• As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter - American Writers Respond to Their French Counterparts
  
  
• ADAM, Olivier:
  • Cliffs (B+)
  • Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas (B+)
• ADIMI, Kaouther: Our Riches (UK title: A Bookshop in Algiers) (B)
• ALAIN-FOURNIER: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-)
• ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (B)
• ALLAIN, Marcel: Fantômas (B+) (with Pierre Souvestre)
• AMETTE, Jacques-Pierre: Brecht's Mistress (B+)
• ANET, Claude: Ariane, a Russian Girl (B)
• APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume: The Poet Assassinated (B)
• APPANAH, Nathacha: Blue Bay Palace (B)
• AUBRY, Gwenaëlle: No One (B)
• AUDEGUY, Stéphane:
  • The Only Son (B)
  • The Theory of Clouds (B+)
• AUDIN, Michèle: One Hundred Twenty-One Days (B+)
• AYMÉ, Marcel: Beautiful Image (B)
• BÂ, Mariama: So Long a Letter (B)
• BAGIEU, Pénélope: Exquisite Corpse (B)
• BALZAC, Honoré de:
  • The Black Sheep (B+)
  • Colonel Chabert (A-)
  • A Harlot High and Low (A-)
  • Lost Illusions (A-)
  • Treatise on Modern Stimulants (B)
  • See also: Peter Brooks on the works of Honoré de Balzac (B+)
• BARBERY, Muriel:
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog (B)
  • Gourmet Rhapsody (UK title: The Gourmet) (B)
  • A Single Rose (B)
• BARJAVEL, René: The Immortals (B)
• BARTHES, Roland: Mourning Diary (-)
• BAUDELAIRE, Charles: Late Fragments (B)
• BÉALU, Marcel: The Impersonal Adventure (B)
• BÉGAUDEAU, François: The Class (C)
• BEIGBEDER, Frédéric:
  • A Life Without End (B+)
  • Manhattan's Babe (B)
  • Windows on the World (B)
• BELLEFROID, Thierry: Chaos in Kinshasa (B-) (with Barly Baruti)
• BELLETTO, René:
  • Coda (B)
  • Dying (B)
• BÉNABOU, Marcel:
  • Dump This Book While You Still Can ! (B)
  • To Write on Tamara ? (B+)
  • Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (A-)
• BENACQUISTA, Tonino:
  • Badfellas (B) (US title: Malavita)
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
  • The Thursday Night Men (B)
• BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B)
• BENOZIGLIO, Jean-Luc: Privy Portrait (B)
• BEREST, Anne: Sagan, Paris 1954 (B)
• BERNSTEIN, Michèle: All the King's Horses (B)
• BETI, Mongo: The Story of the Madman (B)
• BEYROUK, Mbarek Ould: The Desert and the Drum (B+)
• BINET, Laurent:
  • HHhH (B-)
  • The Seventh Function of Language (B)
• BLAIS, François: Document 1 (B)
• BLAS DE ROBLÈS, Jean-Marie:
  • Island of Point Nemo (B+)
  • Where Tigers are at Home (A-)
• BLONDEL, Jean-Philippe: The 6:41 to Paris (B)
• BLOY, Léon:
  • Disagreeable Tales (B+)
  • The Woman Who Was Poor (B)
• BOBIN, Christian: The Lady in White (A-)
• BOCK, Maxime Raymond: Baloney (A-)
• BOFANE, In Koli Jean:
  • Casablanca Story (B)
  • Congo Inc. (B+)
• BOILEAU-NARCEJAC:
  • Choice Cuts (B)
  • She Who Was No More (B) (also published as: The Woman who Was No More; The Woman who Was; and The Fiends)
  • Vertigo (B+) (also published as: The Living and the Dead)
• BOSC, Adrien: Constellation (B)
• BOSCO, Henri: Malicroix (B+)
• BOUCHERON, Bernard du: The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C)
• BOUILLIER, Grégoire:
  • The Mystery Guest (B)
  • Report on Myself (C+)
• BOULLE, Pierre:
  • Desperate Games (C-)
  • Planet of the Apes (B+)
  • Trouble in Paradise (C)
• BOURDOUXHE, Madeleine:
  • La Femme de Gilles (A)
  • Marie (B+)
• BOVE, Emmanuel:
  • Armand (A-)
  • Henri Duchemin and His Shadows (B)
  • My Friends (B+)
  • A Winter's Journal (A-)
• BREBEL, Sébastien: Francis Bacon's Armchair (B)
• BRUSSOLO, Serge: The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome (A-)
• BUSSI, Michel: The Double Mother (B) (UK title: The Other Mother)
