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Titles - P-Q:

• På vei til en venn (B+), Niels Fredrik DAHL
• The Pachinko Parlor (B+), Elisa Shua DUSAPIN
• Packing My Library (B), Alberto MANGUEL
• The Pagan Rabbi (B-), Cynthia OZICK
• The Pages (B), Hugo HAMILTON
• The Pages (B+), Murray BAIL
• Palace of Books (A-), Roger GRENIER
• Palace of Desire (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Palace of Flies (B+), Walter KAPPACHER
• Palace Walk (A-), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Palace without Chairs (B-), Brigid BROPHY
• Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand (A-), Franz WERFEL
• The Palimpsests (A-), Aleksandra LUN
• Palinuro of Mexico (A), Fernando del PASO
• Palm Beach, Finland (B+), Antti TUOMAINEN
• The Palm House (B+), Tarek ELTAYEB
• Palpasa Café (B+), Narayan WAGLE
• The Panda Theory (A-), Pascal GARNIER
• Pandemonium (B), Warren FAHY
• Pandora in the Congo (B), Albert SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL
• Panther in the Basement (B+), Amos OZ
• Papa Sartre (B), Ali BADER
• Paper Boats (B), Dee LESTARI
• The Paper House (US: The House of Paper) (B+), Carlos María DOMÍNGUEZ
• Paper Houses (B+), Dominique FORTIER
• The Paper Men (B+), William GOLDING
• Paper Tiger (B), Olivier ROLIN
• Paperbacks from Hell (B), Grady HENDRIX
• Papiertiger (B+), Radek KNAPP
• Paprika (C), TSUTSUI Yasutaka
• The Parachute (B-), Sinclair DUMONTAIS
• Parade (B), KAWAKAMI Hiromi
• Parade (B+), YOSHIDA Shuichi
• The Paradise Bird Tattoo (B+), KURUMATANI Choukitsu
• Paradise of the Assassins (B+), Abdul Halim SHARAR
• Paradise of the Blind (A-), DƯƠNG Thu Hương
• The Paradox of Love (-), Pascal BRUCKNER
• Paranoia (B), Victor MARTINOVICH
• Parasite Eve (B), SENA Hideaki
• Paratiisisaaren vangit (B), Arto PAASILINNA
• Parentheses of Blood (B+), SONY Labou Tansi
• The Paris Enigma (B), Pablo DE SANTIS
• París no se acaba nunca (A-), Enrique VILA-MATAS
• Paris Nocturne (B+), Patrick MODIANO
• Paris 75016 (D), Lolita PILLE
• Paris Trance (A-), Geoff DYER
• [Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter CAREY]
• The Parrots (B), Filippo BOLOGNA
• The Part of Me That Isn’t Broken Inside (A-), SHIRAISHI Kazufumi
• The Parthenon Bomber (B), Christos CHRISSOPOULOS
• Party Headquarters (B), Georgi TENEV
• Party in the Blitz (B+), Elias CANETTI
• Passage of Tears (B+), Abdourahman A. WABERI
• Passages (B), Ann QUIN
• The Passion according to Renée Vivien (B), Maria-Mercè MARÇAL
• Passion Fruit (B), Daniel PENNAC
• The Passion of Dennis Potter (B), ed. V.W.GASS and John COOK
• The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B), Christian GAILLY
• Passions and Impressions (B), Pablo NERUDA
• The Passive Vampire (-), Ghérasim LUCA
• The Past is a Foreign Country (B-)< Gianrico CAROFIGLIO
• 'Pataphysics (B), Andrew HUGILL
• პატარა ქვეყანა (B), Lasha BUGADZE
• Pather Panchali (B+), Bibhutibhushan BANDOPADHYAY
• The Pathseeker (B+), KERTÉSZ Imre
• The Patience Stone (B+), Atiq RAHIMI
• Patrice Lumumba (B-), Ogali OGALI
• Patrick White Speaks (C+), Patrick WHITE
• Pavane for a Dead Princess (B+), PARK Min-gyu
• The Peace Machine (B-), Özgür MUMCU
• The Peach Blossom Fan (B+), K'UNG Shang-jen
• Peach Blossom Paradise (B), GE Fei
• Pedigree (A-), Patrick MODIANO
• Pedro Páramo (A-), Juan RULFO
• [Peeling the Onion, Günter GRASS]
• Peeping Tom (B), Howard JACOBSON
• Peeping Tom (B+), Leo MARKS
• Pekinger Passion (B+), Jürg AMANN
• Penance (B-), MINATO Kinae
• The Pendragon Legend (A-), SZERB Antal
• The Penelopiad (B), Margaret ATWOOD
• Penguin Lost (B+), Andrey KURKOV
• Penguin 75 (-), ed. Paul Buckley
• Pentecost (B), David EDGAR
• People from My Neighborhood (B+), KAWAKAMI Hiromi
• People in the Room (A-), Norah LANGE
• People Like Us (B), Joris LUYENDIJK
• People of the City (B-), Cyprian EKWENSI
• Péplum (B+), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Perception of Meaning (B), Hisham BUSTANI
• Perdido Street Station (B+), China MIÉVILLE
• Pereira Declares (A-), Antonio TABUCCHI
• The Perfect American (B), Peter Stephan JUNGK
• A Perfect Crime (B+), A Yi
• The Perfect Landscape (B-), RAGNA Sigurðardóttir
• The Perfect Nanny (B), Leïla SLIMANI
• The Perfect Nine (B+), NGŨGĨ wa Thiong'o
• A Perfect Pledge (B+), Rabindranath MAHARAJ
• The Perfect Wave (B), Heinrich PÄS
• Perfection (B), Walter SATTERTHWAIT
• Performance (B+), Colin MACCABE
• Performances (B+), Greg DENING
• Performing without a Stage (B-), Robert WECHSLER
• The Perpetual Orgy (A-), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Persepolis (B), Marjane SATRAPI
• Persepolis (vol. 3) (B), Marjane SATRAPI
• A Persian Requiem (B), Simin DANESHVAR
• Persona (B+), INOSE Naoki
• Personae (B+), Sergio De La PAVA
• Personal (B), Lee CHILD
• Persuader (B), Lee CHILD
• Perverzion (B+), Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH
• Pessoa (A), Richard ZENITH
• Peter Weiss (B), Werner SCHMIDT
• Petite Fleur (B), Iosi HAVILIO
• Pétronille (B), Amélie NOTHOMB
• The Pets (B+), BRAGI Ólafsson
• Phantom Lights (B+), MIYAMOTO Teru
• Phantom Pain (B+), Arbon GRUNBERG
• Phantoms on the Bookshelves (B), Jacques BONNET
• Phi Phi Island (B+), Josef HASLINGER
• The Philanthropist (B+), Christopher HAMPTON
• The Philosophical Baby (B), Alison GOPNIK
• Philosophical Concepts in Physics (B+), James T. CUSHING
• Philosophical Orations (B+), MAXIMUS of Tyre
• Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 1 / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 1, Kurt GÖDEL
• Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 2 / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 2 (-), Kurt GÖDEL
• Philosophy Bites (B), David EDMONDS and Nigel WARBURTON
• The Philosophy of Physics (B), Roberto TORRETTI
• Photo Shop Murder (B), KIM Young-ha
• The Physicists (A-), Friedrich DÜRRENMATT
• The Physics of Sorrow (B+), Georgi GOSPODINOV
• Piano (A), Jean ECHENOZ
• Picnic in the Storm (B), MOTOYA Yukiko
• The Pied Piper's Poison (B), Christopher WALLACE
• Piercing (B), MURAKAMI Ryu
• Pietr the Latvian (B+), Georges SIMENON
• Pig Tales (B-), Marie DARRIEUSSECQ
• Pigeon Post (B), Dumitru TSEPENEAG
• [Pijavice, David ALBAHARI]
• The Pilgrim (B+), Iwan SIMATUPANG
• Pilgrims Way (B+), Abdulrazak GURNAH
• The Pillowman (B), Martin McDONAGH
• The Pine Islands (A-), Marion POSCHMANN
• Pinball, 1973 (B), MURAKAMI Haruki
• Piranesi (A-), Susanna CLARKE
• The Pistachio Seller (B-), Reem BASSIOUNEY
• The Pity of Partition (B), Ayesha JALAL
• Pixel Juice (B+), Jeff NOON
• Placita (-), AËTIUS
• Plainsong (B), HOSAKA Kazushi
• Planet of the Apes (B+), Pierre BOULLE
• Platform (B+), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• [Plato at the Googleplex, Rebecca Newberger GOLDSTEIN]
• The Plato Papers (A-), Peter ACKROYD
• A Play of Giants (B-), Wole SOYINKA
• Playing for Thrills (B-), WANG Shuo
• Please don't call me Human (B-), WANG Shuo
• Please Look After Mom (B), SHIN Kyung-sook
