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This Index lists the most recent books received and acquired at the complete review, by month and in reverse chronological order.      Note that books received are only recorded in the first instance; a finished copy will not be registered if an ARC of the same title has previously been received. - last updated: 24 September 2023 - September, 2023 August, 2023 July, 2023 June, 2023 May, 2023 April, 2023 March, 2023 February, 2023 January, 2023 December, 2022 November, 2022 October, 2022 September, 2022 See also archives: Books received and acquired (2022) Books received and acquired (2021) Books received and acquired (2020) Books received and acquired (2019) Books received and acquired (2018) Books received and acquired (2017) Books received and acquired (2016) Books received and acquired (2015)      Links to reviews provided where applicable (and added as reviews become available)      Links to publishers publicity pages where available (often not when ARC/copy first received -- and not later added, sorry)      Key: [requested]: specifically requested title* [catalogue]: title requested via catalogue/checklist [un+]: unsolicited title we would have requested* [un]: unsolicited title** [solicited]: pitched title that we've agreed to consider [ARC]: advanced review copy/galley*** [e-book]: e-version of text [library]: borrowed from the library [$]: purchased + price [gift]: gifted [-]: already under review    * 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+"    ** Titles marked "un" are ones it wouldn't have occurred to us to request (some of which are, however, nevertheless welcome and prove to be of interest)    *** Note that only the first acquisition of a text is recorded; if/when a finished copy follows it will not be recorded here -- except in the case of e-copies: any print edition automatically supplants (and is far more likely to be reviewed than) the abomination that are e-books.

September, 2023

Books received/acquired in September, 2023
    [16 books/ 1 reviewed to date]

• This Plague of Soul, by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
• Come Closer, by Sara Gran (Soho Press) [solicited]
• The Siren's Lament, by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
• Jabberwock, by Dara Kavanagh (Dedalus) [un+]
• A Mind of Winter, by Eoghan Smith (Dedalus) [un+]
• The End of the Moment We Had, by Okada Toshiki (Pushkin Press) [$4.02]
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, by Anthony Powell (University of Chicago Press) [$3.93]
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, by Anthony Powell (University of Chicago Press) [$4.43]
• Les aérostats, by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel) [$5.99]
• Dogra Magra, by Yumeno Kyûsaku (Philippe Picquier) [$9.65]
• One Shot, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.99]
• Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.99]
• The Hunger of Women, by Marosia Castaldi (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• How Fire Descends, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [un+]
• A Myriad of Tongues, by Caleb Everett (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Night House, by Jo Nesbø (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]

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August, 2023

Books received/acquired in August, 2023
    [25 books/ 7 reviewed to date]

• My Weil, by Lars Iyer (Melville House) [requested]
• A Guess at the Riddle, by David Z Albert (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Cthulhu Helix, by Umehara Katsufumi (Kurodahan Press) [ARC; solicited]
• Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan, by John Dougill (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; un]
• Marianna Sirca, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
• Un Amor, by Sara Mesa (open Letter) [un+]
• Natural Causes, by Nina Lykke (open Letter) [un+]
• The Red Handler, by Johan Harstad (open Letter) [un+]
• Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, by Kayama Shigeru (University of Minnesota Press) [catalogue]
• Beyond the Door of No Return, by David Diop (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
• A Dictator Calls, by Ismail Kadare (Counterpoint) [ARC; requested]
• The Premonition, by Yoshimoto Banana (Counterpoint) [ARC; requested]
• The Forest Brims Over, by Ayase Maru (Counterpoint) [requested]
• Dead Men Cast No Shadows, by Sergio Ramírez (McPherson & Company) [requested]
• The Golden Pot, by E.T.A. Hoffman (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Biographical and Autobiographical Writings, by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Nails and Eyes, by Fujino Kaori (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
• Nipponia Nippon, by Abe Kazushige (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
• Closing Melodies, by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
• Modern Buildings in London, by Ian Nairn (Notting Hill Editions) [un]
• Swastika Night, by Katharine Burdekin (The Feminist Press) [$4.67]
• A Fairly Honourable Defeat, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin Books) [$4.56]
• Plato's Republic, by Alain Badiou (Columbia University Press) [$6.08]
• The Masterpiece, by Émile Zola (Oxford World's Classics) [$5.16]
• Tali Girls, by Siamak Herawi (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]

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July, 2023

Books received/acquired in July, 2023
    [25 books / 3 reviewed to date]

• The Heron Catchers, by David Joiner (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
• The Girls, by John Bowen (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• They, by Kay Dick (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• The Goodby People, by Gavin Lambert (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• The Murderer, by Roy Heath (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• Troy Chimneys, by Margaret Kennedy (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• The Nenoquich, by Henry Bean (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
• The New Animals, by Pip Adam (Dorothy Project ) [ARC; solicited]
• The Long Form, by Kate Briggs (Dorothy Project ) [ARC; solicited]
• The Guest Lecture, by Martin Riker (Black Cat) [requested]
• Her Side of the Story, by Alba de Céspedes (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
• Lobster, by Guillaume Lecasble (Dedalus) [un+]
• My Father's House, by Karmele Jaio (Dedalus) [un+]
• Standing Heavy, by GauZ' (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
• The Future, by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) [un+]
• Exiled Shadow, by Norman Manea (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
• The Sixteen Satires, by Juvenal (Penguin Classics) [$1.00]
• Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris (Dell) [$1.00]
• The Tea Lords, by Hella S. Haasse (Portobello) [$1.00]
• Twilight at Mac's Place, by Ross Thomas (Thomas Dunne Books) [$1.00]
• Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$3.00]
• The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink (1), by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink (2), by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) [un+]

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June, 2023

Books received/acquired in June, 2023
    [24 books / 10 reviewed to date]

• New Millennium Boyz, by Alex Kazemi (Permuted Press) [ARC; solicited]
• Information Desk, by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Poets) [ARC; solicited]
• Sunset, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Press) [un+]
• Finger Bone, by Takahashi Hiroki (Honford Star) [un+]
• The Specters of Algeria, by Hwang Yeo Jung (Honford Star) [requested]
• The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• A Shining, by Jon Fosse (Transit Books) [ARC; catalogue]
• Sunrise, by Kobayashi Erika (Astra House) [catalogue]
• Lend Me Your Character, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [un+]
• Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, by Rachel Cantor (Soho Press) [un]
• The Goth House Experiment, by SJ Sindu (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
• The Country of Toó, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Biblioasis) [solicited]
• Through Three Rooms, by Sven Elvestad (Kabaty Press) [solicited]
• small pieces, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• The Most Secret Memory of Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
• The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
• Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company, by Eric Lane (Dedalus) [un+]
• Ariane, A Russian Girl, by Claude Anet (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Orations. Other Fragments, by Cato (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Lives of the Sophists, by Philostratus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Mrs. S, by K. Patrick (Europa Editions) [solicited]
• Allah's Spacious Earth, by Omar Sayfo (Syracuse University Press) [catalogue]
• The City of the Living, by Nicola Lagioia (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Pet, by Catherine Chidgey (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The City of Unspeakable Fear, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]

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May, 2023

Books received/acquired in May, 2023
    [22 books / 11 reviewed to date]

• Dragon Palace, by Kawakami Hiromi (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
• Bournville, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Bridesman, by Savyon Liebrecht (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Encyclopedia, by Richard Horn (Tough Poets Press) [requested]
• Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [library]
• Second Best, by David Foenkinos (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
• Kids Run the Show, by Delphine de Vigan (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Do You Remember Being Born ?, by Sean Michaels (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
• Honoré de Balzac, by Peter Brooks (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
• Marcel Proust, by Michael Wood (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
• Sir Thomas Browne, by Gavin Francis (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
• The Trio, by Johanna Hedman (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Bad Kids, by Chen Zijin (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
• Mater 2-10, by Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe) [solicited]
• The Devil's Flute Murders, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
• Beethoven's Assassins, by Andrew Crumey (Dedalus) [un+]
• Great Liberty, by Julien Gracq (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Tomás Nevinson, by Javier Marías (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
• The Creativity of the Crisis, by Évelyne Grossman (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
• The Child and the River, by Henri Bosco (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Dalkey Days, by Steven Moore (Zerogram Press) [requested]
• Sour Grapes, by Zakaria Tamer (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; requested]

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April, 2023

Books received/acquired in April, 2023
    [39 books / 6 reviewed to date]

• What I'd Rather Not Think About, by Jente Posthuma (Scribe) [solicited]
• Take Six: Six Balkan Women Writers, ed. by Will Firth (Dedalus) [un+]
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Yagisawa Satoshi (Harper Perennia) [ARC; solicited]
• Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
• Weak in Comparison to Dreams, by James Elkins (Unnamed Books) [ARC; solicited]
• The Book of Eve, by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Trash, by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• To the Lake, by Yana Vagner (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• My Stupid Intentions, by Bernardo Zannoni (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Tales of Tangier, by Mohamed Choukri (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Sky Above Kharkiv, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey, by Mark Axelrod (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• A Practical Guide to Levitation, by José Eduardo Agualusa (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Lament for Julia, by Susan Taubes (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Sanity Inspectors, by Friedrich Deich (Boiler House Press) [un+]
• February 1933, by Uwe Wittstock (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
• Eventide, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Crime) [ARC; un+]
• Al-Qata'i, by Reem Bassiouney (Georgetown University Press) [requested]
• Mr Narrator, by Pat Gray (Dedalus) [un+]
• Cry Baby, by Ros Franey (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker, by Jack Skelley (Semiotext(e)) [ARC; solicited]
• Naqqali Trilogy, by Bahram Beyzaie (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Saints at the Limits (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Murder of Anton Livius, by Hansjörg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• The Apprentice Tourist, by Mário de Andrade (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Merits of the Plague, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Right by My Side, by David Haynes (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig (Penguin Books) [solicited]
• The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• Hospital, by Han Song (AmazonCrossing) [solicited]
• Barbara Isn't Dying, by Alina Bronsky (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
• Gray Matters, by William Hjortsberg (Pocket Books) [$4.39]
• Civil War, by Lucan (Oxford World's Classics) [$4.19]
• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, by Eliza Haywood (Broadview Press) [$5.29]
• Everybody Dies in this Novel, by Beka Adamashvil (Dedalus) [un+]
• La Tercera, by Gina Apostol (Soho) [un+]
• I Hear You're Rich, by Diane Williams (Soho) [un+]
• The Space Between Us, by Zoya Pirzad (Oneworld) [$5.29]

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March, 2023

Books received/acquired in March, 2023
    [45 books / 17 reviewed to date]

• Barcode, by Tóth Krisztina (Jantar Publishing) [un+]
• A Love Affair, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Stronghold, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Temporale, by Marina Warner (Sylph Editions) [un+]
• Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, by Rachel Cantor (Soho) [ARC; un+]
• The Man in the Corduroy Suit, by James Wolff (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• Stay This Day and Night with Me, by Belé'n Gopegui (City Lights) [solicited]
• The Purchased Bride, by Peter Constantine (Deep Vellum) [ARV; un]
• Buried Treasures, by Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press) [un]
• The Christmas Present, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Queen of Darkness, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
• That Reminds Me, by Derek Owusu (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• Your Love Is Not Good, by Johanna Hedva (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• Shalash the Iraqi, by Shalash the Iraqi (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• You, Bleeding Childhood, by Michele Mari (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• Embroidery, by Sigrún Pálsdóttir (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Not Even the Dead, by Juan Goméz Bárcena (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, by Kobayashi Erika (Astra House) requested]
• Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Look at the Lights, My Love, by Annie Ernaux (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies, by Guillaume Payen (Yale University Press) [un+]
• By the Rivers of Babylon, by Antonio Lobo Antunes (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Length of Days, by Volodymyr Rafeyenko (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Portraits of Learned Men, by Paolo Giovio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America, by Jeremy Jennings (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Saying All That Can Be Said, by Keith McMahon (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts, by Marcel Proust (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Die Krise der Narration, by Byung-Chul Han (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) [€12.00]
• Der Duft von Eis, by Ogawa Yoko (liebeskind) [€24.90]
• Morgen, by Walter Kappacher (Suhrkamp) [€3.00]
• Djin Ping Meh (five vols.) (Propyläen Verlag) [€12.00]
• Der Lügner unter Bürgern, by Albert Paris Gütersloh (Fischer) [€1.00]
• Der Krott, by Erich Köhler (Rotbuch) [€3.50]
• Von der Größe unserer Literatur, by Johannes R. Becher (Reclam) [€2.00]
• Mannekino, by Sybren Polet (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) [€1.00]
• Schriftsteller !, by Jessica Durlacher (Diogenes) [€4.95]
• Arno Schmidt, by Sven Hanuschek (Hanser) [€46.30]
• Die Tapetentür, by Marlen Haushofer (Knaur) [€3.00]
• Maigret und der Fall Simenon, by Maurizio Testa (Residenz Verlag) [€4.00]
• Ardinghello, by Wilhelm Heinse (Reclam) [€16.25]
• Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare, by Clemens J. Setz (Suhrkamp) [€13.37]
• Die Denunziantin, by Brigitte Reimann (Aisthesis Verlag) [€24.67]
• Moriae enconium / Das Lob der Torheit, by Erasmus (Reclam) [€ 9.10]
• Der Fuchs von oben und der Fuchs von unten, by José María Arguedas (Wagenbach) [€25,70]
• Julia, laß das !, by Suzanne Fischer (Suhrkamp) [€30.84]
• Vier Stücke, by Daniel Kehlmann (Rowohlt) [€6.99]
• Doktor Wassers Rezept, by Lars Gustafsson (Fischer) [€5.99]

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February, 2023

Books received/acquired in February, 2023
    [26 books / 7 reviewed to date]

• Conjuring the Buddha, by Jacob P. Dalton (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• The Thinking Root, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Milkweed Editions) [un+]
• The Garden of Seven Twilights, by Miquel de Palol (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Birthday Party, by Laurent Mauvignier (Transit Books) [requested]
• Affinities, by Brian Dillon (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Good Men, by Arnon Grunberg (Open Letter) [ARC; requested]
• Ninth Building, by Zou Jingzhi (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• The Impostor, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
• Ravage & Son, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
• The Mad Emperor, by Harry Sidebottom (Oneworld) [library]
• Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead) [$3.00]
• The House on Via Gemito, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• First Blood, by Amélie Nothomb (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Light at the End of the World, by Siddhartha Deb (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
• I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) [solicited]
• Austral, by Carlos Fonseca (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ARC; solicited]
• Dying is Easier than Loving, by Ahmet Altan (Europa Editions) [un]
• The Remembered Part, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
• The Pachinko Parlor, by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter) [un+]
• Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry, by Wojciech Tochman (Open Letter) [un+]
• Left Parenthesis, by Muriel Villanueva (Open Letter) [un+]
• Sur's Ocean, by Surdas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Letters of William Gaddis (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Hive, by Camilo José Cela (New York Review Books) [un+]

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January, 2023

Books received/acquired in January, 2023
    [22 books / 8 reviewed to date]

• The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy, by David A. Lines (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• The Whore, by Márcia Barbieri (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Deceit, by Yuri Felsen (Astra House) [solicited]
• Anything That Moves, by Jamie Stewart (And Other Stories) [ARC; un]
• Gone to the Wolves, by John Wray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
• Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Epic of Ram (VII), by Tulsidas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur, ed. Jeffrey Henderson and Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü (Transit Books) [ARC; un+]
• Siblings, by Brigitte Reimann (Transit Books) [ARC; requested]
• The Rope Artist, by Nakamura Fuminori (Soho Press) [ARC; requested]
• Impermanent Blackness, by Korey Garibaldi (Princeton University Press) [un+]
• Collected Works, by Lydia Sandgren (Astra House) [requested]
• The Revolt of the Animals, by Władysław Reymont (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Literature and Politics, by Robert Musil (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
• Rombo, by Esther Kinsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Daughters Beyond Command, by Véronique Olmi (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
• Black Empire, by George S. Schuyler (Penguin Classics) [catalogue]
• Idol, Burning, by Usami Rin (HarperVia) [library]
• Love at Six Thousand Degrees, by Kashimada Maki (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Monument Maker, by David Keenan (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• A Private Affair, by Beppe Fenoglio (New York Review Books) [un+]

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December, 2022

Books received/acquired in December, 2022
    [29 books / 5 reviewed to date]

• A Present Past, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Just a Mother, by Roy Jacobsen (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
• The Family Idiot (abrdiged), by Jean-Paul Sartre (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
• Baltic Belles, ed. by Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (Dedalus) [un+]
• Scene of the Crime, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
• My Life as Edgar, by Dominique Fabre (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• On the Marble Cliffs, by Ernst Jünger (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Mystery Train, by Can Xue (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• We the Parasites, by A.V.Marraccini (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• At the Doors, by Boris Pilnyak (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• Hallucinated City, by Mário de Andrade (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• Journey to the South, by Michal Ajvaz (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Strangers, by Jon Bilbao (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Postscripts, by John Barth (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Daodejing, by Laozi (Liveright) [solicited]
• The Complete Novellas, by Agnes Owens (Polygon) [$7.43]
• A Sensitive Person, by Jáchym Topol (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Black Dove, by Colin McAdam (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
• Arabesques, by Anton Shammas (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Probability Map of the Universe, ed. Barry Loewer, Brad Weslake, Eric Winsberg (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
• After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz (Liveright) [catalogue]
• Simple Gimpl, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne (Oxford University Press) [$3.80]
• Love in Excess, by Eliza Haywood (Broadview Press) [$4.13]
• Whale, by Cheon Myeong-kwan (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• The Censor's Notebook, by Liliana Corobca (Seven Stories Press) [library]
• Professor Schiff's Guilt, by Agur Schiff (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]

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November, 2022

Books received/acquired in November, 2022
    [25 books / 9 reviewed to date]

• Slow Horses, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [un+]
• Dead Lions, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [un+]
• Standing by the Wall, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [solicited]
• Tina, Mafia Soldier, by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli (Soho Press) [ARC: un+]
• The Hand That Feeds You, by Mercedes Rosende (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• The Oblate, by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
• Second Star, by Philippe Delerm (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Trouble, by Katja Ivar (Bitter Lemon Press) [un]
• The Sickness Unto Death, by Søren Kierkegaard (Liveright) [ARC; solicited]
• Language and the Rise of the Algorithm, by Jeffrey M. Binder (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
• Forbidden Notebook, by Alba de Céspedes (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (W.W.Norton) [un+]
• What the Thunder Said, by Jed Rasula (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
• The Singularities, by John Banville (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
• Ice, by Anna Kavan (Penguin Classics) [$2.50]
• Transcription, by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay Books) [$2.00]
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Penguin Books) [solicited]
• XX, by Rian Hughes (The Overlook Press) [requested]
• The Dice Cup, by Max Jacob (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• So Distant From My Life, by Monique Ilboudo (Tilted Axis) [ARC; solicited]
• Punishment of a Hunter, by Yulia Yakovleva (Pushkin Press) [requested]
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid (Penguin Books) [solicited]
• The Reindeer Hunters, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [requested]

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October, 2022

Books received/acquired in October, 2022
    [45 books / 16 reviewed to date]

• Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Antagony, by Luis Goytisolo (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan, by Matsuoka Keisuke (Vertical) [$5.29]
• Dead Long Enough, by James Hawes (Vintage) [$4.19]
• Renegade or Halo², by Timothy Mo (Paddleless) [$5.19]
• Hourglass, by Keiran Goddard (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
• Puppet Flower, by Yao-Chang Chen (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Birthright, by Charles Lambert (Gallic) [un]
• Dinner with Joseph Johnson, by Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press) [un+]
• Seconds, by David Ely (Harper Voyager) [$3.99]
• Rancid Aluminium, by James Hawes (Jonathan Cape) [$5.39]
• Miss Lizzie, by Walter Satterthwait (St. Martin's Press) [$4.19]
• Onder professoren, by Willem Frederik Hermans (De Bezige Bij) [$3.99]
• Chocolates from Tangier, by Jana Zimmer (DoppelHouse Press) [ARC; un]
• Honeymoon to Nowhere, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.12]
• The Informer, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.12]
• The Tattoo Murder Case, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.79]
• Masquerade and the Nameless Women, by Mikage Eiji (Vertical) [$4.04]
• New York Nocturne, by Walter Satterthwait (Mysterious Press) [$2.98]
• Sherlock Holmes: the Missing Years, by Jamyang Norbu (Bloomsbury) [$2.88]
• Novelist as a Vocation, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
• All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End, by Charles Johnson (New York Review Comics) [un+]
• The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan, by Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
• Spicilege, by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis, by Hermann Burger (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Philosophy as Dialogue, by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Impersonal Adventure, by Marcel Béalu (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Always the Many, Never the One, by Pierre Joris and Florent Toniello (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
• The Last Chairlift, by John Irving (Simon & Schuster) [requested]
• The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi, by Okamoto Kidō (University of Hawaii Press) [$5.38]
• Duel, by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Last Samurai Reread, by Lee Konstantinou (Columbia University Press) [requested]
• Eclogues / Garden of the Hesperides, by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Stand, by Stephen King (Signet) [$4.58]
• The Writer at Work, by C.K. Stead (University of Otago Press) [$3.38]
• Beyond, by Horacio Quiroga (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• Chimeras, by Daniela Cascella (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
• Freedom Reread, by L. Gibson (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Narrow Cage, by Vasily Eroshenko (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Motion Picture Teller, by Colin Cotterill (Soho Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Chéri / The End of Chéri, by Colette (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Ancestry, by Simon Mawer (Other Press) [un]
• The Confessions of Matthew Strong, by Ousmane K. Power-Greene (Other Oress) un]
• Selected Works, by Vladimir Vysotsky (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Sons of the People, by Reem Bassiouney (Syracuse University Press) solicited]

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September, 2022

Books received/acquired in September, 2022
    [27 books / 12 reviewed to date]

• The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Nights of Plague, by Orhan Pamuk (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
• Try Not to Be Strange, by Michael Hingston (Biblioasis) [requested]
• Bright Unbearable Reality, by Anna Badkhen (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Blumkin Project, by Christian Salmon (Other Press) [un+]
• The Color Line, by Igiaba Scego (Other Press) [un+]
• The Thorn Puller, by Ito Hiromi (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; requested]
• The Words That Remain, by Stênio Gardel (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+
• This was the Man, by Louise Colet (Dedalus) [un+]
• This Woman, This Man, by (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Illuminated Burrow, by Max Blecher (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
• House of the Nine Devils, by Johannes Urzidil (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
• The Enigma of Room 622, by Joël Dicker (HarperVia) [requested]
• Eine Liebe in Pjöngjang, by Andreas Stichmann (Rowohlt) [e-book; requested]
• Island of Bewilderment, by Simin Daneshvar (Syracuse University Press) [requested]
• Kilometer 101, by Maxim Osipov (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Bad Angel Brothers, by Paul Theroux (Mariner Books) [requested]
• People from My Neighborhood, by Kawakami Hiromi (Soft Skull Press) [$2.00]
• Conversations with Primo Levi, by Ferdinando Camon (The Marlboro Press) [$1.00]
• Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, by Jules Verne (Oxford World's Classics) [$2.00]
• Home Is the Sailor Paperback, by Jorge Amado (Bard) [$1.00]
• Personal, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.00]
• Three Streets, by Tawada Yoko (New Directions) [catalogue]
• The Famous Magician, by César Aira (New Directions) [catalogue]
• Querelle of Roberval, by Kevin Lambert (Bibloasis) [ARC; un+]
• Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, by Matthew Teller (Other Press) [un]

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