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Room to Dream by David Lynch, Kristine McKenna

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, …

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)

During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …

Autobiography of red by Anne Carson, Anne Carson

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a …

Fair Play by Tove Jansson

Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, …

Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde, Eloghosa Osunde

Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, …

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Poet Akbar (Calling a Wolf a Wolf) explores the allure of martyrdom in this electrifying story of a Midwestern poet …

회복하는인간 by Han Kang (duplicate) (Pairinggwŏl edisyŏn Han'guk hyŏndae sosŏl = Bi-lingual edition modern Korean literature, #024)

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a …

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

The Gift of Rain is the first novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng. It was published in 2007 by …

Violets by Kyung-sook Shin, Anton Hur

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class to an agricultural camp. …

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover