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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2020 =
at
the complete review
This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2020, 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, 2020
[16 books / 8 reviewed to date]
- Ulysses by Numbers, by Eric Bulson (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Marshlands, by André Gide (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Things We've Seen, by Agustín Fernández Mallo (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [ARC; un+]
- I Just Wanted to Save My Family, by Stéphan Pélissier (Other Press) [un]
- Manuscrit zéro, by Ogawa Yôko (Babel) [€7,89]
- Brief Lives of Idiots, by Ermanno Cavazzoni (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Volume III, by Aristophanes (Harvard University Press) [$12.83]
- Lobster Life, by Erik Fosnes Hansen (Norvik Press) [requested]
- Shikasta, by Doris Lessing (Grafton Books) [$6.54]
- The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, by Doris Lessing (Alfred A. Knopf) [$4.29]
- The Sirian Experiments, by Doris Lessing (Alfred A. Knopf) [$3.58]
- The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, by Doris Lessing (Granada) [$3.18]
- The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, by Doris Lessing (Granada) [$3.18]
- We Who Are About To ..., by Joanna Russ (The Women's Press) [$3.18]
- The Golden Child, by Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner Books) [$3.25]
- The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2020
[35 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- The Year the River Froze Twice, by Inga Ābele (Norvik Press) [solicited]
- Venice Noir, by Isabella Panfido (Dedalus) [un+]
- Lurkers, by Sandi Tan (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- Journal (1966-1974), by Jean-Patrick Manchette (Folio) [€12.44]
- Madman Bovary, by Claro (Verticales) [€3.60]
- Risikogesellschaft, by Ulrich Beck (Suhrkamp) [€15.18]
- Dem Unerreichbaren auf der Spur, by Peter Weiss (Verbrecher Verlag) [€24,29]
- Jagende Rosse / Der schwarze Vorhang, by Alfred Döblin (Fischer Klassik) [€13,14]
- Elastic, by Johanne Bille (lolli) [requested]
- New Passengers, by Tine Høeg (lolli) [requested]
- The Employees, by Olga Ravn (lolli) [requested]
- Marble, by Amalie Smith (lolli) [requested]
- Tools for Extinction, ed. by Denise Rose Hansen (lolli) [requested]
- Red Ants, by Pergentino José (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Farthest South, by Ethan Rutherford (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- You Said It, by Connie Palmen (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
- Proustian Uncertainties, by Saul Friedländer (Other Press) [un+]
- The Bright Book of Life, by Harold Bloom (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- The Delivery, by Peter Mendelsund (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia, by Volter Kilpi (Zeta Books) [requested]
- Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart, by Irmgard Keun (Other Press) [un+]
- Theater Symptoms, by Robert Musil (Contra Mundum Press) [requested]
- Dialogues (II), by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Dialogues (III), by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Peach Blossom Paradise, by Ge Fei (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Chapter On Love, by Szentkuthy Miklós (Contra Mundum Press) [solicited]
- The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) [un+]
- I'm Staying Here, by Marco Balzano (Other Press) [un+]
- The Orlando Trilogy, by Isabel Colegate (Penguin Books) [$1.97]
- Green Ice, by Raoul Whitfield (Avon) [$1.97]
- Down the Rabbit Hole, by Peter Abrahams (HarperTrophy) [$1.97]
- Game of the Gods, by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by Camille Laurens (Other Press) [un+]
- Bestseller, by Beka Adamashvili (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Money Plot, by Frederick Kaufman (Other Press) [un]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2020
[46 books / 18 reviewed to date]
- Correspondence 1923-1966, by Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer (Polity) [solicited]
- The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [requested]
- The Way Out, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [requested]
- Veilchenfeld, by Gert Hofmann (Luchterhand) [$3.39]
- Novels 1920–1925, by John Dos Passos (Library of America) [$6.12]
- Jack the Lady Killer, by H.R.F.Keating (Poisoned Pen Press) [$3.72]
- The Garden Next Door, by José Donoso (Grove Press) [$3.88]
- Master of the Uncanny, by Okamoto Kidō (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
