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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📚

Interview with an Editor: Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics - Chicago Review of Books Our interview with Allison Miriam Woodnutt at Smith & Taylor Classics.

"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.
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some more upcoming books in English translation

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. 📚

the illustration on the cover is Il Lampione (1926) by Dino Buzzati.

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

list of Vintage Aventura I found in the back of Puig.

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula I’m growing old. Where have all those beautiful years gone, when I hung out with my mates and we roamed the pool halls and sleazy bars on Paission or the cafes in Saint Andrew Square like cowboys, …

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 📚✨

Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff) First published in Spanish in 2012 and then in English in 2017, Die, My Love was one of the first books issued by the innovative, independent publisher Charco Press, which remains committed to brin…

"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

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

lønningspils scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage.

This looks promising:

scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books

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Cover of A Time to Be Born

Catalogue info for the book. A TIME TO BE BORN DAWN POWELL CLASSICS A long-overdue revival of Dawn Powell with this dazzling tale of ambition, betrayal and romantic chaos set amid the upper reaches of Manhattan's media elite Amanda Keeler has clawed her way out of Ohio into the affections of Julien Evans, New York's newspaper magnate. To those back home, she has it all. But behind the glittering façade, Amanda is restless. When a school friend, Vicky, arrives in the city, Amanda finds the perfect cover for secret trysts with old flame Ken. But desire doesn't follow plans. Vicky falls for Ken, and a volatile love triangle ignites. DAWN POWELL (1896-1965) was a prolific American novelist, known for her sharp wit and named by Ernest Hemingway as his favourite writer. A TIME TO BE BORN ISBN: 9781805333265 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PRICE: £10.99 PUBLICATION: JUNE EXTENT: 344

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.

Nobel Laureates Archives - Words Without Borders A collection of writing by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Words Without Borders archive, including László Krasznahorkai and Han Kang.

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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Stack of books: Occupation Journal by Jean Giono Ring the Hill by Tom Cox No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Machines in the Head by Anna Kavan Maigret's Failure by Georges Simeon Look at Me by Anita Brookner Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington

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

from A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

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! 📚