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This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2019, 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 July 2024 - December, 2019 November, 2019 October, 2019 September, 2019 August, 2019 July, 2019 June, 2019 May, 2019 April, 2019 March, 2019 February, 2019 January, 2019 See also archives: Books received and acquired (2023) Books received and acquired (2022) Books received and acquired (2021) Books received and acquired (2020) 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.

December, 2019

Books received/acquired in December, 2019
    [49 books / 24 reviewed to date]

• The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, by José Eduardo Agualusa (Archipelago Books) ARC; un+]
• Charisma and Disenchantment, by Max Weber (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Villa of Delirium, by Adrien Goetz (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics, by Ignacy Krasicki (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• A Burglar of the Better Sort, by Tytus Czyżewski (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Newcomers (Book Two), by Lojze Kovačič (Archipelago Books) [un+]
• A Long Way Off, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [un+]
• Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores, by Massimo Carlotto (Europa Editions) [ARC; requested]
• Friend, by Paek Nam-nyong (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, by Henrik Ibsen (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Epic of Ram (vol. 5), by Tulsidas (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• The History of Akbar (vol. 6), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• In Praise of Annada (vol. 2), by Bharatchandra Ray (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• Maigret Hesitates, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Abigail, by Szabó Magda (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Journals 1889-1949, by André Gide (Penguin Modern Classics) [$3.25)]
• Sleight of Mind, by Matt Cook (MIT Press) [solicited]
• Disturbance, by Philippe Lançon (Europa Editions) [requested]
• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, by Shokoofeh Azar (Europa Editions) [requested]
• Sketches of the Criminal World, by Varlam Shalamov (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Sleeping-Car Murders, by Sébastien Japrisot (Penguin) [$1.37]
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles (Signet) [$2.07]
• Devdas, by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay (Penguin India) [$2.45]
• The Destruction of the Temple, by Barry N. Malzberg (Pocket Books) [$1.05]
• Scop, by Barry N. Malzberg (Pyramid) [$1.75]
• In the Enclosure, by Barry N. Malzberg (Avon) [$1.05]
• Gather in the Hall of the Planets, by K.M.O'Donnell (Ace) [$2.07]
• The Subversion of Images, by Paul Nougé (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Simple Past, by Driss Chraïbi (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Criminal Child, by Jean Genet (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Fandango and Other Stories, by Alexander Grin (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• History of Rome, Volume V (Books 21–22), by Livy (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Roman History (three volumes), by Appian (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Cruise of Shadows, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Last Days of El Comandante, by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (University of Texas Press) [ARC; un+]
• Animals at the End of the World, by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Secret Tale of Tesur House, by W. Tailing (China Tibetology Publishing House) [$6.62]
• The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
• A Couple of Soles, by Li Yu (Columbia University Press) [soliicted]
• The Sun and Her Stars, by Donna Rifkind (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Trotter-Nama, by I. Allan Sealy (Penguin India) [$4.79]
• Berge, by Jan Kjærstad (Norvik Press) [requested]
• The Misadventures of the New Satan, by Anton Tammsaare (Norvik Press) [requested]
• Reading is Walking, by Gonçalo M.Tavares (Quantum Prose) [solicited]
• Miss Iceland, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Black Cat) [ARC; un+]
• The Great Concert of the Night, by Jonathan Buckley (New York Review Books) [un+]
• When Novels Were Books, by Jordan Alexander Stein (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Last Fall, by Peter Handke (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Four by Four, by Sara Mesa (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]

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November, 2019

Books received/acquired in November, 2019
    [65 books / 22 reviewed to date]

• The Heart, by Marc Petitjean (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• All That Is Evident Is Suspect, ed. by Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker (McSweeney's) [library]
• And Their Children After Them, by Nicolas Mathieu (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• And My Head Exploded, ed. by Geoff Chew (Jantar) [un+]
• A Czech Dreambook, by Ludvík Vaculík (Karolinum Press) [solicited]
• Virtue Politics, by James Hankins (Harvard University Press) [Catalogue]
• Maigret's Patience, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Maigret and the Nahour Case, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Maigret's Pickpocket, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Card Catalogue, by Alistair Ian Blyth (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro, by Hanawa Kanji (Red Circle) [un+]
• The Refugees' Daughter, by Ichikawa Takuji (Red Circle) [un+]
• Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [library]
• Agathe, by Robert Musil (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Woe from Wit, by Alexander Griboedov (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Remaking of Sigmund Freud, by Barry N. Malzberg (Del Rey) [$1.48]
• The Paper Men, by William Golding (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$2.98]
• The Incredible Journey of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Starmasters' Gambit, by Gérard Klein (DAW) [$1.48]
• Abschied des Träumers vom Neunten Land, by Peter Handke (Suhrkamp) [$1.48]
• The Crooked Line, by Ismat Chughtai (Heinemann) [$2.98]
• In Free Fall, by Juli Zeh (Anchor) [$1.48]
• Baiyun, by Adolf Muschg (Suhrkamp) [$1.48]
• Les poètes morts n'écrivent pas de romans policiers, by Björn Larsson (Grasset) [$1.48]
• Die Bibliothek der Zukunft, by Dieter E. Zimmer (Hoffmann und Campe) [$2.98]
• NVK, by Temple Drake (Other Press) [un+]
• The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War, by Serge Pey (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Dead Heat, by Totth Benedek (Biblioasis) [un+]
• Come to Me, by Bogdan Rusev (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Quarry, by Célia Houdart (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Roxy, by Esther Gerritsen (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Real Life, by Adeline Dieudonné (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Two Blankets, Three Sheets, by Rodaan Al Galidi (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Aline and Valcour, by the Marquis de Sade (Contra Mundum Press) [requested]
• Correspondence, by Ingeborg Bachmann/Paul Celan (Seagull Books) [requested]
• 'The World's Most Prestigious Prize', by Geir Lundestad (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Free Day, by Inès Cagnati (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Indelicacy, by Amina Cain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un]
• Contra Instrumentalism, by Lawrence Venuti (University of Nebraska Press) [requested]
• Modern Sudanese Poetry, ed. by Adil Babikir (University of Nebraska Press) [requested]
• Think, Write, Speak, by Vladimir Nabokov (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
• The Sheltering Rain, by Hanmura Ryō (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• The Crimes of Love, by the Marquis de Sade (Oxford University Press) [$4.48]
• C'est la culture qu'on assassine, by Pierre Jourde (Pocket) [$2.38]
• Because of Women, by Mbella Sonne Dipoko (Heinemann) [$3.98]
• The Apprentice Writer, by Julian Green (Marion Boyars) [$3.58]
• When I Whistle, by Endo Shusaku (Taplinger Publishing) [$2.38]
• Lokalbericht, by Hermann Burger (De Gruyter) [$2.38]
• Revenge of the Translator, by Brice Matthieussent (Deep Vellum) [$3.58]
• Conspiracy and Other Stories, by Jaan Kross (Harvill) [$3.58]
• Joseph und seine Brüder, by Thomas Mann (S.Fischer) [$2.38]
• Schrödinger's Dog, by Martin Dumont (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Serenade for Nadia, by Zülfü Livaneli (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Legitimacy, by Arthur Isak Applbaum (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Eighth Life, by Nino Haratischvili (Scribe) [un+]
• Waking Up Dead, by Nigel Williams (Thomas Dunne Books) [$1.48]
• How to Make Love to a Negro, by Dany Laferrière (Coach House Books) [$2.98]
• Probability and Evidence, by Paul Horwich (Cambridge University Press) [$2.98]
• Grand Junction, by Maurice G. Dantec (Del Rey) [$1.48]
• Roger Martin Du Gard, by Denis Boak (Oxford University Press) [$1.48]
• Heinar Kipphardts Bibliothek, by Sven Hanuschek (Aisthesis) [$1.48]
• Das Ende der Alternative, by Helmut Heißenbüttel (Klett-Cotta) [$1.48]
• Nouilles froides à Pyongyang, by Jean-Luc Coatalem (Grasset) [$1.48]
• A Death, by Zalman Shneour (Wakefield Press) [un+]

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October, 2019

Books received/acquired in October, 2019
    [49 books / 14 reviewed to date]

• The History of the Kings of Britain, ed. by David W. Burchmore (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Allegories of the Odyssey, by John Tzetzes (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Dreamed Part, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
• The Town with Acacia Trees, by Mihail Sebastian (Aurora Metro Books) [solicited]
• Labyrinth, by Burhan Sönmez (Other Press) [un+]
• It Is Enough, by Nicholas Delbanco (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Giannozzo Manetti, by David Marsh (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Les prénoms épicènes, by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel) [$10.16]
• Day Trips to the Desert, by Geoff Nicholson (Hodder & Stoughton) [$1.66]
• Un cabinet d'amateur, by Georges Perec (Points) [$2.98]
• Strain of Meeting, by Wang Meng (Foreign Languages Press) [$3.36]
• An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears (Berkley) [$2.13]
• Le cœur absolu, by Philippe Sollers (Folio) [$2.51]
• Palpasa Café, by Narayan Wagle (nepa-laya) [$10.20]
• The Black Cathedral, by Marcial Gala (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
• De Sade's Valet, by Nikolaj Frobenius (Marion Boyars) [$4.69]
• My Life is Like a Fairy Tale, by Robert Irwin (Dedalus) [solicited]
• Usurpation d'identité, by Boileau-Narcejac (Hachette) [$5.19]
• Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset (Penguin Classics) [$10.49]
• Solal, by Albert Cohen (Folio) [$4.39]
• Gilgamesh, by Michael Schmidt (Princeton University Press) [requested]
• Pomegranate Garden, by Haydar Ergülen (Parthian) [requested]
• A Glass Eye, by Miren Agur Meabe (Parthian) [requested]
• La Blanche, by Maï-Do Hamisultane (Parthian) [requested]
• Zero Hours on the Boulevard, ed. by Alexandra Büchler and Alison Evans (Parthian) [requested]
• Modern Art, by J.-K.Huysmans (Dedalus) [solicited]
• Fifth Sun, by Camilla Townsend (Oxford University Press) [un+]
• The Drive, by Yair Assulin (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Bad Side of Books, by D.H.Lawrence (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Not All Dead White Men, by Donna Zuckerberg (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• On the Shoulders of Giants, by Umberto Eco (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Dark Video, by Peter Church (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Cat Among the Pigeons, by David Muirhead (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Small Mercies, by Bridget Krone (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Cape Town, by Henry Trotter (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Machiavelli, by Patrick Boucheron (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Beside Myself, by Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Philosopher Responds, by Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi and Abu 'Ali Miskawayh (2 vols) (NYU Press) [un+]
• Automatic Eve, by Inui Rokuro (Haikasoru) [e-book; library]
• Life for Sale, by Mishima Yukio (Vintage International) [ARC; un+]
• Why, Why, Why ?, by Quim Monzó (Open Letter) [un+]
• Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke (Open Letter) [un+]
• A User's Manual, by Jiří Kolář (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
• My Red Heaven, by Lance Olsen (Dzanc) [e-book; un]
• Dressed for a Dance in the Snow, by Monika Zgustova (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• Gold Mask, by Edogawa Rampo (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• Vampiric, (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• The Woman and the Puppet, by Pierre Louÿs (Dedalus) [un+]
• Adversarial Legalism, by Robert A. Kagan (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]

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September, 2019

Books received/acquired in September, 2019
    [50 books / 17 reviewed to date]

• Selected Writings, by Konstantinos Dapontes (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• The Word of the Speechless, by Julio Ramón Ribeyro (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Firsts, ed. by Carl Phillips (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Daybook 1918, by J.V.Foix (Northwestern University Press) [un+]
• The Girl Beneath the Lion, by André Pieyre de Mandiargues (Grove Press) [$2.38]
• The Voice, by Gabriel Okara (Heinemann) [$3.58]
• The Cage, by Albert Bels (Peter Owen) [$2.78]
• San-Antonio entre en scène, by Frédéric Dard (Éditions du Rocher) [$2.38]
• Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann (Pantheon) [ARC; requested]
• The Dregs of the Day, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale University Press) [un+]
• A Greek Ballad, by Michális Ganás (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Our Riches, by Kaouther Adimi (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Artforum, by César Aira (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Norma Jean Baker of Troy, by Anne Carson (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• All Fires the Fire, by Julio Cortázar (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Factory, by Oyamada Hiroko (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Ride of a Lifetime, by Robert Iger (Random House) [un]
• My Part of Her, by Javad Djavahery (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Family Record, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
• I Want a Baby and Other Plays, by Sergei Tretyakov (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Jesus' Cat, by Grig (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Das flüssige Land, by Raphaela Edelbauer (Klett-Cotta) [e-book; requested]
• Abenteuerliche Reise durch mein Zimmer, by Karl-Markus Gauß (Zsolnay) [e-book; requested]
• b, Book, and Me, by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Restless Books) [un]
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf (Restless Books) [un]
• The Ingenious Language, by Andrea Marcolongo (Europa Editions) [un+]
• I Used to Be Charming, by Eve Babitz (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Limited by Body Habitus, by Jennifer Renee Blevins (Autumn House Press) [un]
• Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut, by J.J. Voskuil (Uitgeverij Van Oorschot) [$1.48]
• Hilarotragoedia, by Giorgio Manganelli (Adelphi Edizioni) [$2.98]
• Purloining Tiny, by John Franklin Bardin (Harper & Row) [$1.48]
• Jack Glass, by Adam C. Roberts (Gollancz) [$3.48]
• Pourquoi lire ?, by Charles Dantzig (Grasset) [$1.48]
• Cuckold, by Kiran Nagarkar (Harper Collins India) [$4.98]
• A Word Child, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin) [$1.48]
• Self-Reference Engine, by Enjoe Toh (Haikasoru) [$2.98]
• Die Rezensenten und Arno Schmidt, by Ralf Stiftel (Bangert & Metzler) [$2.98]
• The Day Before Yesterday, by Leon De Winter (Vehicle Editions) [$2.98]
• Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water, by António Lobo Antunes (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Street Sleeper, by Geoff Nicholson (Quartet) [$3.48]
• Parade, by Kawakami Hiromi (Soft Skull Press) e-book; requested]
• Like Flies from Afar, by K. Ferrari (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
• Baltic Belles, ed. by Elle-Mari Talivee (Dedalus Books) [un+]
• UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary, by Sarah Brouillette (Stanford University Press) [e-book; requested]
• Riquet à la houppe, by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel) [$4.49]
• The Arabian Nightmare, by Robert Irwin (Overlook Press) [$4.19]
• The Key of the Tower, by Gilbert Adair (Secker & Warburg) [$4.69]
• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young (Charles Scribner's Sons) [$8.69]
• Selected Fiction, by O.V.Vijayan (Penguin India) [$4.19]

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August, 2019

Books received/acquired in August, 2019
    [59 books / 16 reviewed to date]

• Gateway Omnibus, by John Sladek (Gollancz) [$6.89]
• Novels 1944-1962, by Dawn Powell (Library of America) [$8.39]
• The Teacher, by Michal Ben-Naftali (Open Letter) [un+]
• Lives of the Milanese Tyrants, by Pier Candido Decembrio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Virtues and Vices of Speech, by Giovanni Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Serotonin, by Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; requested]
• Taína, by Ernesto Quiñonez (Vintage) [un]
• Ecstasy and Terror, by Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Number of the Heavens, by Tom Siegfried (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Author Unknown, by Tom Geue (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Our Europe, by Laurent Gaudé (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Maigret Defends Himself, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, ed. by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Madwoman of Serrano, by Dina Salústio (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Hills Reply, by Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• A Dream Come True, by Juan Carlos Onetti (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go, by Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Mostarghia, by Maya Ombasic (Biblioasis) [un+]
• Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis) [un+]
• And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain, by Elisabeth Åsbrink (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• The Organs of Sense, by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
• The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
• The Exhibition of Persephone Q, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un]
• A Primer for Forgetting, by Lewis Hyde (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
• Jacob's Ladder, by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
• Vernon Subutex 1, by Virginie Despentes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• One Lark, One Horse, by Michael Hofmann (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
• The Chestnut Man, by Søren Sveistrup (Harper) [solicited]
• The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Last Letters, by Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Strokes of Brush and Blade, ed. by Edward Lipsett (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• Maigret and the Ghost, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Paper Houses, by Dominique Fortier (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
• Klotsvog, by Margarita Khemlin (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Beyond Aesthetics, by Wole Soyinka (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Witcraft, by Jonathan Rée (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Cosmopolitan Tradition, by Martha C. Nussbaum (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• On Trial For Reason, by Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Die Nacht der Seelen, by Karl Ristikivi (Guggolz Verlag) [€24.90]
• Zylo, by Dritero Agolli (Malik) [€5.00]
• Augenblicke in Bernstein, by Ogawa Yoko (Liebeskind) [€22.70]
• Autopsie, by Viktor Paskow (Dittrich) [€11.90]
• Lotti, die Uhrmacherin, by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Reclam) [€6.20]
• Schwarze Vögel, by Gunnar Gunnarsson (Reclam Verlag) [€7.99]
• Kommt, Geister, by Daniel Kehlmann (Rowohlt) [€5.99]
• die alarmbereiten, by Kathrin Röggla (Fischer) [€4.99]
• Indirekt, by Esterházy Péter (Piper) [€3.95]
• Sämmtliche Gedichte, by Dietmar Dath (Suhrkamp) [€3.95]
• 39,90, by Frédéric Beigbeder (Rowohlt) [€1.00]
• Der ägyptische Heinrich, by Markus Werner (dtv) [€1.00]
• The Bone People, by Keri Hulme (Picador) [€1.00]
• Das Leben der Wünsche, by Thomas Glavinic (Hanser) [€4.00]
• Keine Sorge, mir geht's gut, by Olivier Adam (SchirmerGraf) [€4.00]
• Der Roman der Zwölf, by various (Insel) [€5.00]
• Genealogie des Tötens, by Reinhard Jirgl (dtv) [€13.99]
• Jimi Hendrix live in Lemberg, by Andrej Kurkow (Diogenes Verlag) [€6.99]
• Oona und Salinger, by Frédéric Beigbeder (Piper) [€5.99]
• 36,9°, by Nora Bossong (dtv) [€6.99]
• Nordkoreanisches Reisetagebuch, by Luise Rinser (Fischer) [€7.99]

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July, 2019

Books received/acquired in July, 2019
    [46 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• Nada, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
• This Poison Will Remain, by Fred Vargas (Penguin Books) [un+]
• 97,196 Words, by Emmanuel Carrère (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue;]
• The Reunion, by Guillaume Musso (Little, Brown) [e-book; library]
• Ghady & Rawan, by Fatima Sharafeddine and Samar Mahfouz Barraj (University of Texas Press) [un+]
• The Sweet Indifference of the World, by Peter Stamm (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Black Light, by Kimberly King Parsons (Vintage) [un]
• Heaven’s Breath, by Lyall Watson (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Dishwasher, by Stéphane Larue (Biblioasis) [un+]
• Until the Lions, by Karthika Naïr (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous, by Manu Joseph (Myriad Editions) [un+]
• The Murder of Harriet Monckton, by Elizabeth Haynes (Myriad Editions) [un]
• The Kennedy Moment, by Peter Adamson (Myriad Editions) [un]
• Twin Peaks, by Lindsay Hallam (Devil's Advocates) [un]
• Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort, by Roger Martin du Gard (Alfred A. Knopf ) [$2.00]
• A Maggot, by John Fowles (Little, Brown and Company) [$2.00]
• The Book and the Brotherhood, by Iris Murdoch (Viking) [$2.00]
• Where Are You Dying Tonight ?, by Michel Déon (Atlantic Monthly Press) [$2.00]
• The Fall of Troy, by Peter Ackroyd (Nan A. Talese) [$2.00]
• The Dramas, by Honoré de Balzac (Thomspon Publishing) [$2.00]
• Ill Wind, by W.L.Heath (Black Lizard) [$1.00]
• The Old Man and His Sons, by Heðin Brú (Telegram) [$1.00]
• Pounamu Pounamu, by Witi Ihimaera (Heinemann) [$1.00]
• Accident, by Nicholas Mosley (Dalkey Archive Press) [$1.00]
• Patrick Melrose, by Edward St. Aubyn (Picador) [$1.00]
• The Nine Cloud Dream, by Kim Man-Jung (Penguin Classics) [requested]
• The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, by Alain Mabanckou (Indiana University Press) [ARC; un+]
• A Double Life, by Karolina Pavlova (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Somehow, Crystal, by Tanaka Yasuo (Kurodahan Press) [ARC; un+]
• Maigret and the Tramp, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Maigret's Anger, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Käsebier Takes Berlin, by Gabriele Tergit (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River, by Jung Young Moon (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Life Went On Anyway, by Oleg Sentsov (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Honey, I Killed The Cats, by Dorota Masłowska (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• Vivian, by Christina Hesselholdt (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
• The Hemingway Game, by Evgeny Grishkovets (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• A Flame Out at Sea, by Dmitry Novikov (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Ditch, by Herman Koch (Hogarth) [e-book; library]
• The Yogini, by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Tilted Axis Press) [e-book; requested]
• After The War, by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Made in Sweden, by Elisabeth Åsbrink (Scribe) [un+]
• The Incompletes, by Sergio Chejfec (Open Letter) [un+]
• Slaves to Fortune, by Tom Lanoye (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• The Museum of Lost Love, by Gary Barker (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• A Storm Blew in from Paradise, by Johannes Anyuru (World Editions) [ARC; un+]

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June, 2019

Books received/acquired in June, 2019
    [40 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• The Song of Kiều, by Nguyễn Du (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Return of the Spirit, by Tawfiq al-Hakim (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Look Hamlet, by Barbro Lindgren (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Country Will Bring Us No Peace, by Matthieu Simard (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
• Here is What You Do, by Chris Dennis (Soho Press) [un]
• A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, by Ambai (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Scent of Buenos Aires, by Hebe Uhart (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Other Name, by Jon Fosse (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• The Sundays of Jean Dézert, by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• New Russian Drama, ed. Maksim Hanukai and Susanna Weygandt (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Samurai, by Michael Wert (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• A Nail, A Rose, by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (Pushkin Press) [e-book; solicited]
• The Peace Machine, by Özgür Mumcu (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• Babel: Adventures in Translation, by Dennis Duncan et al. (Bodleian Library) [requested]
• Secularity and Science, by E.H.Ecklund et al. (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Storyteller Essays, by Walter Benjamin (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Capital, by Robert Menasse (Liveright) [requested]
• Fragmentary Republican Latin: Oratory (I-III), ed. by Gesine Manuwald (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica, ed. by William H. Race (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• MFA vs. NYC, ed. by Chad Harbach (n+1/Faber and Faber) [$3.73]
• Fabulous Monsters, by Alberto Manguel (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Opioid, Indiana, by Brian Allen Carr (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
• Trolls, by Stefan Spjut (Faber & Faber) [un+]
• Night Departure: And, No Place (Case Dismissed), by Emmanuel Bove (Four Walls Eight Windows) [$5.18]
• I Never Had a Bestseller, by Jacob Steinberg (Hippocrene Books) [$3.18]
• Alles Schmeckt Nach Abschied, by Brigitte Reimann (Aufbau Verlag) [$2.38]
• Plankton (Het Bureau 3), by J.J. Voskuil (Van Oorschot) [$3.54]
• L'Œuvre ronde, by Marc Lapprand (Lambert Lucas) [$2.38]
• Les lectures des otages, by Ogawa Yoko (Actes Sud) [$3.58]
• Altered Inheritance, by Françoise Baylis (Harvard University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Kthulhu Reich, by Asamatsu Ken (Kurodahan Press) [ARC; un+]
• Peeping Tom, by Leo Marks (Faber & Faber) [$5.82]
• The Feluda Stories, by Satyajit Ray (Viking / Penguin India) [$3.45]
• Manga from the Floating World, by Adam L. Kern (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Fraud in the Lab, by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis (Harvard University Press) [catalogue; ARC]
• Jacques Schiffrin, by Amos Reichman (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• Three Summers, by Margarita Liberaki (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Grab a Snake by the Tail, by Leonardo Padura (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• Me & Other Writing, by Marguerite Duras (Dorothy, a publishing project) [ARC; un+]
• Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage, by Yuz Aleshkovsky (Columbia University Press) [un+]

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May, 2019

Books received/acquired in May, 2019
    [55 books / 23 reviewed to date]

• The Dark Domain, by Stefan Grabinski (Dedalus) [un+]
• Adrift in the Middle Kingdom, by J Slauerhoff (Handheld Press) [requested]
• Broken Wings, by Jia Pingwa (Alain Charles Asia) [requested]
• History. A Mess., by Sigrún Pálsdóttir (Open Letter) [un+]
• Good Enough, by Daniel S. Milo (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• This Mortal Boy, by Fiona Kidman (Gallic Books) [un]
• The Occasional Virgin, by Hanan al-Shaykh (Anchor Books) [un+]
• Under Pressure, by Faruk Šehić (Istros Books) [un+]
• The Last Refuge, by Hasan Nuhanovic (Peter Owen) [un+]
• The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, by Geoffrey Hill (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• Karl Marx, by Shlomo Avineri (Yale University Press) [ARC; un]
• Dual Citizens, by Alix Ohlin (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
• Sun-Tzu's Life in the Holy City of Vilnius, by Ričardas Gavelis (Pica Pica Press) [requested]
• Tūla, by Jurgis Kunčinas (Pica Pica Press) [requested]
• Frank Kruk, by Petras Cvirka (Pica Pica Press) [requested]
• A King Alone, by Jean Giono (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Empty Hearts, by Juli Zeh (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) [ARC; solicited]
• A Hero Born, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Press) [ARC; requested]
• What It Is, by Clifford Thompson (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• C’est la Vie, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
• Notes Without a Text, by Roberto Bazlen (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Change Me, by Andrej Blatnik (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Notes on Jackson and His Dead, by Hugh Fulham-McQuillan (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Öræfi, by Ófeigur Sigurðsson (Deep Vellum) [library; e-book]
• La perla, by John Steinbeck (Penguin Books) [un]
• Welcome to America, by Linda Boström Knausgård (World Editions) [ARC; un+]
• The Origin of Empire, by David Potter (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Ten Loves of Nishino, by Kawakami Hiromi (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Fool and Other Moral Tales, by Anne Serre (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Ticking Heart, by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books) [ARC; un]
• Fall, by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) [requested]
• Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Architrenius, by Johannes de Hauvilla (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, by Malin Persson Giolito (Other Press) [un+]
• Maigret and the Saturday Caller, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Anchor) [un]
• The Last Cruise, by Kate Christensen (Anchor) [un]
• The Book of Collateral Damage, by Sinan Antoon (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Bruges-la-Morte, by Georges Rodenbach (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Memory Police (Pantheon) [e-book; requested]
• Stories From the City of God, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Other Press) [un+]
• A Devil Comes to Town, by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions) [solicited]
• Cultural Insurrection, by Jonathan Nossiter (Other Press) [un]
• And the Bride Closed the Door, by Ronit Matalon (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Bishop's Bedroom, by Piero Chiara (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Helicopter Heist, by Jonas Bonnier (Other Press) [un+]
• Kiras Version, by Emil Hakl (Braumüller Verlag) [e-book]
• Troll, by Michal Hvorecky (Klett-Cotta) [e-book]
• Der aufblasbare Engel, by Zaza Burchudlaze (Aufbau Verlag) [e-book]
• The Bell of Treason, by P. E. Caquet (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• Don Carlos and Giovanni, by Thorvald Steen (Green Integer) [$5.60]
• The Adventures & Misadventures Of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis (New York Review Books) [$8.75]
• The Voice of the Herald, by Alberts Bels (Progress Publishers) [$6.30]
• Saman, by Ayu Utami (Equinox) [$6.30]

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April, 2019

Books received/acquired in April, 2019
    [43 books / 20 reviewed to date]

• The Map of Knowledge, by Violet Moller (Doubleday) [solicited]
• Abel and Cain, by Gregor von Rezzori (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
• The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, by Cameron McCabe (Penguin Books) [$3.52]
• Nocturne of Remembrance, by Nakayama Shichiri (Vertical) [$5.09]
• The Coming of Joachim Stiller, by Hubert Lampo (Valancourt Books) [requested]
• The Antitrust Paradigm, by Jonathan B. Baker (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Unbound, by Arlene Stein (Vintage) [un]
• Samalio Pardulus, by Otto Julius Bierbaum (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Haunted Martyr, by Kenneth Cameron (Felony & Mayhem) [ARC; un]
• The Second Mountain, by David Brooks (Random House) [un]
• Unions, by Robert Musil (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
• Glory and Its Litany of Horrors, by Fernanda Torres (Restless Books) [un+]
• Of Fathers and Fire, by Steven Wingate (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
• A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, by Louis Lüthi (Roma Publications) [solicited]
• What We Live For, What We Die For, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Professor Andersen's Night, by Dag Solstad (New Directions) [ARC; -]
• The Rabbi Finds Her Way, by Robert Schoen with Catherine deCuir (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; un]
• Half Moon Street, by Alex Reeve (Felony & Mayhem) [ARC; un]
• Here Is What You Do, by Chris Dennis (Soho) [ARC; un]
• My Friends, by Emmanuel Bove (New York Review Books) [-]
• Castle Gripsholm, by Kurt Tucholsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Picture, by Lillian Ross (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Spiritual Choreographies, by Carlos Labbé (Open Letter) [un+]
• Flowers of Mold, by Ha Seong-nan (Open Letter) [un+]
• Tentacle, by Rita Indiana (And Other Stories) [un+]
• Acts of Infidelity, by Lena Andersson (Other Press) [un+]
• The Creativity Code, by Marcus Du Sautoy (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Necropolis, by Vladislav Khodasevich (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Fidelity & Constraint, by Lawrence Lessig (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Middle England, by Jonathan Coe (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; requested]
• Die Akimuden, by Viktor Jerofejew (S.Fischer) [€5.99]
• Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, by Johann Jacob Christoph Grimmelshausen (S.Fischer) [€4.99]
• Der erste Russe, by Lasha Bugadze (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt) [€26.80]
• Putins Briefkasten, by Marcel Beyer (Suhrkamp) [€5.99]
• Der Südelefant, by Archil Kikodze (Ullstein) [€11.99]
• Machines Like Me, by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese) [e-book; requested]
• Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Reclam) [€8.30]
• Die Außerirdischen, by Doron Rabinovici (Suhrkamp) [€11.40]
• Iron Sky, by Johanna Sinisalo (Tropen) [€13.40]
• Verbannt !, by Ann Cotten (Suhrkamp) [€16.50]
• Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde (Viking) [e-book; library]
• Follower, by Eugen Ruge (Rowohlt) [€5.99]

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March, 2019

Books received/acquired in March, 2019
    [34 books / 8 reviewed to date]

• Vereinigungen, by Robert Musil (Reclam) [€2.50]
• Schach von Wuthenow, by Theodor Fontane (Reclam) [€ 2.50]
• Der grüne Heinrich, by Gottfried Keller (Reclam) [€ 2.99]
• Reise nach Kalino, by Radek Knapp (Piper) [€4.00]
• Verteidigung der Missionarsstellung, by Wolf Haas (Hoffmann und Campe) [€4.00]
• Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G***, by Chr.F. Gellert (Reclam) [€2.99]
• Cenodoxus, by Jakob Bidermann (Reclam) [€2.99]
• Cato, by J.Chr. Gottsched(Reclam) [€2.50]
• The Wizard and the Prophet, by Charles Mann (Vintage) [un]
• Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Things that Fall from the Sky, by Selja Ahava (Oneworld) [un+]
• The Lonesome Bodybuilder, by Motoya Yukiko (Soft Skull Press) [e-book; library]
• France in the World, ed. by Patrick Boucheron (Other Press) [un+]
• Curl, by T.O.Bobe (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Way of a Pilgrim, ed. by Andrew Louth (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• On Human Worth and Excellence, by Giannozzo Manetti (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Greek and Latin Poetry, by Angelo Poliziano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• I Have No Regrets, by Brigitte Reimann (Seagull Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Enigma of Reason, by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Fly, by Emma Westwood (auteur) [un+]
• The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook, by Michael Brooks (Scribe) [un+]
• All Happy Families, by Hervé Le Tellier (Other Press) [un+]
• Barcelona Tales, ed. by Helen Constantine (Oxford University Press) [ARC; un]
• Newton the Alchemist, by William R. Newman (Princeton University Press) [requested]
• The Poison Thread, by Laura Purcell (Penguin Books) [ARC; un]
• The Little Girl on the Ice Floe, by Adélaïde Bon (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Berta Isla, by Javier Marías (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; requested]
• Rock, Paper, Scissors, by Maxim Osipov (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Children of the Ghetto, by Elias Khoury (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Harbart, by Nabarun Bhattacharya (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Malina, by Ingeborg Bachmann (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• In Her Feminine Sign, by Dunya Mikhail (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Twentieth-Century Boy, by Duncan Hannah (Vintage) [un]
• Air Traffic, by Gregory Pardlo (Vintage) [un]

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February, 2019

Books received/acquired in February, 2019
    [57 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• Notebooks 1936-1947, by Victor Serge (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Dramatic Works, by Zygmunt Krasiński (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Little Zinnobers, by Elena Chizhova (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Sentence to Hope, by Sa'dallah Wannous (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge, by Kimura Yūsuke (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Berg, by Ann Quin (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• All the Land, by Jo Lendle (Seagull Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Deer and the Cauldron, by Louis Cha (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday) [library]
• Crackerjack, by Peter Church (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Bom Boy, by Yewande Omotoso (Catalyst Press) [un]
• Anxious Attachments, by Beth Alvarado (Autumn House Press) [un]
• Lisbon Tales, ed. by Helen Constantine (Oxford University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Swallows and Floating Horses, ed. by Ernst Bruinsma, Alpita de Jong and André Looijenga (Francis Boutle publishers) [un+]
• The November Boy, by Bernat Manciet (Francis Boutle publishers) [un+]
• Josafat, by Prudenci Bertrana (Francis Boutle publishers) [un+]
• Mac's Problem, by Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Now, Now, Louison, by Jean Frémon (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Laws of the Skies, by Grégoire Courtois (Coach House Books) [ARC; un+]
• Beyond Babylon, by Igiaba Scego (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• On a Truck Alone, to McMahon, by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• Modernism and the Law, by Robert Spoo (Bloomsbury) [solicited]
• In the Shadow of Wolves, by Alvydas Šlepikas (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Murmur, by Will Eaves (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
• From the Shadows, by Juan José Millás (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
• Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Joyous Science, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• We and Me, by Saskia de Coster (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• The Dutch Maiden, by Marente de Moor (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• Craving, by Esther Gerritsen (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• Thirty Days, by Annelies Verbeke (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• Ventoux, by Bert Wagendorp (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• Sleepless Summer, by Bram Dehouck (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
• The Art of Bible Translation, by Robert Alter (Princeton University Press) [requested]
• Message from the Shadows, by Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Dead Men's Trousers, by Irvine Welsh (Melville House Books) [un]
• Aesthetic Life, by Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Your Body Is War, by Mahtem Shiferraw (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
• 99 Variations on a Proof, by Philip Ording (Princeton University Press) [requested]
• Sympathy for the Traitor, by Mark Polizzotti (The MIT Press) [solicited]
• Translating Happiness, by Tim Lomas (The MIT Press) [solicited]
• Exposed, by Jean-Philippe Blondel (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, by Joel Golby (Anchor Books) [un]
• Whiskey Tales, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Translator's Bride, by João Reis (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Snapshots, by Claudio Magris (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Palm Beach, Finland, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda Books) [requested]
• Trap, by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Orenda Books) [un+]
• Same Same, by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage) [requested]
• Waves, by Eduard von Keyserling (Dedalus) [un+]
• The Continuation of Simplicissimus, by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (Dedalus) [un+]
• The History of Akbar (V), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• A Treatise on Dharma, by Yajnavalkya (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• Remembrances, by Mir Taqi Mir (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• Selected Ghazals and Other Poems, by Mir Taqi Mir (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• Naked Thoughts, by Róbert Gál (Black Sun Lit) [e-book; solicited]
• In Your Face, by Scarlett Thomas (Justin, Charles & Co.) [$3.18]

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January, 2019

Books received/acquired in January, 2019
    [63 books / 25 reviewed to date]

• Conscious Experience, by Anil Gupta (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Handsome Monk, by Tsering Döndrub (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• The Javelin Thrower, by Paolo Volponi (Seagull Books) [un+]
• One Another, by Monique Schwitter (Persea Books) [un+]
• Seaside, by Scarlett Thomas (Justin, Charles & Co.) [$3.18]
• Bright Young Things, by Scarlett Thomas (Hodder & Stoughton) [$3.58]
• Early Novels & Stories, by Willa Cather (Library of America) [$3.18]
• A Love Story, by Émile Zola (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• His Excellency Eugène Rougon, by Émile Zola (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• The Dream, by Émile Zola (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• The Bright Side of Life, by Émile Zola (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• In the Alley of the Friend, by Shahrokh Meskoob (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• Vintage 1954, by Antoine Laurain (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
• Max Havelaar, by Multatuli (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Moving Spotlight, by Ross P. Cameron (Oxford University Press) [requested]
• Sleepless Night, by Margriet de Moor (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• To Leave with the Reindeer, by Olivia Rosenthal (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
• Oh, Tama !, by Mieko Kanai (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC;un+]
• Anarchy's Brief Summer, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Seagull) [un+]
• Maigret and the Old People, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Aviaries, by Zuzana Brabcová (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
• Origin of the German Trauerspiel, by Walter Benjamin (Harvard University Press) [un+]
• Uncertain Manifesto, by Frédéric Pajak (New York Review Books) [un+]
• In the City a Mirror Wandering, by Upendranath Ashk (Penguin India) [solicited]
• The Shahnameh, by Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University Press) [requested]
• The Wall, by Max Annas (Catalyst Press) [ARC; un+]
• Agnomia, by Róbert Gál (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• The Boarding House, by Piotr Paziński (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Sweets and Toxins, by Christopher Woodall (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Black Souls, by Gioacchino Criaco (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst (Vintage) [un+]
• The Underground Village, by Kang Kyeong-ae (Honford Star) [un+]
• Letter to Survivors, by Gébé (New York Review Comics) [un+]
• The Club, by Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press) [ARC; un]
• The Spirit of Science Fiction, by Roberto Bolaño (Penguin Press) [requested]
• Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri (Tilted Axis) [e-book; requested]
• The Hard Problem, by Tom Stoppard (Grove) [e-book; library]
• The Man Who Couldn't Die, by Olga Slavnikova (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• The Day the Sun Died, by Yan Lianke (Grove Press) [requested]
• One Part Woman, by Perumal Murugan (Black Cat) [requested]
• The White Book, by Han Kang (Hogarth) [ARC; requested]
• Life of David Hockney, by Catherine Cusset (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
• Article 353, by Tanguy Viel (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
• Women, by Mihail Sebastian (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
• Diary of a Murderer, by Kim Young-ha (Mariner) [ARC; requested]
• The Mongolian Travel Guide, by Svetislav Basara (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• A Head Full of Joy, by Ognjen Spahić (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Arid Dreams, by Duanwad Pimwana (Feminist Press) [ARC; un+]
• Bright, by Duanwad Pimwana (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Waiter, by Matias Faldbakken (Gallery/Scout Press) [e-book; library]
• Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, by Andrew S. Curran (Other Press) [un+]
• And Then There Was No One, by Gilbert Adair (Faber & Faber) [$2.79]
• Le Maréchal absolu, by Pierre Jourde (Gallimard) [$2.79]
• Anthem of the Decades, by Mazisi Kunene (Heinemann) [$2.79]
• Bad Voltage, by Jonathan Littell (New Ameican Library) [$2.79]
• Novels, 1930-1942, by Dawn Powell (Library of America) [$4.54]
• The Moro Affair, by Leonardo Sciascia (New York Review Books) [$2.79]
• All Visitors Ashore, by C.K.Stead (William Collins (NZ)) [$2.44]
• The Man Who Loved Children, by Christina Stead (Picador) [$2.79]
• Is There Anybody to Love You ?, by Kalin Terziyski (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• City of Refuge, by Kitakata Kenzo (Vertical) [$2.80]

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