Books by Publication Date

(Books are ordered both by original publication date & publication date of the translation, when this is the case)

11th-century

c. 1002

1008 – 1010

  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki, by Murasaki Shikibu, tr. Richard Bowring, 2005 (紫式部日記 –Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, 1008-1010)
  • The Tale of Genji ((源氏物語 Genji monogatari), translated by (I) Arthur Waley (Tuttle Publishing, 2010, 1155 p.); (II) Edward G. Seidensticker (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 1224 p.); (III) Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2002, 1216 p.); (IV) Dennis Washburn’s (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 1360 p.);

1060

17th-century books

1681 – 1693

  • Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Works, Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. Edith Grossman , 2015 (Ballads 1-2, 24, 44, Redondillas 87, 91 – 92, Epigrams 93 – 97, Decimas 102-103, 106-107, 109, 125, Sonnets 145-149, 152, 164-165, 173, 177, 179, 186-189, 205, El divino Narciso – 1688,  Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz – 1691, Primero sueño – 1692)

18th-century books

1778

1788

19th-century books

1801

  • Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)

1818

1819 – 1820

  • Mathilda, by Mary Shelley (written between 1819 and 1820, and published posthumously in 1959)

1819 – 1866

1832

1836

1838 – 1851

1842

1846 – 1850

1847

1848

  • A Double Life, by Karolina Pavlova (1978/ 2019, tr. Barbara Heldt. Original: Двойная жизнь, 1848)
  • The Half-Sisters, by Geraldine Jewsbury (1848)

1852

1855

1856

1859

1861

1862

1863

  • City Folk and Country Folk,  by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, tr.  Nora Seligman Favorov, 2017 (Городские и деревенские, 1863)

1866

1868

1869

1870

1871-72

1872

1873

  • Tales for Christmas Eve, by Rhoda Broughton (1873, republished as Twilight Stories in 1879)

1876

1877

  • On a Pincushion and Other Fairy Tales, by Mary de Morgan (1877)

1878

  • An Itinerant House  by Emma Frances Dawson  (short story, first published in The Argonaut Magazine, in 1878)

1880

  • “Miss Grief” by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1880, short story)

1882

  • Weird Stories, by Charlotte Riddell (1882)

1883

1884

  • Jill, by Amy Dillwyn (1884)
  • Nihilist Girl, by Sofia Kovalevskaya, tr. Natasha Kolchevska and Mary Zirin (2001. Original: Нигилистка, 1884)

1886

  • A White Heron and Other Stories, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1886)

1888

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

  • Invisible Links, by Selma Lagerlöf, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (1899. Original: Osynliga länkar,1894)

1896

1897

1899

  • The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton (1899)
  • Invisible Links, by Selma Lagerlöf, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (1899. Original: Osynliga länkar,1894)
  • A Rainha do Ignoto, by Emília Freitas (1899, ‘Queen of Ignotus’)

20th-century books

1900’s

1900

1901

  • A Falência, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida (‘The Bankruptcy’, 1901)

1902

  • The Immoralist, by André Gide, tr. Dorothy Bussy (1930. Original: L’Immoraliste, 1902)
  • Moth and Rust by Mary Cholmondeley (1902)
  • Stories of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant (1902)

1903

1904

1905

1906

  • A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)

1908

1909

1910s

1910

  • The Last Summer, by Ricarda Huch (2016, tr.  Jamie Bulloch. Original: Der letzte Sommer, 1910)

1911

  • Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911)

1912

  • God’s Playthings, by Marjorie Bowen (1912)

1913

  • The Strange Cases of Dr Stanchon, by Josephine Daskam Bacon (1913)

1914

  • Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki, tr. Meredith McKinney, 2010 (こころ – Kokoro, 1914)

1915-1917

  • Pilgrimage I, by Dorothy Richardson
    • Pointed Roofs, 1915.
    • Backwater, 1916.
    • Honeycomb, 1917.

1917

  • Painted Clay, by Capel Boake (1917)
  • The Swine Gods and Other Visions, by Regina Miriam Bloch (1917)

1918

1920s

1920

1920 – 1933

1921

1922

1922 – 1935

1923

  • Body of this Death: Poems, by Louise Bogan (1923)
  • A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (1923)
  • The Shadowy Third and Other Stories, by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

1924

  • The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (1924)
  • The Home-Maker, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1924)
  • The Matriarch, by G. B. Stern (1924)
  • Naomi, by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, tr. Anthony H. Chambers, 2001 (痴人の愛 – Chijin no Ai, lit. A Fool’s Love, 1924)

1925

1926

1927

1927-1979

1928

1929

  • Isolde, by Irina Odoevtseva (2019, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg. Original: Изольда, 1929)
  • Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929)

1930s

1930

1931

  • Gilgi, by Irmgard Keun, tr. Geoff Wilkes, 2013 (Gilgi, eine von uns, 1931)

1932

1933

  • The Child Manuela, by Christa Winsloe, tr. Agnes Neill Scott (1994. Original: Das Mädchen Manuela, 1933, also known as Mädchen in Uniform)
  • Coyote Stories, by Mourning Dove, ed. Heister Dean Guie (1933)
    • “Chipmunk and Owlwoman” (short story. Also known as “Coyote kills Owlwoman” or “Owlwoman and Coyote”)
  • Frost in May, by Antonia White (1933)

1934

  • Crisis, by Karin Boye (tr. Amanda Doxtater, 2020. Original:  Kris, 1934)
  • De Verhalen, by Belcampo (1934)
  • A Sucessora (1934, ‘The Successor’), by Carolina Nabuco

1935

1936

1937

  • A Riot of Goldfish (also includes The Food Demon), by Kanoko Okamoto, translated by J. Keith Vincent (2010. Original: 金魚撩乱, Kingyo Ryōran, 1937/ 食魔, Shokuma, 1941)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

1938

  • Child of All Nations, by Irmgard Keun (2008, tr. Michael Hofmann. Original: Kind aller Länder, 1938)
  • The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
  • Manja, by Anna Gmeyner, tr. Kate Phillips, Persephone Books, 2003 (Manja: Ein Roman um 5 Kinder, 1938)
  • Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (1938)

1939

  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), by Katherine Anne Porter

1940s

1940

  • Mariana, by Monica Dickens (1940)

1940 – 1977

1941

  • A Riot of Goldfish (also includes The Food Demon), by Kanoko Okamoto, translated by J. Keith Vincent (2010. Original: 金魚撩乱, Kingyo Ryōran, 1937/ 食魔, Shokuma, 1941)

1942

  • The Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers, tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo. (2018. Original: Das siebte Kreuz, 1942)

1943

1944

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950s

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

  • The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
  • Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1983 (女面, Onna Men, 1958)
  • Oppression and Liberty, by Simone Weil, tr. Arthur Wills and John Petrie (1958. Original: Oppression et liberté – 1933-1943, 1955)
  • Parables and Paradoxes, by Franz Kafka (1958, edited by Nahum N. Glatzer)
  • A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (1958)

1959

  • A Jewish Mother from Berlin / Susanna, by Gertrud Kolmar (1997, tr. Brigitte M. Goldstein. Original: Eine Mutter/ Die jüdische Mutter, written in 1930/31, and first published posthumously in 1965/ Susanna, written in 1939/1940, and first published posthumously in 1959)
  • Mathilda, by Mary Shelley (written between 1819 and 1820, and published posthumously in 1959)
  • A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
  • The Vet’s Daughter, by Barbara Comyns (1959)

1960s

1961

1962

1963

1963-1988

1964

  • Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata, transl. by Howard Hibbett, 1996 (美しさと哀しみと – Utsukushisa to Kanashimi to, 1964)

1965

  • Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin, tr. Patsy Southgate, Patti Smith (1968. Original: L’Astragale, 1965)
  • A Jewish Mother from Berlin / Susanna, by Gertrud Kolmar (1997, tr. Brigitte M. Goldstein. Original: Eine Mutter/ Die jüdische Mutter, written in 1930/31, and first published posthumously in 1965/ Susanna, written in 1939/1940, and first published posthumously in 1959)
  • The Poems of Dylan Thomas (1965)
  • Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya, tr. Aline Werth, emended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1994. Original: Sofia Petrovna, written in 1939-40, and first published in 1965)
    • Also published as The deserted house, tr. Aline B. Werth. (1967)
  • Stoner, by John Williams (1965)

