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September, 2016

Books received/acquired in September, 2016
    [38 books / 12 reviewed to date]

• Blood Wedding, by Pierre Lemaitre (Quercus) [library]
• Back, by Henry Green (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Loving, by Henry Green (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Lather in Heaven, by Ann Cotten (Broken Dimanche Press) [solicited]
• Conclave, by Robert Harris (Alfred A. Knopf) [e-book; requested]
• Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française, by Charles Dantzig (Le Livre de Poche) [¢99]
• The Dark Flood Rises, by Margaret Drabble (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• A Very English Scandal, by John Preston (Other Press) [un]
• The Absolute Gravedigger, by Vítězslav Nezval (Twisted Spoon) [un+]
• The Teeth of the Comb, by Osama Alomar (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Late Arcade, by Nathaniel Mackey (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Reputations, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Riverhead) [library]
• The Wicked Go To Hell, by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press) [library]
• The Bible for Unbelievers, by Guus Kuijer (Seven Stories Press) [gift]
• War and Turpentine, by Stefan Hertmans (Pantheon) [gift]
• The Eskimo Solution, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [un+]
• The Magician's Wife, by James M. Cain (Dell) [$1.00]
• A Month in the Country, by J.L.Carr (New York Review Books) [$1.00]
• Cafe Berlin, by Harold Nebenzal (The Overloo Press) [$1.00]
• 33 Revolutions, by Canek Sánchez Guevara (Europa Editions) [un+]
• QBism, by Hans Christian von Baeyer (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Blood Crime, by Sebastià Alzamora (Soho Crime) [library]
• The Invisibility Cloak, by Ge Fei (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Great City Maps (DK Smithsonian) [un+]
• The Winterlings, by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Lines from a Canvas, by Jacob Miller (Dalkey Archive Press) [un]
• A Hundred and One Nights, ed. by Bruce Fudge (NYU Press) [un=]
• A Tibetan Grammar, by Bénédicte Vilgrain (Burning Deck Press) [un+]
• Blood of the Dawn, by Claudia Salazar Jiménez (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Teacher, by Michael Copperman (University Press of Mississippi) [un]
• Chronicle of the Murdered House, by Lúcio Cardoso (Open Letter) [un+]
• Crush, by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• St. Patrick's Day, by Thomas McGonigle (University of Notre Dame Press) [solicited]
• The Carousel of Desire, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Maids, by Tanizaki Junichiro (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Devils in Daylight, by Tanizaki Junichiro (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• A Simple Story, by Leila Guerriero (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel (New Directions) [ARC; un+]

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August, 2016

Books received/acquired in August, 2016
    [32 books / 14 reviewed to date]

• The Doomed City, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Chicago Review Press) [library]
• His Only Son, by Leopoldo Alas (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Subsidiary, by Matías Celedón (Melville House) [un+]
• Thomas Bernhard 3 Days, from the film by Ferry Radax (Blast Books) [solicited]
• Mannequin, by Ch'oe Yun (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Bottom's Dream, by Arno Schmidt (Dalkey Archive Press) [ardently desired]
• Jean Cocteau, by Claude Arnaud (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Absinth, by Seb Doubinsky (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Turbid River, by Ch'ae Man-Sik (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Amusing Life, by Song Sokze (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Evening Proposal, by Pyun Hye-young (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Library of Musical Instruments, by Kim Jung-hyuk (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Tale of Aypi, by Ak Welsapar (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Moscow in the 1930s, by Natalia Gromova (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Battle of the Sexes Russian Style, by Nadezhda Ptushkina (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• A Cup of Rage, by Raduan Nassar (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Dance on the Volcano, by Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• The Gardens of Consolations, by Parisa Reza (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
• The Papyrus Trilogy [The Last Book, The Grand Manuscript, The Compendium of the Dead], by Zoran Živković (Cadmus) [un+]
• The Five Wonders of the Danube, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus) [un+]
• The Street Kids, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Tongue of Adam, by Abdelfattah Kilito (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Dear Mr. M, by Herman Koch (Hogarth) [e-book; requested]
• The Age of Deference, by David Rudenstine (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Paris Street Tales, ed. by Helen Constantine (Oxford University Press) [ARC; un]
• SoHo Sins, by Richard Vine (Hard Case Crime) [library]
• Bye Bye Blondie, by Virginie Despentes (Feminist Press) [library]
• The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir, by Susan Daitch (City Lights) [catalogue]
• Ring of Lies, by Roni Dunevich (Harper) [un]
• Wasp Days, by Erhard von Büren (Matador) [solicited]
• Multiple Choice, by Alejandro Zambra (Penguin) [library]

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July, 2016

Books received/acquired in July, 2016
    [52 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• Brothers, by David Clerson (QC Fiction) [un+]
• Geronimo, by Leon de Winter (Diogenes) [e-book; requested]
• Villa Metaphora, by Andrea De Carlo (Diogenes) [e-book; requested]
• The English Teacher, by Yiftach Reicher Atir (Penguin) [un+]
• Little Jewel, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Consolations of Mortality, by Andrew Stark (Yale University Press) [un]
• Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, by Robert Walser (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Ama, by Manu Herbstein (e-reads) [un]
• Queen of Flowers and Pearls, by Gabriella Ghermandi (Indiana University Press) [library]
• So Much For That Winter, by Dorthe Nors (Graywolf) [library]
• A Zero-Sum Game, by Eduardo Rabasa (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Purity, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador) [requested]
• Paradime, by Alan Glynn (Picador) [un]
• One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist, by Dustin M. Hoffman (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
• The Grand Tour, by Adam O'Fallon Price (Doubleday) [un]
• Mr. Turtle, by Kitano Yusaku (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• Suite for Barbara Loden, by Nathalie Léger (Dorothy Project) [un+]
• The Cathedral of Mist, by Paul Willems (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Wayward Heroes, by Halldór Laxness (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Justine, by Iben Mondrup (Open Letter) [un+]
• Darkness, by Maurizio de Giovanni ( ) [un+]
• Atlas of an Anxious Man, by Christoph Ransmayr (Seagull Books) [requested]
• In Praise of Defeat, by Abdellatif Laâbi (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Best European Fiction 2017, ed. by Nathanile Davis (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Lady of Solitude, by Paula Parisot (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Teethmarks on My Tongue, by Eileen Battersby (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Saga of Brutes, by Ana Paula Maia (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Invoice, by Jonas Karlsson (Hogarth) [library]
• La comédie du pouvoir, by Françoise Giroud (Fayard) [gift]
• How We Cheat Each Other, by Odd Nerdrum (N-Press) [gift]
• The Seed Collectors, by Scarlett Thomas (Soft Skull Press) [gift]
• Vulture in a Cage, by Solomon Ibn Gabirol (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• The Attraction of Things, by Roger Lewinter (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Story of Love in Solitude, by Roger Lewinter (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Adam's Rib, by Antonio Manzini (Harper) [un+]
• The Unknown Huntsman, by Jean-Michel Fortier (QC Fiction) [ARC; un+]
• Nocilla Dream, by Agustín Fernández Mallo (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [solicited]
• Trysting, by Emmanuelle Pagano (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• Eve Out of Her Ruins, by Ananda Devi (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Before, by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Ratner's Star, by Don DeLillo (Vintage) [$1.00]
• The Finishing Touch, by Brigid Brophy (Corgi) [$1.00]
• A Small Town Called Hibiscus, by Gu Hua (Panda Books) [$1.00]
• Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt, by Hans Blumenberg (Suhrkamp) [$2.00]
• http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088313, by Malcolm Davies (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Midwife, by Katja Kettu (AmazonCrossing) [ARC; un+]
• Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded I and II, by Yusuf al-Shirbini (New York Univeristy Press) [un+]
• Zama, by Antonio di Benedetto (Neew York Review Books) [un+]
• Compartment No. 6, by Rosa Liksom (Graywolf) [requested]
• Memoirs of a Polar Bear, by Yoko Tawada (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Alice Iris Red Horse, by Gozo Yoshimasu (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Eva Sleeps, by Francesca Melandri (Europa Editions) [un+]