• BUTOR, Michel: Degrees (B+)
• CAGNATI, Inès: Free Day (A-)
• CAILLÉ, Anne-Renée: The Embalmer (B)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel:
  • The Adversary (A-)
  • Class Trip (B+)
  • I am Alive and You are Dead (B)
  • The Kingdom (B)
  • Limonov (B+)
  • Lives Other Than My Own (B+)
  • The Mustache (B)
  • My Life as a Russian Novel (B) (UK title: A Russian Novel)
  • Yoga (B)
• CAUWELAERT, Didier van:
  • One-Way (B)
  • Out of my Head (also published as: Unknown) (B)
• CAYRE, Hannelore: The Godmother (B+)
• CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand:
  • Conversations with Professor Y (A-)
  • Journey to the End of the Night (B+)
  • Semmelweis (A-)
• CHAIX, Marie: The Summer of the Elder Tree (B+)
• CHESSEX, Jacques:
  • A Jew Must Die (B+)
  • The Tyrant (B+)
  • The Vampire of Ropraz (B+)
• CHEVILLARD, Éric:
  • The Author and Me (B+)
  • Demolishing Nisard (B)
  • Museum Visits (B+)
  • The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster (B)
  • Prehistoric Times (B+)
  • The Valiant Little Tailor (B)
• CHUNG, Ook: L'Expérience interdite (B)
• CLARO: Electric Flesh (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe:
  • Brodeck's Report (US title: Brodeck) (B)
  • Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
  • The Investigation (B)
• CLERC, Thomas: Interior (B+)
• COMMENT, Bernard: The Shadow of Memory (B)
• CONSTANT, Paule:
  • The Governor's Daughter (B+)
  • White Spirit (A-)
• COSSÉ, Laurence:
  • A Corner of the Veil (C)
  • A Novel Bookstore (B-)
• COSSERY, Albert:
  • The Colors of Infamy (B+)
  • The Jokers (A-)
  • Laziness in the Fertile Valley (B)
  • Proud Beggars (B+)
  • A Splendid Conspiracy (B+)
• CREVEL, René: Babylon (B+)
• DA EMPOLI, Giuliano: The Wizard of the Kremlin (B)
• DAAS, Fatima: The Last One (B)
• DAENINCKX, Didier:
  • Murder in Memoriam (B)
  • Nazis in the Metro (B)
  • A Very Profitable War (B)
• DAI Sijie:
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+)
  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (B)
• DANTEC, Maurice G.:
  • [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]
  • [Cosmos Incorporated]
• DAOUD, Kamel: The Meursault Investigation (B+)
• DARD, Frédéric:
  • Bird in a Cage (B+)
  • Crush (B+)
  • The Executioner Weeps (B+)
  • The Gravediggers' Bread (B+)
  • The King of Fools (B)
  • The Wicked Go To Hell (B)
  • Writing as San-Antonio:
    • Knights of Arabia (B)
    • Thugs and Bottles (B)
    • Tough Justice (B)
• DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie:
  • My Phantom Husband (B-)
  • Pig Tales (B-)
  • Undercurrents (UK title: Breathing under Water) (B-)
  • White (B+)
• DECK, Julia: Viviane (B)
• DELABROY-ALLARD, Pauline: They Say Sarah (B) (UK title: All About Sarah)
• DELACORTA: Nana (B+)
• DELACOURT, Grégoire: The List of My Desires (US title: My Wish List) (B-)
• DELISLE, Guy: Burma Chronicles (B)
• DENON, Vivant: No Tomorrow (B+)
• DÉON, Michel:
  • The Foundling Boy (B+)
  • The Great and the Good (B+)
• DESJARDINS, Martine: Maleficium (B)
• DESPENTES, Virginie:
  • Apocalypse Baby (B)
  • Pretty Things (B)
  • Vernon Subutex 1 (B+)
• DICKER, Joël:
  • The Enigma of Room 622 (B-)
  • The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (B)
• DIDEROT, Denis:
  • Jacques the Fatalist (A-)
  • Rameau's Nephew (B)
• DIOME, Fatou: The Belly of the Atlantic (B+)
• DIOP, Boubacar Boris: The Knight and His Shadow (B+)
• DIOP, David:
  • At Night All Blood Is Black (B)
  • Beyond the Door of No Return (B+)
• DJAOUT, Tahar: The Last Summer of Reason (B+)
• DJAVADI, Négar: Disoriental (B)
• DJIAN, Philippe:
  • Consequences (B)
  • Elle (B)
  • Unforgivable (C)
• DONGALA, Emmanuel:
  • Johnny Mad Dog (B+)
  • Little Boys Come from the Stars (B+)
• DORNER, Françoise: The Woman in the Row Behind (B)
• DUBOIS, Jean-Paul: Vie Française (UK title: A French Life) (B)
• DUFOSSÉ, Christophe: School's Out (B)
• DUGAIN, Marc: The Avenue of the Giants (B)
• DUMAS, Alexandre: The Thousand and One Ghosts (B)
• DUMONTAIS, Sinclair: The Parachute (B-)
• DURAS, Marguerite: Abahn Sabana David (B)
• DUSAPIN, Elisa Shua:
  • The Pachinko Parlor (B+)
  • Vladivostok Circus (B)
  • Winter in Sokcho (B)
• DUTEURTRE, Benoît:
  • Customer Service (C+)
  • The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-)
• DUTOURD, Jean:
  • A Dog's Head (A-)
  • Five A.M. (B)
  • The Horrors of Love (A-)
• DUVERT, Tony:
  • District (B)
  • Odd Jobs (A-)
• ECHENOZ, Jean:
  • Big Blondes (B-)
  • Chopin's Move (B)
  • I'm Gone (B+)
  • Lightning (A-)
  • 1914 (A-)
  • Piano (A)
  • The Queen's Caprice (B)
  • Ravel (A-)
  • Running (B+)
  • S. (B)
  • Special Envoy (B+)
  • We Three (B)
• EDDÉ, Dominique: Kamal Jann (B-)
• ÉNARD, Mathias:
  • Compass (A-)
  • Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (B+)
• ERNAUX, Annie:
  • See the complete review's Annie Ernaux page
  • Ce qu'ils disent ou rien (B)
  • Cleaned Out (A-)
  • L'ecriture comme un couteau (B)
  • A Frozen Woman (A-)
  • Getting Lost (B)
  • A Girl's Story (A-)
  • Happening (B+)
  • "I Remain in Darkness" (B-)
  • Look at the Lights, My Love (B)
  • A Man's Place (A-)
  • The Possession (B)
  • Shame (B+)
  • Simple Passion (A-)
  • Things Seen (B+)
  • The Years (A)
• ÉTIENNE, Marie: King of a Hundred Horsemen (B-)
• FABRE, Dominique: The Waitress was New (B+)
• FAYE, Éric: Nagasaki (B)
• FÉNÉON, Félix: Novels in Three Lines (-)
• FERNANDEZ, Marc: Mala Vida (B-)
• FERRARI, Jérôme: The Principle (B)
• FERRY, Jean: The Conductor (B+)
• FLAUBERT, Gustave:
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-)
  • Madame Bovary (A-)
  • Sentimental Education (B+)
• FOENKINOS, David:
  • Charlotte (C-)
  • Delicacy (B-)
  • The Mystery of Henri Pick (B)
• FORTE, Frédéric: Minute-Operas (B+)
• FORTIER, Dominique: Paper Houses (B+)
• FOURNEL, Paul:
  • Avant le polar (B+)
  • Dear Reader (B+)
  • Little Girls Breathe the Same Air As We Do (B+)
• FRANKÉTIENNE: Ready to Burst (B+)
• GAILLY, Christian:
  • An Evening at the Club (B)
  • The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B)
  • Red Haze (B+)
• GARNIER, Pascal:
  • A Long Way Off (B+)
  • The A26 (B)
  • Boxes (B+)
  • C'est la Vie (B+)
  • The Eskimo Solution (B)
  • The Front Seat Passenger (A-)
  • How's the Pain ? (A-)
  • The Islanders (B)
  • Low Heights (A-)
  • Moon in a Dead Eye (B+)
  • The Panda Theory (A-)
  • Too Close to the Edge (B+)
• GARRÉTA, Anne:
  • In Concrete (B)
  • Not One Day (B+)
  • Sphinx (A-)
• GARY, Romain:
  • The Gasp (B-)
  • Hocus Bogus (B) (writing as Émile Ajar)
• GAUDÉ, Laurent: Our Europe (B)
• GAUZ': Comrade Papa (B)
• GAVALDA, Anna:
  • French Leave (UK title: Breaking Away) (B-)
  • I Wish Someone were Waiting for me Somewhere (B)
  • Life, Only Better (B)
  • Someone I loved (B-)
• GÉBÉ: Letter to Survivors (B+)
• GEORGET, Philippe: Summertime, all the Cats are Bored (B)
• GERMAIN, Sylvie: The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague (B-)
• GHATA, Yasmine: The Calligraphers' Night (B+)
• GIDE, André:
  • Imaginary Interviews (B)
  • Marshlands (B)
• GIONO, Jean: Melville (B+)
• GODBOUT, Jacques:
  • Dragon Island (B)
  • Operation Rimbaud (B)
• GOETZ, Adrien: Villa of Delirium (B)
• GRAFF, Laurent:
  • Happy Days (B+)
  • The Scream (B)
• GREEN, Julien:
  • The Closed Garden (A-) (also: Adrienne Mesurat)
  • The Distant Lands (B+)
  • The Stars of the South (B+)
• GRENIER, Roger: Another November (B+)
• GRIMBERT, Philippe: Secret (A-) (US title: Memory)
• GUÈNE, Faïza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (B+) (UK title: Just Like Tomorrow)
• GUIBERT, Hervé: Blindsight (B+)
• GUILLOUX, Louis: Blood Dark (B+)
• GUIRAUDIE, Alain: Now the Night Begins (B)
• HADDAD, Hubert:
  • Desirable Body (B)
  • Rochester Knockings (B+)
• HAENEL, Yannick: Hold Fast Your Crown (B)
• HALBERSTADT, Michèle: La Petite (B+)
• HÉNAFF, Sophie: The Awkward Squad (B)
• HOEX, Corinne: Gentlemen Callers (A-)
• HOREM, Elisabeth: The Ring (C)
• HOUDART, Célia: Quarry (B+)
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel:
  • Annihilation (B)
  • The Elementary Particles, (A-) (UK title: Atomised)
  • Lanzarote (B+)
  • The Map and the Territory (B+)
  • Platform (B+)
  • The Possibility of an Island (B)
  • Serotonin (B)
  • Submission (B+)
  • Whatever (B)
• HUSTON, Nancy:
  • Fault Lines (B+)
  • Infrared (B)
• ILBOUDO, Monique: So Distant From My Life (B)
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Chourmo (B)
  • Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil (-)
  • [The Lost Sailors]
  • Solea (B)
  • Total Chaos (B+)
• JACQ, Christian: The Judgement of the Mummy (C)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien:
  • The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (B+)
  • One Deadly Summer (B)
  • Rider on the Rain (B)
  • The Sleeping-Car Murders (B) (also published as: The 10:30 from Marseilles)
  • Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JAUFFRET, Régis:
  • Lacrimosa (B)
  • Severe (B-)
• JERUSALMY, Raphaël: Saving Mozart (B)
• JOLY, Eva: The Eyes of Lira Kazan (B), with Judith Perrignon
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JOUET, Jacques:
  • Mountain R (B)
  • My Beautiful Bus (B)
  • Savage (B+)
  • Two-Step (B+) (with Olivier Salon)
  • Upstaged (B+)
• KADDOUR, Hédi: Little Grey Lies (B+)
• KANE, Cheikh Hamidou: Ambiguous Adventure (B)
• KERANGAL, Maylis de:
  • Birth of a Bridge (B+)
  • The Heart (UK title: Mend the Living) (A-)
• KESSEL, Joseph: Belle de Jour (B)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • The Attack (B)
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Cousin K (B)
  • Dead Man's Share (B+)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KOUROUMA, Ahmadou:
  • See the complete review's Ahmadou Kourouma page
  • Allah n'est pas obligé (B+)
  • Monnew (B+)
  • The Suns of Independence (B+)
  • Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-)
• KRÁL, Petr: Working Knowledge (B)
• KRAMER, Pascale: The Child (B)
• KUNDERA, Milan:
  • The Curtain (B+)
  • The Festival of Insignificance (B+)
  • Identity (B)
  • See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
• LA VILLE DE MIRMONT, Jean de: The Sundays of Jean Dézert (A-)
• LACLAVETINE, Jean-Marie: Première ligne (B+)
• LAFAYETTE, Madame de: The Princesse de Clèves (B+)
• LAFERRIÈRE, Dany:
  • Eroshima (B)
  • How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (B+)
  • I am a Japanese Writer (B+)
  • Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex ? (B+)
• LAMARTINE, Alphonse de: Graziella (B+)
• LANG, Luc: Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor (B)
• LANGE, Monique: A Little Girl under a Mosquito Net (B)
• LAPEYRE, Patrick: Life is Short and Desire Endless (B)
• LARBAUD, Valery: Fermina Márquez (B+)
• LAURAIN, Antoine:
  • The President's Hat (B)
  • The Red Notebook (B)
• LAURENS, Camille: In Those Arms (US title: In His Arms) (B)
• LAURRENT, Éric: Do Not Touch (B+)
• LAVERDURE, Bertrand:
  • Readopolis (B)
  • Universal Bureau of Copyrights (B)
• LEBLANC, Suzanne: The Thought House of Philippa (B)
• LECASBLE, Guillaume: Lobster (B+)
• LE CLÉZIO, Jean-Marie Gustave:
  • The African (B)
  • The Interrogation (B)
  • The Prospector (B+)
• LÉGER, Nathalie: Suite for Barbara Loden (B+)
• LEIRIS, Michel:
  • Manhood (B)
  • Nights as Day, Days as Night (B)
• LELORD, François:
  • Hector and the Search for Happiness (B)
  • Hector and the Secrets of Love (B)
• LEMAITRE, Pierre:
  • Alex (B)
  • Blood Wedding (B)
  • Camille (B)
  • The Great Swindle (B)
  • Inhuman Resources (B)
  • Irène (B-)
  • Three Days and a Life (B)
• LE ROUGE, Gustave:
  • The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (B)
  • The War of the Vampires (B)
• LE TELLIER, Hervé:
  • All Happy Families (B+)
  • The Anomaly (B+)
  • Eléctrico W (B+)
  • Enough about Love (B+)
  • The Intervention of a Good Man (B)
  • The Sextine Chapel (B)
  • A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) (B+)
• LEVÉ, Edouard:
  • Autoportrait (A-)
  • Newspaper (B)
  • Suicide (B)
  • Works (B+)
• LÉVY, Justine:
  • The Rendezvous (B)
  • Nothing Serious (B)
• LEVY, Marc:
  • All Those Things We Never Said (C+)
  • P.S. from Paris (B-)
  • Replay (B-)
• LÉVY-BERTHERAT, Déborah: The Travels of Daniel Ascher (B)
• LEYS, Simon: The Death of Napoleon (A-)
• LIBERATI, Simon: Anthology of Apparitions (B-)
• LITTELL, Jonathan: The Kindly Ones (C-)
• LORRAIN, Jean: Monsieur de Bougrelon (B)
• LOUŸS, Pierre: The Woman and the Puppet (A-)
• LUCA, Ghérasim: The Passive Vampire (-)
• MABANCKOU, Alain:
  • African Psycho (B-)
  • Broken Glass (B+)
  • The Death of Comrade President (B+)
  • Memoirs of a Porcupine (B+)
  • The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix (B+)
• MACÉ, Gérard: The Last of the Egyptians (B)
• MADANI, Rachida: Tales of a Severed Head (B)
• MAISTRE, Xavier de:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+)
  • The Leper of the City of Aosta (B)
• MAKINE, Andreï: The Life of an Unknown Man (B+)
• MALLARD, Alain-Paul: An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg (B)
• MALLOCK: The Faces of God (B-)
• MANCHETTE, Jean-Patrick:
  • Fatale (B)
  • Ivory Pearl (B+)
  • The Mad and the Bad (B+)
  • Nada (B+)
  • The N'Gustro Affair (B+)
  • No Room at the Morgue (B+)
  • The Prone Gunman (B)
  • Skeletons in the Closet (B)
  • Three To Kill (B+)
• MARÉCHAL, Sylvain: The Woman Priest (B)
• MAROUANE, Leïla: The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (B)
• MARS, Kettly: Savage Seasons (B+)
• MARTINET, Jean-Pierre: The High Life (B+)
• MARTINEZ, Cyrille:
  • The Dark Library (B)
  • The Sleepworker (B+)
• MATHIEU, Nicolas: Rose Royal (B)
• MATTHIEUSSENT, Brice: Revenge of the Translator (B)
• MAUVIGNIER, Laurent: The Birthday Party (B)
• MÉMOIRE, Danielle: Public Reading Followed by Discussion (B)
• MÉROT, Pierre: Mammals (B)
• MIANO, Léonora: Dark Heart of the Night (B)
• MICHAKA, Stéphane: Scissors (B)
• MICHAUD, Andrée A.: Boundary (B)
• MICHAUX, Henri:
  • A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
  • Miserable Miracle (B)
  • Stroke by Stroke (-)
  • Tent Posts (B+)
• MIRBEAU, Octave:
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid (B)
  • Torture Garden (B)
  • Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic (B)
• MODIANO, Patrick:
  • After the Circus (A)
  • Afterimage (A-)
  • Flowers of Ruin (B+)
  • Honeymoon (A)
  • In the Café of Lost Youth (B+)
  • La Place de l'Étoile (B+)
  • Little Jewel (B+)
  • The Night Watch (B)
  • Paris Nocturne (B+)
  • The Occupation Trilogy: see La Place de l'Étoile, The Night Watch, and Ring Roads
  • Pedigree (A-)
  • Ring Roads (B)
  • Sleep of Memory (B+)
  • So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (B+)
  • Sundays in August (B+)
  • Suspended Sentences (B+)
• MONÉNEMBO, Tierno:
  • The King of Kahel (B)
  • The Oldest Orphan (B)
• MORAND, Paul:
  • Hecate and Her Dogs (B+)
  • The Man in a Hurry (B)
• MOURON, Quentin: Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine (B-)
• MUKASONGA, Scholastique: Our Lady of the Nile (B)
• MUSSO, Guillaume: The Reunion (B)
• MWANZA MUJILA, Fiston:
  • Tram 83 (B+)
  • The Villain's Dance (B+)
• NDIAYE, Marie:
  • All my Friends (B)
  • Ladivine (A-)
  • My Heart Hemmed In (B+)
  • Self-Portrait in Green (B)
• NÉMIROVSKY, Irène:
  • All Our Worldly Goods (B)
  • The Ball (Le Bal) (A-)
  • The Courilof Affair (B+)
  • David Golder (B+)
  • David Golder - The Ball - Snow in Autumn - The Courilof Affair (A-)
  • Dimanche (B)
  • Fire in the Blood (B)
  • Jezebel (B)
  • Snow in Autumn (B+)
  • Suite française (A)
• NERVAL, Gérard de: The Illuminated (B+)
• NOIVILLE, Florence:
  • Attachment (B+)
  • A Cage in Search of a Bird (B)
  • The Gift (B)
  • Literary Miniatures (B)
• NOTHOMB, Amélie:
  • See the complete review's Amélie Nothomb page
  • Les aérostats (B)
  • Antichrista (B-) (Antéchrista)
  • Attentat (B+)
  • Barbe bleue (B+)
  • The Book of Proper Names (B) (Robert des noms propres)
  • The Character of Rain (A-) (Métaphysique des tubes)
  • Cosmétique de l'ennemi (A-)
  • Le crime du comte Neville (B)
  • Fear and Trembling (A-) (Stupeur et tremblements)
  • First Blood (B+)
  • Human Rites (B) (Les combustibles)
  • Hygiene and the Assassin (B+) (Hygiène de l'assassin)
  • Journal d'Hirondelle (B+)
  • Life Form (B+) (Une forme de vie)
  • The Life of Hunger (A) (Biographie de la faim)
  • Loving Sabotage (A+) (Le Sabotage amoureux)
  • Mercure (B)
  • La nostalgie heureuse (B+)
  • Péplum (B+)
  • Pétronille (B)
  • Les prénoms épicènes (B)
  • The Stranger next Door (B) (Les Catilinaires)
  • Strike Your Heart (B+) (Frappe-toi le cœur)
  • Sulphuric Acid (B) (Acide sulfurique)
  • Thirst (B+)
  • Tokyo Fiancée (B+) (Ni d'Ève Ni d'Adam)
  • Tuer le père (B)
  • Le voyage d'hiver (B+)
  • See also: Amélie Nothomb de A à Z (B), Michel ZUMKIR
• OHL, Jean-Pierre: The Lairds of Cromarty (B+)
• OLLIER, Claude:
  • Disconnection (B+)
  • Wert and the Life Without End (B)
• OSTER, Christian:
  • A Cleaning Woman (B)
  • In the Train (B)
  • My Big Apartment (B+)
  • The Unforeseen (B+)
• OUOLOGUEM, Yambo:
  • Bound to Violence (B+)
  • See also: Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (B-)
• PAGANI, Robert: The Princess, the King, and the Anarchist (B+)
• PAGANO, Emmanuelle: Trysting (B+)
• PAGE, Martin:
  • The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection (B)
  • How I Became Stupid (B)
• PANCOL, Katherine: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (C)
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • The Dictator and the Hammock (B)
  • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
  • Passion Fruit (B)
  • The Scapegoat (B)
  • Write to Kill (B+)
• PEREC, Georges:
  • See the complete review's Georges Perec page
  • An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (B+)
  • the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise (US title: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise) (-)
  • "53 Days" (-)
  • I Remember (B)
  • La Boutique Obscure (B)
  • Life A User's Manual (A)
  • The Machine (A)
  • A Man Asleep (A-)
  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere (UK title: Portrait of a Man) (B)
  • A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go (B+), with Pierre Lusson and Jacques Roubaud
  • Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-)
  • Things (A-)
  • Thoughts of Sorts (A-)
  • Three (B)
  • Wishes (-)
  • See also: AA files 45/46: Georges Perec + Paris (B+)
  • See also: Georges Perec (A), David BELLOS
• PERRAULT, Gilles: Dossier 51 (B)
