Books Read, October 8-November 10

October

251. Rikki Ducornet, The Fountains of Neptune

252. Charles de Lint, The Ivory and the Horn

253. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

254. Kenneth R. Overberg, Into the Abyss of Suffering: A Catholic View

255. Albert Camus, The Stranger

256. M. John Harrison, Nova Swing

257. Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

258. Ernesto Sabato, La resistencia

259. Jorge Luis Borges, Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos

260. José Saramago, Las pequeñas memorias

261. Shaun Tan, The Arrival

262. Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword

263. Enki Bilal, The Hunting Party

264. M. Rickert, Map of Dreams

265. Dave Eggers, What is the What

266. Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

267. Steven Erikson, The Lees of Laughter’s End

268. Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aguirre (eds.), Leviathan Three

269. Zoran Živković, Impossible Stories

270. James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

271. Michael Cisco, Secret Hours

272. Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

273. Stephen King, Lisey’s Story

274. Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

275. Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversación en La Catedral

276. Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss

277. Jannic Durand, Byzantine Art

278. Michael Cisco, The Traitor

279. Dave Eggers, et al. (eds.), Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of Today’s Teachers

280. Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

281. Umberto Eco, On Ugliness

November

282. Sheree R. Thomas (ed.), Dark matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

283. Edward P. Jones, The Known World

284. Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, A Companion to Wolves

285. Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan’s Tale: In the Cities of Coin and Spice

286. K.J. Parker, Devices and Desires

287. Foreest Aguirre (ed.), Leviathan 4

288. Sarah Monette, The Bone Key

289. Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

290. Umberto Eco, Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation

291. Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows

292. Edward Whittemore, Jericho Mosaic

293. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (French)

294. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, A Kis Herceg (Hungarian)

295. Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler (re-read)

296. Italo Calvino, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (Italian)

297. Italo Calvino, Ako jedne zimske noći neki putnik (Serbian)

298. Mario Vargas Llosa, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto

299. Alan deNiro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead

300. Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

In this round, I read 42 books published in English/English translation, 4 in Spanish, and 1 each in Italian, French, Serbian, and Hungarian. This brings the year-to-date totals (counting #301 and #302 to be published in the year-end edition) to 163 books in English, 125 in Spanish, 4 in Serbian, 3 in Italian, 2 in French, 2 in Latin, and 1 each in German, Hungarian, and Portuguese.