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June, 2016

Books received/acquired in June, 2016
    [56 books / 16 reviewed to date]

• A Spare Life, by Lidija Dimkovska(Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye, by Manu Herbstein [solicited]
• Tamil, by David Shulman (Harvard University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Cockroaches, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• For All the Gold in the World, by Massimo Carlotto (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun, by June Teufel Dreyer (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Byron and the Beauty, by Muharem Bazdulj (Istros) [solicited]
• The Hermit, by Thomas Rydahl (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Land of Love and Ruins, by Oddný Eir (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Colonel Lágrimas, by Carlos Fonseca (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Between Life and Death, by Yoram Kaniuk (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• How to Travel without Seeing, by Andrés Neuman (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Italy Illuminated, vol 2, by Biondo Flavio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Rome in Triumph, vol 1, by Biondo Flavio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• My Secret Book, by Francesco Petrarca (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Angelinetum and Other Poems, by Giovanni Marrasio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Hate, by Tristan Garcia (Faber & Faber (US)) [library]
• Nicotine, by Gregor Hens (Other Press) [un+]
• Black Run, by Antonio Manzini (Harper) [un+]
• Konundrum, by Franz Kafka (Archipelago) [un]
• The Lightning Tree, by Emily Woof (Europa Editions) [un]
• Ode to Broken Things, by Dipika Mukherjee (Repeater Books) [library]
• The Lesson, by Sowmya Rajendran (Harper Collins) [library]
• Adios, Cowboy, by Olja Savičević (McSweeney's) [library]
• Schlump, by Hans Herbert Grimm (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Marketa Lazarová, by Vladislav Vančura (Twisted Sppon Press) [un+]
• Conrad & Eleanor, by Jane Rogers (Harper Perennial) [un]
• The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (Harper Perennial) [un+]
• Harmful and Undesirable, by Guenter Lewy (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Ghosts of Birds, by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers, by Fouad Laroui (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Vaseline Buddha, by Jung Young Moon (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• A Quiet Place, by Seichi Matsumoto (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• Civil War, by Caesar (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Confessions (II), by Augustine (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Restless Books) [un]
• A Cage in Search of a Bird, by Florence Noiville (Seagull) [ARC; un+]
• Iza's Ballad, by Szabó Magda (New York Review Books) [ARC; un+]
• Sweating Blood, by Léon Bloy (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Margarito and the Snowman, by REYoung (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Girl on Heaven’s Pier, by Eeva-Liisa Manner (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Me Against the World, by Shiraishi Kazufumi (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Naked, by Jean-Phillipe Toussaint (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Tynset, by Wolfgang Hildesheimer (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Volatile Texts, by Zsuzsanna Gahse (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Black Bread, by Emili Teixidor (Biblioasis) [un+]
• The Hidden Keys, by André Alexis (Coach House) [ARC; un+]
• The Weaver Fish, by Robert Edeson (Aardvark Bureau) [un+]
• Too Close to the Edge, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [un+]
• John Aubrey, My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr (New York Review Books) [un]
• Charlotte, by David Foenkinos (Overlook Press) [library]
• The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, by D.G.Compton (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Angels of Detroit, by Christopher Hebert (Bloomsbury) [un]
• Angel of Oblivion, by Maja Haderlap (Archipelago Books) [un+]
• Motherland Hotel, by Yusuf Atılgan (City Lights) [catalogue]
• Football, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [solicited]

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May, 2016

Books received/acquired in May, 2016
    [56 books / 12 reviewed to date]

• In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Alfred A. Knpf) [library]
• JARMAN (all this maddening beauty), by Caridad Svich (Seagull Books) [un]
• Orthokostá, by Thanassis Valtinos (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Toward Democracy, by James T. Kloppenberg (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• In Another Country, by David Constantine (Biblioasis) [un]
• The Life-Writer, by David Constantine (Biblioasis) [ARC; un]
• The Love She Left Behind, by Amanda Coe (W.W>Norton) [un]
• Trafika Europe, ed. by Andrew Singer (Penn State University Press) [solicited]
• The Last Wolf, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Herman, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• The Hotel of the Three Roses, by Augusto de Angelis (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Alpine Ballad, by Vasil Bykau (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Exile, by Zinaida Tulub (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
• I’ll Sell You a Dog, by Juan Pablo Villalobos (And Other Stories) [un]
• The Hatred of Poetry, by Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) [un]
• French Rhapsody, by Antoine Laurain (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
• A Brief Theory of Travel and the Desert, by Cristian Crusat (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Landing, by Laia Fàbregas (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, by Mario Giordano (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• The Young Bride, by Alessandro Baricco (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life, by Josef Jedlička (Karolinum Press) [solicited]
• The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House) [requested]
• The Flight, by Gaito Gazdanov (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Act of Passion, by Georges Simenon (New York Review Books) [library]
• Tropic Moon, by Georges Simenon (New York Review Books) [library]
• Farewell, my Friend, by Rabindranath Tagore (Jaico) [$1.00]
• Beyond the Blossoming Fields, by Watanabe Jun'ichi (Alma Books) [$1.00]
• Artists' Wives, by Alphonse Daudet (Turtle Point Press) [$1.00]
• Colonel Mint, by Paul West (E.P.Dutton) [$1.00]
• Gala, by Paul West (Harper & Row) [$1.00]
• The Universe, and Other Fictions, by Paul West (The Overlook Press) [$1.00]
• The Sword of Ambition, by Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (NYU Press) [un+]
• Authors in Court, by Mark Rose (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• When Memory Comes, by Saul Friedländer (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• Where Memory Leads, by Saul Friedländer (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• Baba Dunja's Last Love, by Alina Bronsky (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Life and Work, by Tim Parks (Yale University Press) [un]
• The Boy in the Shadows, by Carl-Johan Vallgren (Quercus) [un+]
• Legal Plunder, by Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Big Sheep, by Robert Kroese (Thomas Dunne Books) [ARC; solicited]
• The End of Sex, by Henry T. Greely (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Legible Religion, by Duncan MacRae (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Bad Things Happen, by Kris Bertin (Biblioasis) [un+]
• The Party Wall, by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
• Martutene, by Ramón Saizarbitoria (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Moonstone, by Sjón (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• Richard Posner, by William Domnarski (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Portable Veblen, by Elizabeth McKenzie (Penguin Press) [library]
• The Dove's Necklace, by Raja Alem (Overlook) [library]
• The Quest for Mary Magdalene, by Michael Haag (Harper) [un]
• Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom, by Ensaf Haidar (Other Press) [un]
• Nitro Mountain, by Lee Clay Johnson (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
• Children of the New World, by Alexander Weinstein (Picador) [ARC; solicited]
• Sweetbitter, by Stephanie Danler (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
• Textermination, by Christine Brooke-Rose (New Directions) [library]