• PILLE, Lolita: Paris 75016 (D)
• PONGE, Francis:
  • Mute Objects of Expression (A-)
  • Soap (B)
• POUGY, Liane de: Chasing the Dream (B)
• POULIN, Jacques:
  • Autumn Rounds (B+)
  • Mister Blue (B+)
  • Translation is a Love Affair (B+)
• PROUST, Marcel: The Lemoine Affair (B+)
• PUJOL, Pascale: Little Culinary Triumphs (B-)
• QUENEAU, Raymond:
  • Children of Clay (B+)
  • Exercises in Style (A+)
  • The Flight of Icarus (A-)
  • The Last Days (B-)
  • We Always Treat Women Too Well (B)
  • Zazie in the Metro (B+)
• QUIGNARD, Pascal:
  • The Answer to Lord Chandos (A-)
  • On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia (B+)
  • The Roving Shadows (B+)
  • A Terrace in Rome (B+)
• QUINTREAU, Laurent: Gross Margin (B)
• RADIGUET, Raymond: Count D'Orgel's Ball (B+)
• RAHIMI, Atiq: The Patience Stone (B+)
• RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand: The Young Man from Savoy (A-)
• RASPAIL, Jean: The Camp of the Saints (D)
• RAY, Jean: Malpertuis (B+)
• REZA, Yasmina:
  • See the complete review's Yasmina Reza page
  • Adam Haberberg (B+)
  • 'Art' (B)
  • Babylon (B)
  • Conversations after a Burial (B-)
  • Dawn, Dusk or Night (B)
  • Desolation (B)
  • The God of Carnage (B)
  • Hammerklavier (B)
  • Life x 3 (B)
  • Nulle part (B)
  • The Unexpected Man (B)
• ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain:
  • Repetition (B+)
  • A Sentimental Novel (-)
• ROBERT, Denis: Happiness (C)
• ROCHE, Maurice: Compact (B)
• RODENBACH, Georges: Bruges-la-Morte (B+)
• ROHE, Oliver: Origin Unknown (B)
• ROLIN, Jean: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose (B)
• ROLIN, Olivier:
  • Hotel Crystal (B)
  • Paper Tiger (B)
• ROMAINS, Jules: Donogoo-Tonka (B)
• ROUBAUD, Jacques:
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-)
  • The Great Fire of London (A-)
  • Mathematics: (B+)
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B)
  • A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go (B+), with Pierre Lusson and Georges Perec
  • Some Thing Black (B+)
• ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (A-)
• ROZIER, Gilles: The Mercy Room (UK title: Love Without Resistance) (B-)
• SADE, Donatien Alphonse François de:
  • Aline and Valcour (B)
  • Journey to Italy (B+)
  • The 120 Days of Sodom (-)
  • The Marquise de Gange (B)
• SAGAN, Françoise:
  • Bonjour Tristesse (B+)
  • A Certain Smile (B)
  • That Mad Ache (B-)
  • See also: Sagan, Paris 1954 (B), Anne BEREST
• SALVAYRE, Lydie:
  • The Award (A-)
  • The Company of Ghosts (A-)
  • Everyday Life (B)
  • The Lecture (B)
  • Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal (B)
  • The Power of Flies (B+)
• SAND, George: Gabriel (B-)
• SANSAL, Boualem:
  • The German Mujahid (UK title: An Unfinished Business) (B)
  • 2084 (B)
• SARR, Mohamed Mbougar: The Most Secret Memory of Men (B+)
• SARRAUTE, Nathalie: Tropisms (B+)
• SARRAZIN, Albertine: Astragal (B)
• SARTRE, Jean-Paul: The Age of Reason (B-)
• SATRAPI, Marjane:
  • Embroideries (B)
  • Persepolis (B)
  • Persepolis (vol. 3) (B)
• SAUVAGEOT, Marcelle: Commentary (B)
• SCHMITT, Eric-Emmanuel:
  • Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (B+)
  • The Most Beautiful Book in the World (C)
  • [La part de l'autre]
• SCHUHL, Jean-Jacques: Dusty Pink (B+)
• SEBBAR, Leïla: Sherazade (B+)
• SEKSIK, Laurent: Les mauvaises pensées (B)
• SEMBENE Ousmane:
  • The Last of the Empire (B)
  • Xala (B-)
• SENGES, Pierre:
  • Ahab (Sequels) (B+)
  • Fragments of Lichtenberg (A-)
• SERGE, Victor: Unforgiving Years (A-)
• SERRE, Anne: The Governesses (B)
• SHAN Sa:
  • Alexander and Alestria (C)
  • Empress (B)
  • The Girl who Played Go (B+)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • The Blue Room (A-)
