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A

Absalom's Hair - Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - Steinbeck, John
Adam, One Afternoon - Calvino, Italo
Adrift on the Nile - Mahfouz, Naguib
Adulterers - Ognjenović, Vida
Affairs of State - Manotti, Dominique
The Afterlife and Other Stories - Updike, John
Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas
A Happy Boy - Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
All Souls' Day - Nooteboom, Cees
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon, Michael
Amsterdam - McEwan, Ian
And All Turned Moon - Gospodinov, Georgi
Andrea Delfin - Heyse, Paul
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy, Leo
Annihilation - Szewc, Piotr
Arthur & George - Barnes, Julian
Artists' Wives - Daudet, Alphonse
The Aspirations of Jean Servien - France, Anatole
At the Sarajevo Market - Štiks, Igor
The Atom Station - Laxness, Halldór
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Llosa, Mario Vargas
The Autograph Man - Smith, Zadie
Awaiting - Agema, Su'eddie Vershima

B

Badenheim 1939 - Appelfeld, Aharaon
Baudolino - Eco, Umberto
Before the Throne - Mahfouz, Naguib
Behind the Door - Tubosun, Kola
Bel-Ami - Maupassant, Guy de
Bertha Garlan - Schnitzler, Arthur
Beside the Sea - Olmi, Véronique
Beware of Pity - Zweig, Stefan
Big Pieces, Little Pieces - Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa
The Blind Assassin - Atwood, Margaret
Blood Meridian - McCarthy, Cormac
The Boat - Le, Nam
The Body Artist - DeLillo, Don
The Book of Sand - Borges, Jorge Luis
Boys Don't Cry - Simić, Mima
Brazilian Tales - trans. Goldberg, Isaac
Breath - Winton, Tim
Bulbjerg - Aidt, Naja Marie

C

The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature - Mueller, Janel and Lowenstein, David
Casanova's Homecoming - Schnitzler, Arthur
Castorp - Huelle, Paweł
Ceremony - Silko, Leslie Marmon
Child's Play - Malouf, David
A Christian But a Roman - Mór, Jókai
Christopher Unborn - Fuentes, Carlos
City Gates - Khoury, Elias
Clerambault - Rolland, Romain
Colonel Chabert - Balzac, Honoré de
Coming Soon!!! - Barth, John
A Commonwealth of Thieves - Keneally, Thomas
The Complete Essays - Montaigne, Michel de
The Complete Henry Bech - Updike, John
Confession of a Murderer - Roth, Joseph
The Consorts of Death - Staalesen, Gunnar
Conversation With Spinoza - Smilevski, Goce
Cost of Courage - Tapureta, Beaven
The Country Where No One Ever Dies - Vorpsi, Ornela
Couples - Updike, John
Crabwalk - Grass, Günter
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard - France, Anatole
The Crimes of England - Chesterton, G. K.

D

Dance With Snakes - Moya, Horacio Castellanos
Dead Man's Share - Khadra, Yasmina
Death in the Andes - Llosa, Mario Vargas
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Fuentes, Carlos
Death on Gimbiya Street - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze
Death With Interruptions - Saramago, José
The Desert of Love - Mauriac, François
Detective Story - Kertész, Imre
The Devil's Whisper - Miyabe, Miyuki
The Din in the Head - Ozick, Cynthia
The Discovery of Heaven - Mulisch, Harry
Dona Perfecta - Galdós, Benito Pérez
Down to a Sunless Sea - Freese, Mathias B.
The Dwarf - Lagerkvist, Par
The Dying Animal - Roth, Philip

E

The Echo Maker - Powers, Richard
Edith Wharton - Lee, Hermione
The Eighth Day - Kakuta, Mitsuyo
The Erasers - Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Exit Ghost - Roth, Philip
Eyeless in Gaza - Huxley, Aldous

F

Fado Alexandrino - Antunes, Antonio Lobo
Fantômas - Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre
Farewell Waltz - Kundera, Milan
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, Ivan
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard, Søren
The Fencing Master - Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Flood - Zola, Émile
The Folded Leaf - Maxwell, William
The Following Story - Nooteboom, Cees
Foreign Women - Viiding, Elo
Friendly Fire - Yehoshua, A. B.
Friendship: An Exposé - Epstein, Joseph
From the Gracchi to Nero - Scullard, H. H.
Frost - Bernhard, Thomas
The Fruits of the Earth - Gide, André

G

The General of the Dead Army - Kadare, Ismail
German Moonlight - Raabe, Wilhelm
Giraffe - Ledgard, J. M.
The Gold Bug Variations - Powers, Richard
Goodbye, Columbus - Roth, Philip
Good Morning Comrades - Ondjaki
The Good Soldier Švejk - Hašek, Jaroslav
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon, Thomas
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, F Scott
Growth of the Soil - Hamsun, Knut

H

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose - Heine, Heinrich
Heathen Master Filcsik - Mikszáth, Kálmán
Honeymoon to Nowhere - Takagi, Akimitsu
A Horse of Air - Stivens, Dal
How Fiction Works - Wood, James
Hugging the Shore - Updike, John
The Humbling - Roth, Philip
Hunger - Hamsun, Knut

