Travis Meyer
Best of the Year
Satantango Laszlo K
Manifold Destiny - Rick from Only Fans
Darconville’s Cat - no comment :)
Jerusalem - Alan Moore
Under the Volcano
Unidentified man at left of photo - Jeff Bursey
Richard Braugitan - The Abortion
The Luminous Novel - Levrero
Lost Empress - Sergio De La Pava
Next year
Franzen - Crossroads
Louis Armand - The Combinations
The Pale King
7 Dreams
Anatomy of Melancholy
Solenoid
Theroux
Alan More
Adam Levin - Mt Chicago
Ben Diamond - London
Best of the Year
Companion Piece - Ali Smith
Courtneay S Gray
Best of the Year
Hating Olivia - Mark SaFranko
The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg
Bright Lights Big City -JAY McInnerny
RoadSide Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Jen Craig
Best of the Year
Wall - coming out through Zerogram and Puncher and Wattman
Emily Hall - The Longcut
Mauro Javier Cardenes - Aphasia
Gabriel Blackwell - Doomtown
Geoffrey De Morriosn - Falling Hour
Bon and Lesley - Shaun Prescott
Is Mother Dead - Vigdis Hjorth
Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
Laslo K - War and War
Daniel Davis Wood
Splice Submissions are open!
Best of the Year
Grimmish - mention nick from eleventh volume’s review
The Longcut - Emily Hall
Paul Stanbridge - My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is (want to read this and have Forbidden Line on my desk)
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Brian Dillon - Affinities
JM Coetzee - New novel 2023 The Pole
Wall - Jen Craig 2023 - repeated recommendation
Jon Fosse - Melancholy 1 and 2 from Fitzcaraaldo
Lanark - New edition of Poor Things (Dalkey) - ALAISTAIR GRAY
Sara Lippman - Lech
Best of the Year
Human Blues - Elisa Albert
Peter Orner - Still No Word From You
Dinosaurs Lydia Millet
Samantha Hunt - The Unwritten Book /The Seas
Steve Almond - All The Secrets of The World
Master and Margarita
Is This All there is - Marcel Heath
Shape Shifting - Michelle Ross
How We Disappear - Tara Lynn Masih
Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
Morgan Talty - Night of the Living Rez
Looking forward to
Before All the World - Moriel Rothman-Zecher
The Enhancers - Anne K Yoder
The Consolation - Deborah Shapiro
Seth Rogoff - The Kirschenbaum Lectures
Sidle Creek Jolene McIlwain
The Snow Leopard - Peter Mathiesen
The Severed Head - Iris Murcdoch
Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
Mark A Henry
Best of the Year
Meiselman by Avner Landes
New book by Him
The Honolulu Situation 2023
Max Lawton
2022 Highlights
Proust (all of ISoLT) - Meh “Proust Sucked” - Wasn’t illuminating, but worth reading
Henry James - Wings of the Dove, The Sacred Fount (more blown away than proust and Ezra Pound loved these)
Solenoid (duh - he blurbed it)
The Passenger - Cormac Mcarthy (doesnt get wy people didnt like it. “Elder statesmen” - piss taken straight into the mouth of death) - Love this comment
Régis Jauffret - Micro fictions (disgusting old fashioned extremity, in the vein of Gyotat)
Hated the new Houllebeq :O - I seriously hope he is wrong !
Orhan Pamulk - New novel
Peter Nadas - Horror Stories
Sorokin (his lib daddy XD)
Blake Butler - Aanex (“Getting fucked in the brain like T4H” - sorta like Yes!!!! Finnegans Wake mixed with William Gibson)
Lapvona
Looking forward to in 2023
Polol - Bootes in Spanish - UT review - READ IT - he translated it himself
Iain Sinclair - new book (MAJOR BLINDSPOT FOR ME) - READ DOWNRIVER number one on my list for 2023 blind spots
- the best english language prose stylist since joyce, and andrei agrees
BEE - New novel the Shards (first novel in 13 years)
2 Knausgaard books ( Sequel to the morningstar and out of the world)
New collection of Sorokin short fiction from Max
New Littel - Non-fiction
Adam Levin
Best Reads from 2022
Emperor’s Tomb Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hoffmann)
Forthcoming (2023) The Splendid Ticket by Bill Cotter
Looking Forward To
No One Left to Come Looking For You by Sam Lipsyte
Forthcoming Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good
McSweeney’s two volume paperback reissue of the instructions spring/summer next year!
David Keenan
Monument Maker out in America in 2023 !!!!
Piamon -
Picks of 2022
Too Much of Life Clarise Lispector
DBC Pierre - Big Snake Little Snake
Pougemahone - Patrick Macabe
The Lascaux Notebooks - Jean-luc Champerret
James Birch - Bacon in Moscow
Modiano - The Black Notebook
Brian Moore - An Answer From Limbo
2023
Richard Milwood - Man Eating Typewriter
Part 2
Gabriel Blackwell and Elijah Moss
Gabriel’s Highlights:
Elfriede Jelinek - Greed
Dog Solstadt’s Armand V
Jon Fosse - Septology
All of Jon Fosse’s Fiction - Boathouse, Alas at the Fire
Hélène Gaudy- A World Without no Shore
The Observant - Ravi Mangla
Adam McComber- Fantasy Kit
Elijah Moss:
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
2666 - Bolano
The Tunnel - Gass
Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov
Ulysses - Joyce
Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus -
Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Letter of Humanism by Heidegger
John Hawkes - The Cannibal, The Lime Twig,
City of Glass - Paul Auster
Gabriel Looking Forward to:
Kathryn Gammon - The Martyrs The Lovers
Jenn Craig’s Wall
Miss Macintosh My Darling
Elijah Looking forward to
Clarice Lispector - Complete Collection
Infinite Jest
The Combinations by Louis Armand
Middle C by William H Gass (reread)
Gravity’s Rainbow
Iain Smith
Best Reads from 2022
The Logos by Mark De Silva
Waypoint - By Adam Ouston
St Sebastians Abyss - Mark Haber
Rodrigo Fresan (the Remembered Part)
Antagony - Goytisolo
Doomtown by Gabriel Blackwell
Mount Chicago by Adam Levin
Solenoid Cartarescu
Others (non 2022)
Bubblegum by Adam Levin
Monument Maker David Keenan
2023 Looking Forward To
The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol
Summa Kaotica by Ventura Amettler
Marshland - Otohiko Kaga (trans, Albert Novac) - 960 pages
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante (NYRB July next year)
Michael Winkler
Grimmish out in America through Coachhouse and in the UK through Peninsula in 2023
Highlights;
Ryan O’Connor - The Voids
Trainlord - Oliver Mol
Hold your Fire Chloe Wilson
She is Haunted - Paige Clarke
Beth Spencer - The Age of Fibs
Adam Ouston - Waypoints
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Limberlost - Robbie Arnott
2023 looking forward to
Prince Harry
Wall - Jen Craig
Robert Skinner - I’d Rather Not
Avner Landes
Highlights
Curzio Malaparte - The Skin
Looking forward to
Tomas Nevison - Javier Marias
Megan McDowell
Best Reads from 2022
Jawbone - Monica Ojeda (trans. Sarah Booker)
Isaac Fitzgerald - Dirtbag Massachusettes (non fic)
Safari by Pablo Toro (untranslated) -
Daniela Catrileo - Piñen
Notable Works from Megan (trans)
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 2023 in the US - Hogarth
Austral by Carlos Fonseca - FSG
Ten by Juan Omar-Diaz
Peter Orner
Best Reads from 2022
Sarah Lippmann’s Jerks (2022)
Mothers and Dogs Fabio Morobito - short stories (2023) (trans Curtis Bower)
The Disappeared by Andrew Porter - short stories (2023)
Whatever happened to Interracial love by Kathleen Collins (stories)
Mother of Sorrows Richard McCann
Elizabeth talent - Mendocino Fire
Karl Y (from Germany)
Highlight Reads from 2022
Laszlo Kraszanhorkai - Seiobo There Below + Herscht 07769
Looking forward to next year
Wrapping up group read of Schattenfroh - Michael Lentz
Josh Doughty
Highlights from 2022
The Corrections by Franzen
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (wants to read it in a linear fashion rather than the hopscotch fashion)
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine (found it sad, not funny)
Unidentified Man at Left of Photo by Jeff Bursey
Mystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh
Looking Forward to in 2023
Non fiction and philosophy reading (Aristotle)
William T Vollmann Imperial
Jeff Bursey
More Steven Moore
Bram Presser
Hex - Jenny Fagin
Canzone di Guerra - Daša Drndić
Andrea Maria Schenkel - Dark Meadow
Waypoints - Adam Ouston
Hydra - Adriane Howell
Signal Line - Brendan Colley
Gentleman Overboard - Clyde Lewis
Cold Enough For Snow - Jessica Au
New Directions - Story Books
Looking forward to
Solenoid
Septology - Fosse
City of Torment - Daniela Hodrová
Jernigan - David Gates
Mountain to The North ect - Laszlo K
Eduardo Halfon - Cáncion
Part 3
Ryan O’Connor - Author of the Voids
Picks of 2022
Collected Fiction - Murnane
Collected Fiction - Bruno Shultz
Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
Reality Hunger - David Sheilds
Henry Miller - Wisdom of the Heart
Russel Hoban - Ridley Walker
Oscar Wilde - De Profundis
Clarise Lispector - Agua Viva
Pynchon CL40
Cendras - Confessions of Dan Yak
Dermott Healy - Sudden Times
The Goat Song
The Orange Eats Creeps- Grace Krilanovich
Ben Marcus - Age of Wire and String
Mike McCormack- Solar Bones
Fernada Melchor - Hurricane Season
Pougemahone - Patrick McCabe
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Planning to read in 2023
Solenoid
Dhalgren
Waypoints
David Keenan
Ezra Maas
Lazlo K
Thomas Moore
Picks of 2022
Stricture - Isabelle Nicou
Zealous immaculate - Audrey Szasz
100 Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell
In 2023 -
Your Dreams - Thomas Moore
New book by Audrey Szasz
New Brett Easton Ellis
Emily Hall
2022 highlights
Bolano by Night in Chile
Anna Kavan - Ice
Jen Craig - Wall
2023
Anne Truett - Diaries
Jack Lowery - It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful
A Furious Oyster- Jessica Sequeira
Women in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
Rikki Ducornet
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Lands - Thomas Haliday
David Leo Rice
2022 highlights
Solenoid - Book of the year
Opperation Shylock - Roth
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Hurricane Season - Melchor
63: Dream Palace - James Purdy
Motor Spirit - Jarett Kobeck
The Gospel Singer - Harry Cruz
A Scanner Darkly - PKD
A Strangeness in My Mind - Orhan Palmuk
The Black Maybe - Attilla Veres
2023
Agota Kristóf - New translation
Tono the Infallible - Evelio Rosero
The Shards - BEE
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Septology - Fosse
A Different Darkness - Luigi Musolino
The Autodidacts - Thomas Kendall
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
On the Marble Cliffs - Ernst Jünger
Dustin Illingworth
Solenoid
Miette from Whiskey Tit Press
Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche - Vi Khi Nao
Ben Slotky
The Book of the Most Precious Substance - Sara Gran
City on Fire - Don Winslow
Reptile Memoirs - Silje Ulstein
Shifty's Boys - Chris Offutt
Goering's Gold- Richard O’Rawe
The Devil takes you home -Gabino Iglesias
Self-Portrait with Nothing
Book by Aimee Pokwatka
Looking forward to in 2023
New Maurizio De Giovanni
New Cormac McCarthy novels
Dave From Chatting Lit
Picks of 2022
Hometime Blues - Archie Thorn
Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas - Rick Harsch
Any Day You Can Die - Thommy Waite
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
This is Not Who I am - Emily Bootal
Looking Forward to
New Cormac McCarthy Books
Sean McCallum
Picks of 2022
White People on Vacation - Alex Miller
The Topeka School - Ben Learner
Underworld Don DeLillo
Looking forward to in 2023
Solenoid
David Keenan books
Julie Kuvakos (@juliemichellereads)
Favourite Reads from 2022
Infinite Jest by DFW
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Looking forward to in 2023
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (couldn’t finish it this year and wants to pick it up again next year)
The Instructions by Adam Levin
The Pale King by DFW
Sophie (@_goldenhourbooks)
Favourite Reads of 2022
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (“Motherhood is insane but it’s not shit.”)
