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THE BOOKS OF JACOB by Olga Tokarczuk (Dec 16, 2025)
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley (Nov 28, 2025)
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS by Irene Solà (Nov 15, 2025)
GILGAMESH by David Ferry (Nov 07, 2025)
THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Alexis de Tocqueville (Oct 30, 2025)
DANCING IN ODESSA by Ilya Kaminsky (Oct 25, 2025)
SELECTED POEMS by Herman Melville (Oct 17, 2025)
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley (Sep 29, 2025)
THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong (Sep 23, 2025)
RUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware (Sep 12, 2025)
ELMER GANTRY by Sinclair Lewis (Sep 08, 2025)
ANARCHY AND CHRISTIANITY by Jacques Ellul (Aug 12, 2025)
THE HURTING KIND by Ada Limón (Aug 08, 2025)
WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE by Irene Solà (Aug 05, 2025)
JACQUES THE FATALIST by Denis Diderot (Jul 29, 2025)
THE EYE OF THE MASTER by Matteo Pasquinelli (Jul 14, 2025)
DEAF REPUBLIC by Ilya Kaminsky (Jul 06, 2025)
ALISS AT THE FIRE by Jon Fosse (Jul 03, 2025)
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Jul 02, 2025)
CROCOSMIA by Miranda Mellis (Jun 06, 2025)
I WILL DIE IN A FOREIGN LAND by Kalani Pickhart (Jun 02, 2025)
WHAT HAVE YOU LEFT BEHIND? by Bushra Al-Maqtari (May 07, 2025)
ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman (Apr 17, 2025)
THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT LANGUAGE by Umberto Eco (Apr 09, 2025)
REINHARDT’S GARDEN by Mark Haber (Mar 27, 2025)
NEW SELECTED POEMS by W.S. Graham (Mar 19, 2025)
SET MY HEART ON FIRE by Izumi Suzuki (Mar 18, 2025)
STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS by Terence Hawkes (Feb 18, 2025)
AMERICA by Jean Baudrillard (Jan 17, 2025)
BOMBAY STORIES by Saadat Hasan Manto (Dec 30, 2024)
RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter (Dec 05, 2024)
UBIK by Philip K. Dick (Oct 31, 2024)
MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar (Oct 08, 2024)
LIVING THINGS by Munir Hachemi (Sep 30, 2024)
A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens (Sep 23, 2024)
SEEING LIKE A STATE by James C. Scott (Jul 09, 2024)
MADDADDAM by Margaret Atwood (Jun 24, 2024)
A VERY EASY DEATH by Simone De Beauvoir (Apr 21, 2024)
NONREQUIRED READING by Wisława Szymborska (Feb 23, 2024)
THE MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut (Feb 18, 2024)
HIS MASTER'S VOICE by Stanislaw Lem (Feb 06, 2024)
THE EMPLOYEES by Olga Ravn (Dec 25, 2023)
OVAL by Elvia Wilk (Dec 22, 2023)
SOURDOUGH by Robin Sloan (Nov 09, 2023)
JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST by David S. Reynolds (Aug 08, 2023)
WAYS OF BEING by James Bridle (Jun 17, 2023)
TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica (Mar 11, 2023)
LA SEPTIÈME FONCTION DU LANGAGE by Laurent Binet (Mar 08, 2023)
A TIME FOR EVERYTHING by Karl Ove Knausgård (Feb 06, 2023)
WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD by Benjamin Labatut (Nov 27, 2022)
THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Paul Tremblay (Aug 20, 2022)
THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green (Aug 06, 2022)
SCALE by Geoffrey West (Jul 29, 2022)
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad (Jun 24, 2022)
AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES by Judith Schalansky (Apr 26, 2022)
LONG LIVE THE POST HORN! by Vigdis Hjorth (Mar 28, 2022)
SELECTED POEMS by Gwendolyn Brooks (Mar 25, 2022)
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE by Andreas Malm (Jan 20, 2022)
THE LONG SHIPS by Frans G. Bengtsson (Jan 14, 2022)
A NATION OF WOMEN by Luisa Capetillo (Oct 12, 2021)
THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel (Oct 06, 2021)
ANARCHIST COMMUNISM by Pyotr Kropotkin (Sep 01, 2021)
UTOPIA by Thomas More (Aug 12, 2021)
THE ART OF ASKING YOUR BOSS FOR A RAISE by Georges Perec (Jul 23, 2021)
MULES AND MEN by Zora Neale Hurston (Mar 11, 2021)
END ZONE by Don DeLillo (Jan 09, 2021)
I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME by Per Petterson (Nov 18, 2020)
CAPITAL IS DEAD. IS THIS SOMETHING WORSE? by McKenzie Wark (Nov 03, 2020)
THE BLUE WORLD by Jack Vance (Sep 20, 2020)
RECURSION by Blake Crouch (May 23, 2020)
COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT by Thomas Frank (May 19, 2020)
EXHALATION by Ted Chiang (Apr 27, 2020)
SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by Joan Didion (Jun 25, 2019)
DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller (Feb 02, 2019)
LETTER 44, VOLUME 4 by Charles Soule (Sep 19, 2017)
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder (Sep 02, 2017)
OPERATION PAPERCLIP by Annie Jacobsen (Aug 02, 2017)
THINK PYTHON by Allen B. Downey (May 23, 2016)
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor (Apr 10, 2016)
THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE by Nate Silver (Mar 26, 2016)
MISS LONELYHEARTS by Nathanael West (Sep 23, 2015)
JR by William Gaddis (Mar 08, 2015)
MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides (Aug 28, 2014)
EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck (Aug 17, 2014)
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh (Jul 31, 2014)
EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert (Mar 28, 2014)
THE LESSON OF THE MASTER by Henry James (Sep 18, 2013)
ILL SEEN ILL SAID by Samuel Beckett (Sep 15, 2013)
THE INFERNO by Dante Alighieri (Sep 14, 2013)
FREAKONOMICS by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (Sep 11, 2013)
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers (Aug 20, 2013)
THE NECESSARY MARRIAGE by Dumitru Èšepeneag (Aug 17, 2013)
PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov (Aug 12, 2013)
THE PALE KING by David Foster Wallace (Jul 24, 2013)