new books: the third book in On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, out 11/18 from New Directions. The second book is also translated fiction from the Dutch from Granta. 📚

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love this book mail from @twolinespress.com

#NYRBWomen25 Tomorrow, we start MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley). “…a genre-bending & stream-of-consciousness meditation that is not an act of mourning so much as an expression of curiosity.” Here’s our page guide. clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...

I found this recently and remembered I got it from my grandmother’s house. I love the cover and the other books in the series list are classics. I have seen that Kay Boyle once online for a lot of money. 📚

books read in October, a really good month of reading! My favorites are A Distant Mirror and Invisible Cities but these are all standouts. 📚✨

perfect Halloween book mail from Revolving Books! I could not resist the cover of Ryder and Marie-Claire Blais is a writer I have wanted to read. The Sarton was a freebie and a cute bookmark too📚

"We’re following our hearts and minds...finding a balance so we don’t inadvertently publish titles that are too similar.” Out now: @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @allisonwoodnutt.bsky.social of Smith & Taylor Classics at @unnamedpress.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/31/i...

upcoming books in English translation I found online

from Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941), a short and taut thriller of obsession, repressed desire and rage. Highly recommend 📚

Recent new and used books. I was excited to find this edition of the Muriel Spark and another Avon/Bard paperback, a Brazilian writer and great cover. Also nonfiction by Marguerite Young and others I am looking forward to. 📚✨

library haul, I will probably end up buying a copy of the big one, wanted to check it out. I am also looking forward to The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, a Ukrainian novel published in 1928. 📚

two stories from Restless Nights Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati, tr. Lawrence Venuti. These stories are fantastic, the absurd mixed with the realism of post-WWII life and rise of technology. My first time reading his fiction, I also enjoyed the graphic novel Poem Strip.

first time reading Yuri Herrera, holy sh!t I want to devour his other translated books

I found these three at Idle Hands Books on instagram, part of publisher Vintage’s line of translated fiction Aventura in the ‘80’s. The others I have, including the first two I ever found when I really started to read translated fiction.

book mail from OldBookSource at Etsy, such a good selection 📚

book mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

ICYMI I wrote about a novel that traces how easy it is for one man, a certain type of man, to be drawn toward far right ideology. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...

new releases from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social 📚✨

"How could a weak, perverse woman like me, someone who dreams of a knife in her hand, be the mother and wife of those two individuals? What was I going to do? I burrowed deeper into the ground, hiding my body." #BookSky 💙📚 #DieMyLove #TranslationThurs jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/d...

some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨

This looks promising: scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books lonningspils.ca

Dawn Powell will be published in the UK for the first time in decades starting next June, when Pushkin Press (which acquired her publisher Steerforth Press) publishes her 1942 novel A Time to be Born.

Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.

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September reading. Favorites were Occupation Journal and Look at Me. #NYRBWomen25 #SpinsterSeptember

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman is long but so addicting 📚

Congrats to all the National Book Awards finalists! It was so much fun to see Lana's book make the longlist, and we're grateful that that no doubt helped get the book into more readers' hands.

books I bought with bday gift cards 📚✨

book mail! 📚

Book mail! The latest Olga Ravn from my New Directions new classics subscription (can’t wait!) and an amazing gift from the always lovely @wendywhidden.bsky.social based on our mutual love of Indian literature!

working on Sundays

Floral bouquet with birds https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19529

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — a cross genre essay in images and words by Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington is a mind trip, oblique, a book I will have to read again. The afterword is interesting as well and more of her work is on tbr, The Hearing Trumpet is a favorite 📚✨

books read in September, highlights are Two Serious Ladies, a perfect novel! I am still thinking about Lili Is Crying and The Möbius Book is Lacey’s best yet. Highly recommend the poetry as well and Taiyo Matsumoto rules 📚✨

book mail from the always stellar Revolving Books and Barbed Wyre Books on Instagram 📚✨

y'all we recorded a banger today... our thoughts on Leonora Carrington, coming soon...

thinking about Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette, tr. Kate Briggs

new books and one vintage! I had to get the Dino Buzzati when saw it on Instagram. Plus releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bksky.social and @deepvellum.bsky.social 📚✨

My contributor copy has arrived! Extreme excitement on opening my book post this morning! With work by Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me et al. Thank you @saltpublishing.com & @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

some upcoming books in English translation

start of autumn reading 🍂📚

recent book mail, I was happy to find the two in the second picture 📚🔥

Vagabond https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20024

spider web season

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love the titles list in vintage books 📚

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles, a perfect novel 📚