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This Index lists the most recent books received and acquired at the complete review, by month and in reverse chronological order.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 November, 2025
[4 books / 0 reviewed to date]
- Sidetracked, by Alexander Voloshin (Paul Dry Books) [ARC; solicited]
- Montevideo, by Enrique Vila-Matas (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Fire Within, by Touhfat Mouhtare (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Leucothea Dialogues, by Cesare Pavese (Archipelago Books) [solicited]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2025
[31 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- The Lord, by Soraya Antonius (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Businessmen as Lovers, by Rosemary Tonks (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Rapture of the Deep, by Robert Irwin (Dedalus) [un+]
- Tarantula, by Eduardo Halfon (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Depopulation, by Marina Closs (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815–1830, by François-Réne de Chateaubriand (New York Review Books) [ ]
- Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno (Seven Stories Press) [library]
- Goat Song, by Konstantin Vaginov (New York Review Books) [library]
- Eye of the Monkey, by Tóth Krisztina (Seven Stories Press) [ARC; requested]
- Effingers, by Gabriele Tergit (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Cavalier, by Nathalie Quintane (Winter Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Across the Acheron, by Monique Wittig (Winter Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Lesbian Body, by Monique Wittig (Winter Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Teacher / Teaching Christianity, by Augustine (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Reminiscences, by Thomas Carlyle (Oxford World's Classics) [$3.00]
- Greenmantle, by John Buchan (Oxford World's Classics) [$3.00]
- Three Plastic Rooms, by Petra Hůlová (Jantar) [$3.00]
- The Bickford Fuse, by Andrey Kurkov (Maclehose Press) [$3.00]
- The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso (New Directions) [$4.00]
- Martereau, by Nathalie Sarraute (George Braziller) [$3.00]
- Alien Gods, by Lee Suhyeon (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Come Down to a Lower Place, by Yi Seoyoung (Honford Star) [solicited]
- The Call of the Friend, by JaeHoon Choi (Honford Star) [solicited]
- A Parish Chronicle, by Halldór Laxness (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- My Dreadful Body, by Egana Djabbarova (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Euthydemus • Gorgias, by Plato (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Artificial Truth, by J.M.Lee (AmazonCrossing) [ARC; solicited]
- Scorched Earth, by Dara Kavanagh (Dedalus) [un]
- Pure Innocent Boy, by Patrick Doherty (Dedalus) [un]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2025
[20 books / 5 reviewed to date]
- Idiocy, by Pierre Guyotat (New York Review Books) [un+]
- How to End a Story, by Helen Garner (Pantheon) [library]
- Makeshift, by Sarah Campion (Boiler House Press) [ARC; un+]
- Gabriel's Moon, by William Boyd (Atlantic Monthly Press) [library]
- Jack the Modernist, by Robert Glück (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Driver, by Mattia Filice (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Invisible Helix, by Higashino Keigo (Minotaur Books) [library]
- Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- The Burning Origin, by Daniele Mencarelli (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Orbital, by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press) [$3.00]
- Take Six: Six Estonian Women Writers, ed. by Elle-Mari Talivee (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Witness of Nina Mvungi, by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press) [solicited]
- Killing Stella, by Marlen Haushofer (New Directions) [library]
- Ginster, by Siegfried Kracauer (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Normal People, by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber) [$3.00]
- Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber) [$3.00]
- The Woman Dies, by Matsuda Aoko (Europa Editions) [solicited]
- Art on Fire, by Yun Ko-eun (Scribe) [solicited]
- Landscape with Landscape, by Gerald Murnane (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- The Roof Beneath Their Feet, by Geetanjali Shree (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2025
[15 books / 12 reviewed to date]
- Gallic War, by Caesar (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Mistress Koharu, by Tsujihara Noboru (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Totto-chan: the Sequel, by Kuroyanagi Tetsuko (Kodansha) [ARC; solicited]
- Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult) [library]
- Into the Weeds, by Lydia Davis (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- Swallows, by Kirino Natsuo (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; requested]
- Chinese Songs in a French Key, by Pauline Yu (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Worlds Apart, by Benjamin Paloff (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Good & Safe, by Liesl Ujvary (World Poetry Books) [ARC; solicited]
- The Sweet Dove Died, by Barbara Pym (New York Review Books) [un+]
- We Computers, by Hamid Ismailov (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix (Berkley) [library]
- Patchwork, by Tom Comitta (Coffee House Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Name on the Wall, by Hervé Le Tellier (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Emotions, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2025
[23 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- Sympathy Tower Tokyo, by Qudan Rie (Summit Books) [ARC; requested]
- Listen, by Sacha Bronwasser (Penguin Books) [ARC; solicited]
- Butter, by Yuzuki Asako (Ecco) [library]
- Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Forbidden Experiment, by Roger Shattuck (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Inner Harbour, by Antoine Volodine (University of Minnesota Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Unspeakable Skipton, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Thereafter Johnnie, by Carolivia Herron (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady, by Dinah Brooke (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Stainless, by Todd Grimson (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Alpha and Omega, by Jane Ellen Harrison (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Bomarzo, by Manuel Mujica Lainez (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Snow Was Dirty, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [$3.00]
- The Hungry Angel, by Roger Vadim (Atheneum) [$5.00]
- Coleridge's Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (A.L.Burt Company) [$5.00]
- Death and the Gardener, by Georgi Gospodinov (Liveright) [ARC; solicited]
- The Laboratory, by Rabindranath Tagore (Chowringhee Press) [solicited]
- Fish Letters, by Goderdzi Chokheli (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Highest Exam, by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, and Claire Cousineau (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Chilco, by Daniela Catrileo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Dealing with the Dead, by Alain Mabanckou (The New Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Decolonizing Language, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (The New Press) [un+]
- Time of Silence, by Luis Martín-Santos (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2025
[13 books / 6 reviewed to date]
- The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington (New York Review Books) [un+]
- On the Calculation of Volume (III), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; solicited]
- Blowfish, by Jo Kyung-Ran (Astra House) [catalogue]
- The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant, by Liza Tully (Berkley) [solicited]
- Works of Love, by Søren Kierkegaard (Liveright) [solicited]
- Speaking in Tongues, by J.M.Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos (Liveright) [requested]
- Stories, Tales, and Fables, by the Marquis de Sade (Contra Mundum) [solicited]
- The Accidental Garden, by Richard Mabey (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Iron Heel, by Jack London (Penguin Classics) [$5.75]
- Quantum Theory, by David Bohm (Dover) [$4.96]
- The Catherine Wheel, by Elizabeth Harrower (Text) [$4.30]
- Wilde West, by Walter Satterthwait (St.Martin's Press) [$4.28]
- Hidden Heroes (First Hill Books) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2025
[24 books/ 10 reviewed to date]
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes, by Honoré de Balzac (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Humanimality, by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum) [un+]
- The Endless Week, by Laura Vazquez (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- Serge, by Yasmina Reza (Restless Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Brittle Age, by Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
- New Story of the Stone, by Wu Jianren (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- The Questions of Milinda (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- 900 Conclusions, by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Art of Making Verses, by Gervase of Melkley (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Labyrinth of Fortune, by Juan de Mena (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The City, by Valerian Pidmohylnyi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Orations, by Cicero (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Velleius Paterculus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court, by Theodore II Laskaris (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Oldest Constitutional Question, by Richard Primus (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- Winds of the Night, by Joan Sales (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (Penguin Classics) [$1.37]
- Marshland, by Kaga Otohiko (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- Ambivalent Souls, by Robert E. Tanner (Poets & Traitors Press) [solicited]
- Twilight of Crooks, by Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban (Bakwa Books) [$1.37]
- The Book, by Stéphane Mallarmé (Exact Change) [$2.24]
- Tahl, by Jeremy Ingalls (University of Arizona Poetry Center) [$1.64]
- Nadja, by André Breton (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2025
[27 books/ 12 reviewed to date]
- Miaow, by Benito Pérez Galdós (New York Review Books) [un+]
- As If by Magic, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Centroeuropa, by Vicente Luis Mora (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Oromay, by Baalu Girma (Soho Press) [library]
- A Fictional Inquiry, by Daniele Del Giudice (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Ways of Paradise, by Peter Cornell (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [catalogue]
- The Old Man by the Sea, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Vulture, by Phoebe Greenwood (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Book of I, by David Greig (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Living and the Rest, by José Eduardo Agualusa (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- One, None, and a Hundred Grand, by Luigi Pirandello (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Enuma Elish, ed. by Johannes Haubold et al. (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- Rosa Mistika, by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Flower, by Ed Atkins (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [catalogue]
- The Innocent Libertine, by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Soldier's Hat, by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (Dedalus) [un+]
- Khosrow and Shirin, by Nezami Ganjavi (Penguin Classics) [catalogue]
- Ellmann's Joyce, by Zachary Leader (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Radio Treason, by Rebecca West (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Pilgrimage, by John Broderick (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Dazzling Paget Sisters, by Ariane Bankes (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Sakina's Kiss, by Vivek Shanbhag (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, by Charles Neider (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Vanishing Point, by Paul Theroux (Mariner Books) [library]
- Stories of the True, by Jeyamohan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2025
[20 books/ 6 reviewed to date]
- Exophony, by Tawada Yoko (New Directions) [ARC; solicited]
- Happy New Years, by Maya Arad (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Dreaming of Dead People, by Rosalind Belben (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- let me tell you / let me go on, by Paul Griffiths (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Semishigure, by Fujisawa Shuhei (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory, by Iddo Gefen (Astra House) [solicited]
- People's Choice Literature, by Tom Comitta (Columbia University Press) [ARC; requested]
- The Red Wind Howls, by Tsering Döndrup (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- On Writers and Writing, by Henry James (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Henry James Comes Home, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt (Library of America) [requested]
- Red Sword, by Bora Chung (Honford Star) [ARC; requested]
- Border Lines, by Ros Franey (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen, by Shokoofeh Azar (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Arsonist, by Egon Hostovský (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Ceilings, by Zuzana Brabcová (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Maria La Divina, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
- Portraits of a Mother, by Endō Shūsaku (Yale University Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2025
[23 books/ 8 reviewed to date]
- Epic Events, by Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- Attila, by Aliocha Coll (Open Letter) [un+]
- Attila, by Javier Serena (Open Letter) [un+]
- VZ, by Dmitry Bykov (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Six Irish Women Writers, ed. by Tanya Farrelly (Dedalus) [un+]
- Perfection, by Vincenzo Latronico (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Amateur, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Once and Future Spy, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- City of Fiction, by Yu Hua (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Holy Innocents, by Miguel Delibes (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Peach Blossom Fan, by Kong Shangren (Oxford University Press) [requested]
- Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Diabelli, by Hermann Burger (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards, by Emil Szittya (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- 2025 Translator Triptych (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Malaparte, by Maurizio Serra (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Summer House, by Matsuie Masashi (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Trunk, by Kim Ryeo-ryeong (Hanover Square Press) [library]
- Herscht 07769, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [library]
- First Love, by Shimamoto Rio (Honford Star) [solicited]
- The Proposal, by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star) [solicited]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2025
[5 books/ 4 reviewed to date]
- From Ted to Tom, by Edward Gorey (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Strange Pictures, by Uketsu (HarperVia) [requested]
- Only Smoke, by Juan José Millás (Bellevue Literary Press) ARC; un+]
- Saara, by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Dedalus) [un+]
- Taiwan Travelogue, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (Graywolf Press) [library]
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Books received/acquired in December, 2024
[17 books/ 7 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/ 8 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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