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• Wait, Blink (B), Gunnhild ØYEHAUG
• The Waiter (B), Matias FALDBAKKEN
• Waiting (B), Goretti KYOMUHENDO
• [Waiting for an Angel, Helon HABILA]
• Waiting for Robert Capa (B-), Susana FORTES
• Waiting for Sunrise (B-), William BOYD
• Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-), Ahmadou KOUROUMA
• The Waitress was New (B+), Dominique FABRE
• Walaschek's Dream (B+), Giovanni ORELLI
• A Walk in the Dark (B), Gianrico CAROFIGLIO
• Walker on Water (B), Kristiina EHIN
• Walking the Cat (B-), John Calvin BATCHELOR
• The Wall (A-), Marlen HAUSHOFER
• The Walls of Delhi (B+), UDAY Prakash
• Walpurgis Night (B), Venedikt EROFEEV
• Walter Benjamin (A-), Jean-Michel PALMIER
• Wandering Jew (A-), Dennis MARKS
• Wang in Love and Bondage (B), WANG Xiaobo
• Wannsee (B+), Peter LONGERICH
• Wanting (B+), Richard FLANAGAN
• The War against Cliché (A-), Martin AMIS
• The War in Bom Fim (B), Moacyr SCLIAR
• The War of the Poor (B), Éric VUILLARD
• The War of the Vampires (B), Gustave LE ROUGE
• War Songs (B), ʿANTARAH ibn Shaddād
• The Warlord of the Air (B+), Michael MOORCOCK
• Warrior Lovers (A-), Catherine SALMON and Donald SYMONS
• The Wars of our Ancestors (B+), Miguel DELIBES
• Warum schriftlos leben (B), Durs GRÜNBEIN
• Wasting Time on the Internet (B), Kenneth GOLDSMITH
• Waves (A), Eduard von KEYSERLING
• The Way Home (A-), Harry MATHEWS
• The Way of all Flesh (B+), Midas DEKKERS
• The Way Out (A-), Ricardo PIGLIA
• The Way Things Were (B+), Aatish TASEER
• The Way to Paradise (B), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Ways of Dying (A-), Zakes MDA
• Ways of Going Home (B), Alejandro ZAMBRA
• Ways of Telling (B), Geoff DYER
• We Always Treat Women Too Well (B), Raymond QUENEAU
• We Are Doing Fine (B+), Arno GEIGER
• We, the Children of Cats (B), HOSHINO Tomoyuki
• We Three (B), Jean ECHENOZ
• We Who Are About To ... (A-), Joanna RUSS
• Weary Men (B+), Arne GARBORG
• The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (A-), Wolf HAAS
• Web of Murder (B+), Harry WHITTINGTON
• The Wedding Party (B), LIU Xinwu
• Wedding Song (B+), Naguib MAHFOUZ
• Weeping Waters (B), Karin BRYNARD
• The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague (B-), Sylvie GERMAIN
• Weerborstels (B), A.F.Th. VAN DER HEIJDEN
• Der Weg nach Xanadu (B), Wilfried STEINER
• Weight (B), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The Weight of Temptation (B), Ana María SHUA
• The Weight of Things (B+), Marianne FRITZ
• Weiwei-isms (-), AI Weiwei
• Welcome to America (A), Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGÅRD
• The Well of Lost Plots (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• Wellsprings (B+), Mario VARGAS LLOSA
• Werktage (B+), Volker BRAUN
• Wert and the Life Without End (B), Claude OLLIER
• Wetlands (B), Charlotte ROCHE
• What a Carve Up ! (also: The Winshaw Legacy) (A-), Jonathan COE
• [What Darwin Got Wrong, Jerry FODOR and Massimo PIATTELLI-PALMARINI]
• What does Mrs. Freeman Want ? (B), Petros ABATZOGLOU
• What Entropy Means to Me (B+), George Alec EFFINGER
• What Ever Happened to Modernism ? (B), Gabriel JOSIPOVICI
• What Happened Here (B+), Eliot WEINBERGER
• What Happened to Art Criticism ? (B), James ELKINS
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (B), MURAKAMI Haruki
• What ʻĪsā Ibn Hishām told us (B), Muḥammad al-MUWAYLIḤĪ
• What is Africa to Me ? (B), Maryse CONDÉ
• What is American Literature ? (B), Ilan STAVANS
• What Liberal Media ? (B+), Eric ALTERMAN
• What Poetry Is (B), Harry MULISCH
• What Price Fame ? (B), Tyler COWEN
• What's Really Wanted (B+), Volker BRAUN
• What Ten Young Men Did (B), DAṆḌIN
• What the Emperor Cannot Do (A-), Vlas DOROSHEVICH
• What to Do (B), Pablo KATCHADJIAN
• What Was Lost (A-), Catherine O'FLYNN
• What we did on our Holidays (A-), Geoff NICHOLSON
• What We Live For, What We Die For (B), Serhiy ZHADAN
• What We See When We Read (-), Peter MENDELSUND
• What You are Looking For is in the Library (B), AOYAMA Michiko
• Whatever (B), Michel HOUELLEBECQ
• When Adam Opens his Eyes (B), JANG Jung-il
• When I Was Mortal (B), Javier MARÍAS
• When I was Old (B+), George SIMENON
• When I Whistle (B), ENDO Shusaku
• When Surface was Depth (C), Michael BRACEWELL
• When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish (-), Begenas SARTOV
• When We Cease to Understand the World (B+), Benjamín LABATUT
• When we were Orphans (B+), Kazuo ISHIGURO
• Where Pigeons Don't Fly (B), Yousef al-MOHAIMEED
• Where the Stress Falls (B), Susan SONTAG
• Where There's Love, There's Hate (B+), Adolfo BIOY CASARES and Silvina OCAMPO
• Where Tigers are at Home (A-), Jean-Marie BLAS DE ROBLÈS
• Where You Come From (B), Saša STANIŠIĆ
• While the Women are Sleeping (B), Javier MARÍAS
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (B), David SHAFER
• Whisper (B), CHANG Yu-Ko
• The Whispering Muse (B+), SJÓN
• The Whistler (B), ONDJAKI
• A Whistling Woman (A-), A.S.BYATT
• White (B+), Marie DARRIEUSSECQ
• White Apples (B), Jonathan CARROLL
• The White Book (B+), HAN Kang
• White Chameleon (B), Christopher HAMPTON
• White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (B), Iain SINCLAIR
• White Man Falling (A-), Mike STOCKS
• White Mughals (B+), William DALRYMPLE
• White on Black (B+), Ruben GALLEGO
• The White Room (B), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• White Shadow (B), Roy JACOBSEN
• White Spirit (A-), Paule CONSTANT
• White Star (B-), Robin LLYWELYN
• White Teeth (B-), Okot p'BITEK
• The White Tiger (B-), Aravind ADIGA
• Whitefly (B), Abdelilah HAMDOUCHI
• [Who is Lou Sciortino ?, Ottavio CAPPELLANI]
• Who is Martha ? (B), Marjana GAPONENKO
• Who Rules in Science ? (B), James Robert BROWN
• Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep ? (B), Rashid al-DAIF
• Who's Sorry Now ? (A-), Howard JACOBSON
• Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B), David KARASHIMA
• The Whole Story (B), Ali SMITH
• Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B), Moustapha SAFOUAN
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal ? (B+), Jeanette WINTERSON
• Why Brownlee Left (B+), Paul MULDOON
• Why Capitalism ? (B-), Allan H. MELTZER
• Why Globalization Works (A-), Martin WOLF
• Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (A-), Marcel BÉNABOU
• Why I Killed My Best Friend (B), Amanda MICHALOPOULOU
• Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex ? (B+), Dany LAFERRIÈRE
• Why Read ? (B+), Charles DANTZIG
• Why Surrealism Matters (B), Mark POLIZZOTTI
• Why Translation Matters (B), Edith GROSSMAN
• The Wicked Go To Hell (B), Frédéric DARD
• The Wicked Queen (B+), Chantal THOMAS
• Wicked Weeds (B), Pedro CABIYA
• The Widow (B+), Georges SIMENON
• The Widower (B+), Mohamed Latiff MOHAMED
• Wie die Tiere (B), Wolf HAAS
• Wie man leben soll (B+), Thomas GLAVINIC
• Wild Animals Prohibited (B), Subimal MISRA
• Wild Child (B), CHANG Ta-chun
• The Wild Geese (A-), MORI Ogai
• Wild Grass (B), LU Xun
• A Wild Haruki Chase (B)
• Wild Kids (B), CHANG Ta-chun
• The Wild Numbers (B), Philibert SCHOGT
• Wilhelm Reich in Hell (B-), Robert Anton WILSON
• Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (B+), Joan ACOCELLA
• Willenbrock (B+), Christoph HEIN
• Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (B+), William H. GASS
• Wind/Pinball, MURAKAMI Haruki: see Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973
• The Wind Spirit (A-), Michel TOURNIER
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (A-), MURAKAMI Haruki
• [The Windup Girl, Paolo BACIGALUPI]
• Windows on the World (B), Frédéric BEIGBEDER
• Windy berättar (B), Lars GUSTAFSSON
• The Winshaw Legacy (also: What a Carve Up ! ) (A-), Jonathan COE
• Winter in Sokcho (B), Elisa Shua DUSAPIN
• Winter Letters (B+), Agustín FERNÁNDEZ PAZ
• Winter Sleep (B), KITAKATA Kenzo