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (“you end up reading the book upside down to make sense of it”)
Pew by Catherine Lacey (“A humour I can’t put my finger on but would like more of”)
The pumpkin Eater- Penelope Mortimer (“Sharp and juicy.”)
Saving Agnes - Rachel Cusk (“the foie Gras of the book world.”)
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (“wonderful, whacky, and just so Saunders”)
Sightseeing - Rattawut Lapcharoensap (“Touching and does something different to anything I have read before.”) Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin (“It’s Baldwin, it’s Paris, it’s love, it’s madness…how could you not”)
Department of Speculation- Jenny Offil (“Plenty of ‘YES, that’s EXACTLY how you describe it moments”)
McGlue - Ottessa Moshfegh (“It’s trim and brutal…paired perfectly with a 21 year aged scotch”)
Looking forward to read in 2023
Jean Rhys - Collected Short Stories
George Orwell - Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Toni Morrison - Sula
Edward St Aubyn - Nevermind (I knew this had to be a bazfiction pick)
Daniel from @electricsheepbooks and @theholonproject
Favourite Reads from 2022
The Broom of the System by DFW
The Infant King by George Salis (best short story he ever read, from the golden handcuffs review)
BookTubeHighlights
@SherdsTube + @wastemailinglist
Looking Forward to in 2023
John Copper Powles (read a Glastonbury Romance last year)
You Bright and Risen Angels from Vollmann (plus media content)
Kevin Adams (@hvbooknerd) From Poughkeepsie New York
BTZ Highlights
Sean Cotter
Highlight Reads
The Logos by Mark De Silva
Ezra Maas by Daniel James
Rodrigo Fresan Part Trilogy
Looking Forward to in 2023
Antagony
Bradley Clacy from Melbourne (@blackbooksmelbourne)
Top 2 Reads from 2022
Clarice Lispector The Breath of Life (Wrote on her Deathbed)
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (New Sincerity)
Honourable Mentions (2022)
Larry Mitchell - The Faggots and their friends
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonaughts
Kandinsky Considering the Spiritual
Luigi Pirandello’s One No One and One Hundred Thousand
2023 Looking Forward to
Audrey Lord’s Poetry and Prose
Matty Markwood (The Obliterature Himself)
Best Reads from 2022
#1. A Frolic of His Own
Fathers & Crows Vollmann
Messiah of Stockholm
The NY Trilogy
Omensetters Luck
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Savage Detectives
Universal Baseball Association Incorperated
Letters by John Barth
Valis by Philip K Dick
Honourable Mention: Dhalgren
Looking Forward to in 2023
Ada or Ardor Nabokov
JCO’s Blonde
Finish Vollmann’s Sex Work Trilogy
Finish Robert Coover’s work
More Paul Auster, Nabokov, Angela Carter
Cormac McCarthy’s 2 New Books
Alexander Theroux + Joseph McElroy
Phillip Freedenberg from Buffalo New York (also known as the Unified Field)
Favourite Reads from 2022
Louis Armand - The Combinations
Thomas The Obscure- Maurice Blanchot
Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels - Arkadiusz Misztal
Adam Levin - Mt Chicago
The Logos
Hidden Camera- Zoren Živković
Madeline Gins - The Saddest Thing is That I have had to Use Words
Open House- Hannah Weiner
Buy one Get one Free Mark A Douglas
Torn Veil - Gregory R Marshall - This sounds great
In The Land of Men -Adrianne Miller
The Exile The Matriarch and The Flood - William M. Brandon III
Rat Veda - James Chapman
In The Theatre of Conciousness - Bernard Baars
Alexander Michael - Everything is Summer
Tex Grehsam - Sunflower /This is strange June
Walter Abish - Alphabetical Africa
Ezra Maas
Solenoid
2023 !