- Everything Like Before, by Kjell Askildsen (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature, by Fan Boqun (Cambridge University Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic, by Emma Greensmith (Cambridge University Press) [e-book; requested]
- Bug, by Giacomo Sartori (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- In the Land of the Cyclops, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Perfect Nine, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (The New Press) [requested]
- The Lehman Trilogy, by Stefano Massini (HarperVia) [e-book; library]
- This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels, by Subimal Misra (Open Letter Books) [requested]
- Stories I Forgot to Tell You, by Dorothy Gallagher (New York Review Books) [un]
- Annette, ein Heldinnenepos, by Anne Weber (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) [e-book; requested]
- Divine Justice, by Joanne Hichens (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The Theory of Flight, by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The Farm, by Max Annas (Catalyst Press) [un+]
- Outside the Lines, by Ameera Patelx (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The War of the Poor, by Éric Vuillard (Other Press) [un+]
- The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders, by Carol Any (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- The Constant Rabbit, by Jasper Fforde (Viking) [requested]
- The Medusa Child, by Sylvie Germain (Dedalus) [un+]
- Kracauer, by Jörg Später (Polity) [solicited]
- If You Kept a Record of Sins, by Andrea Bajani (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- God in Gotham, by Jon Butler (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Complete Dramatic Works of Tang Xianzu, by Tang Xianzu (Bloomsbury) [$25.23]
- Earthlings, by Murata Sayaka (Grove Press) [requested]
- Still Life, by Zoë Wicomb (The New Press) [solicited]
- The Dark Library, by Cyrille Martinez (Coach House Books) [solicited]
- Menander I, by Menander (Harvard University Press) [$9.58]
- Innerfern, by Gerhard Köpf (Collection S. Fischer) [$3.18]
- A Light Comedy, by Eduardo Mendoza(Vintage) [$3.98]
- World Soul, by Mikhail Emtsev and Eremei Parnov (Collier Books) [$4.78]
- A Dandy in Aspic, by Derek Marlowe (G.P.Putnam's Sons) [$3.18]
- The Three-Inch Golden Lotus, by Feng Jicai (University of Hawaii Press) [$3.18]
- Fires that Destroy, by Harry Whittington (Black Lizard) [$3.95]
- Web of Murder, by Harry Whittington (Black Lizard) [$3.95]
- Somebody's Sister, by Derek Marlowe (Warner Books) [$2.95]
- Echoes of Celandine, by Derek Marlowe (Pyramid Books) [$2.95]
- Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (Bantam Books) [$3.50]
- Beneath the Waters, by Oswaldo França, Jr. (Available Press) [$2.50]
- The Last Libertines, by Benedetta Craveri (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2020
[37 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- The Bell in the Lake, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [solicited]
- Allegria, by Giuseppe Ungaretti (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- The Copenhagen Trilogy, by Tove Ditlevsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Matsuda Aoko (Soft Skull) [requested]
- The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- A Snake Lies Waiting, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Griffin) [requested ]
- The Lute, by Kao Ming (Columbia University Press) [$7.69]
- The Hopkins Manuscript, by R.C.Sherriff (The Macmillan Company) [$4.69]
- The Age of Skin, by Dubravka Ugresic (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Clerk, by Guillermo Saccomanno (Open Letter) [un+]
- Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Alexander Radishchev (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Why Didn't We Riot ?, by Issac J. Bailey (Other Press) [un]
- Salt Water, by Josep Pla (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Disaster Tourist, by Yun Ko-Eun (Counterpoint Press) [requested]
- The Wind Traveler, by Alonso Cueto (University of Texas Press) [un+]
- The Turncoat, by Siegfried Lenz (Other Press) [un+]
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Nikolai Leskov (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Resistance, by Samit Basu (Titan Books) [$2.48]
- Dixie, by Julien Green (Fayard) [$2.48]
- On s'y fera, by Zoya Pirzad (Zulma) [$2.48]
- The Harafish, by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor) [$2.48]
- Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (Avon) [$2.48]
- The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown) [$2.98]
- Olanda, by Rafał Wojasiński (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Last Interview, by Eshkol Nevo (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- That Light, All at Once, by Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Balzac's Lives, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Stone-Garland, tr. by Dan Beachy-Quick (Milkweed Editions) [un+]
- The Beast, and Other Tales, by Jóusè d'Arbaud (Northwestern University Press) [solicited]
- Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links, by Helena Adler (Jung und Jung) [e-book; requested]
- Putzt euch, tanzt, lacht, by Karin Peschka (Otto Müller Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Fremdes Licht, by Michael Stavarič (Luchterhand) [e-book; requested]
- Doppelte Spur, by Ilija Trojanow (S.Fischer) [e-book; requested]
- Die Forelle, by Leander Fischer (Wallstein Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Das Palais muss brennen, by Mercedes Spannagel (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [e-book; requested]
- One Left, by Kim Soom (University of Washington Press) [solicited]
- The Memory Monster, by Yishai Sarid (Restless Books) [solicited]
- Nathalie Sarraute, by Ann Jefferson (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2020
[32 books / 16 reviewed to date]
- Kraft, by Jonas Lüscher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, by Wolf Wondratschek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- Straight from the Horse's Mouth, by Meryem Alaoui (Other Press) [un+]
- The Sky Weeps for Me, by Sergio Ramírez (McPherson & Company) [un+]
- The Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakčalan, by Ivan Čapovski (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Death in a Bookstore, by Augusto De Angelis (Kazabo Publishing) [e-book; solicited]
- The Silent Executioner, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (Ballantine Books) [$2.99]
- A.O.Barnabooth: His Diary, by Valery Larbaud (Quartet) [$3.36]
- Histoire de l'amour et de la haine, by Charles Dantzig (Grasset) [$2.99]
- Think of a Number, by Anders Bodelsen (Harper & Row) [$3.74]
- IXE-13, by Pierre Saurel (Quinze) [$2.99]
- Variations on Night and Day, by 'Abd Al-Rahman Munif (Pantheon Books) [$2.99]
- Marlene, by Philippe Djian (Other Press) [un+]
- Jokerman, by Stefan Kutzenberger (Berlin Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- The Death of Comrade President, by Alain Mabanckou (The New Press) [requested]
- Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) [catalogue]
- The Lost Writings, by Franz Kafka (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Les Diaboliques, by Barbey D'Aurevilly (Dedalus Books) [un+]
- Suppose a Sentence, by Brian Dillon (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Monastery, by Zakhar Prilepin (Glagoslav Publications) [solicited]
- Neutron Stars, by Katia Moskvitch (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Spark, by Matayoshi Naoki (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- Law and Leviathan, by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Red Dust, by Yoss (Restless Books) [requested]
- Ascent to Glory, by Álvaro Santana-Acuña (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- Stories for the Years, by Luigi Pirandello (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- Café Europa Revisited, by Slavenka Drakulić (Penguin Books) [e-book; solicited]
- The Hole, by Oyamada Hiroko (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Pigeons on the Grass, by Wolfgang Koeppen (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Caretaker, by Doon Arbus (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Not a Novel, by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Box Hill, by Adam Mars-Jones (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2020
[39 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- The Journey, by Miguel Collazo (Restless Books) [e-book; requested]
- Spiral, by Agustín de Rojas (Restless Books) [e-book; requested]
- Hunter School, by Sakinu Ahronglong (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Unwitting Street, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Noir, by K. W. Jeter (Spectra) [$2.48]
- The Last Word, by Taban lo Liyong (East African Publishing House) [$1.98]
- Operation Rimbaud, by Jacques Godbout (Cormorant Books) [$1.98]
- Lord Mord, by Miloš Urban (Peter Owen) [$1.98]
- Paradise of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong (Perennial) [$2.48]
- The Imagined Land, by Eduardo Berti (Deep Vellum) [$1.98]
- One Love Chigusa, by Shimada Soji (Red Circle) [un+]
- The Narcissism of Death, by Svetozar Savić (Cadmus Press) [ARC; un+]
- The End of Me, by Alfred Hayes (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Renato !, by Eugene Mirabelli (McPherson & Company) [ARC; solicited]
- Imaginary Interviews, by André Gide (Alfred A. Knopf) [$1.98]
- In Certain Circles, by Elizabeth Harrower (Text) [$1.98]
- The Remote Country of Women, by Bai Hua (University of Hawaii Press) [$1.98]
- Long Live the Post Horn !, by Vigdis Hjorth (Verso) [e-book; requested]
- No Room at the Morgue, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Point Zero, by Narek Malian (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Ravens before Noah, by Susanna Harutyunyan (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Door was Open, by Karine Khodikyan (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Robinson, by Aram Pachyan (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- You Will Love What You Have Killed, by Kevin Lambert (Biblioasis) [e-book; solicited]
- Hitler's Northern Utopia, by Despina Stratigakos (Princeton University Press) [e-book; solicited]
- The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro, by Fernando Pessoa (New Directions) [e-book; catalogue]
- Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles, by Harold Bloom (Yale University Press) [e-book; solicited]
- Last Loosening, by Walter Serner (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Edition 69, by František Halas, Vítězslav Nezval, and Jindřich Štyrský (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- What a Library Means to a Woman, by Sheila Liming (University of Minnesota Press) [requested]
- Lost Illusions, by Honoré de Balzac (University of Minnesota Press) [solicited]
- Exposition, by Nathalie Léger (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- The White Dress, by Nathalie Léger (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- The Passion according to Renée Vivien, by Maria-Mercè Marçal (Francis Boutle publishers) [solicited]
- The Piano Student, by Lea Singer (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Untraceable, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Other Moons, ed. Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Inside Story, by Martin Amis (Alfred A. Knopf) [e-book; requested]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2020
[19 books / 8 reviewed to date]
- Nuns and Soldiers, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin) [$2.48]
- Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Spectra) [$1.98]
- Nightmare Express, by Isidore Haiblum (Fawcett) [$2.48]
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne, by Alexandre Dumas (Oxford University Press) [$3.48]
- Manual, by Daren King (Faber & Faber) [$1.98]
- Counselor Ayres' Memorial, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (University of California Press) [$3.48]
- The Novel of the Century, by David Bellos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$2.48]
- Waystations of the Deep Night, by Marcel Brion (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- History of Rome, Volume VI: Books 23–25, by Livy (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Roman History: Civil Wars (3 vols.), by Appian (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Art of Rhetoric, by Aristotle (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Last Assassin, by Peter Stothard (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- Astral Season, Beastly Season, by Tahi Saihate (Honford Star) [ARC; solicited]
- Inky Fingers, by Anthony Grafton (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- People of the City, by Cyprian Ekwensi (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Distance, by Ivan Vladislavić (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Fantastic Tales, by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Cavalcade, by Walter Satterthwait (Thomas Dunne Books) [$2.48]
- Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Spectra) [$2.48]
- No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod (Vintage) [$2.48]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2020
[24 books / 12 reviewed to date]
- Sergeant Salinger, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Come On Up, by Jordi Nopca (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Lost Property, by Ben Sonnenberg (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, by Diane Johnson (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Mystery of Henri Pick, by David Foenkinos (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Honjin Murders, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Road to the World's End, by Sigurd Hoel (Sun & Moon Press) [$2.98]
- Notebooks: 1970-2003, by Murray Bail (Harvill Secker) [$1.98]
- Century Rain, by Alastair Reynolds (Ace Books) [$1.98]
- Chitambo, by Hagar Olsson (Norvik Press) [solicited]
- Klare Verhältnisse, by Gesualdo Bufalino (Suhrkamp) [$2.61]
- The Corporation Wars: Emergence, by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) [$2.99]
- The Man Who Died, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda) [$3.36]
- The Unicorn, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin Books) [$2.99]
- Dial H (vol. 2), by China Miéville (DC Comics) [$4.49]
- A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land, by Suon Sorin (NUS Press) [solicited]
- The Great Nocturnal, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- A Man, by Hirano Keiichiro (Amazon Crossing) [e-book; requested]
- Comparing the Literatures, by David Damrosch (Princeton University Press) [requested]
- Your Ad Could Go Here, by Oksana Zabuzhko (AmazonCrossing) [solicited]
- Crisis, by Karin Boye (Norvik Press) [solicited]
- The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book, ed. by James Raven (Oxford University Press) [e-book; catalogue]
- D.U.B.L.I.N., by Wan Nor Azriq (ITBM) [e-book; solicited]
- São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2020
[33 books / 19 reviewed to date]
- Masquerade, by Walter Satterthwait (St. Martin's Paperbacks) [$1.98]
- The Lusíads, by Luís Vaz de Camões (Oxford University Press) [$2.48]
- Arabian Nights and Days, by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor) [$2.48]
- Scandal, by Endo Shusaku (Vintage Books) [$2.48]
- Readopolis, by Bertrand Laverdure (Book*hug) [$2.48]
- Dial H, by China Miéville (DC Comics) [$2.98]
- Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, by Curzio Malaparte (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Immortals, by René Barjavel (Ballantine) [$3.18]
- Nihilist Girl, by Sofya Kovalevskaya (MLA Texts and Translations) [$3.58]
- "Müde vom Durchwandern öder Letternwüsten", by Marc Koch (Aisthesis) [$2.78]
- Von fliegenden Fröschen, libidinösen Epen, vaterländischen Romanen, Sprechblasen und Ohrwürmern, by Helmut Heißenbüttel (Klett-Cotta) [$3.58]
- The Rivals and Other Stories, by Jonah Rosenfeld (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
- Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami, by David Karashima (Soft Skull Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Corporation Wars: Insurgence, by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) [$2.48]
- Fixions, by Taban lo Liyong (Heinemann) [$2.48]
- Die Wand, by Marlen Haushofer (dtv) [$2.98]
- Esau and Jacob, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Oxford University Press) [$2.48]
- The Healer, by Antti Tuomainen (Henry Holt) [$2.48]
- First Things, Last Things, by Margaret Millar (Syndicate Books) [$3.98]
- The Stars of the South, by Julian Green (Marion Boyars) [$2.98]
- Dante's Bones, by Guy P. Raffa (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Discomfort of Evening, by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Graywolf Press) [catalogue]
- Scandinavian Noir, by Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [e-book; requested]
- The Palimpsests, by Aleksandra Lun (David R. Godine) [requested]
- The Law of Lines, by Pyun Hye-young (Arcade) [e-book; requested]
- Reluctant Voyagers, by Elisabeth Vonarburg (Bantam Spectra) [$2.78]
- Secret Passages in a Hillside Town, by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Pushkin Press) [$3.58]
- The Iron Dream, by Norman Spinrad (Avon) [$3.18]
- My Mercedes is Bigger Than Yours, by Nkem Nwankwo (Harper & Row) [$3.98]
- The Woman Who Was Poor, by Léon Bloy (Sheed & Ward) [$4.38]
- Helene, by Pierre Jean Jouve (The Marlboro Press) [$3.18]
- Auf eine im Feuer versunkene Stadt, by Heinz Czechowski (Mitteldeutscher Verlag) [$5.18]
- The Night of Shooting Stars, by Ben Pastor (Bitter Lemon Press) [un]
- The Blue Sky, by Galsan Tschinag (Milkweed Editions) [ARC; solicited]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2020
[56 books / 21 reviewed to date]
- The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) [$2.98]
- Gier, by Elfriede Jelinek (Rowohlt) [$1.98]
- Macbeth, by Jo Nesbø (Hogarth) [$2.48]
- The Summer of Kim Novak, by Håkan Nesser (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- A Little Annihilation, by Anna Janko (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Bitch, by Pilar Quintana (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- My Husband, by Rumena Bužarovska (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Kensington Quartet, by Zulfikar Ghose (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Macht und Rebel, by Matias Faldbakken (Heyne) [$3.98]
- The Misfortunes of Virtue, by the Marquis de Sade (Oxford University Press) [$1.98]
- Twilight Over Burma, by Inge Sargent (University of Hawaii Press) [$2.98]
- Sophie, la mer et la nuit, by Jacques Sternberg (Albin Michel) [$1.48]
- Codex, by Lev Grossman (Harvest Books) [$1.98]
- Linda, As in the Linda Murder, by Leif GW Persson (Vintage Crime) [$2.48]
- Perfection, by Walter Satterthwait (Thomas Dunne Books) [$1.98]
- The Vault, by Ruth Rendell (Hutchinson) [$2.48]
- Loves that Bind, by Julián Ríos (Alfred A. Knopf) [$1.48]
- Anti Lebanon, by Carl Shuker (Counterpoint Press) [$1.48]
- The Trench, by 'Abd Al-Rahman Munif (Pantheon) [$2.48]
- The Distant Lands, by Julian Green (Marion Boyars) [$3.48]
- Osiris Rising, by Ayi Kwei Armah (Per Ankh) [$5.49]
- Sand and Other Stories, by Ashokamitran (Orient BlackSwan) [$3.99]
- Salvation Canyon, by Ed Rosenthal (DoppelHouse Press) [ARC; un]
- Ellis Island, by Małgorzata Szejnert (Scribe) [ARC; un+]
- The Imago Stage, by Karoline Georges (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
- Spacefarers, by Christopher Wanjek (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Eyelid, by S.D.Chrostowska (Coach House Books) [un+]
- Once There Was a Central Europe, by Mészöly Miklós (Corvina) [$4.19]
- Rogomelec, by Leonor Fini (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Elly, by Maike Wetzel (Scribe) [ARC; un+]
- Avian, by Neel Mukherjee (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Mercy Athena, by Andrea Applebee (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- On Being Drawn, by Peter Cole and Terry Winters (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Cool for America, by Andrew Martin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Vernon Subutex 2, by Virginie Despentes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- At Night All Blood Is Black, by David Diop (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- The Town, by Shaun Prescott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- Conversations with James Joyce, by Arthur Power (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Difficult Light, by Tomás González (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Igifu, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Maigret's Childhood Friend, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Books) [ ]
- When the Whales Leave, by Yuri Rytkheu (Milkweed Editions) [requested]
- Providence, by Max Barry (G.P. Putnam's Sons) [requested]
- Temptation, by Székely János (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Maigret in Vichy, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Books) [un+]
- Bluebeard's First Wife, by Ha Seong-nan (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Discourses (I), by al-Hasan al-Yusi (NYU Press) [un+]
- Love and Gymnastics, by Edmondo de Amicis (Hesperus) [$4.49]
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir (Penguin) [$3.36]
- Kusumabale, by Devanoora Mahadeva (Oxford University Press) [$4.11]
- Moss, by Klaus Modick (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Aseroë , by François Dominique (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Insomnia, by Alberts Bels (Parthian) [requested]
- Malicroix, by Henri Bosco (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Tod eines Kritikers, by Martin Walser (List) [$4.19]
- Kampuchéa, by Patrick Deville (Points) [$5.99]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2020
[37 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- A Girl's Story, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories Press) [ARC; requested]
- No-Signal Area, by Robert Perišić (Seven Stories Press) [ARC; requested]
- 88 Names, by Matt Ruff (Harper) [ARC; solicited]
- Die Kinder der Toten, by Elfriede Jelinek (Rowohlt) [$3.99]
- First Novel, by Nicholas Royle (Vintage) [$5.19]
- Een huis in Engeland, by Maarten Asscher (De Bezige Bij) [solicited]
- Miscellanies (two volumes), by Angelo Poliziano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Inhabited Island, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Chicago Review Press) [requested]
- Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright (Plume) [$5.29]
- The Aosawa Murders, by Onda Riku (Bitter Lemon Press) [e-book; library]
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead) [library]
- The Hitopadeśa of Nārāyaṇa, ed. by M.R.Kale (Motilal Banarsidass) [$3.58]
- Never Anyone But You, by Rupert Thomson (Other Press) [un+]
- Deep as Death, by Katja Ivar (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Marrow and Bone, by Walter Kempowski (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense, by Margaret Millar (Syndicate Books) [$3.18]
- Clark Gifford's Body, by Kenneth Fearing (New York Review Books) [$3.98]
- Was soll man da machen, by Marianne Fritz (Suhrkamp) [$3.18]
- Vāsavadatta, by Subandhu (Columbia University Press/AMS Press) [$3.58]
- They Say Sarah, by Pauline Delabroy-Allard (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- Oligarchy, by Scarlett Thomas (Counterpoint Press) [e-book; library]
- I Belong to Vienna, by Anna Goldenberg (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Gaia, Queen of Ants, by Hamid Ismailov (Syracuse University Press) [requested]
- Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, by Mao Xiang and Yu Huai (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Fracture, by Andrés Neuman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- The Ocean of Mirth, by Jyotirmaya Sharma (Routledge) [requested]
- Licentious Fictions, by Daniel Poch (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, by Veeraporn Nitiprapha (River Books) [$5.29]
- Margery Kempe, by Robert Glück (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Beyond the Sea, by Paul Lynch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- Occupation Journal, by Jean Giono (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Flowering Tales, by Takeshi Watanabe (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Magnificent Conman of Cairo, by Adel Kamel (American University in Cairo Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Butcher of Casablanca, by Abdelilah Hamdouchi (American University in Cairo Press) [e-book; requested]
- Witches' Sabbath, by Maurice Sachs (Spurl Editions) [solicited]
- Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears, by Földényi László F. (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Italian Renaissance of Machines, by Paolo Galluzzi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2020
[37 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- This Little Family, by Inès Bayard (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Circus, by Jonas Karlsson (Hogarth) [requested]
- The Logical Alien, ed. Sofia Miguens (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Seep, by Chana Porter (Soho Press) [un+]
- Foreign Studies, by Endo Shusaku (Peter Owen) [$4.23]
- U.S.A., by John Dos Passos (Library of America) [$10.18]
- Priyadarśikā, by Harsha (Columbia University Press/AMS Press) [$2.53]
- Breathing Through the Wound, by Víctor del Árbol (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Helios Disaster, by Linda Boström Knausgård (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- A Life Without End, by Frédéric Beigbeder (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, by Maryse Condé (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Disoriented, by Amin Maalouf (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Machines in the Head, by Anna Kavan (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Rock Blaster, by Henning Mankell (Vintage) [un+]
- Three Apples Fell from the Sky, by Narine Abgaryan (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
- My Brother Moochie, by Issac J. Bailey (Other Press) [un]
- A Bond Undone, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Press) [ARC; requested]
- Garden by the Sea, by Mercè Rodoreda (Open Letter) [un+]
- Cars on Fire, by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter) [un+]
- Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane, by Stewart Home (Penny-Ante Editions) [$1.98]
- Odysseus Abroad, by Amit Chaudhuri (Vintage) [$1.48]
- Thebes at War, by Naguib Mahfouz (American University in Cairo Press) [$1.48]
- Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, by Naguib Mahfouz (American University in Cairo Press) [$1.48]
- Woman's World, by Graham Rawle (Counterpoint Press) [$2.98]
- Texts, by Helmut Heißenbüttel (Marion Boyars) [$1.48]
- One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator, by Manoj Kumar Panda (Speaking Tiger) [$1.48]
- Cedilla, by Adam Mars-Jones (Faber & Faber) [$4.48]
- The Yips, by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate) [$1.48]
- Breasts and Eggs, by Kawakami Mieko (Europa Editions) [ARC: requested]
- Das Rapportbuch, by Dorothea Zeemann (Suhrkamp) [$2.09]
- Segaki, by David Stacton (Faber & Faber) [$2.09]
- Divya, by Yashpal (Sahitya Akademi) [$3.14]
- Verzameld Werk, by Willem Elsschot (Querido) [$2.09]
- Verscheur deze brief !, by Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve (De Bezige Bij) [$3.49]
- The Complete Works, by Michel de Montaigne ( Everyman’s Library) [$9.44]
- At the Blue Monkey, by Walter Serner (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Inside the Critics' Circle, by Phillipa K. Chong (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
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