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Emmett Stinson  2023 Highlights  Wall - Jen Craig  Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid  Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito Vertigo - Amanda Lorry Denis Johnson - Train Dreams  Dag Solstad - Novel 11 book 18  2024  A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead Alina Stefanescu Andrei Platinov - Chevengur Avner, Adam, Sarah Zachery Solomon - A Brutal Design  Ravel: A Novel  - Jean Echenoz 2666  - Roberto Bolaño Hopscotch - Cortazar  The Instructions - Adam Levin Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai Gretel and the Great War: A Novel - Adam Ehrlich Sachs The Material - Camille Bordas Apastoral - Lee D Thomson  Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer Upcountry - Chin-Sun Lee No One to Come Looking For You - Sam Lipsyte  Stella Maris and the Passenger - McCarthy  The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump Winter Quarters: A Novel of Argentina - Osvaldo Soriano Tomas Nevinson - Marias The World According to Garp - John Irving  Domenico Starnone - Trick  2024 Christian TeBordo - We Go Liquid,  The Discord Regression  Jesse Ball- The Repeat Room  Jill Ciment - Consent James - Percival Everett  Bristol Vaudrin - Afterward  Ben Tanzer - The Missing  Steve Almond - Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow Sara Lipman and Seth Rogoff - Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible Seth W.A.S.T.E Mailing List and Me  Best of 2023  Aannex - Blake Butler  A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley  Dolly City - Orly Castel-Bloom  Thomas the Obscure - Maurice Blanchot Heart Crane - White Buildings  Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber Wittgestein’s Mistress - Markson  Ada - Nabokov  Looking forward to :  Blue Lard and Red Pyramid - Vladimir Sorokin  New Mark Haber novel  Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead My Highlights of 2023  - Bret Eastern Ellis - The Shards The new Cormac McCarty books  Morning Star - Knausgard Roar by Bruce Wagner and Also The Marvel Universe. Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good Nefando by Monica Ojeda Devil of the provinces by Juan Cardenas  Ava Anna Ada by Ali smith  (out in Jan) Malina  Water Statues  David Keenan’s England’s Hidden Reverse Australian highlights Paul Delgarno’s a country of eternal light, Emmett’s book on Murnane and Late by Michael Fitzgerald.  Seth Rogoff’s book The Kirshbaum lectures, The two most recent Manchette books were great, Bariloche by Andres Neuman, The Kafka Diaries translated by Ross Benjamin, Voyager by Nona Fernandez, Paul Lynch Prophet Song.  Book of the year Man Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward  Daybook by Nathan Knapp Forthcoming on April 26, 2024 Splice  In the Suavity of the Rock by Greg Gerke Forthcoming on June 28, 2024 Knausgaard’s debut novel  - Archipelago in November - Out of the world    The Goldilocks Variations- Coover Deep Vellum November Melvil Rodrigo Fresan – Open Letter July Fog & Car by Eugene Lim Published by: Coffee House Press July   The Stain by Rikki Ducornet Published by: Deep Vellum Publishing Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press July   Commission of Tears Portuguese Literature by Antonio Lobo Antunes – APRIL   Sensitive Anatomy and Once upon Argentina April by Andrés Neuman Open Letter   The Rachel Condition March by Nicholas Rombles Published by: CLASH Books   The Dark Side of Skin by Jeferson Tenório – Charco Feb   Cesaria - by Hanna Nordenhok from Heloise American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas ]   Bad Foundations by Brian Allen Carr Published by: CLASH Books – Jan   Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella   Verdigris by Michele Mari Translated by Brian Robert Moore   Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman -   Thomas kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN David Leo Rice – The Berlin Wall Jenny Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey - Feb  Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada Ten - Juan Emar  And The Besieged City -  Clarice Lispector  Way Far Away by Evelio Rosero Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams    Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas 

Part 4 David Leo Rice  New books in 2024 The Berlin Wall  The Squimbop Condition  Conclusion to the Dodge City series -  A Room in Dodge City Volume 3 Highlights of 2023  Adam Levin  Mount Chicago and Bubblegum and looking forward to the reissue of The Instructions  The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård Looking forward to The Wolves of Eternity The Shards - BEE The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Peace - Gene Wolf  The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare  Patrick Modiano books Pet Cemetery - Stephen King 2024  The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso  How I killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall  Inland - Murnane  Molly - Blake Butler  Other Minds - Bennett Simms  New Houellebecq Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park  Youval Shimoni - The Salt Line / A Room Merve Emre  K Patrick - Mrs S Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice -  Cristina Rivera Garza Catherine Lacey - Biography of X The Rigour of Angels - William Eggington  Art Monsters - Lauren Elkin  The Man Who Cried I am - John A Williams  The Chapter - Nicke Dames  2024  Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner Sheila Heti - Alphabet Diaries  Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson  Glad to the Brink of Fear- James Marcus The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins-  Stefanos Geroulanos  How the World Made the West - Josephine Crawley Quinn Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy Monkey Grip - Helen Garner Inland - Murnane  Something Speaks to me - Michel Chaouli Odd Affinities - Elizabeth Abel Daniel Fraser 2023 Peter Levy - Poetry  A.V. Marrachini - We The Parasites  Maurice Blanchot - Kevin Hart Hotel Splendid - Marie Redonnet 2024 Celan Letters to Gisèle Obscene Bird of Night  Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Yoko Tawada  See also Antonio Tabucchi Requiem New Anne Carson book - Wrong Norma  Crisis Actor - Declan Ryan  Ada Best book of 2023 - Making Friends 3 - Kristen Gudsnuk Looking forward to in 2024 -  Making Friends 4 Richard Milward  Best of 2023 Fingers Crossed Miki Berenyi Ali Millar - The Last Days  Luke Turner - Men at War Lolita - Reread  Irving Welsh - Trainspotting Collected Alan Ginsberg  2024  Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar New David Keenan  Joel Gion - In the Jingle Jangle Jungle Richard Foster - Flower Factory  Bram Presser Columba's Bones: Darkland Tales - David Greig Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia Gibbons - James Morrison Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner Sebastian Castillo -  SALMON The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill Philippe Claudel - German Fantasia  Vladimir Voinovich - The Fur Hat The Confessions of a False Soul - Ilarie Voronca The Strangers - Jon Bilbao Max Porter - Shy For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria MacKenzie Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein  The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride  Biography of X - Catherine Lacey  Justin Torres - Blackout Gone to the Wolves - John Wray  The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild - Enard  My Work - Olga Ravn Marie NDiaye - Vengeance is Mine Jenny Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jen Craig  Highlights of 2023 Vigdis Hjorth - Is Mother Dead  Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline  Annie Ernaux -   The Sitter -  Angela O’Keeffe Paul Dalgarno - A Country of Eternal Light 2024  Grimmish More  Vigdis Hjorth Fleur Jaeggy Lisa Robinson The Baudelaire Fractal The Tunnel - William Gass Collected Stories - Clarice Lispector  Cesar Aira  Martin Shaw http://www.thebooksdesk.com/ Highlights 2023 from Shaw authors : Jen Craig Pip Adam  Angela O’Keefe - The sitter  Other highlights  Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias  Emily Perkins - Lioness  Looking forward to  Max Easton - Paradise Estate  Politica - Yumna Kassab  Lee Klein  Middlemarch Jane Eyre  Dracula  Silas Marner The Year/Tramp  Thomas Espedal  I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal Travels with Charley - Steinbeck  Looking forward to  19th century Lit New Enard - The Annual Dinner of the Gravediggers Guild  Vernon Subutex  Molly - Blake Butler  Werner Herzog - Memoir  Have a Bleedin Guess -  Paul Hanley The Fraud - Zadie Smith  My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2 - Emil Farris  We Go Liquid - Christian TeBordo  Kevin Kohn  Best books of 2023  Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward  All of Sergio De La Pava  2024  Percival Everett - James  Rodrigo Fresan - Melville  Adam Levin - The Instructions Bar Mitzvah edition   Ben Slotky  https://longleafreview.com/slotky/ Best books of 2023 Maurizio De Giovanni  Raymond Carver  Tim O’Brian - America Fantastica Flannery O’Connor  James Ellroy  Paul Dalgarno  Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie In Ascension - Martin MacInnes Salonika Burning - Gail Jones The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark  Danielle Laidley - Don’t Look Away Boy Friends  - Micheal Pedersen  2024  Audition - Pip Adam The Sitter - Angela O’Keefe  Serengotti - Eugen Bacon Double Happiness - Rochelle Siemienowicz The Great Undoing Charlene Allsopp Diane Josefowicz https://www.dianejosefowicz.com/ New book L'AIR DU TEMPS (1985) James Rosewarne  top 10 from 2023  Thus Bad Begins- Javier Marias  Honoured Guest- Joy Williams  Mysteries- Knut Hamsun  Lewis Percy- Anita Brookner  Berta Isla- Javier Marias Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri  La Lucina- Antonio Moresco  Professor Anderson's Natt- Dag Solstad  Trick- Domenico Starnone When I Was Mortal- Javier Marias  Three 2023 re-reads which were even more remarkable 2nd and 3rd time round.  The Dog- Jospeh O'Neill  Peace Talks- Tim Finch (I really can't recommend this one enough) Novel 11, Book 18- Dag Solstad  And the book I'm looking forward to most in 2024 is Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias. 

