JANUARY
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (1961, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)
Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (2010, trans. Charlotte Mandell)
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929, trans. A. W. Wheen)
Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (1995, trans. Ros Schwartz)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001, trans. Anthea Bell)
Jonathan Harr, The Lost Painting (2005)
Bruce Allen Powe, The Aberhart Summer (1983)
Adania Shibli, Minor Detail (2016, trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
Alberto Manguel, With Borges (2004)
FEBRUARY
Conor Kerr, Prairie Edge (2024)
Hanna Stoltenberg, Near Distance (2019, trans. Wendy H. Gabrielsen)
Uwe Timm, The Invention of Curried Sausage (1993, trans. Leila Vennewitz)
Edouard Leve, Newspaper (2004, trans. Jan Steyn and Caite Dolan-Leach)
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (1897)
Paul Beatty, The Sellout (2015)
Fran Ross, Oreo (1974)
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (1983)
MARCH
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow (2011, trans. Angela Rodel)
Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees (1953, trans. Barbara Bray)
N. John Hall, Bibliophilia (2016)
Florin Diacu, The Lost Millennium (2005)
Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over (2024)
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
APRIL
Yuri Herrera, Ten Planets (2019, trans. Lisa Dillman)
August Derleth, Any Day Now (1938)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Lovers on All Saints’ Day (2008, trans. Anne McLean)
Tamara Shopsin, LaserWriter II (2021)
Sid Meier, Sid Meier’s Memoir! (2020)
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (1984, trans. Barbara Bray)
John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
MAY
Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
Peter Miller, Shopkeeping (2024)
Thomas Wharton, Salamander (2001)
Georges Simenon, The Two-Penny Bar (1932, trans. David Watson)
Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole (2014, trans. David Boyd)
JUNE
Georges Simenon, The Late Monsieur Gallet (1931, trans. Anthea Bell)
Junichiro Tanizaki, Devils in Daylight (1918, trans. J. Keith Vincent)
Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, As Such (1973, trans. Minna Zallman Proctor)
Kathryn Scanlan, Aug 9—Fog (2019)
John Higgs, Stranger than We Can Imagine (2015)
Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo (1963, trans. William Weaver)
JULY
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1867, trans. Michael R. Katz)
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection (2024)
Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (2024)
Roque Larraquy, The National Telepathy (2020, trans. Frank Wynne)
Brian Anderson, Loud and Clear (2025)
AUGUST
José Saramago, All the Names (1999, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Conor Kerr, Beaver Hills Forever (2025)
Jan Morris, Our First Leader (2000)
Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic (2025)
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (2004)
Uketsu, Strange Pictures (2022, trans. Jim Rion)
Rachel Ingalls, Binstead’s Safari (1983)
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
SEPTEMBER
Julius Taranto, How I Won a Nobel Prize (2023)
Peter Conners, Cornell ‘77 (2017)
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser (1983, trans. Jack Dawson)
Mariette Navarro, Ultramarine (2021, trans. Eve Hill-Agnus)
Patrik Ourednik, Europeana (2001, trans. Gerald Turner)
Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test (2024)
OCTOBER
Annie Proulx, Barkskins (2016)
Thomas Wharton, Wolf, Moon, Dog (2025)
Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh (1904)
Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection (2022, trans. Sophie Hughes)
Helen Garner, The Season (2024)
NOVEMBER
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, Your Name Here (2025)
Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC (2023)
Vu Trong Phung, Dumb Luck (1936, trans. Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman)
John McPhee, Irons in the Fire (1997)
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
DECEMBER
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (1964)
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962)
Raymond Biesinger, 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off (2025)
Nick Hornby, Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas (2024)
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William! (2021)
Anne Serre, The Governesses (1992, trans. Mark Hutchinson)
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887)
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NUMBERS AND PICKS
Fiction: 63/79 (80%)
Non-fiction: 16/79 (20%)
Books in translation: 30/79 (38%)
Pre-2000: 35/79 (44%)
Post-2000: 44/79 (56%)
Nationalities: 25 (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, United States, Vietnam, Wales)
Most-read author: Conor Kerr, Georges Simenon, Thomas Wharton (2)
Favourite fiction: All Quiet on the Western Front, Beaver Hills Forever, Hadrian the Seventh, How I Won a Nobel Prize, Rejection
Favourite non-fiction: 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off, Alphabetical Diaries, The Season, Shopkeeping, Sid Meier’s Memoir!
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PUBLICATION DATES
2025: 6
2020s: 16
2010s: 13
2000s: 9
1990s: 4
1980s: 5
1970s: 5
1960s: 5
1950s: 2
1940s: 1
1930s: 4
1920s: 1
1910s: 2
1900s: 1
1800s: 3
1700s: 1