• Leavetaking (A-), Peter WEISS
• L'ecriture comme un couteau (B), Annie ERNAUX
• The Lecture (B), Lydie SALVAYRE
• [Leeches, David ALBAHARI]
• Leela's Book (B+), Alice ALBINIA
• Leg Over Leg (I) (A), Ahmad Faris al-SHIDYAQ
• Leg Over Leg (II) (-), Aḥmad Fāris AL-SHIDYĀQ
• The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (UK title: Chinaman) (B+), Shehan KARUNATILAKA
• A Legend of the Future (B), Agustín de ROJAS
• The Legends of Khasak (A-), O.V.VIJAYAN
• Legends of the Condor Heroes (B+, JIN Yong
  1. A Hero Born (B)
  2. A Bond Undone (B)
  3. A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
  4. A Heart Divided (B)
• The Legs of Izolda Morgan (B+), Bruno JASIEŃSKI
• The Lemoine Affair (B+), Marcel PROUST
• Lemon (B+), KWON Yeo-sun
• The Lemon Table (B+), Julian BARNES
• The Length of Days (B), Volodymyr RAFEYENKO
• Lenin's Embalmers (B-), Ilya ZBARSKY
• Lenin's Kisses (B), YAN Lianke
• Léon Bloy (B), Rayner HEPPENSTALL
• The Leopard (B+), Jo NESBØ
• The Leper of the City of Aosta (B), Xavier de MAISTRE
• Le sabotage amoureux (also: Loving Sabotage) (A+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Les aérostats (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Les Bienveillantes, Jonathan LITTELL (C-)
• Les Guérillères (B), Monique WITTIG
• Les livres de mon père (B+), Luan STAROVA
• Les mauvaises pensées (B), Laurent SEKSIK
• Les prénoms épicènes (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Lessons of the Masters (B), George STEINER
• Let it Bleed (B+), Ian RANKIN
• Let No One Sleep (A-), Juan José MILLÁS
• Let the Games Begin (B-), Niccolò AMMANITI
• Letter from Casablanca (B), Antonio TABUCCHI
• The Letter Killers Club (A-), Sigizmund KRZHIZHANOVSKY
• Letter to a Christian Nation (A-), Sam HARRIS
• Letter to Survivors (B+), GÉBÉ
• Letters Between a Father and Son (B-), V. S. NAIPAUL
• Letters to a Young Novelist (B), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Levitation (A-), Cynthia OZICK
• Lewi's Journey (B+), Per Olov ENQUIST
• Lexicon (B), Max BARRY
• L'Expérience interdite (B), Ook CHUNG
• The Librarian (B), Mikhail ELIZAROV
• The Library (B+), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• The Library at Night (B), Alberto MANGUEL
• Lichtspiel (B), Daniel KEHLMANN
• Liebe Frau Strigl (B), H.F. BROCH DE ROTHERMANN
• Lies, First Person (B), Gail HAREVEN
• Life A User's Manual (A), Georges PEREC
• Life After Gravity (B), Patricia FARA
• Life and a Half (B), SONY Labou Tansi
• The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura (A+), Irmtraud MORGNER
• [Life and Fate, Vasily GROSSMAN]
• The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi (B), Edgar BAYLEY
• The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter (A-), Matei CALINESCU
• Life & Times of Michael K (B), J.M.COETZEE
• Life for Sale (B), MISHIMA Yukio
• Life Form (B+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Life in the Cosmos (-), Manasvi LINGAM and Avi LOEB
• Life is a Dream (A), Pedro CALDERÓN de la Barca
• Life is Short and Desire Endless (B), Patrick LAPEYRE
• A Life Misspent (B), NIRALA (Suryakant Tripathi)
• Life of a Bishop's Assistant (B), Viktor SHKLOVSKY
• Life of a Counterfeiter (B+), INOUE Yasushi
• The Life of an Unknown Man (B+), Andreï MAKINE
• The Life of Erasmus Darwin (B), Charles DARWIN
• The Life of Harishchandra (B+), RAGHAVANKA
• The Life of Hunger (A), Amélie NOTHOMB
• [The Life of Irène Némirovsky, Olivier PHILIPPONNAT and Patrick LIENHARDT]
• [Life of Pi, Yann MARTEL]
• Life on Hold (B+), Fahd al-ATIQ
• Life, Only Better (B), Anna GAVALDA
• Life Turns Man Up and Down (-), Kurt THOMETZ (ed.)
• A Life Without End (B+), Frédéric BEIGBEDER
• Life x 3 (B), Yasmin REZA
• Life's Good, Brother (B+), Nâzım HIKMET
• Life's Wisdom (-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Light (A-), M.John HARRISON
• Light and Dark (B+), NATSUME Sōseki
• The Light and the Dark (A-), Mikhail SHISHKIN
• The Light Club (B+), Josiah McELHENY
• The Light of Day (B), Graham SWIFT
• The Lighted Burrow (B+), Max BLECHER
• The Lighthouse (B+), P.D.JAMES
• Lighthousekeeping (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• Lightning (A-), Jean ECHENOZ
• [The Lights of Pointe-Noire, Alain MABANCKOU]
• Lights out for the Territory (B), Iain SINCLAIR
• Like a Fading Shadow (B+), Antonio MUÑOZ MOLINA
• Like a Fiery Elephant (A), Jonathan COE
• Like Eating a Stone (B+), Wojciech TOCHMAN
• Like Flies from Afar (B+), Kike FERRARI
• Limonov (B+), Emmanuel CARRÈRE
• Linda, As in the Linda Murder (B), Leif GW PERSSON
• The Lineage of the Raghus (B+), KALIDASA
• Lint (B), Steve AYLETT
• Lions at Lamb House (B), Edwin M. YODER, jr.
• Lion's Honey (B+), David GROSSMAN
• Liquid City (A-), Marc ATKINS and Iain SINCLAIR
• Liquidation (A-), Imre KERTÉSZ
• Lisa (B-), Thomas GLAVINIC
• The Lisbon Syndrome (B), Eduardo SÁNCHEZ RUGELES
• The List of My Desires (B-), Grégoire DELACOURT
• The Listening Walls (B), Margaret MILLAR
• The Literary Conference (B+), César AIRA
• Literary Miniatures (B), Florence NOIVILLE
• Literary Occasions (A-), V.S.NAIPAUL
• Literary Translation (B), Clifford E. LANDERS
• The Literature Express (B), Lasha BUGADZE
• Little Black Book of Stories (B+), A.S.BYATT
• The Little Book of Plagiarism (B+), Richard A. POSNER
• Little Boys Come from the Stars (B+), Emmanuel DONGALA
• The Little Buddhist Monk (B+), César AIRA
• [Little Caesar (UK title: Caesarion), Tommy WIERINGA]
• The Little Clay Cart (B+), ŚŪDRAKA
• Little Culinary Triumphs (B-), Pascale PUJOL
• Little Fingers (B), Filip FLORIAN
• The Little Friend (C), Donna TARTT
• The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-), Benoît DUTEURTRE
• Little Girl Lost (B), Richard ALEAS
• A Little Girl under a Mosquito Net (B), Monique LANGE
• Little Girls Breathe the Same Air As We Do (B+), Paul FOURNEL
• Little Grey Lies (B+), Hédi KADDOUR
• The Little Horse (B), Thorvald STEEN
• Little Jewel (B+), Patrick MODIANO
• A Little Lumpen Novelita (A-), Roberto BOLAÑO
• Little Reunions (B), Eileen CHANG
• The Little White Car (C), Dan RHODES
• Little Zinnobers (B), Elena CHIZHOVA
• Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (B), EUNAPIUS
• Lives of the Sophists (B), PHILOSTRATUS
• Lives Other Than My Own (B+), Emmanuel CARRÈRE
• The Living and the Dead (B+), BOILEAU-NARCEJAC
• The Living and the Dead (B+), Patrick WHITE
• Living Dolls (B-), Gaby WOOD
• The Living on the Dead (B+), Aharon MEGGED
• A Living Soul (B), P.C.JERSILD
• Living to Tell the Tale (A), Gabriel GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
• Living with the Living Dead (B), Greg GARRETT
• Livläkarens Besök (A-), Per Olov ENQUIST
• Lizka and her Men (B), Alexander IKONNIKOV
• Lobster (B+), Guillaume LECASBLE
• Lobster Life (B), Erik Fosnes HANSEN
• L'occupation (B), Annie ERNAUX
• Lodgers (B+), Nenad VELIČKOVIĆ
• The Lodging House (B), Khairy SHALABY
• The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny (B+), eds. Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas
• Logic and the Art of Memory (B+), Paolo ROSSI
• Logicomix (B-) Apostolos DOXIADIS and Christos H. PAPADIMITROU
• Loitering with Intent (A-), Muriel SPARK
• Lokalbericht (B+), Hermann BURGER
• Lolita (C), Edward ALBEE
• Lolita (A-), Richard CORLISS
• Lolita (A+), Vladimir NABOKOV
• Lolita: A Screenplay (B+), Vladimir NABOKOV
