Books Read 2025

  1. Gustave Flaubert. Salammbô. tr. A. J. Krailsheimer.
  2. Paul Theroux. Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents.
  3. Amélie Nothomb. First Blood. tr. Alison Anderson.
  4. M. John Harrison. Wish I Was Here.
  5. Claire Keegan. So Late in the Day.
  6. Jocelyn Brooke. The Military Orchid.
  7. Lara Pawson. Spent Light.
  8. *Anne Atik. How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett.
  9. Sofia Samatar. Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life.
  10. Samuel Beckett. The End.
  11. Iain Sinclair. Agents of Oblivion.
  12. Iain Sinclair. My Favourite London Devils.
  13. Alasdair Gray. Lanark.
  14. Lavinia Greenlaw. Some Answers Without Questions.
  15. John Burnside. A Lie About My Father.
  16. Emmanuel Carrère. The Kingdom. tr. John Lambert.
  17. Vladimir Sorokin. Day of the Oprichnik. tr. Jamey Gambrell.
  18. J. M. Coetzee / Mariana Dimópulis. Speaking in Tongues.
  19. Hélène Bessette. Lili is Crying. tr. Kate Briggs.
  20. Anne Boyer. Garments Against Women.
  21. Will Eaves. Broken Consort.
  22. Madhu H. Kaza. Lines of Flight.
  23. Etel Adnan. Night.
  24. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Dictee.
  25. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Exilée and Temps Morts.
  26. Tezer Özlü. Cold Nights of Childhood. tr. Maureen Freely.
  27. Bhanu Kapil. Ban en Banlieue.
  28. Natsume Sōseki. Kokoro. tr. Edwin McClellan.
  29. Danielle Collobert. It Then. tr. Norma Cole.
  30. Claude Royet-Journoud. The notion of obstacle. tr. Keith Waldrop.
  31. Anna Mendelssohn. Implacable Art.
  32. John Berger. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos.
  33. Unica Zürn. The House of Illnesses. tr. Malcolm Green.
  34. Pirkko Saisio. Lowest Common Denominator. tr. Mia Spangenberg.
  35. Pirkko Saisio. Backlight. tr. Mia Spangenberg.
  36. Pirkko Saisio. The Red Book. tr. Mia Spangenberg.
  37. Nathanaël. Hatred of Translation.
  38. Chus Pato. Hordes of Writing. tr. Erín Moure.
  39. Ingeborg Bachmann. War Diary. tr. Mike Mitchell.
  40. Michel Leiris. Manhood. tr. Richard Howard.
  41. Clare Carlisle. Transcendence for Beginners.
  42. Claude Royet-Journoud. The Whole of Poetry is Preposition. tr. Keith Waldrop.
  43. Claude Royet-Journoud. The Right Wall of the Heart Effaced. tr. Keith Waldrop.
  44. Marcelle Sauvageot. Commentary. tr. Christine Schwartz Hartley and Anna Moschovakis.
  45. Hélène Giannecchini. Alix Cléo Roubaud: a portrait in fragments. tr. Thea Petrou.
  46. Danielle Collobert. Notebooks 1956-1978. tr. Norma Cole.
  47. Philip Roth. Everyman.
  48. Edouard Levé. Autoportrait. tr. Lorin Stein
  49. Ian Penman. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
  50. Ian Penman. Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors.
  51. Ian Penman. It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track.
  52. Claire-Louise Bennett. Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.
  53. Charles Bukowski. Post Office.
  54. Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea.
  55. Danilo Kiš, Hourglass. tr. Ralph Manheim.
  56. Danilo Kiš, Homo Poeticus. tr. Multiple.
  57. Mark Thompson. Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš.
  58. Solvej Balle. On the Calculation of Volume: Book 1. tr. Barbara J. Haveland.
  59. Solvej Balle. On the Calculation of Volume: Book 2. tr. Barbara J. Haveland.
  60. Jean Rhys. Smile Please.
  61. Yoko Tawada. Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue. tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda.
  62. Albert Camus. A Happy Death. tr. Richard Howard.
  63. Roger Grenier. Palace of Books. tr. Alice Kaplan