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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2024 =
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the complete review
This Index lists the most recent books received and acquired at the complete review in 2024, by month and in reverse chronological order.Key:
* Note that very many publishers with a focus on fiction in translation regularly send all relevant titles, and so these are not explicitly 'requested' (though we would ask for them if we didn't get them automatically); these are marked "un+" |
Books received/acquired in December, 2024
[17 books/ 4 reviewed to date]
- Patriot, by Alexei Navalny (Alfred A. Knpf) [gift]
- The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature, (Dedalus) [un+]
- Ballerina, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Vanishing World, by Murata Sayaka (Grove Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Lion, by Sonya Walger (New York Review Books) [un]
- Old Kiln, by Jia Pingwa (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- My Sister's Red Shirt, by Tie Ning (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- The Proof of My Innocence, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Your Steps on the Stairs, by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Philosophy of Translation, by Damion Searls (Yale University Press) [requested]
- A Perfect Day to Be Alone, by Aoyama Nanae (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Bewitched Bourgeois, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Down and Out in Drohobych, by Ivan Franko (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Food Block, by Alexei Ivanov (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon (Henry Holt and Co.) [library]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2024
[26 books/ 4 reviewed to date]
- Mixed Signals, by Rebecca Charbonneau (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- Matter, by Guido Tonelli (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Context Collapse, by Ryan Ruby (Seven Stories Press) [requested]
- End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, by Murakami Haruki (Everyman's Library) [requested]
- The Book Lovers, by Steve Aylett (Snowbooks) [solicited]
- Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Colony, by Annika Norlin (The Colony) [ARC; solicited]
- A Hundred Years and a Day, by Shibasaki Tomoka (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Study, by Andrew Hui (Princeton University Press) [un+]
- Mother River, by Can Xue (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Perspective(s), by Laurent Binet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Bone Into Stone, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Flight, by Michael Finke (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Naples 1925, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Village of Ben Suc, by Jonathan Schell (New York Review Books) [un]
- No One Will Know You Tomorrow, by Najwan Darwish (Yale University Press) [un]
- Heaven and Hell, by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- Seeing Further, by Esther Kinsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
- At the Louvre, ed. by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Set Change, by Yuri Andrukhovych (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Running Flame, by Fang Fang (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions, by Alain Aspect (University of Chicago Press) [requested]
- On Leaders and Tyrants, by Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino of Verona, and Pietro del Monte (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press) [library]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2024
[21 books/ 9 reviewed to date]
- The City and its Uncertain Walls, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Soft Burial, by Fang Fang (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Dinner Pieces (II), by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- Cold Enough For Snow, by Jessica Au (New Directions) [library]
- The Place of Shells, by Ishizawa Mai (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Old Soul, by Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam's Sons) [ARC; requested]
- Elephant Herd, by Zhang Guixing (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Dogs and Wolves, by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Mysticism, by Simon Critchley (New York Review Books) [un]
- Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [requested]
- Dinner Pieces (I), by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- With Their Hearts in Their Boots, by Jean-Pierre Martinet (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, by Tove Ditlevsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Adventures of Lady Egeria, by W. C. (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- The Failure, by Giovanni Papini (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Kruitzner, by Harriet Lee (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Runaway Horses, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Magpie at Night, by Li Qingzhao (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Picture Not Taken, by Benjamin Swett (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Third Realm, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press) [requested]
- Waiting for the Fear, by Oğuz Atay (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2024
[13 books/ 3 reviewed to date]
- En Route, by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) [un+]
- Of Beasts and Fowls, by Pilar Adón (Open Letter) [un+]
- Melvill, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
- Documentary Poetry, by Heimrad Bäcker (Winter Editions) [solicited]
- The Oceans of Cruelty, by Douglas J. Penick (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead) [requested]
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (Bantam) [$1.00]
- Catullus, ed. by C.J.Fordyce (Oxford University Press) [$3.00]
- Complete Poetry, by Oscar Wilde (Oxford World's Classics) [$3.00]
- The Poems of John Keats, ed. by Miriam Allott (Longman/Norton) [$3.00]
- The House of the Edrisis (I), by Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Tchanaze, by Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Rest is Silence, by Augusto Monterroso (New York Review Books) [ARC; requested]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2024
[27 books/ 12 reviewed to date]
- Star 111, by Lutz Seiler (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Sir Charles Grandison, by Samuel Richardson (Oxford World's Classics) [$16.00]
- Reconstruction of the Poet, by Zbigniew Herbert (Ecco) [requested]
- Vacated Landscape, by Jean Lahougue (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (John Murray) [$3.42]
- Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, by Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Claret, Sandwiches and Sin, by Madelaine Duke (Curtis Books) [$3.95]
- This Business Of Bomfog, by Madelaine Duke (Curtis Books) [$4.50]
- Perversity, by Francis Carco (Black Lizard Books) [$3.95]
- , by Kenneth Fearing (Ballantine Books) [$9.95]
- Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, by Frances Burney (Oxford World's Classics) [$10.95]
- Antigone. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles (Harvard University Press) [$13.02]
- Oresteia, by Aeschylus (Harvard University Press) [$20.16]
- Cultural Capital, by John Guillory (University of Chicago Press) [$7.31]
- Harlequin Butterfly, by EnJoe Toh (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Mysterious Setting, by Kazushige Abe (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird, by Kawakami Hiromi (Soft Skull) [solicited]
- Eclipse, by Keiichiro Hirano (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Night of Baba Yaga, by Otani Akira (Soho Press) [library]
- The Seventh Veil of Salome, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) [solicited]
- I Am Alien to Life, by Djuna Barnes (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Constant Reader, by Dorothy Parker (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- New York Sketches, by E.B.White (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Little Sparrow Murders, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- The Red House Mystery, by A.A. Milne (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- A Prague Flâneur, by Vítězslav Nezval (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks, by Agnieszka Taborska (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2024
[18 books/ 7 reviewed to date]
- Childish Literature, by Alejandro Zambra (Penguin Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- On the Calculation of Volume (I), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- On the Calculation of Volume (II), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return, by Martin Riker (Coffee House Press) [$3.00]
- Precipice, by Robert Harris (Harper) [ARC; requested]
- Fragments of a Paradise, by Jean Giono (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Lily in the Valley, by Honoré de Balzac (New York Review Books) [un+]
- New Invention and the Latest Innovations, by Gaston de Pawlowski (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Murmuration, by Carlos Labbé (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James (Penguin Classics) [$3.00]
- Last Nights of Paris, by Philippe Soupault (Full Court Press) [$3.00]
- Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- High Solitude, by Léon-Paul Fargue (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Dozakhama, by Rabisankar Bal (Vintage Books (India)) [$3.42]
- The Divide, by Alan Ayckbourn (Drugstore Indian Press) [$8.61]
- I, Vampire, by Jody Scott (Strange Particle Press) [$3.42]
- Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas (Oxford World's Classics) [$5.08]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2024
[9 books/ 3 reviewed to date]
- A Harvest Truce, by Serhiy Zhadan (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Lady of the Mine, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, by Mario Levrero (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Tidal Lock, by Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Co.) [ARC; un]
- Human Sadness, by Goderdzi Chokheli (Dedalus) [un+]
- A Muzzle for Witches, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- The Talnikov Family, by Avdotya Panaeva (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber (Coffee House Press) ARC; un+]
- Sound Museum, by poupeh missaghi (Coffee House Press) ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2024
[19 books/ 12 reviewed to date]
- Chris Marker: Early Film Writings, by Chris Marker (University of Minnesota Press ) [ARC; catalogue]
- Hard Copy, by Fien Veldman (Head of Zeus) [solicited]
- Worlds Built to Fall Apart, by David Lapoujade (University of Minnesota Press) [catalogue]
- Fragmentary Speeches, by Cicero (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Epitome of Pompeius Trogus (vols. 1 and 2), by Justin (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre, Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Cassandra, by Lesia Ukrainka (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Overstaying, by Ariane Koch (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- Chaos in Kinshasa, by Thierry Bellefroid and Barly Baruti (Catalyst Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Singularity, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Reminiscences of a Student's Life, by Jane Ellen Harrison (McNally Editions) [requested]
- Office Politics, by Wilfrid Sheed (McNally Editions) [ARC; requested]
- May Our Joy Endure, by Kevin Lambert (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- Comrade Papa, by GauZ' (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Noh Mask Murder, by Takagi Akimitsu (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- Black River, by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Propagandist, by Cécile Desprairies (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Lakshmi's Secret Diary, by Ari Gautier (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2024
[17 books/ 8 reviewed to date]
- Squeaky Clean, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- The Meiji Guillotine Murders, by Fūtarō Yamada (Pushkin Press) [un=]
- Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Gretel and the Great War, by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Answer to Lord Chandos, by Pascal Quignard (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Utopian Generation, by Pepetela (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Sleepwalkers, by Scarlett Thomas (Simon & Schuster) [requested]
- Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone, by Alison Langley (Dedalus) [un+]
- How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold, by Philipp Felsch (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- Hot Stage, by Anita Nair (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim, by Sophie von La Roche (Reclam) [$5.59]
- Confidence africaine, by Roger Martin du Gard (Gallimard) [$3.43]
- American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis (Vintage Contemporaries) [$4.91]
- Gabriel, by George Sand (MLA Texts and Translations) [$4.41]
- Mina's Matchbox, by Ogawa Yōko (Pantheon) [ARC; requested]
- Cut Guavas, by Robert Antoni (Peepal Tree Press) [$6.09]
- Archimedes and the Seagle, by David Ireland (Penguin Books) [$4.69]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2024
[22 books/ 6 reviewed to date]
- The Understory, by Saneh Sangsuk (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- The Villain's Dance, by Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- Divided Island, by Daniela Tarazona (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- Best Literary Translations 2024, ed. by Jane Hirshfield (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- A Revolver to Carry at Night, by Monika Zgustova (Other Press) [solicited]
- Frail Riffs, by Michel Leiris (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Burning Plain, by Juan Rulfo (University of Texas Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Letters of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Trouble in the Swaths, by Boris Vian (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Parasol Against the Axe, by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Books) [library]
- Quantum Drama, by Jim Baggott and John L. Heilbron (Oxford University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Did This Hand Kill ? , by Cezary Łazarewicz (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Culture of Lies, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [un+]
- Vladivostok Circus, by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter) [un+]
- What You are Looking For is in the Library, by Aoyama Michiko (Hanover Square Press) [library]
- Mevlido's Dreams, by Antoine Volodine (University of Minnesota Press) [un+]
- Until August, by Gabriel García Márquez (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- The Venus of Salò, by Ben Pastor (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Dialogues with Leucò, by Cesare Pavese (Sublunary Editions) [requested]
- Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, by Miguel de Unamuno (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Four Sermons, by Jeremy Taylor (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- A Looking Glasse for the Court, by Antonio de Guevara (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2024
[22 books/ 6 reviewed to date]
- Reinbou, by Pedro Cabiya (Astra House) [un+]
- Dionysos Speed, by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum) [ARC; un+]
- Naples Noir: La Strada degli Americani, by Giuseppe Miale di Mauro (Dedalus) [un+]
- Red Side Story, by Jasper Fforde (Soho Press) [requested]
- A Chance Meeting, by Rachel Cohen (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Children of the Dead, by Elfriede Jelinek (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- No One Dies Yet, by Kobby Ben Ben (Europa Editions) [un+]
- War, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Festival / Game of the Worlds, by César Aira (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- The Ridiculous Age, by Margherita Giacobino (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Celestial City, by Diego Marani (Dedalus) [un+]
- Vulturnus, by Léon-Paul Fargue (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Science of Love and Other Writings, by Charles Cros (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- For Now, It Is Night, by Hari Krishna Kaul (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- Cannibals, by Tanaka Shinya (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Maqroll's Prayer, by Álvaro Mutis (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Mortal Leap, by MacDonald Harris (Boiler House Press) [un+]
- Glad to the Brink of Fear, by James Marcus (Princeton University Press) [un]
- The Need for Roots, by Simone Weil (Penguin Classics) [requested]
- Red Pyramid, by Vladimir Sorokin (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Blue Lard, by Vladimir Sorokin (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden", by Kyokutei Bakin (Cornell University Press) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2024
[23 books/ 8 reviewed to date]
- One Hour of Fervor, by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions) [solicited]
- Goodnight Tokyo, by Yoshida Atsuhiro (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Club of True Creators, by Milan Tripković (Rossum Press) [requested]
- The Four Deaths and One Resurrection of Fyodor Mikhailovich, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- The Variations, by Patrick Langley (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Rainbow, by Kawabata Yasunari (Vintage Books) [library]
- Table for One, by Yun Ko-eun (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Patterns of the Heart, by Ch'oe Myongik (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Takaoka's Travels, by Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; un+]
- Among the Ruins, by Balla (Jantar Publishing) [un+]
- The Second Sword, and My Day in the Other Land, by Peter Handke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Why Surrealism Matters, by Mark Polizzotti (Yale University Press) [requested]
- The Bright Sword, by Lev Grossman (Viking) [ARC; solicited]
- The Qur'an (Liveright) [solicited]
- Termush, by Sven Holm (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [requested]
- Ædnan, by Linnea Axelsson (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Purity, by Andrzej Tichý (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- The Girl You Call, by Tanguy Viel (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- cake & prostheses, by Gerhard Rühm (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Transparent Body & Other Texts, by Max Blecher (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Philosophical Manuscripts, by David Lewis (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- Trondheim, by Cormac James (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Life After Kafka, by Magdaléna Platzová (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
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