(Links have been updated. Thanks for your patience.)
FICTION:
Aeschylus
The Persians
Leopoldo Alas
La Regenta
His Only Son
Ten Tales
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Ashes and Diamonds
Arrian
The Campaigns of Alexander
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Félix de Azúa
Diary of a Humiliated Man
Isaac Babel
Works of Isaac Babel
Pío Baroja
The Restlessness of Shanti Andía
The Lord of Labraz
The Tree of Knowledge
The Struggle for Life
The Quest
Weeds
Red Dawn
Christopher R. Beha
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
Andrei Bely
Petersburg
Roberto Bolaño
2666
Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog
Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
J. L. Carr
A Month in the Country
Collections (Fiction):
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Shadow-Line
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Sergio De La Pava
A Naked Singularity
Vlas Doroshevich
What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler
Alexandre Dumas
Edmund Kean: or, The Life of an Actor
The Red Sphinx
eBooks
A Trip of Goats, Kim Crawford
A Listening Thing, William Michaelian
Convergence, Christopher Turner
José Maria Eça de Queirós
The Maias
The Relic
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
Parade’s End
Harold Frederic
The Copperhead
Benito Pérez Galdós
Doña Perfecta
Fortunata and Jacinta
The Spendthrifts
Our Friend Manso
The Shadow
Torquemada
Tristana
“The Novel on the Tram”
Jean Genet
The Balcony
John Freeman Gill
The Gargoyle Hunters
Witold Gombrowicz
Ferdydurke
Pornografia
Princess Ivona
Trans-Atlantyk
Henry Green
Loving
Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Jiří Hájíček
Rustic Baroque
Jaroslav Hašek
The Good Soldier Švejk
Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Tales
Herodotus
The Histories
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Bohumil Hrabal
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
I Served the King of England
Too Loud a Solitude
Rambling on: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of Gab
Bruno Jasieński
I Burn Paris
Adam Johnson
The Orphan Master’s Son
James Joyce
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ernst Jüngerd
On the Marble Cliffs
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Imre Kertész
Fateless
Rudyard Kipling
Kim
The Man Who Would Be King
On the City Wall
Mihály Kornis
Kozma: A Tragedy
Jerzy Kosinski
Being There
László Krasznahorkai
Satantango
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
The Letter Killers Club
Gyula Krúdy
The Adventures of Sindbad
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Primo Levi
If This Is a Man
The Periodic Table
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Curzio Malaparte
Kaputt
The Volga Rises in Europe
The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
Jaime Manrique
Cervantes Street
Sándor Márai
Embers
Anatoly Mariengof
Cynics
A Novel Without Lies
Roger Martin du Gard
Jean Barois
Zachary Mason
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (and a note on the original edition)
Eduardo Mendoza
The Truth about the Savolta Case
The City of Marvels
Miklós Mészöly
Death of an Athlete
Andrea Molesini
Not All Bastards Are From Vienna
Zsigmond Móricz
Relations
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
István Örkény
One Minute Stories
The Flower Show / The Toth Family
Stevie in the Bloodbath
Harry Parker
Anatomy of a Soldier
Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits
Plato
Complete Works
Andrei Platonov
Chevengur
“Immortality”
J. F. Powers
Morte D’Urban
Emeric Pressburger
The Glass Pearls
Bolesław Prus
The Doll
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
Mozart and Salieri
The Little Tragedies
Władysław Stanisław Reymont
The Peasants
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Joseph Roth
The Radetzky March
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kean
Arthur Schnitzler
The Road to the Open
La Ronde
Bruno Schulz
Stories
William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale
Mikhail Shishkin
Maidenhair
The Light and the Dark
Two short stories: “Calligraphy Lesson” and “Of Saucepans and Star-Showers”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the First Circle
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Sophocles
Ajax
György Spiró
The Imposter
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Wilma Stockenström
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Italo Svevo
Zeno’s Conscience
Sándor Szathmári
Voyage to Kazohinia
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Address Unknown
Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War
Leo Tolstoy
Hadji Murad
Jáchym Topol
The Devil’s Workshop
Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now
Ivan Turgenev
First Love
A Sportsman’s Notebook
Fathers and Children
Mark Twain
King Leopold’s Soliloquy
Miguel de Unamuno
Mist
Unknown
Epic of Gilgamesh
Vladislav Vančura
Summer of Caprice
The End of the Old Times
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
The Eyewitness
Jarmila
Glenway Wescott
The Pilgrim Hawk
John Williams
Butcher’s Crossing
Stoner
Augustus
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
To The Lighthouse
Stefan Żeromski
The Faithful River
Short Stories and Collections
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (Collection)
Ten Tales by Leopoldo Alas
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (Collection)
What the Emperor Cannot Do by Vlas Doroshevich
“The Novel on the Tram” by Benito Pérez Galdós
Behind the Lines by Jaroslav Hašek
Dubliners by James Joyce
“Immortality” by Andrei Platonov
“Mozart and Salieri” by Alexander Pushkin
The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin
Stories by Bruno Schulz
“Calligraphy Lesson” and “Of Saucepans and Star-Showers” by Mikhail Shishkin
Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
NON-FICTION:
Essays
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
“Aes Triplex” by Robert Louis Stevenson
U.S. History
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Mourt’s Relation by George Morton, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Robert Cushman
Good Newes from New England by Edward Winslow
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (the first in a three-post series)
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne
The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial of the Civil War Dead by Meg Groeling
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves Edited by Clifton H. Johnson
William Goetzmann on My Confession: Reflections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain (C-SPAN video) and some of the links with Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
World History
The Histories by Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
Killing Eratosthenes: A True Crime Story from Ancient Athens by Debra Hamel
After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Ancient Athens by David Stuttard
Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire by James Romm
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
(and an excerpt of a review by Katie Low in The Oxonian Review)
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor
The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss and some thoughts on such a speculative history (before I knew about John Lewis Gaddis’ Landscape of History and Niall Ferguson’s Virtual History)
Catullus’ Bedspread by Daisy Dunn
The Death of Caesar by Barry Strauss
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
Off the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World by Erica Benner
A short review of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century and The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The Avignon Papacy Contested by Unn Falkeid
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man by Peter K. Andersson
Lost Children of the Empire: The Untold Story of Britain’s Child Migrants by Philip Bean and Joy Melville
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul R. Gregory
The Volga Rises in Europe by Curzio Malaparte
A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969 by Johanna Reiss
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard by Fan Shen
How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali and Ellis Henican
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Literary Nonfiction
Don Quixote’s Profession by Mark Van Doren
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man by Peter K. Andersson
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
Shakespeare in Swahililand by Edward Wilson-Lee
A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century by Benjamin Buford Williams
The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, edited by Michael Hofmann
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
Primo Levi’s Universe: A Writer’s Journey by Sam Magavern
Other Nonfiction
The Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi
Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni Lundy
The Painting of You by William Michaelian
To Know a Fly by Vincent Dethier
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Bluegrass Bluesman by Josh Graves
Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist by Iosif Shklovsky
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk by John Doe, with Tom DeSavia and Friends
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything Tim James