1966

1967

  • Childhood, by Tove Ditlevsen (2019, tr. Tiina Nunnally. Original: Barndom, 1967)
  • The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Ivan Morris (1967. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)

1968

  • Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin, tr. Patsy Southgate, Patti Smith (1968. Original: L’Astragale, 1965)
  • Nine Latin American Poets, ed. and tr. Rachel Benson (1968)
    • Sierra, by Alfonsina Storni (poem, tr. Rachel Benson)

1969

1970s

1970

1971

  • The Other Woman, by Colette (1971)
    • “The Secret Woman”, tr. Margaret Crosland (1924, La Femme Cachée, short story)

1972

  • The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger, by Rosmarie Waldrop (1972)
  • The Devastating Boys, by Elizabeth Taylor (1972)
  • Harriet Said…, by Beryl Bainbridge (written in 1958 and published in1972)

1973

1974

1976

1977

1978

  • The Black Unicorn,  by Audre Lorde (1978)
  • A Double Life, by Karolina Pavlova (1978/ 2019, tr. Barbara Heldt. Original: Двойная жизнь, 1848)
  • The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver (1978)
    • Mririda N’Ait Atiq: God hasn’t made room (poem, translated from Euloge’s version in French by Daniel Halpern and Paula Paley)
  • The Weight of Things, by Marianne Fritz, translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2015 (Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse, 1978)

1978 – 1979

  • Territory of Light, by Yūko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1978-1979)

1980s

1980

  • Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
  • A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

  • Lilies and Other Stories, by Ru Zhijuan (1985, ed. Gladys Yang, several translators)
  • Where the Apple Ripens and Other Stories, by Jessie Kesson (1985)

1987

  • Alfonsina Storni: Selected Poems, ed. Marion Freeman, tr. Marion Freeman, Mary Crow, Jim Normington, and Kay Short (White Pine Press, Secret Weavers Series, 1987)
  • The Door, by Magda Szabo, tr. Len Rix, 2005 (Az ajtó, 1987)
  • Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner, ed. Joyce Flynn and Joyce Occomy Stricklin (1987)
  • One Way of Love, by Gamel Woolsey (novel written in 1931-32, published in 1987)

1988

1989

1990s

1990

1991

  • A Kingdom of Souls, by Daniela Hodrová, tr. Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol (2015. Original: Podobojí, 1991)
  • The Laws, by Connie Palmen, tr. Richard Huijing (1993. De Wetten, 1991)
  • O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker (1991)
  • We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry, ed. and tr. Rukhsana Ahmad (Women’s Press, 1991)

1992

1993

1994

1995

  • Cantos do Canto , by Fiama Hasse Paes Brandao (1995)
  • The Rings of Saturn, by W. G. Sebald, tr. Michael Hulse (1998. Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt, 1995)

1996

1997

  • I dig into the heart a well of salt, by Al Berto (poem, first published in Filhos de Rimbaud, Revista Ler April 1997, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • A Jewish Mother from Berlin / Susanna, by Gertrud Kolmar (1997, tr. Brigitte M. Goldstein. Original: Eine Mutter/ Die jüdische Mutter, written in 1930/31, and first published posthumously in 1965/ Susanna, written in 1939/1940, and first published posthumously in 1959)
  • Love, by Hanne Ørstavik (2018, tr. Martin Aitkin. Original: Kjærlighet, 1997)
  • The Shell of Sense: Collected Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1997)

1998

1999

21st-century

2000s

2000

2001

  • Cosmétique de l’ennemi, by Amélie Nothomb (2001. The Enemy’s Cosmetique, not translated yet)
  • Nihilist Girl, by Sofia Kovalevskaya, tr. Natasha Kolchevska and Mary Zirin (2001. Original: Нигилистка, 1884)
  • Symphony in White, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2010 (Sinfonia em branco, 2001)

2002

2003

  • Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
  • The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century, Volume 3: Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain—20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets, ed. Régis Bonvicino, Michael Palmer, and Nelson Ascher (2003)
  • Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003
  • Swallow Summer, by Larissa Boehning, tr. Lyn Marven, 2016 (Schwalbensommer, 2003)