Bottom’s Dream
A Pastoal - Lee D Thomson
A Bended Circuity by RSS
Maxwell’ Demon- Steven Hall
Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga
Panpsychism in the West - David Skrbina
Consciousness Primary? Perspectives from the Founding Members of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences by Gary Schwartz and Marjorie H. Woollacott
Art and Physics - Leonard Shlein
Sunshine on an Open Tomb - Kinsella
The Electromagnetic Brain - Shelly Joy
Everything is Cinema - Goddard
Writing The Museum of General Ideas follow up to Cactus Boots.
Zachary Tanner from Louisiana
Favourite Reads from 2022
George Eliot’s Romola
Gaddis - JR
Fuentes’ Terra Nostra
Books 5-9 of Outlander
Ronald Firbank Caprice
2023 Looking Forward To
Baron Corvo
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Adam Bede /Middlemarch
Novels by PKD
Sense and Sensibility
The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg
The Olive of Minerva
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Magic Mountain
Argall /The Rifles
Middlemarch
Sense and Sensibility
Bottoms Dream
Pynchon reread - GR or ATG
Road to Reality
Black Holes and Time Warps
Veronica from @YumYumIceCream on Instagram
Favourite Novel/all time work of literature from 2022
Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
New translation by Jamie Grieve of Swann’s Way coming out in may from NYRB
Looking Forward to in 2023
Moby Dick
Infinite Jest
Mid-20’s Century English women writers - Elizabeth Owen, Elizabeth Taylor, and Elizabeth Von Arnem
Nick Brodie @brodie.Nich
Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Meenu Ola @demeenis
Highlights for 2022
All of Pynchon
The Recognitions - Gaddis
Ulysses - Joyce
Ben’s Picks from 2022
Pougemahone Patrick McCabe
Ezra Maas - Daniel James
Industry of Magic of Light David Keenan
Canćion - Halfon
The Logos
Solenoid
Our Share of Night
Mt Chicago
Cercas - Even The Darkest Night
Aannex
Blindspots 2022
New Cormac McCarthy
Septology - Fosse
Antagony
New Alan Moore collection
Fresan - The Dreamed Part and the remembered part
Looking forward to 2023
New Andrés Neuman - Bariloche March
New Houellebecq - Hope it is not as shit as Max says
New Javier Marias - Thomas Nevison
The Deluge - Markley
Garden of 7 twilights
New Sergio de la pava !
New Avner Landes
New Daniel Davis Wood
New Vollmann - Table for Fortune
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
Seth
2022 Releases – Personal Favourites:
Everything on my YouTube Channel (including several 2022 releases)
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)
(Still reading) The Human Rights Anthology edited by Philip Best
Features short stories by Blake Butler, Audrey Szasz, Shane Jesse Christmas, Thomas Moore, and many more
- Andrea Victrix by Llorenc Villalonga (trans. P. Louise Johnson)
2022 Blind Spots – Excited for:
Aannex by Blake Butler
Doom Town by Gabriel Blackwell
Mount Chicago by Adam Levin
Additional Back Catalogue Highlight Reads from 2022
Bosun by New Juche
Wagnerism by Alex Ross (2022)
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Looking Forward to in 2023:
Antagony by Luis Goytisolo translated by Brendan Riley
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
The Schocken edition of Kafka’s Unabridged Diaries (trans. Ross Benjamin)
The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol (trans. Adrian Nathan West)
Plans for 2023
I want more people to discover Laszlo Krasznahorkai- -
Schattenfroh translation contract (Max Lawton & Matthias Friedrich)
Convincing Max to translate Bootes by Palol