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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2015 =
at
the complete review
This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2015, 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, 2015
[46 books / 19 reviewed to date]
- Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner (Scribner) [library]
- The Decision, by Britta Böhler (Haus) [un+]
- The Miner, by Natsume Sōseki (Aardvark Bureau) [un+]
- The Murder of Halland, by Pia Juul (Coach House Books) [library]
- On Hinduism, by Wendy Doniger (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
- Frog, by Mo Yan (Penguin Books) [un+]
- The Society of Genes, by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Cellars of the Majestic, by Georges Simenon (Penuin Classics) [un+]
- Excavating Kafka, by James Hawes (Quercus) [gift]
- The Honeymoon, by Dinitia Smith (Other Press) [un]
- Beyond Greek, by Denis Feeney (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- My Marriage, by Jakob Wassermann (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Mount Pleasant, by Patrice Nganang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- Dr. Mabuse der Spieler, by Norbert Jacques (DTV) [$4.00]
- All Involved, by Ryan Gattis (Ecco) [un]
- Back to Moscow, by Guillermo Erades (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Show, by Filip Syta (Inkshares) [solicited]
- A Natural History of Human Morality, by Michael Tomasello (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Mr Zed’s Reflections, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Philosophy of Living, by François Jullien (Seagull Books) [un+]
- This Strange Idea of the Beautiful, by François Jullien (Seagull Books) [un+]
- The Family Interrupted, by Eloy Urroz (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Arcadia, by Iain Pears (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; solicited]
- The Scenarists of Europe, by Michael S. Judge (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Empty Streets, by Michal Ajvaz (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- A Contrived World, by Jung Young-Moon (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Encounter, by Gabriela Adameșteanu (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Sweepstakes of Love, by Toomas Vint (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Losing is What Matters, by Manuel Pérez Subirana (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Divergent Paths, by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Impossible Stories (incl. Time Gifts), by Zoran Živković (Zavod) [solicited]
- The Vegetarian, by Han Kang (Hogarth) [e-book; requested]
- Später Ruhm, by Arthur Schnitzler (Zsolnay) [gift]
- Warum es die Welt nicht gibt, by Markus Gabriel (Ullstein) [gift]
- Liebe am Papierrand, by Ogawa Yoko (Aufbau) [gift]
- Emoticon, by Jessica Durlacher (Diogenes) [gift]
- In the Congo, by Urs Widmer (Seagull) [un+]
- Cécile is Dead, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
- Novels, by Zoran Živković (Zavod) [solicited]
- Confessions, by Rabee Jaber (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Root of All Evil, by Roberto Costantini (Quercus) [un]
- Bardo or not Bardo, by Antoine Volodine (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Truth and Other Lies, by Sascha Arango (Atria) [library]
- The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli (Coffe House Press) [library]
- Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz, by Maxim Biller (Pushkin Press) [library]
- The New Sorrows of Young W., by Ulrich Plenzdorf (Pushkin Press) [library]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2015
[55 books / 19 reviewed to date]
- The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber (Hogarth) [library]
- The Case of the Missing Moonstone, by Jordan Stratford (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- Slow Boat to China, by Ng Kim Chew (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure, by Furukawa Hideo (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Stello, by Alfred de Vigny (Noumena Press) [solicited]
- Party Headquarters, by Georgi Tenev (Open Letter) [un+]
- Renunciation, by Ross Posnock (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya (Northwestern University Press) [$1.00]
- What Happened to Sophie Wilder, by Christopher Beha (Tin House) [$1.00]
- The Rack, by A.E.Ellis (Penguin ) [$2.95]
- Delacorta 1, by Delacorta (Éditions du Masque) [$12.95]
- Why Torture Doesn’t Work, by Shane O’Mara (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Invention of God, by Thomas Römer (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Fighters in the Shadows, by Robert Gildea (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- With the people from the bridge, by Dimitris Lyacos (Shoestring Press (UK)) [solicited]
- Battling the Gods, by Tim Whitmarsh (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- Betty Boo, by Claudia Piñeiro (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Lost Garden, by Li Ang (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- Dom Casmurro, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Oxford University Press) [$1.00]
- Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Dover Thrift Editions) [$1.00]
- Sita's Sister, by Kavita Kané (Rupa) [$1.00]
- The Mind-Body Problem, by Rebecca Goldstein (Penguin Books) [$1.00]
- The Pirate, by Jón Gnarr (Deep Vellum) [un]
- The Blue Guitar, by John Banville (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- Fifteen Dogs, by André Alexis (Coach House Books) [library]
- The One-in-a-Million Boy, by Monica Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [ARC; un]
- An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza (MacLehose Press) [requested]
- The Illegal, by Lawrence Hill (W.W.Norton) [ARC; un]
- The Mysteries of Paris, by Eugène Sue (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, by Abu Bakr al-Suli (NYU Press) [un+]
- The Cowboy Bible, by Carlos Velázquez (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Tokyo Decadence, by Murakami Ryu (Kurodahan Press) [ARC; requested]
- Feast of the Innocents, by velio Rosero (MacLehose Press) [un+]
- Of Things, by Michael Donhauser (Burning Deck) [un+]
- Reading The Tale of Genji, ed. by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Waiting for the Past, by Les Murray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, by Natalia Toledo (Phoneme Media) [solicited]
- The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies, by Martin Millar (Soft Skull) [library]
- Blue White Red, by Alain Mabanckou (Indiana University Press) [library]
- The Fifth Dimension, by Martin Vopěnka (Barbican Press) [e-book; requested]
- Numero Zero, by Umberto Eco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [library]
- Smart Citizens, Smarter State, by Beth Simone Noveck (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, by Shin Kyung-Sook (Pegasus) [library]
- So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood, by Patrick Modiano (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [library]
- I Ching, translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics) [un]
- Seeing Red, by Lina Meruane (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Guapa, by Saleem Haddad (Other Press) [ARC; un]
- At the Existentiailst Café, by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press) [ARC; un]
- Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, by Lina Wolf (And Other Stories) [un+]
- The Mark and the Void, by Paul Murray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [library]
- Death by Water, by Oe Kenzaburo (Grove Press) [library]
- The Trolley Problem Mysteries, by F.M. Kamm (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- Life, Only Better, by Anna Gavalda (Europa Editions) [un+]
- Murder Most Serene, by Gabrielle Wittkop (Wakefield Press) [requested]
- Exemplary Departures, by Gabrielle Wittkop (Wakefield Press) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2015
[49 books / 17 reviewed to date]
- Dark Corners, by Ruth Rendell (Simon & Schuster) [library]
- Maigret, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
- The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, by C.D.Rose (Melville House) [un]
- The Secret of Our Success, by Joseph Henrich (Princeton University Press) [un]
- The Dwarf, by Pär Lagerkvist (Hill & Wang) [$0.99]
- Murder at Mount Fuji, by Natsuki Shizuko (Ballantine) [$0.99]
- An Air that Kills, by Margaret Millar (International Polygonics) [$0.99]
- Der kleine lila Nebel, by Rainer Kirsch (Edition Holz) [$1.99]
- Theory at Yale, by Marc Redfield (Fordham University Press) [catalogue]
- Fardwor, Russia !, by Oleg Kashin (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Emblems of the Passing World, by Adam Kirsch (Other Press) [un]
- The Tears of Re, by Gene Kritsky (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Last Days of Mankind, by Karl Kraus (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Amarcord, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [solicited]
- Compartments, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [solicited]
- Four Stories Till the End, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [solicited]
- The Library, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [solicited]
- Miss Tamara, the Reader, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [solicited]
- Paris at War, by David Drake (Harvard University Press) [un]
- The Desert , by Albert Memmi (Syracuse University Press) [un+]
- Translator's Blues, by Franco Nasi (The Cahiers Series) [un+]
- The Swan Whisperer, by Marlene van Niekerk (The Cahiers Series) [un+]
- The Last Book, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [e-book; solicited]
- The Grand Manuscript, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [e-book; solicited]
- The Compendium of the Dead, by Zoran Živković (Kurodahan) [e-book; solicited]
- Collected Fiction, by Leena Krohn (Cheeky Frawg) [ARC; solicited]
- Ginny Gall, by Charlie Smith (Harper) [AEC; un]
- Icarus, by Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press) [library]
- Those Who Write for Immortality, by H.J.Jackson (Yale University Press) [library]
- Anthropology of the Name, by Sylvain Lazarus (Seagull) [un+]
- Captivity, by Spiró György (Restless Books) [un+]
- This Earth You'll Come Back To, by Barbara Roether (McPherson) [un]
- Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969, by Frank Witzel (Matthes & Seitz) [solicited]
- The Child Poet, by Homero Aridjis (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- The Great Swindle, by Pierre Lemaitre (MacLehose Press) [library]
- What to Do, by Pablo Katchadjian (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Great Latin American Novel, by Carlos Fuentes (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Enigmas of Spring, by João Almino (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- A Room, by Youval Shimoni (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Eleven Prague Corpses, by Kirill Kobrin (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Work of the Dead, by Thomas W. Laqueur (Princeton University Press) [un]
- Born Translated, by Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Columbia University Press) [library]
- The Reflection, by Hugo Wilcken (Melville House) [library]
- The Folly, by Ivan Vladislavić (Archipelago) [requested]
- The Man Who Snapped His Fingers, by Fariba Hachtroudi (Europa editions) [ARC; un+]
- Not All Bastards Are from Vienna, by Andrea Molesini (Grove) [ARC; un+]
- Die Tutoren, by Bora Ćosić (Schöffling & Co.) [solicited]
- Mr. Hire's Engagement, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
- Lock No.1, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2015
[45 books / 18 reviewed to date]
- After the Circus, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Paris Nocturne, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Dodge Rose, by Jack Cox (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un]
- The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan (Viking) [ARC; solicited]
- I Saw Her That Night, by Drago Jančar (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Bulgarian Truck by Dumitru Tsepeneag (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- At the Writing Desk, by Werner Kofler (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Concerto for Sentence, by Emiliya Dvoryanova (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- She Who Was No More, by Boileau-Narcejac (Pushkin Press) [library]
- Persophilia, by Hamid Dabashi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition, by Lewis Carroll (Princeton University Press) [un]
- Katherine Carlyle, by Rupert Thomson (Other Press) [un]
- Death in Veracruz, by Héctor Aguilar Camín (Schaffner Press) [un+]
- The Walnut Mansion, by Miljenko Jergović (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Arvida, by Samuel Archibald (Biblioasis) [un+]
- Where Pigeons Don't Fly, by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing) [library]
- The Werewolf of Bamberg, by Oliver Pötzsch (Mariner) [ARC; un]
- Before Goodbye, by Mimi Cross (Skyscape) [ARC; un]
- The Pawnbroker, by Edward Lewis Wallant (Fig Tree Books) [un]
- Epitaph for a Working Man, by Erhard von Büren (Matador) [solicited]
- Multiple Personalities, by Tatyana Shcherbina (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Man Tiger, by Eka Kruniawan (Verso) [requested]
- Liberty Bar, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
- The Aesthetic Brain, by Anjan Chatterjee (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- Black Air, by Agustín Fernández Paz(Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- Winter Letters, by Agustín Fernández Paz(Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- Winter, by Christopher Nicholson (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
- The Heart, by Maylis de Kerangal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Roar of Morning, by Tip Marugg (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Divorce Turkish Style, by Esmahan Aykol (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Heart of the Original, by Steve Aylett (unbound) [solicited]
- The Blizzard, by Vladimir Sorokin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- Music by My Bedside, by Kürşat Başar (Everest) [$1.00]
- The Funeral Party, by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Schocken) [$1.00]
- Brother of the More Famous Jack, by Barbara Trapido (Penguin) [$1.00]
- Encounter, by Hahn Moo-Sook (University of California Press) [$1.00]
- Comrade Sahib, by Rohit Handa (Genesis) [$1.00]
- Only the Animals, by Ceridwen Dovey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
- The Core of the Sun, by Johanna Sinisalo (Black Cat) [ARC; un+]
- Southeaster, by Haroldo Conti (And Other Stories) [un+]
- Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts, by Ellen Wiles (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Sagan, Paris 1954, by Anne Berest (Gallic Books) [un+]
- How Winter Began, by Joy Castro (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
- The Graduate School Mess, by Leonard Cassuto (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Rise of the Right to Know, by Michael Schudson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2015
[39 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- Lay Down Your Weary Tune, by W.B.Belcher (Other Press) [ARC; un]
- How Economics Shapes Science, by Paula Stephan (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Home, by Leila S. Chudori (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Target in the Night, by Ricardo Piglia (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Lost Words, by Nicola Gardini (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
- Smaller and Smaller Circles, by F.H.Batacan (Soho) [library]
- Tonio, by Adri van der Heijden (Scribe) [requested]
- The Last Weynfeldt, by Martin Suter (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Innocence, by Heda Margolius Kovály (Soho) [library]
- The Incarnations, by Susan Barker (Touchstone) [library]
- The Occupation Trilogy [La Place de l'Étoile; The Night Watch; Ring Roads], by Patrick Modiano (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- The Perception of Meaning, by Hisham Bustani (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- When Are You Coming Home ?, by Bryn Chancellor (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
- Cathay, by Ezra Pound (New Directions) [ARC; un]
- Lingo, by Gaston Dorren (Atlantic Monthly Press) [ARC; un]
- The Dark Forest, by Liu Cixin (Tor) [library]
- Ways to Disappear, by Idra Novey (Little, Brown) [ARC; un]
- The Hanging Girl, by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Dutton) [ARC; solicited]
- Because She Never Asked, by Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Tropisms, by Nathalie Sarraute (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The 6:41 to Paris, by Jean-Philippe Blondel (New Vessel Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Eva, by Simon Liberati (Stock) [e-book; requested]
- The Cavemen Chronicle, by Mihkel Mutt (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Now and at the Hour of our Death, by Susana Moreira Marques (And Other Stories) [un+]
- Self and Soul, by Mark Edmundson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Secret of Chabad, by David Eliezrie (The Toby Press) [un]
- A Beam of Light, by Andrea Camilleri (Penguin) [un+]
- Loquela, by Carlos Labbé (Open Letter) [un+]
- Rechnitz, and The Merchants Contracts, by Elfriede Jelinek (Seagull Books) [un+]
- How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays, by Matéi Visniec (Seagull Books) [un+]
- And She Was, by Sarah Corbett (Liverpool University Press) [catalogue]
- Son of Man, by Yi Mun-yol (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- A Good Family, by Seo Hajin (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- God Has No Grandchildren, by Kim Gyeong-uk (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Private Lives of Plants, by Lee Seung-U (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Rina, by Kang Young-sook (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Spooky Action at a Distance, by George Musser (Scientific American/FSG) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Automobile Club of Egypt, by Alaa Al Aswany (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Striking Beauty, by Barry Allen (Columbia University Press) [un]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2015
[57 books / 22 reviewed to date]
- Boxes, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [un+]
- Gang of Lovers, by Massimo Carlotto (Europa Editions) [library]
- Oblivion, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [un+]
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips (Henry Holt) [ARC; solicited]
- Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazk (Oneworld) [ARC; solicited]
- The Scribe, by Matthew Guin (W.W.Norton) [un]
- World Without End, by Hugh Thomas (Random House) [un]
- The Journey, by Sergio Pitol (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- The Boys, by Toni Sala (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Patriarch, by Martin Walker (Alfred A. Knopf) [un]
- Wind/Pinball, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- On the Edge, by Rafael Chirbes (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Polaroid, by Suso de Toro (Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- One Million Cows, by Manuel Rivas (Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- Vicious, by Xurxo Borrazás (Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- Soundcheck, by Miguel-Anxo Murado (Small Stations Press) [solicited]
- Lillian’s Right to Vote, by Jonah Winter (Schwartz & Wade) [un]
- Death in the Shape of a Young Girl, by Patricia Melzer (NYU Press) [library]
- Galatea, by James M. Cain (Alfred A. Knopf) [$1.00]
- Les Guérillères, by Monique Wittig (Viking) [$1.00]
- The Widower, by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (Epigram Books) [e-book; requested]
- The 3rd Woman, by Jonathan Freedland (Harper) [un]
- Flood of Fire, by Amitav Ghosh (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
- Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor, by Luc Lang (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
- All You Need Is Kill, by Sakurazaka Hiroshi (Haikasoru) [library]
- Pretty Is, by Maggie Mitchell (Henry Holt) [solicited]
- 100 Days of Happiness, by Fausto Brizzi (Pamela Dorman Books) [un]
- The Night Stages, by Jane Urquhart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
- The Blind Angel, by Tovia Halberstam (The Toby Press) [un]
- We Five, by Mark Dunn (Dzanc) [ARC; solicited]
- Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds, by Peter Adamson (Oxford UP) [ARC; catalogue]
- Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) [library]
- Dexter is Dead, by Jeff Lindsay (Doubleday) [library]
- Requiem for a Soldier, by Oleg Pavlov (And Other Stories) [un+]
- How to Write a Novel, by Melanie Sumner (Vintage) [un]
- The Daughters, by Adrienne Celt (Liveright) [un]
- Pensativities, by Mia Couto (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Quarry, by Susan Howe (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Birth-mark, by Susan Howe (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Higher Ed, by Tessa McWatt (Scribe) [solicited]
- Viennese Romance, by David Vogel (Scribe) [requested]
- The Big Green Tent, by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Ambassador, by Yehuda Avner/Matt Rees (The Toby Press) [solicited]
- The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- Mr. Myombekere and his Wife Bugonoka, Their Son Ntulanalwo and Daughter Bulihwali, by Aniceti Kitereza (Mkuki na Nyota/African Books Collective) [requested]
- A Perfect Crime, by A Yi (Oneworld) [library]
- The Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius (Harvard University Press) [library]
- Lost Among the Baining, by Gail Pool (University of Missouri Press) [solicited]
- Henri Duchemin and His Shadows, by Emmanuel Bove (NYRB) [un+]
- The Madman of Bergerac, by Georges Simenon (Penguin) [un+]
- Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens, by Krasznahorkai László (Seagull Books) [ARC; un+]
- 'I', by Wolfgang Hilbig (Seagull Books) [un+]
- War, So Much War , by Mercè Rodoreda (Open Letter) [un+]
- Submission, by Michel Houellebecq (FSG) [ARC; requested]
- Gene Mapper, by Fujii Taiyo (Haikasoru) [requested]
- Red Girls, by Sakuraba Kazuki (Haikasoru) [requested]
- Empty Chairs: Selected Poems, by Liu Xia (Graywolf) [ARC; un]
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