Books Read 2024

  1. Clarice Lispector. The Passion According to G. H. tr. Ronald W. Sousa.
  2. King James Bible. Genesis. narrated by David Cochran Heath.
  3. King James Bible. Exodus. narrated by David Cochran Heath.
  4. +William Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis.
  5. Baruch Spinoza. Ethics. tr. George Eliot.
  6. *William Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgrim.
  7. William Shakespeare. The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
  8. Lavinia Greenlaw. The Vast Extent.
  9. Yiyun Li. Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life.
  10. *Samuel Beckett. Company.
  11. Jane Ellen Harrison. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life.
  12. Saul Bellow. Ravelstein.
  13. Mircea Cărtărescu. Solenoid. tr. Sean Cotter.
  14. Kenkō. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō. tr. Donald Keene.
  15. Jakuta Alikavazovic. Like A Sky Inside. tr. Daniel Levin Becker.
  16. Simon Leys. The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays.
  17. Georges Simenon. The Widow Couderc. tr. Siân Reynolds.
  18. William H. Gass. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry.
  19. Gershom Scholem. Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship.
  20. Georges Simenon. When I Was Old. tr. Helen Eustis.
  21. Ingeborg Bachmann. Malina. tr. Philip Boehm.
  22. Marguerite Yourcenar. Memories of Hadrian. tr. Grace Frick.
  23. Georges Simenon. Mr Hire’s Engagement. tr. Anna Moschovakis.
  24. John Burnside. On Henry Miller.
  25. John Burnside. Ruin, Blossom.
  26. W. S. Graham. New Selected Poems.
  27. William Matthews. Search Party.
  28. +Percy Bysshe Shelley. A Defence of Poetry.
  29. Terry Eagleton. How to Read a Poem.
  30. Samuel Beckett. Endgame.
  31. E. M. Cioran. Anathemas and Admirations. tr. Richard Howard.
  32. Samuel Richardson. Pamela.
  33. Jules Renard. Journal 1887–1910. tr. Theo Cuffe.
  34. John Ford. The Lover’s Melancholy.
  35. Gabriel Josipovici. Everything Passes.
  36. Gabriel Josipovici. Partita and A Winter in Zārau.
  37. António Lobo Antunes. By the Rivers of Babylon. tr. Margaret Jull Costa.
  38. *Yiyun Li. Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life.
  39. Yōko Tawada. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel. tr. Susan Bernofsky.
  40. Yōko Tawada. Portrait of a Tongue. tr. Chantal Wright.
  41. Giorgio Agamben. Self-Portrait in the Studio. tr. Kevin Attell.
  42. Cees Nooteboom. The Following Story. tr. Ina Rilke.
  43. Renee Gladman. To After That (TOAF).
  44. Harry Mulisch. The Discovery of Heaven. tr. Paul Vincent.
  45. Steve Aylett. Heart of the Original. [Kindle]
  46. *Enrique Vila-Matas. Because She Never Asked. tr. Valerie Miles.
  47. Alan Bennett. Killing Time.
  48. Colin Hamilton. The Discarded.
  49. Zbigniew Herbert. Selected Poems. various translators.