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2666 by Roberto Bolaño

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

All One Horse by Breyten Breytenbach

The Alphabet by Ron Silliman

Amulet by Roberto Bolaño

And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers by Gonzalo Celorio

Arc d’X by Steven Erickson

Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

The Assignment by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Assistant by Robert Walser

At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar

Basrayatha by Muhammad Khudayyir

Before I Wake by Robert Wiersema

Berlin: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes

Best American Magazine Writing 2007

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction

Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi

Big Lonesome: Stories by Jim Ruland

Blind Speed by Josh Barkan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone

The Boat by Nam Le

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee

Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra

The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

boring boring boring boring boring boring boring by Zach Plague

Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert

Boxwood by Camilo José Cela

The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch

The Bridge of the Golden Horn by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Brothers by Yu Hua

Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

Castle by J. Robert Lennon

The Cave by Jose Saramago

The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest by Hadley Haden Guest (editor)

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

Devil Talk by Daniel Olivas

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick

Dirt for Art’s Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu

The Easy Chain by Evan Dara

The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud

English by Wang Gang

Erotomania: A Romance by Francis Levy

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud by Robert Pinsky (editor)

Everything and More by David Foster Wallace

Everything Bad Is Good for You by Steven Johnson

Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

The Fat Man and Infinity & Other Writings by Antonio Lobo Antunes

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Five Spice Street by Can Xue

The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov

From A to X by John Berger

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville by Ted Stearn

Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds

Ghosts by Cesar Aira

Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe

Girly Man by Charles Bernstein

God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr.

Gods and Soldiers by Rob Spillman (editor)

Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici

Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore

The Great Weaver from Kashmir by Halldor Laxness

Guatanamo by Dorothea Dieckmann

Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes

Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar

How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker

Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio

I’d Like by Amanda Michalopoulou

If I Could Write This in Fire by Michelle Cliff

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino

The Immoralist by Andre Gide

The Implacable Order of Things by José Luis Peixoto

In Night’s City by Dorothy Nelson

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Invite by Glen Pourciau

It’s go in horizontal by Leslie Scalapino

It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

The Journal of Jules Renard

Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems by Ron Padgett (editor)

King Cophetua by Julien Gracq

King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne

Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin

Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hugh Selby, Jr.

The Last Novel by David Markson

The Late Age of Print by Ted Striphas

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón

The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

The Maias by Jose Maria Eça de Queirós

Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann

The Meat and Spirit Plan by Selah Saterstrom

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Monsieur by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Mortarville by Grant Bailie

Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach

Music from Big Pink by John Niven

My Father’s Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa

My Floating Mother, City by Kazuko Shiraishi

The Mystery of the Sardine by Stefan Themerson

my vocabulary did this to me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño

new poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

The Obstacles by Eloy Urroz

Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet

On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald

The Pages by Murray Bail

Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz

The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Stephen Levy

Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau

Poor People by William T. Vollmann

The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre

The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann

Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose

Realm of the Dead by Uchida Hyakken

Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

Remember Me by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann

Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

Saga/Circus by Lyn Hejinian

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya

Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Campbell McGrath

The Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus

Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi

Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour

Souls of the Labadie Tract by Susan Howe

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Suspension by Robert Westfield

Thing of Beauty by Jackson Mac Low

This Nest, Swift Passerine by Dan Beachy-Quick

The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier

Throw Like a Girl by Jean Thompson

Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Tinkers by Paul Harding

Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy

Tokyo Fiancée by Amélie Nothomb

Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek

Tomorrow They Will Kiss by Eduardo Santiago

The Top Top Ten by J. Peder Zane

Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo

Tranquility by Attila Bartis

Triangle by Katharine Weber

Twighlight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

t zero by Italo Calvino

Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li

Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Tsepeneag

Vibrator by Mari Akasaka

Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis

The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani

Visigoth by Gary Amdahl

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart

The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

Whose Freedom? by George Lakoff

The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch

Winners Have Yet to Be Announced by Ed Pavlic

Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau

The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla

Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef al-Mohaimeed

Woods and Chalices by Tomaz Salamun

A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman

Yalo by Elias Khoury

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane