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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 Țepeneag (Aug 17, 2013)
• PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov (Aug 12, 2013)
• THE PALE KING by David Foster Wallace (Jul 24, 2013)