  • The Engagement (B+)
  • The Late Monsieur Gallet (B)
  • The Mahé Circle (A-)
  • Maigret and the Ghost (B)
  • Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (B+)
  • Maigret and the Old People (B)
  • Maigret and the Saturday Caller (A-)
  • Maigret Hesitates (A-)
  • Maigret in Court (B+)
  • Maigret's Pickpocket (B)
  • Pietr the Latvian (B+)
  • The President (B)
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
  • Tropic Moon (B+)
  • When I was Old (B+)
  • The Widow (B+)
• SIMON, Claude: The Invitation (B)
• SINIAC, Pierre: The Collaborators (B)
• SLIMANI, Leïla: The Perfect Nanny (UK title: Lullaby) (B)
• SONY Labou Tansi:
  • The Antipeople (B)
  • Life and a Half (B)
  • Parentheses of Blood (B+)
  • The seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (B)
  • The Shameful State (B)
• SOUPAULT, Philippe:
  • Last Nights of Paris (B)
  • The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle (A-)
• SOUVESTRE, Pierre: Fantômas (B+) (with Marcel Allain)
• SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (B-)
• STAROVA, Luan: Les livres de mon père (B+)
• TEULÉ, Jean: The Suicide Shop (B)
• THILLIEZ, Franck:
  • Bred to Kill (B)
  • Syndrome E (C+)
• THOMAS, Chantal: Farewell, My Queen (B+)
• THÚY, Kim:
  • Mãn (B)
  • Ru (B+)
• TOUMI, Alek Baylee: Madah-Sartre (B)
• TOURNIER, Michel:
  • The Mirror of Ideas (B-)
  • The Wind Spirit (A-)
• TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe:
  • The Bathroom (B+)
  • Camera (B)
  • Football (B+)
  • Making Love (B+)
  • Monsieur (A-)
  • Naked (B+)
  • Reticence (B+)
  • Running Away (A-)
  • Self-Portrait Abroad (B)
  • Television (B+)
  • The Truth about Marie (B+)
  • Urgency and Patience (B+)
• TSEPENEAG, Dumitru:
  • A Novel to Read on the Train (B+)
  • Pigeon Post (B)
• TURGEON, David: The Supreme Orchestra (B)
• VALTAT, Jean-Christophe: 03 (B)
• VARENNE, Antonin: Bed of Nails (B)
• VARGAS, Fred: Have Mercy on Us All (B)
• VERNE, Jules:
  • The Meteor Hunt (B)
  • The Self-Propelled Island (B)
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (B+)
• VIAN, Boris:
  • The Dead All Have the Same Skin (C+)
  • Froth on the Daydream (B+) (also published as: Mood Indigo)
  • I Spit on Your Graves (B)
  • To Hell with the Ugly (B-)
• VIEL, Tanguy:
  • The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-)
  • Article 353 (B+)
  • Beyond Suspicion (B)
  • The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan (B)
• VIGAN, Delphine de: [Underground Time]
• VILLIERS, Gérard de: The Madmen of Benghazi (B)
• VISNIEC, Matéi:
  • And Now Who's Going to Do the Dishes ? (B+)
  • Richard III Will Not Take Place (B+)
• VOLODINE, Antoine:
  • Minor Angels (B-)
  • Radiant Terminus (A)
  • Solo Viola (B+)
  • Writers (B)
• VUILLARD, Éric:
  • The Order of the Day (B+)
  • The War of the Poor (B)
• WABERI, Abdourahman A.:
  • In the United States of Africa (B)
  • Passage of Tears (B+)
  • Transit (B+)
• WILLEMS, Paul: The Cathedral of Mist (B+)
• WITTIG, Monique: Les Guérillères (B)
• WITTKOP, Gabrielle:
  • Exemplary Departures (B+)
  • Murder Most Serene (B+)
  • The Necrophiliac (B+)
• YABOUZA, Adrienne: Co-wives, Co-widows (B)
• YOURCENAR, Marguerite:
  • Coup de Grâce (A-)
  • With Open Eyes (B+) (with Matthieu Galey))
• YSLAIRE, Bernar: The Sky Over the Louvre (-) (with Jean-Claude Carrière)
• ZAOUI, Amin: Banquet of Lies (B+)
• ZELLER, Florian:
  • Artificial Snow (B+)
  • The Fascination of Evil (B+)
  • Julien Parme (B)
  • Lovers or Something Like It (B+)
• ZOLA, Emile:
  • The Bright Side of Life (B+)
  • The Dream (B+)
  • The Kill (A-)
  • The Ladies' Paradise (B+)
  • A Love Story (B+)
  • The Masterpiece (B+)

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