Or at least the ones on two lists by Writers No One Reads and The Millions that have caught my attention (there are others elsewhere that I won't list here). Not in alphabetical order, but roughly chronological from one list and then the other (some I already own in other editions or plan on buying in their original languages):
January:
Yoko Ogawa, Revenge
February:
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Georges Perec, La Boutique Obscure
Aron Grunberg, Tirza
Maurice Sendak, My Brother's Book
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then
Manil Suri, The City of Devi
Ron Rash, Nothing Gold Can Stay (OK, I'm so totally thinking of Ponyboy here)
March:
William Gass, Middle C
Robert Desnos, Liberty or Love! and Morning for Mourning
Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts
Vladimir Nabokov, The Tragedy of Mr. Morn (US edition; UK out already)
April:
Italo Calvino, Letters 1941-1985
Elfriede Jelinek, Her Not All Her
Agnieszka Kuciak, Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don't Exist
Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely
Ma Jian, The Dark Road
Robert Perišic, Our Man in Iraq
May:
Adam Bodor, The Sinistra Zone
Imre Kertesz, Dossier K
Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Benjamin Percy, Red Moon
Ramona Ausubel, A Guide to Being Born
A. Igoni Barrett, Love is Power, or Something Like That
June:
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Advice of 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic (the flip side of an early Robert Bolaño book, written by a close friend and co-founder of infrarealismo)
László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below
Ror Wolf, Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions
Samuel Beckett's Echo's Bones
Stephen Romer (ed.), French Decadent Tales
Colum McCann, Transatlantic
Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and Woods
Steven Dixon, His Wife Leaves Him
Rawi Hage, Carnival
Joseph McElroy, Cannonball
July:
Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone (2600 pages!)
Marguerite Duras, L'Amour
Almantas Samalavicius (ed.), The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature
August:
Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Edwidge Danticat, Clare of the Sea-Light
Date Not Yet Set:
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
Emil Hakl, The Witch's Flight
Bruno Jasienski, The Legs of Izolda Morgan
While I doubt I'll buy/read all 44 of these listed books by year's end, I certainly will try to read as many of them as I can, time/energy/money willing. Oh, and that's leaving aside several others that I will get in Spanish or Italian or already own in Spanish. Not a bad start to the year, anticipation wise. Knowing that this is but the tip of the iceberg makes it even better for me.
January:
Yoko Ogawa, Revenge
February:
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Georges Perec, La Boutique Obscure
Aron Grunberg, Tirza
Maurice Sendak, My Brother's Book
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then
Manil Suri, The City of Devi
Ron Rash, Nothing Gold Can Stay (OK, I'm so totally thinking of Ponyboy here)
March:
William Gass, Middle C
Robert Desnos, Liberty or Love! and Morning for Mourning
Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts
Vladimir Nabokov, The Tragedy of Mr. Morn (US edition; UK out already)
April:
Italo Calvino, Letters 1941-1985
Elfriede Jelinek, Her Not All Her
Agnieszka Kuciak, Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don't Exist
Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely
Ma Jian, The Dark Road
Robert Perišic, Our Man in Iraq
May:
Adam Bodor, The Sinistra Zone
Imre Kertesz, Dossier K
Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Benjamin Percy, Red Moon
Ramona Ausubel, A Guide to Being Born
A. Igoni Barrett, Love is Power, or Something Like That
June:
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Advice of 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic (the flip side of an early Robert Bolaño book, written by a close friend and co-founder of infrarealismo)
László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below
Ror Wolf, Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions
Samuel Beckett's Echo's Bones
Stephen Romer (ed.), French Decadent Tales
Colum McCann, Transatlantic
Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and Woods
Steven Dixon, His Wife Leaves Him
Rawi Hage, Carnival
Joseph McElroy, Cannonball
July:
Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone (2600 pages!)
Marguerite Duras, L'Amour
Almantas Samalavicius (ed.), The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature
August:
Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Edwidge Danticat, Clare of the Sea-Light
Date Not Yet Set:
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
Emil Hakl, The Witch's Flight
Bruno Jasienski, The Legs of Izolda Morgan
While I doubt I'll buy/read all 44 of these listed books by year's end, I certainly will try to read as many of them as I can, time/energy/money willing. Oh, and that's leaving aside several others that I will get in Spanish or Italian or already own in Spanish. Not a bad start to the year, anticipation wise. Knowing that this is but the tip of the iceberg makes it even better for me.
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Jelinek = yuck, far as I'm concerned. But I have a question, if you don't mind: is Marisha Pessl any good?
I didn't mind The Piano Teacher, so I guess tastes vary? :P
Haven't read anything by Pessl, so I can't say. The premise is what struck me (I think I took it from the second link, but I'm not for certain).
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