• Lolita in the Afterlife (B), ed. Jenny MINTON QUIGLEY
• Lolita: The Book of the Film (C+), Stephen SCHIFF
• London Orbital (B), Iain SINCLAIR
• Lonely Hearts Killer (B), HOSHINO Tomoyuki
• The Lonesome Bodybuilder (B), MOTOYA Yukiko
• The Long Corner (B), Alexander MAKSIK
• A Long Fatal Love Chase (B), Louisa May ALCOTT
• The Long Firm (C+), Jake ARNOTT
• The Long Form (A-), Kate BRIGGS
• Long Long Ago (B-), Ogali OGALI
• The Long Road (B), KIM In-Suk
• A Long Saturday (B), Geroge STEINER, with Laure Adler
• A Long Way From Verona (B+), Jane GARDAM
• A Long Way Off (B+), Pascal GARNIER
• Longing and Other Stories (B), TANIZAKI Jun'ichirō
• Look at the Dark (B), Nicholas MOSLEY
• Look at the Lights, My Love (B), Annie ERNAUX
• Loop (B-), SUZUKI Koji
• Lo's Diary (also: Diario di Lo) (B-), Pia PERA
• Los disparos del Cazador (B), Rafael CHIRBES
• The Loser (A-), Fatos KONGOLI
• Losing is What Matters (B), Manuel PÉREZ SUBIRANA
• The Loss Library (B+), Ivan VLADISLAVIĆ
• The Lost Art of Walking (B), Geoff NICHOLSON
• The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (B), Susan DAITCH
• Lost Cosmonaut (B+), Daniel KALDER
• The Lost Daughter (B+),Elena FERRANTE
• The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-), ALAIN-FOURNIER
• Lost for Words (B-), Edward ST. AUBYN
• The Lost Garden (B), LI Ang
• Lost Illusions (A-), Honoré de BALZAC
• Lost in a Good Book (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• Lost in the Crowd (B), Jalāl ĀL-E AHMAD
• The Lost Library (B), Walter MEHRING
• Lost Paradise (A-), Cees NOOTEBOOM
• [The Lost Sailors, Jean-Claude IZZO]
• The Lost Steps (A), Alejo CARPENTIER
• The Lost Time Accidents (B-), John WRAY
• Loud Sparrows (-) - Contemporary Chinese Short-shorts
• Love (B+), Hanne ØRSTAVIK
• Love and Death on Long Island (A-), Gilbert ADAIR
• Love and Gymnastics (A-), Edmondo DE AMICIS
• Love and Sex in the Time of Plague (B+), Guido RUGGIERO
• Love at Six Thousand Degrees (B), KASHIMADA Maki
• Love Burns (B), Edna MAZYA
• Love, etc. (B+), Julian BARNES
• The Love Hexagon (B-), WIlliam SUTCLIFFE
• Love in a Dead Language (C), Lee SIEGEL
• Love in the Rain (B), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Love in Vain (B+), Federigo TOZZI
• Love Letter in Cuneiform (A-), Tomáš ZMEŠKAL
• Love of Mountains (B), UNO Koji
• Love's Death (B+), Oscar VAN DEN BOOGAARD
• Love's Lovely Counterfeit (B+) James M. CAIN
• A Love Story (B+), Émile ZOLA
• Love Virtually (B-), Daniel GLATTAUER
• Love Without Resistance (B-), Gilles ROZIER
• Lovers or Something Like It (B+), Florian ZELLER
• Loves That Bind (B), Julián RÍOS
• LoveStar (B), ANDRI Snær Magnason
• Loving Graham Greene (B-), Gloria EMERSON
• Loving Sabotage (A+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• Low Heights (A-), Pascal GARNIER
• Löwenstern (B+), Adolf MUSCHG
• The Lower River (B+), Paul THEROUX
• Lúcio's Confession (A-), Mário SÁ-CARNEIRO
• Lucky Girls (B), Nell FREUDENBERGER
• Lucky Per (B+), Henrik PONTOPPIDAN
• Lud Heat (B-), Iain SINCLAIR
• The Ludwig Conspiracy (B-), Oliver PÖTZSCH
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script (B+), Terry EAGLETON
• Lullaby (B), Leïla SLIMANI
• The Luminous Novel (B), Mario LEVRERO
• The Lunar Men (B+), Jenny UGLOW
• Lunar Savings Time (B), Alex EPSTEIN
• Lurid & Cute (B-), Adam THIRLWELL
• The Lusíads (B+), Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
• Lustgarten, Preußen (A-), Volker BRAUN
• The Lute (B+), KAO Ming
• Luxor (B), Philipp BLOM
• Львовская гастроль Джими Хендрикса (B), Andrey KURKOV
• The Lying Year (B-), Andrei GELASIMOV
• Lysistrata (A-), ARISTOPHANES

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