JANUARY
Nicholson Baker, The Size of Thoughts (1996)
William Golding, The Paper Men (1984)
Jenny Offill, Weather (2020)
Martin Amis, Night Train (1997)
Shaun Bythell, Remainders of the Day (2022)
Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch (1963, trans. Gregory Rabassa)
FEBRUARY
Larry McMurtry, In a Narrow Grave (1968)
Donald Barthelme, Paradise (1986)
Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004, trans. Geoffrey Bock)
Jen Beagin, Big Swiss (2023)
Larry McMurtry, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)
Jo Soares, Twelve Fingers (1999, trans. Clifford E. Landers)
MARCH
Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav (1985)
B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935)
Alvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires (2022, trans. Natasha Wimmer)
D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent (1926)
APRIL
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Ling Ma, Severance (2018)
Ray Robertson, All the Years Combine (2023)
Richard Booth, My Kingdom of Books (1999)
MAY
Philip Roth, The Breast (1972)
Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty (2014)
Donald Hall, A Carnival of Losses (2018)
Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (1967, trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Tove Ditlevsen, Youth (1967, trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Tove Ditlevsen, Dependency (1971, trans. Michael Favala Goldman)
Alejandro Zambra, Chilean Poet (2020, trans. Megan McDowell)
JUNE
Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost (2001, trans. Alison L. Strayer)
Cole Nowicki, Laser Quit Smoking Massage (2024)
Emmanuel Carrère, Yoga (2020, trans. John Lambert)
Dylan Thomas and John Davenport, The Death of the King’s Canary (1976)
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (1980, trans. William Weaver)
Jessica Anthony, The Most (2024)
JULY
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Kate Black, Big Mall (2024)
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924, trans. Clarence Brown)
Padma Viswanathan, The Charterhouse of Padma (2024)
Geoff Dyer, The Last Days of Roger Federer (2022)
AUGUST
Martin Amis, Inside Story (2020)
George R. Stewart, Storm (1941)
Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter (2024)
Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore (1979)
Osamu Dazai, The Beggar Student (1940, trans. Sam Bett)
Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1983, trans. Anne McLean)
SEPTEMBER
Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist (2020)
Javier Marias, Tomas Nevinson (2021, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Elaine Kraf, The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912, trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter)
Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho (2016, trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
OCTOBER
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (2020)
Stanislaw Lem, A Perfect Vacuum (1971, trans. Michael Kandel)
Harry Mathews, The Conversions (1962)
Ellen Ullman, Life in Code (2017)
Robert Hunter, The Silver Snarling Trumpet (2024)
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock (1993)
Percival Everett, Erasure (2001)
NOVEMBER
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season (2016, trans. Sophie Hughes)
Harry Mathews, Tlooth (1966)
Jan Morris, Conundrum (1974)
DECEMBER
Hernan Diaz, Trust (2022)
Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words (2016, trans. John Lambert)
Stephen King, 11/22/63 (2011)
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins (2024)
Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables (2023)
Raymond Bock, Atavisms (2011, trans. Pablo Straus)
Tim Bowling, In the Suicide’s Library (2010)
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NUMBERS AND PICKS
Fiction: 44/67 (66%)
Non-fiction: 23/67 (34%)
Books in translation: 21/67 (31%)
Pre-2000: 33/67 (49%)
Post-2000: 34/67 (51%)
Most-read author: Tove Ditlevsen (3)
Favourite fiction: The Charterhouse of Padma, Last Letters from Hav, Operation Shylock, Storm, Tomas Nevinson
Favourite non-fiction: Childhood/Youth/Dependency, Conundrum, Essays After Eighty/A Carnival of Losses, Life in Code, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
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PUBLICATION DATES
2024: 7
2020s: 15
2010s: 10
2000s: 3
1990s: 6
1980s: 6
1970s: 7
1960s: 7
1950s: 1
1940s: 2
1930s: 1
1920s: 2
1910s: 1