I

Identity - Kundera, Milan
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino, Italo
Ilustrado - Syjuco, Miguel
Immortality - Kundera, Milan
Indignation - Roth, Philip
In Dubious Battle - Steinbeck, John
The Infant's Skull; or, The End of the World - A Tale of the Millennium - Sue, Eugène
In Search of Lost Time I - The Way by Swann's - Proust, Marcel
In Search of Lost Time II - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Proust, Marcel
In the Wake - Petterson, Per
The Invitation - Simon, Claude

J

Jamilia - Aïtmatov, Chingiz
Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn - Rolland, Romain
Jean-Christophe Volume II: Morning - Rolland, Romain
Jean-Christophe Volume III: Youth - Rolland, Romain
The Jesus Man - Tsiolkas, Christos
The Jewish Messiah - Grunberg, Arnon
The Journey of Anders Sparrman Wästberg, Per

K

Kahn & Engelmann - Eichner, Hans
Knulp - Hesse, Hermann

L

Lake Como - Valjarević, Srdjan
Last Evenings on Earth - Bolaño, Roberto
Laughable Loves - Kundera, Milan
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s - Wilson, Edmund
The Little Man from Archangel - Simenon, Georges
Little Mountain - Khoury, Elias
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - Böll, Heinrich
The Loved One - Waugh, Evelyn
Lovesong - Miller, Alex
The Lunch on Good Friday - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze

M

Madame Bovary - Flaubert, Gustave
The Man on the Balcony - Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per
Maestro - Goldsworthy, Peter
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets - Crane, Stephen
Meditations - Aurelius, Marcus
Mr Darwin's Shooter - McDonald, Roger
My Life as a Man - Roth, Philip

N

The Naked Madonna - Wiese, Jan
The Name of the Rose - Eco, Umberto
Narcissus Leaves the Pool - Epstein, Joseph
Nausea - Sartre, Jean-Paul
The Nestbury Tree - Morocco-Clarke, Ayodele
Night - Wiesel, Elie
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto - Llosa, Mario Vargas
Novels, 1973-1977 (Library of America) - Roth, Philip

O

The Oak and The Calf - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Oblomov - Goncharov, Ivan
Of A Boy - Hartnett, Sonya
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway, Ernest

P

Pale Fire - Nabokov, Vladimir
Pan - Hamsun, Knut
Parisian Points of View - Halévy, Ludovic
Peace - Bausch, Richard
The Periodic Table - Levi, Pimo
Pierre and Jean - Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Luce - Rolland, Romain
The Plague - Camus, Albert
The Polish Complex - Konwicki, Tadeusz
The Portable Medieval Reader - Ross, James Bruce and McLaughlin, Mary Martin
Praise - McGahan, Andrew
Premeditated Murder - Selenić, Slobodan

Q

The Queen's Necklace - Szerb, Antal

R

Rabbit, Run - Updike, John
Rainy Season - Agualusa, José Eduardo
The Ring is Closed - Hamsun, Knut
The Rose Leopard - Yaxley, Richard
Rosshalde - Hesse, Hermann

S

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Mishima, Yukio
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño, Roberto
Seeing - Saramago, José
Seek the Living - Warlick, Ashley
Self's Deception - Schlink, Bernhard
Senselessness - Moya, Horacio Castellanos
She Has No Place in Paradise - Saadawi, Nawal El
Shot by Both Sides - Goto, Meisei
Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry
Sielanka - Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Silas Marner - Eliot, George
Silk - Baricco, Alessandro
The Sitters - Miller, Alex
Skipper Worse - Kielland, Alexander
The Soccer War - Kapuściński, Ryszard
The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Giordano, Paolo
Some Prefer Nettles - Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō
So Runs the World - Sienkiewicz, Henryk
A Spy in the Ruins - Bernard, Christopher
Statements - Fugard, Athol, Kani, John and Ntshona, Winston
The Street of Crocodiles - Schulz, Bruno
Strong Motion - Franzen, Jonathan

T

Tales of Two Countries - Kielland, Alexander
Tamarisk Row - Murnane, Gerald
Tartarin de Tarascon - Daudet, Alphonse
Thérèse Raquin - Zola, Émile
The Thief and the Dogs - Mahfouz, Naguib
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome, Jerome K
Three New Deals - Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
The Time and the Place - Mahfouz, Naguib
Time Gifts - Živković, Zoran
The Time of Our Singing - Powers, Richard
Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn
To a God Unknown - Steinbeck, John
Too Loud a Solitude - Hrabal, Bohumil
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck, John
The Total Library - Non-Fiction 1922 - 1986 - Borges, Jorge Luis
Toward the End of Time - Updike, John
The Trial - Kafka, Franz

U

V

Vereš - Ušumović, Neven
Victoria - Hamsun, Knut

W

Washington Square - James, Henry
Wandering - Hesse, Hermann
Weird Tales from Northern Seas - Lie, Jonas
The Well Dressed Explorer - Astley, Thea
Whatever - Houellebecq, Michel
What Henry James Knew - Ozick, Cynthia
White Noise - DeLillo, Don
The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen - Hauff, Wilhelm
World's Fair - Doctorow, E. L.

X

Y

Yesterday's Dog - Musodza, Masimba

Z

Zidane's Melancholy - Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe
Zig Zag - Somoza, Jose Carlos
Zuckerman Bound - Roth, Philip

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