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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2018 =
at
the complete review
This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2018, by month and in reverse chronological order.Key:
* Note that very many publishers with a focus on fiction in translation regularly send all relevant titles, and so these are not explicitly 'requested' (though we would ask for them if we didn't get them automatically); these are marked "un+" |
Books received/acquired in December, 2018
[53 books / 26 reviewed to date]
- Friend of My Youth, by Amit Chaudhuri (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Revenge of the Foxes, by Ak Welsapar (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Four Plays, by Juliusz Słowacki (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Bellini and the Sphinx, by Tony Bellotto (Akashic Books) [catalogue]
- Among the Lost, by Emiliano Monge (Scribe) [un+]
- The Fetishists, by Ibrahim al- Koni (University of Texas Press) [requested]
- The Enlightened Army, by David Toscana (University of Texas Press) [requested]
- The Codex Mexicanus, by Lori Boornazian Diel (University of Texas Press) [requested]
- Human Matter, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (University of Texas Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Academy of Fisticuffs, by Sophus A. Reinert (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Critique of Forms of Life, by Rahel Jaeggi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Kindness of Strangers, by Salka Viertel (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Nothing but the Night, by John Williams (New York Review Books) [un+]
- At Dusk, by Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe) [solicited]
- The Women's Courtyard, by Khadija Mastur (Penguin India) [gift]
- The Dancing Other, by Suzanne Dracius (Seagull Books) [un+]
- A Change of Time, by Ida Jessen (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- Allmen and the Pink Diamond, by Martin Suter (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Goose Fritz, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Polyglot Lovers, by Lina Wolff (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Maigret in Court, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- A German Officer in Occupied Paris, by Ernst Jünger (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- City of Ash and Red, by Pyun Hye-young (Arcade) [requested]
- Homer, Odyssey I, ed. by Simon Pulleyn (Oxford University Press) [requested]
- What's in a Name, by Ana Luísa Amaral (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
- Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, by Adonis (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
- Wanderer, by Sarah Léon (Other Press) [un+]
- Princess Bari, by Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe) [solicited]
- The Embalmer, by Anne-Renée Caillé (Coach House Books) [un+]
- Days by Moonlight, by André Alexis (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
- Moving Parts, by Prabda Yoon (Tilted Axis) [e-book; requested]
- EEG, by Daša Drndić (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Garden on the Moon, by Pierre Boulle (Signet) [$1.46]
- The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus (Carcanet) [$11.21]
- When I Was Old, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [$6.71]
- The Plotters, by Kim Un-su (Doubleday) [e-book; requested]
- City of Jasmine, by Olga Grjasnowa (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets, by Ōoka Makoto (Kurodahan) [un+]
- Nova Swing, by M.John Harrison (Bantam) [$2.79]
- Deep Red, by Nozawa Hisashi (Vertical, Inc.) [$2.79]
- The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, ed. by Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler (Cambridge University Press) [requested]
- Pascal's Wager, ed. by Paul Bartha and Lawrence Pasternack (Cambridge University Press) [requested]
- A Mysterious Affair of Style, by Gilbert Adair (Faber & Faber) [$2.44]
- Babelandia, by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta (Humana Press) [$3.49]
- Don Goyo, by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta (Humana Press) [$4.19]
- Textermination, by Christine Brooke-Rose (New Directions) [$2.44]
- Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) [$2.79]
- Dragon Island, by Jacques Godbout (Musson Book Co.) [$2.44]
- The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, by Harry Stephen Keeler (McSweeney's) [$2.79]
- Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere, by Georges Perec (University of Chicago Press) [$4.54]
- Hide and Seek, by Dennis Potter (Faber & Faber) [$2.44]
- A Meaning to Life, by Michael Ruse (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- Zuleikha, by Guzel Yakhina (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2018
[50 books / 21 reviewed to date]
- The Art of Being, by Yi-Ping Ong (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Rain, by Mia Couto (Biblioasis) [un+]
- Inhuman Land, by Józef Czapski (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Flashback Hotel, by Ivan Vladislavić (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Solovyov and Larionov, by Eugene Vodolazkin (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- L'anarchiste, by Soth Polin (Table Ronde) [€8,48]
- Zärtliche Klagen, by Ogawa Yoko (Aufbau Verlag) [€9,35]
- Die Datei, by Arnon Grünberg (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [€8,40]
- Der Mann, der nie krank war, by Arnon Grünberg (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [€9,34]
- Das Norman-Areal, by Jan Kjærstad (Septime Verlag) [€22,43]
- Nichts von euch auf Erden, by Reinhard Jirgl (dtv) [€14,86]
- A Shameful Life, by Dazai Osamu (Stone Bridge Press) [requested]
- The Fourth String, by Janet Pocorobba (Stone Bridge Press) [un]
- Letters, Dreams & Other Writings, by Remedios Varo (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Sacred Darkness, by Levan Berdzenishvili (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- A Christmas Carol and Other Stories, by Charles Dickens (Oxford University Press) [un]
- Stand-in Companion, by Shiraishi Kazufumi (Red Circle) [e-book; requested]
- Backlight, by Hanawa Kanji (Red Circle) [e-book; requested]
- Tokyo Performance, by Roger Pulvers (Red Circle) [e-book; un]
- The Republic, by Joost de Vries (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- Hear Our Defeats, by Laurent Gaudé (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- "Muslim": A Novel, by Zahia Rahmani (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Tale of Cho Ung (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Not a Clue, by Chloé Delaume (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
- Tout un roman !, by Marc Behm (Rivages/Noir) [€9.30]
- Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) [un]
- Silence, by Erling Kagge (Vintage) [un]
- Latin Poetry, by Ludovico Ariosto (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Speedboat, by Renata Adler (Popular Library) [50¢]
- Make Me, by Lee Child (Dell) [50¢]
- Persuader by Lee Child (Dell) [75¢]
- Voices from the Street, by Philip K. Dick (Tor) [ARC; 50¢]
- The Decline of Pleasure, by Walter Kerr (Time) [50¢]
- Night of Camp David, by Fletcher Knebel (Harper & Row) [ARC; 50¢]
- Meet Me at the Morgue, by Ross Macdonald (Bantam) [50¢]
- The Listening Walls, by Margaret Millar (Dell) [50¢]
- Jackson's Dilemma, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin) [50¢]
- A Sight for Sore Eyes, by Ruth Rendell (Dell) [50¢]
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes, by Martin Suter (Diogenes) [50¢]
- Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Horseman's Song, by Ben Pastor (Bitter Lemon Press) [un]
- Newcomer, by Higashino Keigo (Minotaur Books) [requested]
- Charles Bovary, Country Doctor, by Jean Améry (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Star, by Mishima Yukio (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Fox and Dr. Shimamura, by Christine Wunnicke (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
- Mala Vida, by Marc Fernandez (Arcade) [ARC; requested]
- Hold Fast Your Crown, by Yannick Haenel (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Book Business, by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- We Are Family, by Fabio Bartolomei (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2018
[29 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- Lord, by João Gilberto Noll (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Desert and the Drum, by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Dedalus) [un+]
- Mothers and Daughters, by Vedrana Rudan (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- My Name Was Never Frankenstein, ed. by Bryan Furuness (Indiana University Press) [un]
- Blue Label, by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (Turtle Point Press) [solicited]
- Treatise on Modern Stimulants, by Honoré de Balzac (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Boy, by Marcus Malte (Restless Books) [un+]
- Decals, by Oliverio Girondo (Open Letter) [un+]
- Little Culinary Triumphs, by Pascale Pujol (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Love in the New Millennium, by Can Xue (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Going Where, by Olga Medvedkova (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- The Law of Inheritance, by Yasser Abdellatif (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Evil Things, by Katja Ivar (Bitter Lemon Press) [un]
- Childhood, by Gerard Reve (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- The Nameless Day, by Friedrich Ani (Seagull Books) [un+]