Katia  Katia Nosenko  Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker.  It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2 Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965. Stream System by Gerald Murnane The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese  Nadja by Andre Breton Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira 10.Ava by Carol Maso 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai  translated by George Szirtes 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell Look forward to: Shimmering details by Peter Nadas Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol Salt Line by Youval Shimoni Daniel Davis Wood  https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/ Upcoming from Splice   - Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024) Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024) Highlights of 2023 Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books  Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild  Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem  Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy James Salter - Light Years  Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet  Amy Hempel - Collected stories.  2024 Recommendations  Blake Butler - Molly  Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis  Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024) Iain Smith  2023 Highlights  Divine Days Leon Forrest  Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor   Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso  Antagony  - Luis Goytisolo  Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring  The Combinations - Louis Armand  A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley  White Dialogues - Bennett Simms  2024  Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek Chevengur -  Andrei Platonov Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details  Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante  Marshland - Otohiko Kaga  The Mind Crimes of August  Saint - Alain Arias- Mission Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer  Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Invidicum - Michael Brodsky  Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge Adam Biles - Feeding Time  Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER Ali Millar  Best of 2023 Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards  Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward  Oliver Mol - Trainload  Ali’s book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit  A.V. Marrachini  Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  The Japanness in Architecture  10th Century Han Poetry  Hanging Out -  Sheila Liming Balzac  Sublunar - Harald Voetmann Mark A Henry  The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider  Late -  Michael Fitzgerald  Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Peter Orner  Light in August - Falkner Tom Drury - The Driftless Area  Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve  Taylor Johnson - Inheritance  Looking forward to reading  Virginia Woolf - The Waves Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory  Black Paper - Teju Cole

Max Lawton  Notable books coming out in 2024  Blue Lard - Sorokin ND February  Red Pyramid - Sorokin ND February  Dispaches From The District Committee ND May  Other books mentioned  Washington Square - Henry James  The Shards - BEE My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh HERSCHT07769 - László Krasznahorkai Molly - Blake Butler  The Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek Robin Myers  Books mentioned, published this year and forthcoming;  Love Training - Andrés Neuman  Bariloche - Andrés Neuman  We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions / Harville Secker, forthcoming) The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Soho Press, forthcoming) The Trees by Claudia Peña Claros (Relegation Books, forthcoming) A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest (Sternberg Press, forthcoming) A Date With the Lady by Mateo García Elizondo (Charco Press, forthcoming) Restoration by Ave Barrera, co-translated with Ellen Jones (Charco Press, forthcoming) The Visit by Mariana Graciano (Alliteration Publishing, 2023) Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán (Katakana Editores/Hablemos, Escritoras, 2023) In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press, 2023) The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023) The Brush by Eliana Hernández Pachón (Archipelago Books, forthcoming) Best books of 2023 and looking forward to  January By Sara GallardoTranslated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy Recital of the Dark Verses by Luis Felipe Fabre This Little Art - Kate Briggs  The Longform - Kate Briggs  2024  - The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft  Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal Michael Winkler   Highlights 2023 Michelle de Kretser A Horse At Night - Amina Cain Vehicle - Jen Calleja  Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li Gibbons - James Morrison  Judas Boys - Joel Dean  James Hannaham - Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta  James Kelman - God's Teeth and Other Phenomena Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Bird - Adam Morris  August Blue -  Deborah Levy Childhood - Shannon Burns  I’d Rather Not - Robert Skinner  Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan 2024 Wayne Marshal - Henry Goes Bush Katerina Gibson - Debut Novel  Laura Elvery - New novel  Kylie Mirmohamadi - New novel  Sarah Krasnostein - Non fiction - High Country Murders  Travis Myer  If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Calvino  Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan Lispector - Passion According to G.H.  An Apprenticeship  Agua Viva Pessoa - Book of Disquiet The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Mount Chicago - Adam Levin A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley  Sunflower - Tex Gresham  Grimmish - Michael Winkler  Gass- Omensetter’s Luck  Ed Parks - Same Bed Different Dreams  Solenoid - Cartarescu A High Wind In Jamaica  Solarium - Braden Matthew  Oscar Submerges - Zach Tanner Ben Diamond  Best book  Anything That Moves - Jamie Stuart   Sarah Marie - Literal Nobody Best books of the year  Soldiers Hunters not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker Burr - Brooke Lockyer Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There - Jade Wallace  Most anticipated in 2024 - Bird Suit Sydney Hegele Zachery Issenberg  Red and the Black - Stendhal  Zone and Compass - Enard   We are a Haunting - Tyriek White Tour of the Black Clocks Steve Erickson  An Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley  Carpentaria - Alexis Wright 2024  The Obscene Bird of Night José Dononso  Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Sean McCallum  Best books of 2023 Mark A Henry  The Honolulu Situation  A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava  Conversation in the Cathedral - Maria Vargas Llosa  The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy 

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