books read in April, all are pretty great and rewired my brain. The first time I have read Anna Kavan and Penelope Mortimer, both were brilliant. Joy Williams still amazes me and Monster by Naoki Urasawa is a masterpiece. 📚✨

upcoming books in translation from @openletterbooks.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, translated from Spanish and Chinese 📚

new books I bought! 📚✨

I love the recent book mail from Womb House Books, I have wanted to read the STW letters and had to get the poetry anthology. I am also looking forward to the new book from @deepvellum.bsky.social , I have seen rave reviews 📚✨

new books/new editions of older books!📚

Our conversation about Gloria Naylor's terrific THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is live! onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Lots of imprints don’t have a very strong brand identity but when I saw MCD I’d always know I was getting something good and kind of weird. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

In a recent episode of the podcast The Mookse and the Gripes I referred to Hélène Bessette’s outstanding novel Lili is Crying (1953) as “Clarice Lispector on acid, Hilda Hilst on mushrooms, and Ann Quin on molly.” 👀 If you enjoy experimental literature, don’t miss this one.

Happy Easter! Recent used and new book purchases. The last one is a book I really enjoyed in a nice new hardcover. 📚🌸

The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe, tr. E. Dale Saunders, is a missing person detective story with his signature writing of alienation in society and urbanization and just plain weirdness. I look forward to reading more of his books, this the third I have read. 📚

recent books I picked up, I am happy to have a copy of these two by Silvina Ocampo, both are amazing. I also found used editions of translated fiction from Harvill. 📚✨

books read in March, the May Sarton and Andre Lorde were amazing. Mrs. Palfrey, Horse Crazy, and She Who Remains are other highlights and I would highly recommend all of these books. 📚✨

the last four books I’ve read have unintentionally matching covers and are all excellent. The bottom two are first time reading the writers, I will definitely read more.📚

recent used book haul, I was glad to find the Barbara Pym and Colette in these editions. The last two are new books from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @catranslation.org, it has been worth getting their subscriptions. 📚

I found these gems at the Etsy shop BookBang, a lot of vintage Edith Wharton books. Marianne Moore is a writer I have wanted to read and the last book is new to me.📚✨

from The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (1980), required reading 📚✨

new and used book purchases, recent books by women in translation from @graywolfpress.bsky.social , @ndbooks.bsky.social, and @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. The other are nice editions of two I have wanted to read and the latest from the tiny books UK press called isolarii.

weekend reading 📚

more used books I found on Etsy shop OldBookSource 📚✨

Happy Thursday! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I got a chance to talk with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social about unclassifiable books, and I had a great time! Here is our new episode! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson has one of the best opening pages.

from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman 📚✨

“For the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🙌 www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

Sarah Orne's Jewett's A MARSH ISLAND with a conversational afterward from the One Bright Book crew is OUT!

Happy March! 🌼 #SundaySarton It’s time to begin May Sarton’s third book of nonfiction, JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE. This is one of my favorites & I’m excited to reread it!

Aurora https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19547

I could not resist these vintage paperbacks from the Etsy shop OldBookSource 📚✨

a nice new hardcover of Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman, a book I highly enjoyed when I first read it. It was out of print and was recently popular on Booktok.

books read in February, Housekeeping is perfect and Borges, Can Xue, Wayward Lives were amazing. Ducks is great and Kylooe was pretty cute. A few of these will be in the top books I read this year 📚✨

Breaking off https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19441

first time seeing these editions 👀

new and used books I bought recently and new releases from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and @catranslation.org. The last two are from @openletterbooks.bsky.social last month 📚✨

from the story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Andrew Hurley, one of my favorite stories in Ficciones 📚

used books I found on Revolving Books website, they always have a nice selection to browse. This edition of Blue Boy is in great condition 📚✨

some books I picked up from the @50wattsbooks.bsky.social website and found the other two gems on Idle Hands Books instagram 📚

new books bought and a new release from @openletterbooks.bsky.social, Fortress of the Forgotten Ones by Fahmida Riaz. 📚✨

new book mail is a book I have been looking for, writing by surrealist writer/artist Remedios Varo from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. Also an order from @openletterbooks.bsky.social sale last month, I can always find a gem to read from them. 📚✨

new and used books recently bought including new translated fiction and books I will finally read. I also want to read more of writers in the second picture. I just started Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, a remarkable beginning so far.📚✨

So the whole 'reading books I already owned from the TBR pile in alphabetical order is stopping me buying new books' thing may have hit a bit of a bump:

Starting tomorrow, Feb 1st! Part 7 of #AContinuation - LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs) Book 2 of #SundaySarton - PLANT DREAMING DEEP by May Sarton Here are the page guides. More info at www.joiedevivre9.com

from Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, tr. by Grace Frick, an amazing book and I wonder why I waited so long to read it.

I recently found a book from my wishlist, the three book box set of the K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin translation of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, I always admired this edition 📚

books read in January, began with The Corner That Held Them and ended with Memoirs of Hadrian two books that will be hard to top. Buddha by Osamu Tezuka is his masterpiece and also highly recommend Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls 📚✨

I was excited to pick these two books up, new fiction in translation is coming in 🔥

shiny new books! 📚🔥

used books from Revolving Books and Forked Road Press. Also an upcoming release from @twolinespress.com, a translation of interconnected stories from Polish, looks great. 📚✨

sending out another round of these today--it's an absolutely gorgeous book and I'd love to get it in the hands of anyone who's interested 🖤

recent book purchases of the gorgeous hardcover box set of Parable of the Sower/the Talents by Octavia E. Butler and the new paperback of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai. Satoko Kizaki is a Japanese writer that is new to me, I found these online 📚✨

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books from recent trip to the library, a few of these are new to me 📚