- On Wandsworth Bridge, by Hattie Pond (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Loss Sings, by James E. Montgomery (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Dreamverse, by Jindřich Štyrský (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- The Reincarnated Giant, ed. by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (Columbia University Press) [ ]
- Lost Time, by Józef Czapski (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Almost Nothing, by Eric Karpeles (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Shakespeare Requirement, by Julie Schumacher (Doubleday) [e-book; library]
- Doppelgänger, by Daša Drndić (Istros Books) [solicited]
- Compartments, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Sleep of Memory, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Long Path to Wisdom, by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Other Press) [un+]
- Under Water, by J.L. Powers (Cinco Puntos Press) [ARC; un]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2018
[23 books / 12 reviewed to date]
- Two-Step, by Jacques Jouet and Olivier Salon (Toad Press) [solicited]
- Omer Pasha Latas, by Ivo Andrić (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Club, by Takis Würger (Grove) [ARC; un+]
- Obolé, by Aka Mortschiladse (Mitteldeutscher Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Santa Esperanza, by Aka Mortschiladse (Mitteldeutscher Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Das erste Gewand, by Guram Dotschanaschwili (Hanser) [e-book; requested]
- Dusty Pink, by Jean Jacques-Schuhl (Semiotext(e)) [requested]
- Like a Sword Wound, by Ahmet Altan (Europa Editions) [un+]
- War Songs, by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad (NYU Press) [un+]
- Im Zustand stiller Auflösung, by Bora Ćosić (Schoeffling & Co.) [requested]
- Good Will Come From the Sea, by Christos Ikonomou (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- On My Aunt’s Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed, by Maria Mitsora (Yale University Press) [requested]
- The Tale of the Missing Man, by Manzoor Ahtesham (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- Two Plays of Weimar Germany: Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals, by Ferdinand Bruckner (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- Nothing But Dust, by Sandrine Collette (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Interior States, by Meghan O'Gieblyn (Anchor Books) [un]
- The Geography of Rebels Trilogy, by Maria Gabriela Llansol (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Camellia Street, by Mercè Rodoreda (Open Letter) [un+]
- One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, by Luigi Pirandello (Spurl Editions) [requested]
- The Prepper Room, by Karen Duve (Dedalus) [un+]
- Thanks, by Pablo Katchadjian (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Book, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Farewell, My Orange, by Iwaki Kei (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2018
[46 books / 23 reviewed to date]
- CoDex 1962, by Sjón (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [requested]
- The Gravediggers' Bread, by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Something Great and Beautiful, by Enrico Pellegrini (Other Press) [un]
- Is It All in Your Head ?, by Suzanne O'Sullivan (Other Press) [un]
- Once and Forever, by Miyazawa Kenji (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Inhuman Resources, by Pierre Lemaitre (MacLehose Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Snail on the Slope, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Chicago Review Press) [requested]
- The Supreme Orchestra, by David Turgeon (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
- Ernest Hemingway, by Mary V. Dearborn (Vintage) [un]
- The Malayan Trilogy, by Anthony Burgess (Penguin) [$1.00]
- One Thousand and One Ghosts, by Alexandre Dumas (Hesperus Classics) [$2.00]
- The Closed Garden, by Julien Green (Harper & Brothers) [$2.50]
- The White Monkey, by John Galsworthy (Grosset & Dunlap) [$2.50]
- The Accidental Man, by Iris Murdoch (Viking) [$3.00]
- Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures, by Timothy Aubry (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Printed in Beirut, by Jabbour Douaihy (Interlink) [solicited]
- Pretty Things, by Virginie Despentes (Feminist Press) [requested]
- The Novel of Ferrara, by Giorgio Bassani (W.W.Norton) [requested]
- Kafka's Last Trial, by Benjamin Balint (W.W.Norton) [requested]
- Through Two Doors at Once, by Anil Ananthaswamy (Dutton) [requested]
- The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, by Tanella Boni (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
- Sticky Fingers, by Joe Hagan (Vintage) [un]
- What Hell Is Not, by Alessandro D'Avenia (Oneworld) [un]
- The Cold War Swap, by Ross Thomas (Perennial Library) [$3.96]
- Chaka, by Thomas Mofolo (African Writers Series) [$2.80]
- Afraid to Death, by Marc Behm (No Exit) [$3.60]
- Children of the Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor) [$5.20]
- Respected Sir/Wedding Song/The Search, by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor) [$4.40]
- The Parting Gift, by Evan Fallenberg (Other Press) [un]
- The Mabinogion, tr. by Sioned Davies (Oxford University Press) [un+]
- Babylon, by Yasmina Reza (Seven Stories Press) [requested]
- Moderan, by David R. Bunch (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Strike Your Heart, by Amélie Nothomb (Europa Editions) [requested]
- Nameless Serenade, by Maurizio de Giovanni (Europa Editions) [un+]
- The Frolic of the Beasts, by Mishima Yukio (Vintage) [ARC; un+]
- Toomas Nipernaadi, by August Gailit (Dedalus) [un+]
- Senso, by Camillo Boito (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Females, by Wolfgang Hilbig (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
- Essayism, by Brian Dillon (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Tears of the Black Man, by Alain Mabanckou (Indiana University Press) [catalogue]
- Concrete Flowers, by Wilfried N'Sondé (Indiana University Press) [catalogue]
- American Fictionary, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Easiness and the Loneliness, by Asta Olivia Nordenhof (Open Letter) [un+]
- Killing Commendatore, by Murakami Haruki (Knopf) [e-book; catalogue]
- The Hole, by José Revueltas (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2018
[35 books / 16 reviewed to date]
- In the Shadow of King Saul, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
- In/Half, by Jasmin B. Frelih (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Desirable Body, by Hubert Haddad (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Endless Blue Sky, by Lee Hyoseok (Honford Star) [un+]
- Escher's Loops, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Crashed, by Adam Tooze (Viking) [requested]
- The Labyrinth of the Spirits, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Harper) [ARC; solicited]
- Now the Night Begins, by Alain Guiraudie (Semiotext(e)) [requested]
- The Anarchist Who Shared My Name, by Pablo Martín Sánchez (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Mephisto's Waltz, by Sergio Pitol (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Graziella, by Alphonse de Lamartine (University of Minnesota Press) [ARC; un+]
- I Hardly Knew You, by Edna O'Brien (Avon) [$1.00]
- Craven House, by Patrick Hamilton (Black Spring Press) [$1.00]
- The Prague Orgy, by Philip Roth (Vintage) [$1.00]
- The Gap of Time, by Jeanette Winterson (Hogarth Shakespeare) [$2.00]
- Endings, by 'Abd Al-Rahman Munif (Quartet) [$2.00]
- Tropical Night Falling, by Manuel Puig (Simon & Schuster) [$2.00]
- The Bickford Fuse, by Andrey Kurkov (MacLehose Press) [$1.00]
- The Enemy, by Lee Child (Dell) [$1.00]
- Never Go Back, by Lee Child (Dell) [$1.00]
- Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child (Dell) [$1.00]
- Running Blind, by Lee Child (Jove) [$1.00]
- 61 Hours, by Lee Child (Dell) [$1.00]
- Without Fail, by Lee Child (Jove) [$1.00]
- Solar Bones, by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) [requested]
- Love Interrupted, by Reneilwe Malatji (Catalyst Press) [un+]
- Death of the Snake Catcher, by Ak Welsapar (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Hard Times, by Ostap Vyshnia (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Wishes, by Georges Perec (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- A Long Blue Monday, by Erhard von Büren (Matador) [solicited]
- Slav Sisters, ed. by Natasha Perova(Dedalus) [un+]
- The Day I Found You, by Pedro Chagas Freitas (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- Barefoot Souls, by Maram Al-Masri (Chinese University Press) [un]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2018
[38 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- The Kid and Me, by Frederick Turner (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
- Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists, by Roberto Ransom (Swan Isle Press) [solicited]
- Sentimental Tales, by Mikhail Zoshchenko (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Mesopotamia, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [requested]
- The Governesses, by Anne Serre (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Houseguest, by Amparo Dávila (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Seventeen, by Yokoyama Hideo (MCD) [AARC; requested]
- Toddler-Hunting, by Kono Taeko (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Condition of Secrecy, by Inger Christensen (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- A Chill in the Air, by Iris Origo (New York Review Books) [un+]
- War in Val d’Orcia, by Iris Origo (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Deviation, by Luce d'Eramo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- A Spy in Time, by Imraan Coovadia (California Coldblood Books) [ARC; requested]
- Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, by Mathias Énard (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- Muck, by Dror Burstein, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Pascal's Will, by Haris Vlavianos (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- Like a Black Bird, by George Szirtes (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- The Man Without Arms, by Toshiko Hirata (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- Heritage, by Major Jackson (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- I Decided to Dissolve, by Javier Bello (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) [un]
- The Great Flowing River, by Chi Pang-yuan (Columbia University Press) [un]
- The Erinys Incident, by Tani Kōshū (Kurodahan) [un+]
- A Biography of a Chance Miracle, by Tanja Maljartschuk (Cadmus) [solicited]
- What's Left of the Night, by Ersi Sotiropoulos (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Other Planet, by Ascher/Straus (McPherson & Co.) [un+]
- Journey into the Mind's Eye, by Lesley Blanch (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Right Intention, by Andrés Barba (Transit Books) [requested]
- River, by Esther Kinsky (Transit Books) [ARC; solicited]
- Narrator, by Bragi Ólafsson (Open Letter) [un+]
- Ma Bole’s Second Life, by Xiao Hong (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Barefoot Woman, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Death Notice, by Zhou Haohui (Doubleday) [requested]
- Madame Victoria, by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Children’s Crusade, by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press) [requested]
- Imaginary Lives, by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press) [requested]
- Psychology of the Rich Aunt, by Erich Mühsam (Wakefield Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2018
[47 books / 14 reviewed to date]
- Bogotá 39, ed. by Juliet Mabey (Oneworld) [un+]
- The Question of Raising Cranes, by Chen Xianfa (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- Scales of Injustice, by Lōa Hô (Honford Star) [un+]
- Malva, by Hagar Peeters (DoppelHouse Press) [ARC; un+]
- Nameless Serenade, by Maurizio de Giovanni (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- When I Was a Wolf, by Terayama Shūji (Kurodahan) [un+]
- The Long Result, by John Brunner (Ballantine) [$1.00]
- Double, Double, by John Brunner (Ballantine) [$1.00]
- Times without Number, by John Brunner (Ace Books) [$1.00]
- Heidegger's Shadow, by José Pablo Feinmann (Texas Tech University Press) [$11.00]
- The First Prehistoric Serial Killer, by Teresa Solana (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Cold Summer, by Gianrico Carofiglio (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Checkpoint, by David Albahari (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Arid Sky, by Emiliano Monge (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Chekhov: Stories for Our Time, by Anton Chekhov (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Functions of the Heart, by Semezdin Mehmedinović (Chinese University Press) [un+]
- Posthomerica, by Quintus Smyrnaeus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Tragedies I and II, by Seneca (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Gaudeamus, by Mircea Eliade (Istros) [solicited]
- Rome Resurgent, by Peter Heather (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- Blue Self-Portrait, by Noémi Lefebvre (Transit Books) [library]
- Sand, by Wolfgang Herrndorf (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Watermelon Boys, by Ruqaya Izzidien (Hoopoe) [e-book; solicited]
- Pan Tadeusz, by Adam Mickiewicz (Archipelago) [un+]
- Patient X, by David Peace (Alfred A. Knopf) [e-book; requested]
- The Improvisatore, by Hans Christian Andersen (University of Minnesota Press) [un+]
- The Eye, by Philippe Costamagna (New Vessel Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Never Anyone But You, by Rupert Thomson (Other Press) [un+]
- Czech Plays: Seven New Works, ed. by Marcy Arlin, Gwynn MacDonald, and Daniel Gerould (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications) [$0.00]
- Mina, by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
- In Darfur (II), by Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (NYU Press) [un+]
- My Struggle: Book Six, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Archipelago) [un+]
- The Girl Who Wasn't There, by Ferdinand von Schirach (Abacus) [library]
- Diving for Seahorses, by Hilde and Ylva Østby (Greystone) [un]
- The Order of the Day, by Éric Vuillard (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- Mama's Boy, by David Goudreault (Bookthug) [un+]
- Document 1, by François Blais (Bookthug) [un+]
- Kolyma Stories (I), by Varlam Shalamov (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Oscar, by Mauricio Segura (Biblioasis) [un=]
- The Prime of Life, by Simone de Beauvoir (Lancer) [$1.00]
- In the Distance With You, by Carla Guelfenbein (Other Press) [un+]
- In Darfur (I), by Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (NYU Press) [un+]
- Black Renaissance, by Szentkuthy Miklós (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Ramayana, by Arshia Sattar (Restless Books) [un]
- The Final Retreat, by Stephen Hough (Sylph Editions) [un]
- Another Life, by Theodor Kallifatides (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2018
[48 books / 14 reviewed to date]
- Havoc, by Tom Kristensen (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature, by John Whittier Treat (University of Chicago Press) [requested]
- Murder in Mount Holly, by Paul Theroux (The Mysterious Press) [library]
- First Person, by Richard Flanagan (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- Speculative Japan 4, (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
- How to Rule The World, by Tibor Fischer (Corsair) [requested]
- The President's Gardens, by Muhsin al-Ramli (MacLehose Press) [library]
- Sōseki, by John Nathan (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Extinction of Menai, by Chuma Nwokolo (Ohio University Press) [library]
- Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad, ed. by Julian Yolles and Jessica Weiss (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Baby Blue, by Pol Koutsakis (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Second Body, by Daisy Hildyard (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- Insane, by Rainald Goetz (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- Writing for Print, by Suyoung Son (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Anchor) [un+]
- The Infernal Library, by Daniel Kalder (Henry Holt) [ ]
- The Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers (New York Review Books) [un+]
- A Million Drops, by Víctor del Árbol (Other Press) [un+]
- Someone to Talk To, by Liu Zhenyun (Duke University Press) [library]
- Comedies, by Robert Walser (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Migrant Brothers, by Patrick Chamoiseau (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Great Rift, by Michael E. Hobart (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Country Life, by Rachel Cusk (Picador) [$ 1.00]
- Foxybaby, by Elizabeth Jolley (University of Queensland Press) [$ 1.00]
- Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox (W.W.Norton) [$ 1.00]
- Charandas Chor, by Habib Tanvir (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Villa Amalia, by Pascal Quignard (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Season of the Shadow, by Léonora Miano (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy (Vintage) [un]
- Paris à Table, by Eugène Briffault (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- Blockchain and the Law, by Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Paperbacks from Hell, by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books) [library]
- Ivory Pearl, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Flying Mountain, by Christoph Ransmayr (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Hybrid Child, by Ōhara Mariko (University of Minnesota Press) [ARC; un+]
- Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931, by Nathan Marcus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- QWERTY Invectives, by Éric Chevillard (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Dust, by Yi T'aejun (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Banthology, ed. by Sarah Cleave (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Hawk of the Mind, by Yang Mu (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Devil's Reward, by Emmanuelle de Villepin (Other Press) [un+]
- Born Criminal, by Angelica Shirley Carpenter (South Dakota Historical Society Press) [ARC; un]
- Transparent City, by Ondjaki (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- People in the Room, by Norah Lange (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Alma Mahler, by Sasho Dimoski (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- American Journal, by Christine Montalbetti (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Anatomy. Monotony, by Edy Poppy (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Mere Chances, by Veronika Simoniti (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2018
[48 books / 17 reviewed to date]
- Kruso, by Lutz Seiler (Scribe) [un+]
- The Dead, by Christian Kracht (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- One Deadly Summer, by Sébastien Japrisot (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
- An Untouched House, by Willem Frederik Hermans (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- The Storm, by Tomás González (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- Horsemen of the Sands, by Leonid Yuzefovich (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- The Traitor's Niche, by Ismail Kadare (Counterpoint Press) [ARC; requested]
- The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Insignificance, by Xu Xi (Signal 8 Press) [un]
- Little Beast, by Julie Demers (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
- Journeying, by Claudio Magris (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig (New York Review Books) [un]
- Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi (Europa Editions) [un+]
- Hashish, by Oscar A.H. Schmitz (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Frappe-toi le cœur, by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel) [$7.50]
- The End of the Moment We Had, by Okada Toshiki (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Valley of the Fallen, by Carlos Rojas (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Hour of All Things and Other Plays, by Caridad Svich (Intellect Ltd) [un]
- Eventide, by Therese Bohman (Other Press) [un+]
- Let's No One Get Hurt, by Jon Pineda (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
- Never Alone, by Elizabeth Hayes (Myriad) [un]
- Congo Inc., by In Koli Jean Bofane (Indiana University Press) [catalogue]
- The Silence of the Spirits, by Wilfried N'Sondé (Indiana University Press) [catalogue]
- The Bird Tribunal, by Agnes Ravatn (Orenda Books) [library]
- Two Gentlemen on the Beach, by Michael Köhlmeier (Haus Publishing) [library]
- L'amour dure trois ans, by Frédéric Beigbeder (Le Livre de Poche) [$0.95]
- Femmes, by Philippe Sollers (Folio) [$0.95]
- Fifty Degrees Below, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra) [$0.95]
- Portal of the Wind, by Natsuki Shizuko (Ballantine) [$0.95]
- The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje (Vintage (UK)) [$0.95]
- Baroni, a Journey, by Sergio Chejfec (Almost Island) [solicited]
- Take Six, ed. by Margaret Jull Costa (Dedalus) [un+]
- Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter, by Margherita Giacobino (Dedalus) [un+]
- Weeping Waters, by Karin Brynard (Europa Editions) [un+]
- Let Me Sleep Until It Is Just a Dream, by Ellisiv Stifoss-Hanssen (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Collected Letters, by Flann O'Brien (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Conjugating Hindi, by Ishmael Reed (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Nefertiti’s Face, by Joyce Tyldesley (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Aranyak, by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Last Country, by Svenja Leiber (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, by Silke Scheuermann (Seagull Books) [un+]
- What Is Africa to Me ?, by Maryse Condé (Seagull Books) [un+]
- Notes for a Young Gentleman, by Toby Litt (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Secret History of my Sojourn in Russia, by Jaroslav Hašek (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Bride and Groom, by Alisa Ganieva (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Border Districts, by Gerald Murnane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Stream System, by Gerald Murnane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Interior, by Thomas Clerc (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2018
[41 books / 16 reviewed to date]
- Era Emilia, by I.I.Mender (self-published) [solicited]
- Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds, ed. by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Sacco Gang, by Andrea Camilleri (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Neighborhood, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
- Cult X, by Fuminori Nakamura (Soho Press) [solicited]
- We Kiss Them With Rain, by Futhi Ntshingila (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The Republic of Arabic Letters, by Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- France’s Long Reconstruction, by Herrick Chapman (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Fade Out, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image Comics) [library]
- The Devils' Dance, by Hamid Ismailov (Tilted Axis Press) [e-book]
- Outline, by Rachel Cusk (Picador) [$0.00]
- Trying to Say Goodbye, by Adil Jussawalla (almostisland) [solicited]
- Bricks and Mortar, by Clemens Meyer (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- Transit Comet Eclipse, by Muharem Bazdulj (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Our Best Love Story, by Mario Levi (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Sońka, by Ignacy Karpowicz (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Rainbow People, by Nicholas Mosley (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Abrupt Mutations, by Enrique Luis Revol (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Matei Brunul, by Lucian Dan Teodorovici (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Caring for Japanese Arts at the Chester Beatty Library, by Yoshiko Ushioda (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- The Perfect Nanny, by Leila Slimani (Penguin) [library]
