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FICTION

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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak
Jamil Jan Kochai
Kibogo
Scholastique Mukasonga. Trans. Mark Polizzotti
If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
At the Edge of the Woods
Masatsugu Ono. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter
Blue
Emmelie Prophète. Trans. Tina Kover
The Earthspinner
Anuradha Roy
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh.
Prize for the Fire: A Novel
Rilla Askew
Of Saints and Miracles
Manuel Astur.
Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader
Ed. Howard Chiang. Trans. Yichun Liu, Jamie Tse, Yahia Zhengtang Ma, Kyle Shernuk, Howard Chiang, Shengchi Hsu, Wen-chi Li & Colin Bramwell.
Family Album: Stories
Gabriela Alemán. Trans. Dick Cluster & Mary Ellen Fieweger
A Trail of Crab Tracks
Patrice Nganang. Trans. Amy B. Reid
Regardez-nous danser
Leïla Slimani
Le Cortège
Gérard Gavarry.
Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia Belorusets. Trans. Eugene Ostashevsky
Benefit
Siobhan Phillips
Carnality
Lina Wolff. Trans. Frank Perry
Bardinah by Sayyed Qadir Hedayati
Walk Me to the Corner
Anneli Furmark. Trans. Hanna Strömberg
Wo Ben Fen Fang (I Am Rich in Fragrance)
Yang Benfen
The Second Substance
Anne Lardeux. Trans. Pablo Strauss
The Pages
Hugo Hamilton
The Last Island
Zülfü Livaneli. Trans. Ayşe A. Şahin
Three Streets
Yoko Tawada. Trans. Margaret Mitsutani

VERSE

No Sign
Peter Balakian
In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems / En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas / Ndaani’ Gueela’ ne xhupa diidxaguie’
Irma Pineda. Trans. Wendy Call with the author.
Bloodred Dragonflies: New and Selected Poems in English and Versions from the Filipino
Jim Pascual Agustin
The Naked World: A Tale with Verse
Irina Mashinski
Winthropos: Poems
George Kalogeris
When She Became You / Songs to Suzanne
Michael Jennings

MISCELLANEOUS

La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays
Randall Horton
Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium
Rachel S. Cordasco
The Psychology of Mathematics: A Journey of Personal Mathematical Empowerment for Educators and Curious Minds
Anderson Norton
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Mattias Desmet. Trans. Els Vanbrabant

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FICTION

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak
Jamil Jan Kochai

Kibogo
Scholastique Mukasonga. Trans. Mark Polizzotti

If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery

At the Edge of the Woods
Masatsugu Ono. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter

Blue
Emmelie Prophète. Trans. Tina Kover

The Earthspinner
Anuradha Roy

Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh.

Prize for the Fire: A Novel
Rilla Askew

Of Saints and Miracles
Manuel Astur.

Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader
Ed. Howard Chiang. Trans. Yichun Liu, Jamie Tse, Yahia Zhengtang Ma, Kyle Shernuk, Howard Chiang, Shengchi Hsu, Wen-chi Li & Colin Bramwell.

Family Album: Stories
Gabriela Alemán. Trans. Dick Cluster & Mary Ellen Fieweger

A Trail of Crab Tracks
Patrice Nganang. Trans. Amy B. Reid

Regardez-nous danser
Leïla Slimani

Le Cortège
Gérard Gavarry.

Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia Belorusets. Trans. Eugene Ostashevsky

Benefit
Siobhan Phillips

Carnality
Lina Wolff. Trans. Frank Perry

Bardinah by Sayyed Qadir Hedayati

Walk Me to the Corner
Anneli Furmark. Trans. Hanna Strömberg

Wo Ben Fen Fang (I Am Rich in Fragrance)
Yang Benfen

The Second Substance
Anne Lardeux. Trans. Pablo Strauss

The Pages
Hugo Hamilton

The Last Island
Zülfü Livaneli. Trans. Ayşe A. Şahin

Three Streets
Yoko Tawada. Trans. Margaret Mitsutani

VERSE

No Sign
Peter Balakian

In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems / En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas / Ndaani’ Gueela’ ne xhupa diidxaguie’
Irma Pineda. Trans. Wendy Call with the author.

Bloodred Dragonflies: New and Selected Poems in English and Versions from the Filipino
Jim Pascual Agustin

The Naked World: A Tale with Verse
Irina Mashinski

Winthropos: Poems
George Kalogeris

When She Became You / Songs to Suzanne
Michael Jennings

MISCELLANEOUS

La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós)
Mario Vargas Llosa

Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays
Randall Horton

Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium
Rachel S. Cordasco

The Psychology of Mathematics: A Journey of Personal Mathematical Empowerment for Educators and Curious Minds
Anderson Norton

The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Mattias Desmet. Trans. Els Vanbrabant