READING LIST (J)
2024
January 3: The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 6: The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 10: The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 12: The Flemish House by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 21: The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 22: Ellis Island by Georges Perec (New Directions)
January 29: Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard (Vintage)
February 1: Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg (New Directions)
February 6: New Islands by María Luisa Bombal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
February 7: The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai (New Directions)
February 12: Betty by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
February 16: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (NYRB)
February 23: Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin (New Directions)
March 3: The Great Fall by Peter Handke (Seagull Books)
March 13: The Shape of a City by Julien Gracq (Turtle Point Press)
March 15: Crazy for Vincent by Hervé Guibert (Semiotext(e))
March 22: People in the Room by Norah Lange (And Other Stories)
March 26: In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country by Etel Adnan (City Lights)
April 3: A Daibo Coffee Manual by Katsuji Daibo (Nahoko Press)
2023
January 1: Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman (NYRB)
January 2: Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 3: A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
January 4: The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (NYRB)
January 6: The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-Moldován (NYRB)
January 8: A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo (NYRB)
January 12: Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
January 13: The Widow by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
January 14: Gold by Rumi (NYRB)
January 15: Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
January 16: Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
January 18: On Being Blue by William H. Gass (NYRB)
January 20: The Engagement by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
January 21: Red Lights by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
January 25: Political Action by Michael Walzer (NYRB)
January 27: The Mahé Circle by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
February 1: Picture by Lillian Ross (NYRB)
February 4: The Grand Banks Café by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
February 9: The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût (NYRB)
February 10: The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales by Ferit Edgü (NYRB)
February 15: Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin)
February 18: On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger (NYRB)
February 25: Niki by Tibor Déry (NYRB)
February 27: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin)
March 1: Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima (NYRB)
March 4: A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
March 9: One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions)
March 10: The Goshawk by T. H. White (NYRB)
March 15: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns (NYRB)
March 16: Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar (NYRB)
March 20: The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (NYRB)
March 21: The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Paul Schmidt (NYRB)
March 21: Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati (NYRB)
March 26: Loving by Henry Green (NYRB)
March 28: Act of Passion by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
March 30: The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin (NYRB)
April 4: Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clébert (NYRB)
April 6: The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin (NYRB)
April 10: Anti-Education by Friedrich Nietzsche (NYRB)
April 13: Portraits Without Frames by Lev Ozerov (NYRB)
April 19: The Outward Room by Millen Brand (NYRB)
April 22: An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman (NYRB)
April 23: A Private Affair by Beppe Fenoglio (NYRB)
April 27: René Leys by Victor Segalen (NYRB)
April 30: The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
May 4: More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi (NYRB)
May 6: We Think the World of You by J. R. Ackerley (NYRB)
May 10: Tyrant Banderas by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (NYRB)
May 17: The Liar by Martin A. Hansen (NYRB)
May 21: Living Pictures by Polina Barskova (NYRB)
May 24: A Very Old Man by Italo Svevo (NYRB)
May 28: Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick (NYRB)
May 29: The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati (NYRB)
June 3: A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati (NYRB)
June 5: The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin (NYRB)
June 19: Houses by Borislav Pekić (NYRB)
June 20: The Adventures of Sindbad by Gyula Krúdy (NYRB)
June 22: Charisma and Disenchantment by Max Weber (NYRB)
June 22: Dragons by Devin Johnston (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
June 28: Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott (NYRB)
June 30: Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares (NYRB)
July 3: The Hearing Trumpet by Leanora Carrington (NYRB)
July 9: Chaos and Night by Henry de Motherlant (NYRB)
July 13: Machines in the Head by Anna Kavan (NYRB)
July 13: The Child and the River by Henri Bosco (NYRB)
July 16: The Prank by Anton Chekov (NYRB)
July 18: Existential Monday by Benjamin Fondane (NYRB)
July 22: Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa (NYRB)
July 25: Victorine by Maude Hutchins (NYRB)
July 28: School for Love by Olivia Manning (NYRB)
August 8: Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (NYRB)
August 11: Ariane, a Russian Girl by Claude Anet (NYRB)
August 17: Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (NYRB)
August 20: Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (NYRB)
August 29: The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov (NYRB)
August 31: Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi (NYRB)
September 5: In Parenthesis by David Jones (NYRB)
September 12: Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill (NYRB)
September 14: The Limit by Rosalind Belben (NYRB)
September 15: Berlin Stories by Robert Walser (NYRB)
September 19: Clark Gifford’s Body by Kenneth Fearing (NYRB)
September 22: Seven Men by Max Beerbohm (NYRB)
September 24: Peter the Great’s African by Alexander Pushkin (NYRB)
September 27: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (NYRB)
September 29: Our Philosopher by Gert Hoffman (NYRB)
October 3: My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley (NYRB)
October 8: Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck (NYRB)
October 11: Conversations with Beethoven by Sanford Friedman (NYRB)
October 12: My Death by Lisa Tuttle (NYRB)
October 15: The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith (NYRB)
October 16: Plainwater by Anne Carson (Vintage)
October 18: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi (NYRB)
October 21: The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello (NYRB)
October 23: Nest by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (Kelsey Street Press)
October 25: Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev (NYRB)
October 28: Don’t Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill (NYRB)
October 30: Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu (Letter Machine Editions)
November 1: My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier (NYRB)
November 5: The Word of the Speechless by Julio Ramón Ribeyro (NYRB)
November 10: The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (NYRB)
November 11: Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
November 12: or, on being the other woman by Simone White (Duke University Press)
November 18: Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini (NYRB)
November 20: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore (NYRB)
November 25: The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (NYRB)
November 28: The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick (NYRB)
December 2: The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi (NYRB)
December 5: The Bible and Poetry by Michael Edwards (NYRB)
December 6: The Fire Within by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (NYRB)
December 11: Boys Alive by Pier Paolo Pasolini (NYRB)
December 18: Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge (NYRB)
December 23: The Green Man by Kingsley Amis (NYRB)
December 28: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (NYRB)
December 30: Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall by Sir Thomas Browne (NYRB)
2022
January 1: In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm (NYRB)
January 3: A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien (NYRB)
January 9: Conundrum by Jan Morris (NYRB)
January 16: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes (NYRB)
January 21: Envy by Yuri Olesha (NYRB)
January 28: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
February 6: Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki by Yoshida Kenkō and Kamo No Chōmei (Penguin)
February 11: After Claude by Iris Owens (NYRB)
February 26: Marrow and Bone by Walter Kempowski (NYRB)
March 1: Calamities by Renee Gladman (Wave Books)
March 8: The Silentiary by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB)
March 8: The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse (Copper Canyon Press)
March 13: The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings by Hugo von Hofmansthal (NYRB)
March 22: Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (Ecco)
March 26: Little Snow Landscape by Robert Walser (NYRB)
April 1: The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon (NYRB)
April 5: I and Thou by Martin Buber (Simon & Schuster)
April 9: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
April 15: The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger (NYRB)
April 27: Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin)
May 18: Party Going by Henry Green (NYRB)
May 24: Yesterday by Juan Emar (New Directions)
May 31: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
June 10: Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie (New Directions)
June 16: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Harper Perennial)
June 18: Valleyesque by Fernando A. Flores (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
June 23: In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch (Princeton University Press)
June 23: The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
June 29: The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (Open Letter)
July 6: For the Time Being by Annie Dillard (Vintage)
July 9: Making It by Norman Podhoretz (NYRB)
July 10: Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant (NYRB)
July 11: The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (New Directions)
July 13: The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia (NYRB)
July 14: Across by Peter Handke (Collier)
July 17: The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley (NYRB)
July 21: Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (NYRB)
July 27: The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig (NYRB)
July 30: Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (NYRB)
August 3: The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson (NYRB)
August 10: Margery Kempe by Robert Glück (NYRB)
August 12: The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
August 15: What’s for Dinner by James Schuyler (NYRB)
August 17: A Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (NYRB)
August 20: Poems of the Late T’ang by A. C. Graham (NYRB)
August 31: The Other by Thomas Tryon (NYRB)
September 3: Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano (Bison Books)
September 3: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (NYRB)
September 4: A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge (PM Press)
September 5: Guston in Time by Ross Feld (NYRB)
September 8: The Bog People by P. V. Glob (NYRB)
September 11: Amsterdam Stories by Nescio (NYRB)
September 14: Other Men’s Daughters by Richard Stern (NYRB)
September 21: Soul of Wood by Jakob Lind (NYRB)
September 23: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (New Directions)
September 25: Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press)
September 28: A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor (NYRB)
September 30: Songs of Kabir (NYRB)
October 3: Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero (New Directions)
October 7: The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor (NYRB)
October 16: Bambi by Felix Salten (NYRB)
October 20: Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (NYRB)
October 22: The Blue Room by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
October 22: Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco (New Directions)
October 24: The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
October 27: Written Lives by Javier Marías (New Directions)
October 31: The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (The Feminist Press)
November 3: The Carter of La Providence by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
November 8: Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter (NYRB)
November 18: As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo (NYRB)
November 27: Mr. Fortune by Sylvia Townsend Warner (NYRB)
December 3: Blindness by Henry Green (NYRB)
December 8: Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic (NYRB)
December 11: Charles Bovary, Country Doctor by Jean Améry (NYRB)
December 17: The Right to Be Lazy and Other Writings by Paul Lafargue (NYRB)
December 24: Lost Property by Ben Sonnenberg (NYRB)
December 26: The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
2021
January 1: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Penguin)
January 2: Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz (NYRB)
January 3: The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott (NYRB)
January 4: The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (NYRB)
January 5: In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes (NYRB)
January 8: Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke (NYRB)
January 10: Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban (NYRB)
January 11: Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa (Pushkin Press)
January 12: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)
January 13: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (NYRB)
January 14: My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (NYRB)
January 16: Red Shift by Alan Garner (NYRB)
January 17: Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (NYRB)
January 19: Walkabout by James Vance Marshall (NYRB)
January 24: The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart (NYRB)
January 27: The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (NYRB)
January 31: Chocky by John Wyndham (NYRB)
February 3: The End of Me by Alfred Hayes (NYRB)
February 7: Confusion by Stefan Zweig (NYRB)
February 11: Count d’Orgel’s Ball by Raymond Radiguet (NYRB)
February 14: Agostino by Alberto Moravia (NYRB)
February 19: Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)
February 23: Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (NYRB)
February 25: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal (NYRB)
February 27: Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (NYRB)
February 28: Hill by Jean Giono (NYRB)
March 6: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford (NYRB)
March 9: Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel García Márquez (NYRB)
March 14: The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (NYRB)
March 16: Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig (NYRB)
March 27: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)
March 27: Living by Henry Green (NYRB)
March 31: The Pure and the Impure by Colette (NYRB)
April 5: What I Saw by Joseph Roth (Norton)
April 9: The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei Calinescu (NYRB)
April 10: The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing (NYRB)
April 13: Melville: A Novel by Jean Giono (NYRB)
April 16: The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (NYRB)
April 23: Free Day by Inès Cagnati (NYRB)
April 26: Nothing by Henry Green (NYRB)
April 29: The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis (NYRB)
May 4: Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq (NYRB)
May 16: The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora (Penguin)
May 21: People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi (NYRB)
May 23: Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (Harper & Row)
June 1: To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia (NYRB)
June 10: Exile’s Return by Malcolm Cowley (Penguin)
June 15: The Lady and the Little Fur by Violette Leduc (Penguin)
June 22: Doting by Henry Green (NYRB)
June 24: Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker (NYRB)
June 24: Letter to D by André Gorz (Polity Press)
June 28: Notes from Childhood by Nora Lange (And Other Stories)
June 29: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
July 4: The Gate by Natsume Sōseki (NYRB)
July 6: The Criminal Child by Jean Genet (NYRB)
July 12: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (NYRB)
July 14: The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns (NYRB)
July 16: The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
July 17: Fair Play by Tove Jansson (NYRB)
July 18: Fat City by Leonard Gardner (NYRB)
July 23: The Unknown Masterpiece and Gambara by Honoré de Balzac (NYRB)
July 25: Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
July 27: Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky (NYRB)
July 29: Family and Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg (NYRB)
August 1: A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis (NYRB)
August 2: Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze (NYRB)
August 3: Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler (NYRB)
August 5: Speedboat by Renata Adler (NYRB)
August 6: Ending Up by Kingsley Amis (NYRB)
August 7: São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos (NYRB)
August 8: The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant (NYRB)
August 9: The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB)
August 12: Zama by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB)
August 14: The Moro Affair by Leonardo Sciascia (NYRB)
August 24: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (NYRB)
August 27: Ivory Pearl by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
August 31: Difficult Women by David Plante (NYRB)
September 6: Samskara by U. R. Ananthamurthy (NYRB)
September 10: Peking Story by David Kidd (NYRB)
September 12: Negrophobia by Darius James (NYRB)
September 16: Caught by Henry Green (NYRB)
September 22: The Door by Magda Szabó (NYRB)
September 25: The World I Live In by Helen Keller (NYRB)
September 30: The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (NYRB)
October 2: Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery (NYRB)
October 5: Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós (NYRB)
October 8: War and the Iliad by by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff (NYRB)
October 9: Marshlands by André Gide (NYRB)
October 10: No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
October 11: Lost Time by Józef Czapski (NYRB)
October 19: Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick (NYRB)
October 21: The N’Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
October 23: The Open Road by Jean Giono (NYRB)
October 25: We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau (NYRB)
October 27: Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (NYRB)
October 31: The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns (NYRB)
November 2: Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson (NYRB)
November 6: Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (NYRB)
November 7: Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg (NYRB)
November 16: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (NYRB)
November 18: Generations by Lucille Clifton (NYRB)
November 26: The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier (NYRB)
November 27: My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley (NYRB)
November 28: The Jokers by Albert Cossery (NYRB)
November 30: Nothing But the Night by John Williams (NYRB)
December 3: Pitch Dark by Renata Adler (NYRB)
December 9: One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis (NYRB)
December 13: Dissipatio H. G. by Guido Morselli (NYRB)
December 13: Nature Stories by Jules Renard (NYRB)
December 18: Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
December 24: The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (NYRB)
December 25: Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove (NYRB)
December 27: The Secret Commonwealth by Robert Kirk (NYRB)
December 29: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
2020
January 1: The Revisionist and The Astropastorals by Douglas Crase (Nightboat)
January 2: Afloat by Guy de Maupassant (NYRB)
January 12: Crossings by Chuang Hua (New Directions)
January 15: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB)
January 17: A King Alone by Jean Giono (NYRB)
January 17: Romance or The End by Elaine Kahn (Soft Skull)
January 18: Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso)
January 20: The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai (New Directions)
January 22: Annotations by John Keene (New Directions)
January 23: Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (New Directions)
January 25: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (NYRB)
January 27: The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (New Directions)
January 28: In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Leet’s Island Books)
January 29: Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin (NYRB)
January 29: American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá (Modern Library)
February 5: Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke (NYRB)
February 6: Happiness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg (New Directions)
February 9: My Friends by Emmanuel Bove (NYRB)
February 11: The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
February 12: Sphinx by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum)
February 17: Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet (NYRB)
February 20: I Didn't Talk by Beatriz Bracher (New Directions)
February 21: So I Looked Down To Camelot by Rosamund Stanhope (Flood Editions)
February 23: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber (Prickly Paradigm Press)
February 26: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau (New Directions)
February 28: Transnational Battle Field by Heriberto Yépez (Commune Editions)
March 7: My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye (Two Lines Press)
March 9: Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter (NYRB)
March 12: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
March 13: The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage by Etel Adnan (The Post-Apollo Press)
March 25: The Plague by Albert Camus (Vintage)
March 28: One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin (Harvard University Press)
March 29: No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon (NYRB)
March 30: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (NYRB)
April 2: The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
April 5: Blanket by Kara Thompson (Bloomsbury)
April 12: The Autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae (University of California Press)
April 18: The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (NYRB)
May 4: Walls (Anamneses) by Marcel Cohen (Black Square Editions)
May 6: Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper Perennial)
May 16: The Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing (Schocken Books)
May 19: Here is New York by E. B. White (The Little Bookroom)
June 5: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (New Directions)
June 7: Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy (Wave Books)
June 11: Telepathy by Devin Johnston (Paper Bark Press)
June 16: Slumberland by Paul Beatty (Bloomsbury)
June 16: The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures by Alejandra Pizarnik (Ugly Duckling Presse)
June 17: Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler (NYRB)
June 18: Labor Day by Rebecca Kosick (Golias Books)
June 21: Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles (Ecco)
June 22: The House by Jane Unrue (Burning Deck)
June 24: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (NYRB)
June 25: Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han (MIT Press)
June 27: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist (New Directions)
June 28: Camouflage by Lupe Gómez (Circumference Books)
July 6: Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff (Random House)
July 8: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Penguin Books)
July 23: Émile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Prometheus Books)
July 24: The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson (NYRB)
July 26: Socialist Realism by Trisha Low (Coffee House Press)
July 31: Back by Henry Green (NYRB)
August 2: On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil (NYRB)
August 8: Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon (NYRB)
August 25: Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburō Ōe (Grove Press)
August 29: With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst (Melville House)
August 31: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (NYRB)
September 2: Scardanelli by Friederike Mayröcker (The Song Cave)
September 10: The Dark Child by Camara Laye (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
September 30: Malicriox by Henri Bosco (NYRB)
October 4: In Hazard by Richard Hughes (NYRB)
October 13: Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (Marion Boyars)
October 14: My Body and I by René Crevel (Archipelago Books)
October 25: Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima (Vintage)
October 28: The Solitary Twin by Harry Mathews (New Directions)
November 7: Moscardino by Enrico Pea (Archipelago Books)
November 11: The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner by Saidiya Hartman (Crisis)
November 17: Seeing Is Believing by Charles Tomlinson (McDowell, Obolensky)
November 19: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Plume)
November 21: Tun-huang by Yasushi Inoue (NYRB)
November 22: The Milk of Paradise by M. H. Abrams (Perennial Library)
December 6: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (Beacon Press)
December 12: Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar (New Directions)
December 13: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Penguin)
December 27: Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (NYRB)