The Red Thread

by Unknown

  A Schoolboy’s Diary and Other Stories*

  robert walser

  Translated from the German by Damion Searls

  Introduction by Ben Lerner

  One Fat Englishman

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by David Lodge

  Girl, 20

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by Howard Jacobson

  Proper Doctoring: A Book for Patients and Their Doctors*

  david mendel

  Introduction by Jerome Groopman

  Fighting for Life

  s. josephine baker

  Introduction by Helen Epstein

  The Black Spider*

  jeremias gotthelf

  Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

  The Skin*

  curzio malaparte

  Translated from the Italian by David Moore

  Introduction by Rachel Kushner

  Autobiography of a Corpse*

  sigizmund

  krzhizhanovsky

  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull

  Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

  2014

  The Human Comedy: Selected Stories*

  honoré de balzac

  Edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks

  Translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan Stump

  On Being Blue

  william h. gass

  Introduction by Michael Gorra

  The Gray Notebook*

  josep pla

  Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush

  Introduction by Valentí Puig

  Shakespeare’s Montaigne*

  michel de montaigne

  Edited by Stephen Greenblatt; Translated from the French by John Florio

  Introduction by Peter G. Platt

  During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

  joan chase

  Introduction by Meghan O’Rourke

  Fear: A Novel of World War I*

  gabriel chevallier

  Translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie

  Introduction by John Berger

  Last Words from Montmartre*

  qiu miaojin

  Translated from the Chinese and with an afterword by Ari Larissa Heinrich

  Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

  olivia manning

  Introduction by Anthony Sattin

  The Professor and the Siren*

  giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa

  Translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley

  Introduction by Marina Warner

  Agostino*

  alberto moravia

  Translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore

  The Mad and the Bad*

  jean-patrick manchette

  Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

  Introduction by James Sallis

  The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914*

  bela zombory-moldovan

  Translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction by Peter Zombory-Moldovan

  Augustus

  john williams

  Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

  The Captain’s Daughter*

  alexander pushkin

  Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

  Introduction by Robert Chandler

  Totempole

  sanford friedman

  Afterword by Peter Cameron

  Conversations with Beethoven*

  sanford friedman

  Introduction by Richard Howard

  You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There*

  elizabeth taylor

  Stories Selected and with an Introduction by Margaret Drabble

  On the Abolition of All Political Parties*

  simone weil

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Simon Leys

  Essay by Czesław Miłosz

  Journey by Moonlight*

  antal szerb

  Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix

  Introduction by Julie Orringer

  The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories*

  tove jansson

  Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella

  Introduction by Lauren Groff

  In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

  william h. gass

  Introduction by Joanna Scott

  The Use of Man

  aleksandar tišma

  Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Bernard Johnson

  Introduction by Claire Messud

  The Land Breakers

  john ehle

  Introduction by Linda Spalding

  Tristana*

  benito pérez galdós

  Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

  Introduction by Jeremy Treglown

  Midnight in the Century

  victor serge

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

  2015

  The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos*

  patrick leigh fermor

  Edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper

  Thus Were Their Faces*

  silvina ocampo

  Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston

  Preface by Jorge Luis Borges

  Introduction by Helen Oyeyemi

  The Door*

  magda szabó

  Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix

  Introduction by Ali Smith

  A Legacy

  sybille bedford

  Introduction by Brenda Wineapple

  Onward and Upward in the Garden

  katharine s. white

  Edited and with an introduction by E. B. White

  Prometheus Bound*

  aeschylus

  Translated and with an introduction by Joel Agee

  Ending Up

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by Craig Brown

  Take a Girl Like You

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by Christian Lorentzen

  The Death of Napoleon

  simon leys

  Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy

  The Prince of Minor Writers: Selected Essays*

  max beerbohm

  Edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate

  A View of the Harbour

  elizabeth taylor

  Introduction by Roxana Robinson

  Naked Earth*

  eileen chang

  Introduction by Perry Link

  The Little Town Where Time Stood Still

  bohumil hrabal

  Translated by James Naughton

  Talk

  linda rosenkrantz

  Introduction by Stephen Koch

  The Peach Blossom Fan

  k’ung shang-jen

  Translated by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton with the collaboration of Cyril Birch

