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 📚

three books I somehow missed in my post on books I read in 2025, I highly recommend them. The other three are books I also read last year that just solidified these writers as all time favorite, among others. 📚✨

insanely good book mail this past weekend from some of my faves Barbed Wyre Books, Idle Hands Books, Forked Road Press, and @50wattsbooks.bsky.social ! 📚✨

Books Read 2026 📚 1) The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1948). NYRB Classics, 2019

I found these gems on Revolving Books, the website has a broad selection of used books 📚✨

book mail from Bookstore Bunny at Etsy, Raymond Roussel is a writer I have yet to read. The other book is from Czech writer Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize in Literature📚

ICYMI My first review of 2026 is one of the last books I finished in 2025. Originally intended for #GermanLitMonth but life got in the way. I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...

So begins the Shigeru Mizuki Thread! I read through all of Showa before the end of the year but didn’t have time to write up my thoughts… and have been dragging my heels on reading Hitler for obvious reasons lol… 🧵

An excellent thread on one of the most important works to ever be done in the comic book medium, SHOWA: A HISTORY OF JAPAN. I don't care who you are, you will be a better person for having read this. And a more informed person, which is perhaps the same thing.

Have an absolute ton of incredible, historically important manga at my finger tips… I just don’t know where to begin hahahah! Expect some mini reviews of all of this over the coming days! @dandq.bsky.social

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the top 12 books I read in 2025 and most of the other books I read as well. Read a few writers that were new to me and more from ones that are favorites. All in all, a superb year of reading 📚✨

books read in December, highlight is Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. I am still thinking on Wuthering Heights, gothic psychological horror. I still have Buddha vol. 5-8 by Osamu Tezuka to read, one of his best works. 📚✨

👀 update on Susan Bernofsky’s translation of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann