Books Read 2020

  1. Robert Alter. The Wisdom Books: Job.
  2. Hans Blumenberg. The Laughter of the Thracian Woman. tr. Spencer Hawkins.
  3. Hans Blumenberg. Care Crosses the River. tr. Paul Fleming.
  4. Elaine Pagels. The Gnostic Gospels.
  5. Gerald Murnane. Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs.
  6. Gerald Murnane. Tamarisk Row.
  7. Francesca Lisette. sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics.
  8. Josefina Vicens. The Empty Book. tr. David Lauer.
  9. Gerald Murnane. A Million Windows.
  10. Greg Gerke. See What I See.
  11. Lisa Robertson. The Baudelaire Fractal.
  12. Patrick Modiano. 28 Paradises. tr. Damion Searls.
  13. César Aira. On Contemporary Art. tr. Katherine Silver.
  14. Jean-Claude Lebensztejn. Pissing Figures 1280–2014. tr. Jeff Nagy.
  15. Vivian Gornick. Unfinished Business.
  16. Karl Ove Knausgaard. Spring. tr. Ingvild Burkey.
  17. Jeremy Cooper. Ash Before Oak.
  18. Rainer J. Hanshe. Shattering the Muses.
  19. Wilhelm Waiblinger. Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life, Poetry and Madness. tr. Will Stone.
  20. Plato. Alcibiades. tr. D. S. Hutchinson.
  21. Stephanie Burt. Don’t Read Poetry.
  22. Clive James. Poetry Notebook 2006–2014.
  23. Clive James. Cultural Amnesia.
  24. Clive James. Somewhere Becoming Rain.
  25. Clive James. Latest Readings.
  26. Andrew Motion. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life.
  27. *Ben Lerner. The Hatred of Poetry.
  28. Roger Scruton. Gentle Regrets: Thoughts From a Life.
  29. Moyra Davey. Index Cards.
  30. Kate Zambreno. Screen Tests.
  31. Brian Dillon. Essayism.
  32. Rachel Cusk. Coventry.
  33. Alberto Manguel. Packing My Library.
  34. Analog Sea Review 1 and 2.
  35. Georges Didi-Huberman. Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science.
  36. Gabriel Josipovici. Forgetting.
  37. Julia Kerninon. A Respectable Occupation. tr. Ruth Diver.
  38. Daisy Hildyard. The Second Body.
  39. Morgan Meis. The Drunken Silenus.
  40. Vigdis Hjorth. Will and Testament. tr. Charlotte Barslund.
  41. Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis. Dead People.
  42. Timothy Morton. Being Ecological.
  43. Andrew H. Miller. On Not Being Someone Else.
  44. Antonio Tabucchi. Requiem. tr. Margaret Jull Costa.
  45. Richard Seymour. The Twittering Machine.
  46. Robert Alter. Genesis. from The Hebrew Bible.
  47. Sue Prideaux. I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche.
  48. Peter Schwenger. At the Borders of Sleep.
  49. Moyra Davey. I Confess.
  50. Jenny Erpenbeck. Not a Novel. tr. Kurt Beals.
  51. Stuart Walton. Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno.
  52. Tao Lin. Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, Change.
  53. Thomas Bernhard. Walking. tr. Kenneth J. Northcott.
  54. Ernest Nagel and James M. Newman. Gödel’s Proof.
  55. *Ricardo Piglia. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years. tr. Robert Croll.
  56. Ricardo Piglia. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years. tr. Robert Croll.
  57. Ricardo Piglia. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life. tr. Robert Croll.
  58. Celia Paul. Self-Portrait.
  59. Natalie Diaz. Postcolonial Love Poem.
  60. Anne Carson. The Beauty of the Husband.
  61. Han Kang. The White Book. tr. Deborah Smith.
  62. Anthony Rudolf. The Arithmetic of Memory.
  63. Samuel Beckett. Krapp’s Last Tape.

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