- Seven Sixes Are Forty-three, by Kiran Nagarkar (Harper Perennial (India)) [un+]
- No Presents Please, by Jayant Kaikini (Harper Perennial (India)) [un+]
- A Life Misspent, by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (Harper Perennial (India)) [un+]
- Hindutva or Hind Swaraj, by U.R.Ananthamurthy (Harper Perennial (India)) [solicited]
- Wild Animals Prohibited, by Subimal Misra (Harper Perennial (India)) [solicited]
- The Sea Lies Ahead, by Intizar Husain (Harper Perennial (India)) [solicited]
- Cruel is the Night, by Karo Hämäläinen (Soho Press) [library]
- A Girl in Exile, by Ismail Kadare (Counterpoint Press) [library]
- Icosameron, by Casanova (Éditions François Bourin) [$1.00]
- Submergence, by J.M.Ledgard (Coffee House Press) [$1.00]
- Everyone Knows You Go Home, by Natalia Sylvester (Little A) [un]
- 2023, by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Faber & Faber) [library]
- The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, by Matei Calinescu (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Twist, by Harkaitz Cano (Archipelago) [un+]
- Nowherelands, by Bjørn Berge (Thames & Hudson) [library]
- Wait, Blink, by Gunnhild Øyehaug (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
- The Informed Air, by Muriel Spark (New Directions) [catalogue]
- Narcotics, by Stanisław I. Witkiewicz (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Mourning, by Eduardo Halfon (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Alpha, by Bessora and Barroux (Bellevue Literary Press) [un+]
- The Baghdad Clock, by Shahad Al Rawi (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- Lala, by Jacek Dehnel (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2018
[39 books / 14 reviewed to date]
- Allmen and the Dragonflies, by Martin Suter (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Nevada Days, by Bernardo Atxaga (Graywolf Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens, by Robin Waterfield (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- Negative Space, by Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Into A Black Sun, by Takeshi Kaiko (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
- Free Women, Free Men, by Camille Paglia (Vintage) [un]
- Hey Harry, Hey Matilda, by Rachel Hulin (Anchor) [un]
- Convenience Store Woman, by Murata Sayaka (Grove Press) [ARC; un+]
- Companions, by Christina Hesselholdt (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- This Little Art, by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- A Primer for Cadavers, by Ed Atkins (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- The White Review Anthology, ed. by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard (The White Review) [un+]
- Woman at 1,000 Degrees, by Hallgrímur Helgason (Algonquin Books) [library]
- Berlin 1936, by Oliver Hilmes (Other Press) [un+]
- American War, by Omar El Akkad (Vintage) [un+]
- White Tears, by Hari Kunzru (Vintage) [un+]
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin (Ne York Review Books) [un+]
- The Bear and the Paving Stone, by Horie Toshiyuki (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- 3 Novels, by Marc Behm (Zomba Books) [$7.69]
- Risk, by C.K.Stead (MacLehose) [$1.00]
- A Literary Tour de France, by Robert Darnton (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Image Interpreter, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Morgen mehr, by Tilman Rammstedt (Hanser) [library]
- The Same Night Awaits Us All, by Hristo Karastoyanov (Open Letter) [un+]
- Oneiron, by Laura Lindstedt (Oneworld) [un+]
- The Tower at the Edge of the World, by William Heinesen (Dedalus) [solicited]
- The Black Cauldron, by William Heinesen (Dedalus) [requested]
- The Rehearsals, by Vladimir Sharov (Dedalus) [requested]
- A Brief Excursion, by Antun Šoljan (Northwestern University Press) [$1.00]
- The Dictator and the Hammock, by Daniel Pennac (Harvill Secker) [$1.00]
- Die Trying, by Lee Child (Jove Books) [$1.25]
- The Raphael Affair, by Iain Pears (Berkley) [$1.25]
- The One Inside, by Sam Shepard (Vintage) [un]
- The World to Come, by Jim Shepard (Vintage) [un]
- 1947, by Elisabeth Åsbrink (Other Press) [un+]
- The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio de Maria (Liveright) [library]
- Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi (Penguin) [un+]
- Record of a Night too Brief, by Kawakami Hiromi (Pushkin Press) [library]
- The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt (New Directions) [library]
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