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (B), Richard P. FEYNMAN
• The Plot Against America (A), Philip ROTH
• The Plotters (B+), KIM Un-su
• The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B), Jacques ROUBAUD
• Pobby and Dingan (B+), Ben RICE
• Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands (B+), Judith SCHALANSKY
• Poem Strip (B), Dino BUZZATI
• Poems: Before & After (A+), Mirolsav HOLUB
• Poems 1968-1998 (A-), Paul MULDOON
• Poems the Size of Photographs (A-), Les MURRAY
• The Poet (B+), YI Mun Yol
• The Poet Assassinated (B), Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
• Point Blanc (B-), Anthony HOROWITZ
• [Point Omega, Don DELILLO]
• Point Zero (B), Narek MALIAN
• Point Zero (B), MATSUMOTO Seichō
• Pokloninnya yashirci (B), Ljubko DERESCH
• Pol Pot (A-), Philip SHORT
• The Pole (A-), J.M.Coetzee
• The Polish Boxer (B), Eduardo HALFON
• Polish Memories (B+), Witold GOMBROWICZ
• Politics (B+), Adam THIRLWELL
• The Politics of Cultural Capital (B), Julia LOVELL
• Polyglot Joyce (B), Patrick O'NEILL
• The Polyglot Lovers (B+), Lina WOLFF
• The Polymath (A-), Bensalem HIMMICH
• Pompeii (B+), Robert HARRIS
• Poor (B), Idris ALI
• Poor Things (A), Alasdair GRAY
• PopCo (A-), Scarlett THOMAS
• Popular Hits of the Showa Era (B), MURAKAMI Ryu
• The Pornographers (B), NOZAKA Akiyuki
• The Pornographer's Poem (B+), Michael TURNER
• Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere (B), Georges PEREC
• Portrait of a Tongue (B+), TAWADA Yoko
• Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman (B+), Friedrich Christian DELIUS
• Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal (B), Lydie SALVAYRE
• Portraits and Elegies (B), Gjertrud SCHNACKENBERG
• Porzellan (B+), Durs GRÜNBEIN
• [Possession, A.S.BYATT]
• The Possibility of an Island (B), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• Posthomerica (B+), QUINTUS Smyrnaeus
• The Posthuman Dada Guide (B), Andrei CODRESCU
• A Posthumous Confession (B+), Marcellus EMANTS
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (A-), J.M. MACHADO DE ASSIS
• The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster (B), Éric CHEVILLARD
• The Postman always Rings Twice (A-), James M. CAIN
• Postmodern Pooh (B), Frederick CREWS
• Pot Pourri (B+), Eugenio CAMBACERES
• Potsdamer Platz (B), Curt CORRINTH
• Potter on Potter (B+), ed. Graham FULLER
• Powderhouse (B+), Jens BJØRNEBOE
• The Power of Flies (B+), Lydie SALVAYRE
• Power and the Idealists (B), Paul BERMAN
• The PowerBook (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• [The Prague Cemetery, Umberto ECO]
• A Prague Flâneur (B), Vítězslav NEZVAL
• The Prague Orgy (B), Philip ROTH
• Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (B+), Robert IRWIN
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (B+), John IRVING
• Precipice (B), Robert HARRIS
• Prehistoric Times (B+), Eric CHEVILLARD
• Première ligne (B+), Jean-Marie LACLAVETINE
• The Premonition (B), YOSHIMOTO Banana
• The Prepper Room (B), Karen DUVE
• The President (B), Georges SIMENON
• The President of Good and Evil (B+), Peter SINGER
• The President's Hat (B), Antoine LAURAIN
• A Pretty Face (B), Rafael REIG
• Pretty Things (B), Virginie DESPENTES
• Prey (B-), Michael CRICHTON
• The Price of Civilization (B), Jeffrey D. SACHS
• The Price of Water in Finistère (B), Bodil MALMSTEN
• Priest of Nature (B+), Rob ILIFFE
• The Prince of Quotidian (B+), Paul MULDOON
• The Princess, the King, and the Anarchist (B+), Robert PAGANI
• The Princesse de Clèves (B+), Madame de LAFAYETTE
• The Principle (B), Jérôme FERRARI
• Printed in Beirut (B), Jabbour DOUAIHY
• Případ nevěrné Kláry (B), Michal VIEWEGH
• The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (B), Gustave LE ROUGE
• Private Life (B), Josep Maria de SAGARRA
• The Private Lives of Plants (B), LEE Seung-U
• The Private Lives of Trees (B+), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• The Private Patient (B+), P.D.JAMES
• A Private Venus (B+), Giorgio SCERBANENCO
• Privy Portrait (B), Jean-Luc BENOZIGLIO
• Priyadarśikā (B), HARSHA
• "A Problem from Hell" (A-), Samantha POWER
• The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (B), Richard A. POSNER
• The Procedure (A), Harry MULISCH
• Professional Foul (B+), Tom STOPPARD
• The Professor and the Madman (B+), Simon WINCHESTER
• The Professor and the Siren (B), Giuseppe TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
• Professor Andersen's Night (A-), Dag SOLSTAD
• Professor Hanaa (B), Reem BASSIOUNEY
• Proleterka (B-), Fleur JAEGGY
• Promenade of the Gods (B-), SUZUKI Koji
• The Promise of Happiness (A-), Justin CARTWRIGHT
• Promises, Promises (B), Adam PHILLIPS
• The Prone Gunman (B), Jean-Patrick MANCHETTE
• Proof (B), David AUBURN
• The Proof (B+), César AIRA
• The Proof of the Honey (B-), Salwa Al NEIMI
• Proofs and Refutations (A-), Imre LAKATOS
• The Prophet (B+), Samuel RAWET
• The Prophet Murders (B), Mehmet Murat SOMER
• The Prospector (B+), J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO
• Proud Beggars (B+), Albert COSSERY
• Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (B), Lydia DAVIS
• Providence (B), Max BARRY
• P.S. from Paris (B-), Marc LEVY
• Psyche (A-), Louis COUPERUS
• Public Enemies (B-), Michel HOUELLEBECQ and Bernard-Henri LÉVY
• Public Intellectuals (B+), Richard POSNER
• Public Reading Followed by Discussion (B), Danielle MÉMOIRE
• Pull Yourself Together (B+), Thomas GLAVINIC
• [Pulse, Julian BARNES]
• Punishment of a Hunter (B), Yulia YAKOVLEVA
• Purgatory (A-), Tomás Eloy MARTÍNEZ
• Purge (B), Sofi OKSANEN
• Purloining Tiny (B), John Franklin BARDIN
• Pushing Time Away (B+), Peter SINGER
• Pushkin House (B+), Andrei BITOV
• Pushkin's Button (B-), Serena VITALE
• The Puttermesser Papers (A+), Cynthia OZICK
• Pyramid Texts (B+), Gamal al-GHITANI
• Pythagorean Crimes (B), Tefcros MICHAELIDES
• Q (B), Luther BLISSETT
• Q & A (B-), Vikas SWARUP
• The Quality of Sprawl (B+), Les MURRAY
• Quantum Dialogue (A-), Mara BELLER
• Quantum Leaps (B), Jeremy BERNSTEIN
• Quantum Reflections (--), (ed. John ELLIS and Daniele AMATI)
• The Quantum Thief (B), Hannu RAJANIEMI
• Quarantine (B), Juan GOYTISOLO
• Quarantine in the Grand Hotel (B), REJTŐ Jenő
• Quarrel & Quandary (B+), Cynthia OZICK
• Quarry (B+), Célia HOUDART
• Quartered Safe Out Here (B+), George MacDonald FRASER
• Queen of Atlantis (B), Pierre BENOÎT
• The Queen of the Night (B), Marc BEHM
• The Queen's Caprice (B), Jean ECHENOZ
• Quesadillas (B), Juan Pablo VILLALOBOS
• The Question (B+), Henri ALLEG
• A Question of Attribution (A), Alan BENNETT
• A Question of Blood (B+), Ian RANKIN
• The Queue (B), Basma ABDEL AZIZ
• Qui pro quo (B), Gesualdo BUFALINO
• Quicksand (B), Malin PERSSON GIOLITO
• Quicksilver (B+), Neal STEPHENSON
• Quiet Chaos (B), Sandro VERONESI
• A Quiet Flame (B), Philip KERR
• A Quiet Place (B), MATSUMOTO Seichō
• Quoof (B+), Paul MULDOON

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