Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Books Mentioned:
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai translated by Donald Keene
The Nightgown and Other Poems by Taisia Kitaiskaia
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
The Life & Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Owl and the Nightingale translated by Simon Armitage
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
The Deserters by Matthias Enard translated by Charlotte Mandell
The Beginners by Anne Serre translated by Mark Hutchinson
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr
The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje translated by David McKay
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Gregory Rabassa
Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
The Four Heavens by David Stuart