Books Read 2023

  1. William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night or What You Will.
  2. Ivan Turgenev. Fathers and Sons. tr. Richard Freeborn.
  3. Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield.
  4. Anita Brookner. Altered States.
  5. Dag Solstad. Armand V: Footnotes to an Unexcavated Novel. tr. Steven T. Murray.
  6. Rowan Williams. Collected Poems.
  7. Philippe Jaccottet. Seedtime. tr. Tess Lewis.
  8. Philippe Jaccottet. The Second Seedtime. tr. Tess Lewis.
  9. Philippe Jaccottet. Seedtime III. tr. Tess Lewis.
  10. Chris Gosden. Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction.
  11. Adam Zagajewski. A Defense of Ardor. tr. Clare Cavanagh.
  12. Adam Zagajewski. Slight Exaggeration. tr. Clare Cavanagh.
  13. Adam Zagajewski. Selected Poems. tr. Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C. K. Williams.
  14. *Pascal Quignard. The Roving Shadows. tr. Chris Turner.
  15. Pascal Quignard. The Fount of Time. tr. Chris Turner.
  16. William Styron. Darkness Visible.
  17. Friederike Mayröcker. brütt, or The Sighing Gardens. tr. Roslyn Theobald.
  18. Olav H. Hauge. The Dream We Carry. tr. Robert Bly and Robert Hedin.
  19. Jon Fosse. Trilogy. tr. May-Brit Akerholt.
  20. Léa Vuong. Pascal Quignard: Towards the Vanishing Point.
  21. Adam Zagajewski. True Life. tr. Clare Cavanagh.
  22. Josep M. Argemí. The Angel of Santa Sofia. tr. Tiago Miller.
  23. Kate Briggs. The Long Form.
  24. Marguerite Duras. No More. tr. Richard Howard.
  25. Alejandro Zambra. The Private Lives of Trees. tr. Megan McDowell.
  26. Giorgio Agamben. When the House Burns Down. tr. Kevin Attell.
  27. László F. Földényi. Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears. tr. Ottilie Muzet.
  28. *J. M. Coetzee. Life and Times of Michael K. narrated by Jack Klaff.
  29. Yves Bonnefoy. Together Still. tr. Hoyt Rogers.
  30. Carlos Manuel Álvarez. The Tribe. tr. Frank Wynne with Rahul Bery.
  31. Etel Adnan. Shifting the Silence.
  32. Pascal Quignard. Villa Amalia. tr. Chris Turner.
  33. Pascal Quignard. Mysterious Solidarities. tr. Chris Turner.
  34. *Pascal Quignard. The Silent Crossing. tr. Chris Turner.
  35. Pascal Quignard. Sarx. tr. Keith Waldrop.
  36. Miklós Szentkuthy. Towards the One and Only Metaphor. tr. Timothy Wilkinson.
  37. David Kishik. Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition.
  38. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Private Notebooks 1914–1916. tr. Marjorie Perloff.
  39. *Clarice Lispector. The Stream of Life. tr. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz.
  40. Clarice Lispector. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures. tr. Stefan Tobler.
  41. *Clarice Lispector. Near to the Wild Heart. tr. Giovanni Pontiero.
  42. Jason M. Baxter. The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis.
  43. C. S. Lewis. The Discarded Image.
  44. Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. tr. S. J. Tester.
  45. Iain Sinclair. The Gold Machine.
  46. Natassja Martin. In the Eye of the Wild. tr. Sophie Lewis.
  47. Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
  48. Sir John Mandeville. The Books of Marvels and Travels. tr. Anthony Bale.
  49. Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio. tr. Charles Singleton.
  50. William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
  51. Umberto Eco. Serendipities. tr. William Weaver.
  52. Christina Tudor-Sideri. Under the Sign of the Labyrinth.
  53. Paul Kingsnorth. Savage Gods.
  54. Walter Benjamin. The Storyteller Essays. tr. Tess Lewis.
  55. Ryszard Kapuściński. Travels with Herodotus. tr. Klara Glowczewska.
  56. Peter Mendelsund. What We See When We Read.
  57. Dominique Fortier. The Island of Books. tr. Rhonda Mullins.
  58. George Sims. The Rare Book Game.
  59. George Sims. More of the Rare Book Game.
  60. Cyril Connolly (Palinurus). The Unquiet Grave.
  61. Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel. A History of Lying. tr. Thomas Bunstead.
  62. George Sims. Last of The Rare Book Game.
  63. M. John Harrison. Wish I Was Here.
  64. Rosalind Belben. The Limit.
  65. Alain-Paul Mallard. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg. tr. Sarah Pollack.
  66. Anita Brookner. A Start in Life.
  67. Anita Brookner. Providence.
  68. *Anita Brookner. Look at Me.
  69. Anita Brookner. Hotel du Lac.
  70. Thomas De Quincey. The Last Days of Immanuel Kant.
  71. Gabriel Krauze. Who They Was. narrated by Gabriel Krauze.
  72. Daniel Hahn. Catching Fire.
  73. Giorgio Agamben. What I Saw, Heard, Learned… tr. Alta L. Price.
  74. +Samuel Beckett. That Time.
  75. *Samuel Beckett. Company.
  76. Tom Stoppard. The Dissolution of Dominic Boot.
  77. Tom Stoppard. If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank.
  78. Rosemarie Bodenheimer. Samuel Beckett: My Reading.
  79. Arthur W. Frank. King Lear: Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations.
  80. William Shakespeare. King Lear.
  81. Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound. tr. Christopher Collard.
  82. William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
  83. Christopher Hitchens. Hitch-22. narrated by Christopher Hitchens.
  84. Anita Brookner. Friends and Family.
  85. Steve Coogan. Easily Distracted. narrated by Steve Coogan.
  86. A. N. Wilson. Confessions. narrated by A. N. Wilson.
  87. Joseph Epstein. The Novel, Who Needs It?
  88. Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. tr. Kyrill Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes.