Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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i’m back! here are all the books i read in the second quarter of the years, as well as some books i’d like to get to in july and august

@rebareads summer reading challenge: youtube.com/watch?v=-pc11GyZOik

books:
Perfection, Domenico Latronico (trans. Sophie Hughes) (2022)
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel, Frances Wilson (2025)
Eunoia, Christian Bök (2001)
Le Bel obscur, Caroline Lamarche (2025)
On the Calculation of Volume IV, Solvej Balle (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2022)
Monique s’évade, Édouard Louis (2024)
The Girls, John Bowen (1986)
Paradiso 17, Hannah Lillith Assadi (2026)
Paradiso, Dante (c. 1321)
À rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Brian Moore (1955)
Poteaux d'angle, Henri Michaux (1978)
The Agony of Eros, Byung-Chul Han (trans. Erik Butler) (2012)
Dreaming by the Book, Elaine Scarry (1999)
Un thé bien fort et trois tasses, Lygia Fagundes Telles (trans. Maryvonne Lapouge-Pettorelli)(1970)
Figuring, Maria Popova (2019)
If Only, Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2001)
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson (1992)
Down Below, Leonora Carrington (1945)
Sitt Marie Rose, Etel Adnan (1978)
A Maçã no Escuro, Clarice Lispector (1961)

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