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April, 2016

Books received/acquired in April, 2016
    [52 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• The Mandibles, by Lionel Shriver (Harper) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Bones of Grace, by Tahmima Anam (Harper) [ARC; catalogue]
• Gilgamesh's Snake, by Ghareeb Iskander (Syracuse University Press) [un+]
• Little Girls Breathe the Same Air As We Do, by Paul Fournel (George Braziller) [$8.00]
• The Story of Manu by Allasani Peddana (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• The History of Akbar (vol. 1), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• Stone Tablets, by Wojciech Zukrowski (Paul Dry Books) [solicited]
• Constellation, by Adrien Bosc (Other Press) [un+]
• Vampire in Love, by Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Ema, the Captive, by César Aira (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Second Winter, by Craig Larsen (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• Bird in a Cage, by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• Fever City, by Tim Baker (Europa Editions) [un]
• France, Story of a Childhood, by Zahia Rahmani (Yale University Press) [un]
• Two Green Otters, by Buket Uzuner (Milet) [un+]
• Struggling Upward, by Timothy J. Van Compernolle (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Translation’s Forgotten History, Heekyoung Cho by (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid (Penguin Classics) [un]
• The Brother, by Rein Raud (Open Letter) [un+]
• Gesell Dome, by Guillermo Saccomanno (Open Letter) [un+]
• Super Extra Grande, by Yoss (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Year 200, by Agustín de Rojas (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Transmigration of Bodies, by Yuri Herrera (And Other Stories) [un+]
• Love in the Western World, by Denis de Rougemont (Harper & Row) [$.99]
• L'apparition du livre, by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin (Albin Michel) [$.99]
• Journey from Flesh, by Nicholas Yermakov (Berkley Books) [$.99]
• Singnagtugaq, by Mathias Storch (International Polar Institute Press) [requested]
• Rage, by Zygmunt Miłoszewski (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
• Félicie, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• [The Lights of Pointe-Noire, by Alain Mabanckou] (The New Press) [library]
• A Meal in Winter, by Hubert Mingarelli (The New Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea, by Amara Lakhous (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Garden of Sorrows, by John Hughes (University of Western Australia Publishing) [solicited]
• The Remnants, by John Hughes (University of Western Australia Publishing) [solicited]
• Asylum, by John Hughes (University of Western Australia Publishing) [solicited]
• And After the Fire, by Lauren Belfer (Harper) [un]
• Golden Delicious, by Christopher Boucher (Melville House) [un]
• Tales from the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Long Belts and Thin Men, by Kojima Nobuo (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye (Alfred A. Knopf) [un+]
• Tunnel of Babel, by Nicholas Mosley (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Arjuna and the Hunter, by Bharavi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Epic of Ram (vols. 1 and 2), by Tulsidas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The History of Akbar (vol. 2), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Absolute Solitude, by Dulce María Loynaz (Archipelago) [un+]
• A Terrace in Rome, by Pascal Quignard (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Pig, by Oskar Panizza (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy, ed. by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• The Glory of the Empire, by Jean d’Ormesson (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity, by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Accidental Godman, by Kishore Bhimani (Amaryllis) [$7.00]
• The Habsburg Empire, by Pieter M. Judson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]

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March, 2016

Books received/acquired in March, 2016
    [61 books / 24 reviewed to date]

• Blitz, by David Trueba (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• A Doomed Marriage, by Daniel Hannan and Tom Kremer (Notting Hill Editions) [solicited]
• Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me, by Teffi (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Memories, by Teffi (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Melancholy, by Földényi László F. (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Still the Same Man, by Jon Bilbao (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• The Violet Hour, by Sergio del Molino (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Cannibals in Love, by Mike Roberts (FSG Originals) [ARC; un]
• The Story of Hong Gildong (Penguin Classics) [library]
• Brandes's Decision, by Eduard Márquez (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• A Very Special Year, by Thomas Montasser (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction, by M.A>Orthofer (Columbia University Press) [author copy]
• Mon amie américaine, by Michèle Halberstadt (Other Press) [un+]
• Fata Morgana, by Svetislav Basara (Dalkey Archive Press) [library]
• Papi, by Rita Indiana (University of Chicago Press) [un+]
• Philosophy of Nature, by Paul K. Feyerabend (Polity) [requested]
• Dante, by Marco Santagata (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Selected Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Yale University Press) [un]
• The Murdered Banker, by Augusto de Angelis (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Dream Messenger, by Shimada Masahiko (Warner Books) [$1.00]
• Emily Dickinson’s Poems, ed. by Cristanne Miller (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Landskipping, by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury) [un]
• The Clouds, by Juan José Saer (Open Letter) [un+]
• One of Us Is Sleeping , by Josefine Klougart (Open Letter) [un+]
• A Greater Music, by Bae Suah (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Umami, by Laia Jufresa (Oneworld) [un+]
• Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent, by Mircea Eliade (Istros Books) [requested]
• Democracy, by Paul Cartledge (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Hamlet, by Gabriel Josipovici (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Shameful State, by Sony Labou Tansi (Indiana University Press) [library]
• The First Wife, by Paulina Chiziane (Archipelago Books) [un+]
• Ruined City, by Jia Pingwa (University of Oklahoma Press) [requested]
• Prisoner, by Anna Nemzer (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Gnedich, by Maria Rybakova (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Linda, As in the Linda Murder, by Leif GW Persson (Vintage Crime) [library]
• Inspector Cadaver, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Life in the Court of Matane, by Eric Dupont (QC Fiction) [ARC; solicited]
• Shakespeare's First Folio, by Emma Smith (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Stopped Heart, by Julie Myerson (Harper Perennial) [un]
• Diamond Head, by Cecily Wong (Harper Perennial) [un]
• Heart of Europe, by Peter H. Wilson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Greek Classics, by Aldus Manutius (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Fiammetta. Paradise, by Ugolino Verino (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• A Translator's Defense, by Giannozzo Manetti (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Redeeming the Kamasutra, by Wendy Doniger (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Antibody, by Julio José Ordovás (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Fragile Travelers, by Jovanka Živanović (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Johanne, Johanne ...., by Lars Sidenius (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Francis Bacon’s Armchair, by Sébastien Brebel (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Cold Shoulder, by Markus Werner (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Don’t Leave Me, by Stig Sæterbakken (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Invisible Hands, by Stig Sæterbakken (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Seven Madmen, by Roberto Arlt (New York Review Books) [library]
• Young Once, by Patrick Modiano (New York Review Books) [un+]
• In the Café of Lost Youth, by Patrick Modiano (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Paris Vagabond, by Jean-Paul Clébert (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Hill, by Jean Giono (New York Review Books) [un+]
• A Midsummer's Equation, by Higashino Keigo (Minotaur Books) [library]
• The Rim of Morning, by William Sloane (New York Review Books) [library]
• Secrets of Men in a Lifeboat, by Todd R. Baker (Aqueous Books) [ARC; un]
• The Poor, by Raul Brandão (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]

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February, 2016

Books received/acquired in February, 2016
    [55 books / 19 reviewed to date]

• Takedown, by Jeff Buck (Forge) [un]
• 32, by Sahar Mandour (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• The Chosen Ones, by Steve Sem-Sandberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• Love Letter in Cuneiform, by Tomáš Zmeškal (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Border Towns, by C.S.Giscombe (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un]
• Houses, by Borislav Pekić (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Hatred of Music, by Pascal Quignard (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Language Animal, by Charles Taylor (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Pierced by the Sun, by Laura Esquivel (AmazonCrossing) [ARC; un]
• Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer (And Other Stories) [un]
• The Kingdom, by Nakamura Fuminori (Soho Press) [e-book; requested]
• Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists, by Normand Chaurette (Talon Books) [$1.00]
• Signed, Picpus, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Graveyard Clay, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Among the Bieresch, by Klaus Hoffer (Seagull Books) [un+]
• They Were Coming For Him, by Berta Vias Mahou (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Bad Light, by Carlos Castán (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Writing Technology in Meiji Japan, by Seth Jacobowitz (Harvard University Press ) [catalogue]
• The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, by Stephen M. Stigler (Harvard University Press ) [catalogue]
• The Televangelist, by Ibrahim Essa (American University in Cairo Press) [catalogue]
• Whitefly, by Abdelilah Hamdouchi (American University in Cairo Press) [catalogue]
• How to Talk About Places You've Never Been, by Pierre Bayard (Bloomsbury) [requested]
• Abahn Sabana David, by Marguerite Duras (Open Letter) [un+]
• The Face, by Abani/Aw/Ozeki (Restless Books) [(3-in-1)ARC; un]
• Mona Lisa, by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Pushkin Press) [e-book]
• Track Changes, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Harvadr University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Half a Lifelong Romance, by Eileen Chang (Anchor) [un+]
• The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick, by Kyle Arnold (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• A Fine Line, by Gianrico Carofiglio (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• Sudden Death, by Álvaro Enrigue (Riverhead) [library]
• Night Prayers, by Santiago Gamboa (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Forget English !, by Aamir R. Mufti (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Masha Regina, by Vadim Levental (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• God is Round, by Juan Villoro (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• UFO Hunters #2, by William J. Birnes (Tor) [un]
• Newcomers, by Lojze Kovačič (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities, by Roy Sorensen (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Case of the Girl in Grey, by Jordan Stratford (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
• Puzzling Identities, by Vincent Descombes (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Attempt, by Magdaléna Platzová (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
• The Measure of Darkness, by Liam Durcan (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
• The Blue Room, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Judge’s House, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Silver Eggheads, by Fritz Leiber (Ballantine) [$1.25]
• Escape Attempt, by Miguel Ángel Hernández (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• A Bad End, by Fernando Royuela (Hispabooks) [ARC; un+]
• Quiet Creature on the Corner, by João Gilberto Noll (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• Voroshilovgrad, by Serhiy Zhadan (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• One Hundred Twenty-One Days, by Michèle Audin (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Villa Triste, by Patrick Modiano (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Lacombe Lucien, by Patrick Modiano (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Incarceration Nations, by Baz Dreisinger (Other Press) [un]
• The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, by Mark Hodder (Pyr) [requested]
• The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, by Mark Hodder (Pyr) [requested]
• Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon , by Mark Hodder (Pyr) [requested]

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January, 2016

Books received/acquired in January, 2016
    [38 books / 16 reviewed to date]

• Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling, by Carole Satyamurti (W.W.Norton) [un+]
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (W.W.Norton) [un]
• Y.T., by Alexei Nikitin (Melville House) [requested]
• The Cairo Diary, by Maxim Chattam (Minotaur) [$1.00]
• My Fellow Skin, by Erwin Mortier (Pushkin Press) [$1.00]
• The Tenant and The Motive, by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury) [ibrary]
• The Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse, by Iván Repila (Pushkin Press) [ibrary]
• Sergio Y., by Alexandre Vidal Porto (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Lost Time Accidents, by John Wray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [requested]
• GraveLarks, by Jan Křesadlo (Jantar) [solicited]
• Bliss was it in Bohemia, by Michal Viewegh (Jantar) [solicited]
• Prague. I see a city ... , by Daniela Hodrová (Jantar) [solicited]
• A Kingdom of Souls, by Daniela Hodrová (Jantar) [solicited]
• Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, by Horacio Castellanos Moya (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, by Serge Brussolo (Melville House) [library]
• As Far As I Know, by Joseph Somoza (Cinco Puntos Press) [un]
• Something Will Happen, You’ll See, by Christos Ikonomou (Archipelago) [un+]
• Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview, edited by David Streitfeld (Melville House) [library]
• The Decagon House Murders, by Ayatsuji Yukito (Locked Room International) [library]
• Albina and the Dog-Men, by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Book of Blam, by Aleksandar Tišma (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Bastards of Pizzofalcone, by Maurizio de Giovanni (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
• The Yid, by Paul Goldberg (Picador) [un]
• Confessions of a Madman, by Leïla Sebbar (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Butcher’s Trail, by Julian Borger (Other Press) [un]
• Ice Cold, by Andrea Maria Schenkel (Quercus) [library]
• One Out of Two, by Daniel Sada (Graywolf Press) [library]
• Dear Reader, by Paul Fournel (Pushkin Press) [library]
• The Good Liar, by Nicholas Searle (Harper) [un]
• Cosmonaut Keep, by Ken MacLeod (Tor) [$1.00]
• M/F, by Anthony Burgess (Ballantine) [$1.00]
• The Bridesmaid, by Ruth Rendell (Mysterious Press) [$1.00]
• The Man in a Hurry, by Paul Morand (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi, by Ahmet Midhat Efendi (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; solicited]
• La Superba, by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• White Leopard, by Laurent Guillaume (Le French Book) [library]
• The Father, by Anton Svensson (Quercus) [ARC; un+]
• My Struggle: Book Five, by Karl Ove Knausgaard(Archipelago) [ARC; un+]

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