  Introduction by Judith Zeitlin

  The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov*

  anton chekhov

  Translated from the Russian by Maria Bloshteyn

  Illustrated by Nikolay Chekhov

  Dear Illusion: Collected Stories

  kingsley amis

  Foreword by Rachel Cusk

  Henri Duchemin and His Shadows*

  emmanuel bove

  Translated from the French by Alyson Waters

  Introduction by Donald Breckenridge

  Chocky

  john wyndham

  Afterword by Margaret Atwood

  Fat City

  leonard gardner

  Introduction by Denis Johnson

  Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

  ronald blythe

  Introduction by Matt Weiland

  Eve’s Hollywood

  eve babitz

  Introduction by Holly Brubach

  The Rim of Morning

  william
sloane

  Introduction by Stephen King

  A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

  miron białoszewski

  Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine

  The Cretan Runner

  george psychoundakis

  Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor

  Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

  barbara comyns

  Introduction by Emily Gould

  A School for Fools*

  sasha sokolov

  Translated from the Russian by Alexander Boguslawski

  Dance to the Piper

  agnes de mille

  Introduction by Joan Acocella

  Anti-Education*

  friedrich nietzsche

  Edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon

  Translated from the German by Damion Searls

  The Seven Madmen*

  roberto arlt

  Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

  Introduction by Julio Cortázar

  2016

  Black Wings Has My Angel

  elliott chaze

  Introduction by Barry Gifford

  My Marriage*

  jakob wassermann

  Translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

  The Book of Blam

  aleksandar tiŠma

  Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Michael Henry Heim

  Introduction by Charles Simic

  More Was Lost

  eleanor perényi

  Introduction by J. D. McClatchy

  Really the Blues

  MEZZ MEZZROW and BERNARD WOLFE

  Introduction by Ben Ratliff

  English Renaissance Poetry

  Selected by John Williams

  Introduction by Robert Pinsky

  In the Café of Lost Youth*

  patrick modiano

  Translated from the French by Chris Clarke

  Young Once*

  patrick modiano

  Translated from the French by Damion Searls

  Hill*

  jean giono

  Translated from the French by Paul Eprile

  Introduction by David Abram

  Houses

  borislav pekić

  Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Bernard Johnson

  Introduction by Barry Schwabsky

  Paris Vagabond*

  jean-paul clébert

  Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

  Foreword by Luc Sante

  Photographs by Patrice Molinard

  A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky*

  mavis gallant

  Introduction by Peter Orner

  Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea*

  teffi

  Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, Irina Steinberg, and Anne Marie Jackson

  Introduction by Edythe Haber

  The Glory of the Empire

  jean d’ormesson

  Translated from the French by Barbara Bray

  Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

  Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me*

  teffi

  Edited by Robert Chandler and Anne Marie Jackson

  Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Rose France, and Anne Marie Jackson

  Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays*

  benjamin fondane

  Edited by Bruce Baugh

  Translated from the French by Bruce Baugh and Andrew Rubens

  Grand Hotel

  vicki baum

  Translated from the German by Basil Creighton, revised by Margot Bettauer Dembo

  Introduction by Noah Isenberg

  A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey

  sybille bedford

  Introduction by Bruce Chatwin

  The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

  d. g. compton

  Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer

  Zama*

  antonio di benedetto

  Translated from the Spanish and with a preface by Esther Allen

  Slow Days, Fast Company

  eve babitz

  Introduction by Matthew Specktor

  Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories*

  robert walser

  Translated from the German by Tom Whalen, with Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner

  Afterword by Tom Whalen

  His Only Son*

  leopoldo alas

  Translated from the Spanish and with an introduction by Margaret Jull Costa

  The Invisibility Cloak*

  ge fei

  Translated from the Chinese by Canaan Morse

  Back

  henry green

  Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg

  Loving

  henry green

  Introduction by Roxana Robinson

  Iza’s Ballad*

  magda szabó

  Translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction by George Szirtes

  Bright Magic: Stories*

  alfred döblin

  Translated from the German by Damion Searls

  Introduction by Günter Grass

  Notes on the Cinematograph

  robert bresson

  Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin

  Introduction by J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Schlump*

  hans herbert grimm

  Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

  Afterword by Volker Weidermann

  Caught

  henry green

  Introduction by James Wood

  The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers

  Edited and translated from the Japanese by Yoel Hoffmann

  Introduction by Dror Burstein

  The Return of Munchausen*

  sigizmund krzhizhanovksy

  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

  2017

  Samskara

  u. r. ananthamurthy

  Translated from the Kannada by A. K. Ramanujan

  Proensa: An Anthology of Troubador Poetry

  Selected and translated from the Occitan by Paul Blackburn

  Edited and with an introduction by George Economou

  Primitive Man as Philosopher

  paul radin

  Preface by Neni Panourgia

  Foreword by John Dewey

  Like Death*

  guy de maupassant

  Translated from the French by Richard Howard

  Ernesto*

  umberto saba

  Translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Estelle Gilson

  Blindness

  henry green

  Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

  Living

  henry green

  Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

  Party Going

  henry green

  Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri

  Making It

  norman podhoretz

  Introduction by Terry Teachout

  Down Below*

  leonora carrington

  Introduction by Marina Warner

  Family Lexicon*

  natalia ginzburg

  Translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee

  Introduction by Peg Boyers

  The Farm in the Green Mountains

  alice herdan-zuckmayer

  Translated from the German by Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington

  Introduction by Elisa Albert

  Notes of a Crocodile*

  qiu miaojin

  Translated from the Chinese by Bonnie Huie

  Arabia Felix: The Danish ­Expedition of 1761–1767

  thorkild hansen

  Translated from the Danish by James McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane

  Introduction by Colin Thubron

  The Violins of Saint-Jacques

  patrick leigh fermor


  Introduction by James Campbell

  A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

  sybille bedford

  Preface by Daniel Mendelsohn

  History is Our Mother: Three Libretti*

  alice goodman

  Introduction and historical notes by James Williams

  Late Fame*

  arthur schnitzler

  Translated from the German by Alexander Starritt

  Afterword by Wilhelm Hemecker and David Österle

  In a Lonely Place

  dorothy b. hughes

  Introduction by Megan Abbott

  Other Men’s Daughters

  richard stern

  Introduction by Philip Roth

  Afterword by Wendy Doniger

  Melville: A Novel*

  jean giono

  Translated from the French by Paul Eprile

  Introduction by Edmund White

  Katalin Street*

  magda szabó

  Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix

  The Communist*

  guido morselli

  Translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall

  Introduction by Elizabeth McKenzie

  Difficult Women

  david plante

  Introduction by Scott Spencer

  Uncertain Glory*

  joan sales

  Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush

  Foreword by Juan Goytisolo

  Doting

  henry green

  Introduction by Michael Gorra

  Nothing

  henry green

  Introduction by Francine Prose

  Blood Dark*

  louis guilloux

  Translated from the French by Laura Marris

  Introduction by Alice Kaplan

  The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick*

  elizabeth hardwick

  Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney

  Balcony in the Forest

  julien gracq

  Translated from the French and with a foreword by Richard Howard

  Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

  marina tsvetaeva

  Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

  2018

  The Memoirs of Two Young Wives*

  honore de balzac

  Translated from the French by Jordan Stump

  Introduction by Morris Dickstein

  Little Reunions*

  eileen chang

  Translated by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz

  The Juniper Tree

  barbara comyns

  Introduction by Sadie Stein

  All for Nothing*

  walter kempowski

  Translated from the German by Anthea Bell

  Introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck

  Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, 1768–1800*

  françois-rené de chateaubriand

  Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, and Marshall Yarbrough

  Introduction by Anka Muhlstein

  Berlin Alexanderplatz*

  alfred döblin

  Translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

  The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter*

  matei calinescu

  Translated from the Romanian by Adriana Calinescu and Breon Mitchell