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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: 22 January 2021 - January, 2021 December, 2020 November, 2020 October, 2020 September, 2020 August, 2020 July, 2020 June, 2020 May, 2020 April, 2020 March, 2020 February, 2020 January, 2020 See also archives: 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.

January, 2021

Books received/acquired in January, 2021
    [26 books / 2 reviewed to date]

• On Time and Water, by Andri Snær Magnason (Open Letter) [un+]
• Winter in Sokcho, by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter) [un+]
• Nuestra América, by Claudio Lomnitz (Other Press) [un]
• The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny, ed. by Jeffrey Henderson and Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Roundabout of Death, by Faysal Khartash (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• To Cook a Bear, by Mikael Niemi (Penguin Books) [solicited]
• The Foreign Girls, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• Munchausen and Clarissa, by Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Touring the Land of the Dead, by Kashimada Maki (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Aquarium, by Yaara Shehori (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
• Studies of Silhouettes, by Pierre Senges (Sublunary Editions) [-]
• Falstaff: Apotheosis, by Pierre Senges (Sublunary Editions) [-]
• die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, by Oswald Wiener (Jung und Jung) [€25.30]
• Fragments of an Infinite Memory, by Maël Renouard (New York Review Books) [un+]
• How to Order the Universe, by María José Ferrada (Tin House) [ARC; solicited]
• Stories with Pictures, by Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Lady Joker (I), by Takamura Kaoru (Soho Crime) [ARC; requested]
• Germs , by Richard Wollheim (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Bina, by Anakana Schofield (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Live; live; live , by Jonathan Buckley (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Where Was the Angel Going ?, by Jan Balaban (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Lawyer from Lychakiv Street, by Andriy Kokotiukha (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• GRM, by Sibylle Berg (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [€14.16]
• History of Rome (VII: 26–27), by Livy (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• On Temperaments, by Galen (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Satyricon, by Petronius (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]

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December, 2020

Books received/acquired in December, 2020
    [16 books / 4 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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November, 2020

Books received/acquired in November, 2020
    [35 books / 8 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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October, 2020

Books received/acquired in October, 2020
    [46 books / 14 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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September, 2020

Books received/acquired in September, 2020
    [38 books / 9 reviewed to date]

• The Bell in the Lake, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [solicited]
• An I-Novel, by Mizumura Minae (Columbia University Press) [e-book; 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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August, 2020

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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July, 2020

Books received/acquired in July, 2020
    [39 books / 10 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 MilošUrban (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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June, 2020

Books received/acquired in June, 2020
    [19 books / 7 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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May, 2020

Books received/acquired in May, 2020
    [24 books / 10 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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April, 2020

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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March, 2020

Books received/acquired in March, 2020
    [56 books / 18 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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February, 2020

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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January, 2020

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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