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A

Aidt, Naja Marie - Bulbjerg
Agema, Su'eddie Vershima - Awaiting
Agualusa, José Eduardo - Rainy Season
Aïtmatov, Chingiz - Jamilia
Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre - Fantômas
Antunes, Antonio Lobo - Fado Alexandrino
Appelfeld, Aharaon - Badenheim 1939
Astley, Thea - The Well Dressed Explorer
Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations

B

Balzac, Honoré de - Colonel Chabert
Baricco, Alessandro - Silk
Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George
Barth, John - Coming Soon!!!
Bausch, Richard - Peace
Bernard, Christopher - A Spy in the Ruins
Bernhard, Thomas - Frost
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne:
---Absalom's Hair
---A Happy Boy
Bolaño, Roberto:
---Last Evenings on Earth
---The Savage Detectives
Böll, Heinrich - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Borges, Jorge Luis:
---The Book of Sand
---The Total Library - Non-Fiction 1922 - 1986

C

Calvino, Italo:
---Adam, One Afternoon
---If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Camus, Albert - The Plague
Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chesterton, G. K. - The Crimes of England
Crane, Stephen - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets

D

Daudet, Alphonse:
---Artists' Wives
---Tartarin de Tarascon
DeLillo, Don:
---The Body Artist
---White Noise
Doctorow, E. L. - World's Fair
Dolores, Carmen:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales

E

Eco, Umberto:
---Baudolino
---The Name of the Rose
Eichner, Hans - Kahn & Engelmann
Eliot, George - Silas Marner
Epstein, Joseph:
---Friendship: An Exposé
---Narcissus Leaves the Pool

F

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
France, Anatole:
---The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
---The Aspirations of Jean Servien
Franzen, Jonathan - Strong Motion
Freese, Mathias B - Down to a Sunless Sea
Fuentes, Carlos:
---Christopher Unborn
---The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fugard, Athol, Kani, John and Ntshona, Winston - Statements

G

Galdós, Benito Pérez - Dona Perfecta
Gide, André - The Fruits of the Earth
Giordano, Paolo - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Goldsworthy, Peter - Maestro
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Gospodinov, Georgi - And All Turned Moon
Goto, Meisei - Shot by Both Sides
Grass, Günter - Crabwalk
Grunberg, Arnon - The Jewish Messiah

H

Halévy, Ludovic - Parisian Points of View
Hamsun, Knut:
---Growth of the Soil
---Hunger
---Pan
---The Ring is Closed
---Victoria
---See Also - "The Nobel Prize Winning Nazi", posted to the South Wing website.
Hašek, Jaroslav - The Good Soldier Švejk
Hartnett, Sonya - Of A Boy
Hauff, Wilhelm - The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
Heine, Heinrich - The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Hesse, Hermann:
---Knulp
---Rosshalde
---Wandering
Heyse, Paul - Andrea Delfin
Houellebecq, Michel - Whatever
Hrabal, Bohumil - Too Loud a Solitude
Huelle, Paweł - Castorp
Huxley, Aldous - Eyeless in Gaza

I

Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze:
---Death on Gimbiya Street
---The Lunch on Good Friday

J

James, Henry - Washington Square
Jerome, Jerome K - Three Men in a Boat
Jókai, Mór:
---A Christian But a Roman
---See Also Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Joyce, James - Dubliners

K

Kadare, Ismail - The General of the Dead Army
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
Kakuta, Mitsuyo - The Eighth Day
Kapuściński, Ryszard - The Soccer War
Keneally, Thomas - A Commonwealth of Thieves
Kertész, Imre - Detective Story
Khadra, Yasmina - Dead Man's Share
Khoury, Elias:
---City Gates
---Little Mountain
Kielland, Alexander:
---Skipper Worse
---Tales of Two Countries
---See Also - "Kielland", posted to the South Wing website.
Kierkegaard, Søren - Fear and Trembling
Konwicki, Tadeusz - The Polish Complex
Kundera, Milan:
---Farewell Waltz
---Identity
---Immortality
---Laughable Loves

L

Lagerkvist, Par - The Dwarf
Laxness, Halldór - The Atom Station
Ledgard, J. M. - Giraffe
Lee, Hermione - Edith Wharton
Le, Nam - The Boat
Lemonnier, Camille:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Lermontov, Mikhail - A Hero of Our Time
Levi, Primo - The Periodic Table
Lie, Jonas - Weird Tales from Northern Seas
Llosa, Mario Vargas:
---Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
---Death in the Andes
---The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

M

Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
McDonald, Roger - Mr Darwin's Shooter
McGahan, Andrew - Praise
McEwan, Ian - Amsterdam
Maeterlinck, Maurice:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Mahfouz, Naguib:
---Adrift on the Nile
---Before the Throne
---The Thief and the Dogs
---The Time and the Place
Malouf, David - Child's Play
Manotti, Dominique - Affairs of State
Maxwell, William - The Folded Leaf
Maupassant, Guy de:
---Bel-Ami
---Pierre and Jean
Mauriac, François - The Desert of Love
Medeiros e Albuquerque, José de:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Mikszáth, Kálmán - Heathen Master Filcsik
Miller, Alex:
---Lovesong
---The Sitters
Ming, Wu - 54
Mishima, Yukio - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Miyabe, Miyuki - The Devil's Whisper
Montaigne, Michel de - The Complete Essays
Morroco-Clarke, Ayodele - The Nestbury Tree
Moya, Horacio Castellanos:
---Senselessness
---Dance With Snakes
Mueller, Janel and Lowenstein, David - The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
Mulisch, Harry:
---The Discovery of Heaven
---Siegfried
Murnane, Gerald - Tamarisk Row
Musodza, Masimba - Yesterday's Dog

N

Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
Netto, Coehlo:
---See Goldberg, Isaac - Brazilian Tales
Nooteboom, Cees:
---All Souls' Day
---The Following Story

O

Ognjenović, Vida - Adulterers
Ondjaki - Good Morning Comrades
Ozick, Cynthia:
---The Din in the Head
---What Henry James Knew

P

Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - The Fencing Master
Petterson, Per - In the Wake
Powers, Richard:
---The Echo Maker
---The Gold Bug Variations
---The Time of Our Singing
Proust, Marcel:
---In Search of Lost Time I - The Way by Swann's
---In Search of Lost Time II - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Pynchon, Thomas:
---Against the Day
---Gravity's Rainbow

Q

Nothing as yet.

R

Raabe, Wilhelm - German Moonlight
Robbe-Grillet, Alain - The Erasers
Rolland, Romain:
---Clerambault
---Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn
---Jean-Christophe Volume II: Morning
---Jean-Christophe Volume III: Youth
---Pierre and Luce
---See Also - "The Flow of Music", posted to the South Wing website.
Ross, James Bruce and McLaughlin, Mary Martin - The Portable Medieval Reader
Roth, Joseph - Confession of a Murderer
Roth, Philip:
---The Dying Animal
---Exit Ghost
---Goodbye, Columbus
---The Humbling
---Indignation
---My Life as a Man
---Novels, 1973-1977 (Library of America)
---Zuckerman Bound

S

Saadawi, Nawal El - She Has No Place in Paradise
Saramago, José:
---Death With Interruptions
---Seeing
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang - Three New Deals
Schlink, Bernhard - Self's Deception
Schnitzler, Arthur:
---Bertha Garlan
---Casanova's Homecoming
Schulz, Bruno - The Street of Crocodiles
Scullard, H. H. - From the Gracchi to Nero
Selenić, Slobodan - Premeditated Murder
Sienkiewicz, Henryk:
---Sielanka
---So Runs the World
---See also Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
---See Also - "A Polish Historical Master", posted to the South Wing website.
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Simenon, Georges - The Little Man from Archangel
Simić, Mima - Boys Don't Cry
Simon, Claude - The Invitation
Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per - The Man on the Balcony
Smilevski, Goce - Conversation With Spinoza
Smith, Zadie - The Autograph Man
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Oak and The Calf
Souvestre, Pierre & Allain, Marcel - Fantômas
Somoza, Jose Carlos - Zig Zag
Staalesen, Gunnar - The Consorts of Death
Steinbeck, John:
---In Dubious Battle
---The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
---To a God Unknown
---Tortilla Flat
Štiks, Igor - At the Sarajevo Market
Stivens, Dal - A Horse of Air
Sue, Eugène - The Infant's Skull; or, The End of the World - A Tale of the Millennium
Syjuco, Miguel - Ilustrado
Szerb, Antal - The Queen's Necklace
Szewc, Piotr - Annihilation

T

Takagi, Akimitsu - Honeymoon to Nowhere
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - Some Prefer Nettles
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe - Zidane's Melancholy
Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa - Big Pieces, Little Pieces
Tsiolkas, Christos - The Jesus Man
Tubosun, Kola - Behind the Door
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons

U

Updike, John:
---The Afterlife and Other Stories
---The Complete Henry Bech
---Couples
---Hugging the Shore
---Rabbit, Run
---Toward the End of Time
---See Also - "Rabbit in Retrospect", posted to the South Wing website.
Ušumović, Neven - Vereš

V

Valjarević, Srdjan - Lake Como
Viiding, Elo - Foreign Women
Vikelas, Demetrios:
---See Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
Vilikovský, Pavel - Ever Green Is...
Vorpsi, Ornela - The Country Where No One Ever Dies

W

Wahlöö, Per - See Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per
Warlick, Ashley - Seek the Living
Wästberg, Per - The Journey of Anders Sparrman
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Wiese, Jan - The Naked Madonna
Wiesel, Elie - Night
Wilson, Edmund - Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s
Winton, Tim - Breath
Wood, James - How Fiction Works

X

Nothing as yet.

Y

Yaxley, Richard - The Rose Leopard
Yehoshua, A. B. - Friendly Fire

Z

Živković, Zoran - Time Gifts
Zola, Émile,:
---The Flood
---Thérèse Raquin
Zweig, Stefan - Beware of Pity

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