Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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My favorite books of the year, let's go!

1:42 backlist fiction:
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
— I Who Have Never Known Men (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
— Orlanda (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)
Le mur invisible by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)
— The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Shaun Whiteside) (1963)
Le Livre de l'intranquillité by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Françoise Laye) (1982)
— The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Richard Zenith) (1982)
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)

9:09 new fiction releases in English:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Liars by Sarah Manguso (2024)

12:45 new[ish] translated fiction:
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
The Details by Ia Genberg (trans. Kira Josefsson) (2022)
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2023)
My Work by Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2020)
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2022)

19:00 poetry:
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (2023)
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido (2013)

21:05 nonfiction:
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024)
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty (2001)

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