• A Winter's Journal (A-), Emmanuel BOVE
• Das Wirklichgewollte (B+), Volker BRAUN
• Wishes (-), Georges PEREC
• With Borges (B+), Alberto MANGUEL
• With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (B+), Willis BARNSTONE
• With My Dog-Eyes (B+), Hilda HILST
• With Open Eyes (B+), Marguerite YOURCENAR (with Matthieu Galey)
• Without a Name (B-), Yvonne VERA
• Without a Net (B), Ana María SHUA
• Without a Stitch (B), Jens BJØRNEBOE
• Without Copyrights (B), Robert SPOO
• Without Fail (B), Lee CHILD
• Without Title (B+), Geoffrey HILL
• Witness to the Future (B-), Klaus RIFBJERG
• Wittgenstein: The Derek Jarman Film (B+), Derek JARMAN
• The Wittgenstein House (-), Bernhard LEITNER
• Wittgenstein in Ireland (B), Richard WALL
• Wittgenstein Jr (B+), Lars IYER
• [Wittgenstein's House, Nana LAST]
• Wittgenstein's Poker (B+), David EDMONDS and John EIDINOW
• [Witz, Joshua COHEN]
• Wizard of the Crow (A-), NGUGI wa Thiong'o
• The Wizard of the Kremlin (B), Giuliano DA EMPOLI
• Wo ist Carlos Montúfar ? (B), Daniel KEHLMANN
• Woe from Wit (B+), Alexander GRIBOEDOV
• Woes of the True Policeman (B), Roberto BOLAÑO
• [Wolf Hall, Hilary MANTEL]
• The Wolves of Eternity (B+), Karl Ove KNAUSGAARD
• Wolves of the Crescent Moon (B+), Yousef al-MOHAIMEED
• The Woman and the Priest (B+), Grazia DELEDDA
• The Woman and the Puppet (A-), Pierre LOUŸS
• The Woman from Uruguay (B)< Pedro MAIRAL
• Woman in Darkness (B+), Luisgé MARTÍN
• The Woman in the Purple Skirt (B), IMAMURA Natsuko
• The Woman in the Row Behind (B), Françoise DORNER
• Woman of the Dead (B), Bernhard AICHNER
• The Woman of the Flask (B), Selim MATAR
• A Woman of the Future (B+), David IRELAND
• The Woman Priest (B), Sylvain MARÉCHAL
• The Woman who Died a Lot (B+), Jasper FFORDE
• The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World (B+), Sabina BERMAN
• The Woman who Was (B), BOILEAU-NARCEJAC
• The Woman who Was No More (B), BOILEAU-NARCEJAC
• The Woman Who Was Poor (B), Léon BLOY
• Women (A-), Mihail SEBASTIAN
• The Women Are Up to Something (B+), Benjamin J.B. LIPSCOMB
• Women without Men (A-), Shahrnush PARSIPUR
• The Women's Courtyard (B+), Khadija MASTUR
• Wonder (A-), Hugo CLAUS
• The Wooden Sea (C), Jonathan CARROLL
• The Wooden Village (B+), Peter PIŠT'ANEK
• A Word Child (B+), Iris MURDOCH
• Words Alone (B+), Denis DONOGHUE
• Words and Money (B-), André SCHIFFRIN
• Words are something else (A-), David ALBAHARI
• Words for the Taking (A-), Neal BOWERS
• Words Onscreen (B), Naomi S. BARON
• Working Knowledge (B), Petr KRÁL
• A Working Woman (B), Elvira NAVARRO
• Works (B+), Edouard LEVÉ
• The Works and Days of Svistonov (B), Konstantin VAGINOV
• Works on Paper (B+), Eliot WEINBERGER
• The World and Other Places (B), Jeanette WINTERSON
• The World Between Two Covers (B), Ann MORGAN
• The World in my Hands (B), K. Anis AHMED
• The World of the End (B+), Ofir Touché GAFLA
• The World Republic of Letters (A-), Pascale CASANOVA
• A World Without Time (B+), Palle YOURGRAU
• Worlds Built to Fall Apart (B), David LAPOUJADE
• 'The World's Most Prestigious Prize' (B), Geir LUNDESTAD
• The Worst Enemy of Science ? - Essays in memory of Paul Feyerabend (B+)
• [The Worst Intentions, Alessandro PIPERNO]
• Write to Kill (B+), Daniel PENNAC
• The Writer (B), Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
• The Writer and the World (B), V.S.NAIPAUL
• The Writer as Migrant (B), Ha JIN
• A Writer's Reality (B+), Mario Vargas LLOSA
• Writers (B), Antoine VOLODINE
• Writing Arabic (-), Stefan F. MOGINET
• Writing in the Dark (B+), David GROSSMAN
• Writing Love (B), Khalil SWEILEH
• Writings 1903-1932 (B+), Gertrude STEIN
• Writings for the Oulipo (B+), Ian MONK
• Written Lives (B), Javier MARÍAS
• Written Reaction (B+), Eliot WEINBERGER
• Wrong About Japan (B), Peter CAREY
• The Wrong Blood (B), Manuel de LOPE
• The Wurd (B), Chris WILSON

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