2004

  • Butterflies in November, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr. Brian FitzGibbon (2014. Original: Rigning í nóvember, 2004)
  • Lucidez Embriagada, by Hélio Pellegrino (2004)
  • Runaway, by Alice Munro, 2004

2005

2006

  • A Cidade Líquida e Outras Texturas, by Filipa Leal (2006)
  • Breathing into Marble, by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, tr. Marija Marcinkute, 2016 (Original: Kvėpavimas į marmurą, 2006)
  • Floating Clouds, by Fumiko Hayashi (2006, tr. Lane Dunlop. Original: 浮雲, 1951)
  • The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
  • Strange Beasts of China, by Yan Ge (2020, tr. Jeremy Tiang, novel. Original: 异兽志, 2006)
  • The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire, by Walter Benjamin, tr.Howard Eiland, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingston, and Harry Zohn  (2006)
    • “Baudelaire“, tr. Rodney Livingstone (1921-22, essay)

2007

2008

  • Adam and Evelyn, by Ingo Schulze, transl. John E. Woods, 2011 (Adam und Evelyn, 2008)
  • Child of All Nations, by Irmgard Keun (2008, tr. Michael Hofmann. Original: Kind aller Länder, 1938)
  • The God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza, tr. Christopher Hampton (2008. Original: Le dieu du carnage, 2007)
  • Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, by Susan Sontag 1947-1963 (2008)
  • Poems, Prose, and Letters, by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz (2008)
    • Questions of Travel (poem)
  • The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt (2008)
  • The Years, by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008)

2009

  • Bending the Bow: an anthology of African love poetry, ed. Frank M. Chipasula (2009)
    • Mririda N’Ait Atiq: The Brooch (poem, translated from Euloge’s version in French by Daniel Halpern and Paula Paley)
  • The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (2009;  2016)
  • Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie (2009)
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk (2018, tr.  Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Original: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, 2009)
  • My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems, by Alfonsina Storni, ed. and tr. Orlando Ricardo Menes (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009)
    • Siren (poem, tr. Orlando Ricardo Menes)
  • Sinuca embaixo d’água, by Carol Bensimon (2009)
  • Sons: Arranjo: Garganta,  by Ricardo Domeneck (2009)
    • Linear (poem, translated by Ricardo Domeneck)
  • A vida submarina, by Ana Martins Marques (2009)

2010s

2010

  • Annabel, by Kathleen Winter (2010)
  • Art in the Light of Conscience. Eight Essays on Poetry, by Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. Angela Livingstone (2010)
  • Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi (2018, tr. Marilyn Booth. Original: Sayyidat al-Qamar, 2010)
  • Crow Blue, by Adriana Lisboa (Bloomsbury. Translated by Alison Entrekin, 2013. Original title: Azul corvo, 2010)
  • Mulher ao  Mar, by Margarida Vale de Gato (2010)
  • Palabras in Each Fist, by Rebecca Balcarcel (2010)
  • A Riot of Goldfish (also includes The Food Demon), by Kanoko Okamoto, translated by J. Keith Vincent (2010. Original: 金魚撩乱, Kingyo Ryōran, 1937/ 食魔, Shokuma, 1941)
  • Shape of Time, by Doris Kareva, tr. Tiina Aleman (2010. Original: Aja kuju, 2005)
  • “Sobre a Arte Contemporânea” (‘On Contemporary Art’), by César Aira (2010)

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

  • The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2019, tr. Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre. Original: Las aventuras de la China Iron, 2017)
  • A Change of Time, by Ida Jessen (2019, tr. Martin Aitken. Original: En ny tid, 2015)
  • Childhood, by Tove Ditlevsen (2019, tr. Tiina Nunnally. Original: Barndom, 1967)
  • Controle, by Natália Borges Polesso (2019, ‘Control’, not translated yet)
  • A Double Life, by Karolina Pavlova (1978/ 2019, tr. Barbara Heldt. Original: Двойная жизнь, 1848)
  • Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911)
  • Isolde, by Irina Odoevtseva (2019, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg. Original: Изольда, 1929)
  • Kallocain, by Karin Boye (2019, tr. David McDuff. Original: 1940)
  • A revolta do poema, by Guilherme Gontijo Flores (2019, essay)
  • Spring, by Ali Smith (2019)

2020s

2020

2021