(Books are ordered alphabetically by original publication date)

• 11th-century
• 17th-century
• 19th-century
• 20th-century
  • 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s
• 21st-century
  • 2000s | 2010s

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11th-century

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.);
  • Reading notes on Tyler’s translation:
    • Chapters 1 to  8

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1060

• Sarashina Nikki (更級日記)
  • The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan,  tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki, 2014
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, tr. Ivan Morris, 1971

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)

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19th-century books

1818

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818)

1819 – 1820

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

1819 – 1866

• Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, by Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Kenneth J Fielding & David R Sorensen (2004)

1832

• Valentine, by George Sand (1832)

1847

• Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë (1847)

1862

• Goblin Market and Other Poems,  by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  • A Birthday (poem, first published in the Macmillan’s Magazine, 1861)

1863

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

1866

• Miss Marjoribanks, by Margaret Oliphant (1866)

1872

• The Runaway, by Elizabeth Anna Hart (1872)

1890

• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1890)
  • To fill a Gap (poem)
  • Absent Place — an April Day — (poem)

1897

• The Blood of the Vampire, by Forence Marryat (1897)

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20th-century books

1900’s

• Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)

1910s

1914

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

1918

• The Heart of a Woman, by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918)
  • The Heart of a Woman (poem)
  • The Measure (poem)

1920s

1920

• Fear, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2010 (Angst, 1920)

1920 – 1933

• What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933, by Joseph Roth, trans. by Michael Hofmann, 2002.

1921

• Vigils, by Aline Murray Kilmer (1921)
  • Shards (poem)
  • To Sappho, About Her Apple (poem)

1922

• Bronze, by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922)
  • Old Black Men (poem)
  • Cosmopolite (poem)
• Elders, by Louise Bogan (poem, first published in Poetry Magazine August, 1922)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman,  by Stefan Zweig, translated by Paul Eden and Paul Cedar, 1999 (Brief einer Unbekannten,1922)

1923

• Body of this Death: Poems, by Louise Bogan (1923)
  • Medusa (poem)
• A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (1923)

1924

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

1926

• Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)

1927

• Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea, by Vita Sackville-West (1927)
• Dusty Answer, by Rosamond Lehmann (1927)
• Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2003 (Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau, 1927)
• The Wandering Jews, by Joseph Roth, tr. Michael Hofmann, 2000 (Juden auf Wanderschaft, 1927)

1927-1979

• The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (1983)
  • The Man-Moth, by Elizabeth Bishop (poem)

1928

• Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (1928)
• Quicksand, by Nella Larsen (1928)

1930s

1930

• The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West (1930)

1931

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

1933

• Frost in May, by Antonia White (1933)

1934

• De Verhalen, by Belcampo (1934)
  • The Triumph of Love II (short-story)

1936

• Deborah, by Esther Kreitman, tr. Maurice Carr, 1946 (Der Shaidim Tantz, 1936)
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936)
• Novel on Yellow Paper, by Stevie Smith (1936)

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)

1940s

1940

• Mariana, by Monica Dickens (1940)

1940 – 1977

• The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, tr. Katrina Dodson (New Directions/ Penguin Classics, 2015. Stories published from 1940 to 1977)
  • The Triumph & Obsession

1944

• Cluny Brown, by Margery Sharp (1944)
• There Were No Windows, by Norah Hoult (1944)
• Transit, by Anna Seghers, tr. by Margot Bettauer Dembo, 2013 (Transit, 1944)

1946

• The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward (1946)
• The Street, by Ann Petry (1946)

1947

• A View of the Harbour, by Elizabeth Taylor (1947)
• Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
• The Blank Wall, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1947)
• Hetty Dorval, by Ethel Wilson (1947)
• Steeple Bush, by Robert Frost (1947)
  • Directive

1948

• The Foolish Gentlewoman, by Margery Sharp (1948)

1949

• Two Worlds and Their Ways, by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1949)

1950s

1950

• The World My Wilderness, by Rose Macaulay (1950)

1951

• A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor (1951)
• My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

1952

• Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym (1952)

1953

• The Charioteer, by Mary Renault (1953)

1954

• The Bird’s Nest, by Shirley Jackson (1954)
• Collected Poems, 1923-1953, by Louise Bogan (1954)
  • A Tale (poem)
  • Fifteenth Farewell (poem)
  • Knowledge (poem)
  • Putting to Sea (poem)
  • Sub Contra (poem)
• Vergezichten en gezichten, by M. Vasalis  (1954)
  • Ebb (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)

1955

• The Simple Truth, by Elizabeth Hardwick (1955)
• The Winds of Heaven, by Monica Dickens (1955)

1956

• Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin (1956)
• Tea at Four O’Clock, by Janet McNeill (1956)

1957

• Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith (1957)

1958

• The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
• Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1983 (女面, Onna Men, 1958)
• Parables and Paradoxes, by Franz Kafka (1958, edited by Nahum N. Glatzer)
  • The expulsion from Paradise (quote)

1959

• Mathilda, by Mary Shelley (written between 1819 and 1820, and published posthumously in 1959)
• The Vet’s Daughter, by Barbara Comyns (1959)

1960s

1961

• The Forgotten Smile, by Margaret Kennedy (1961)
• In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor (1961)

1962

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson(1962)

1963-1988

• But What: Selected Poems, by Judith Herzberg (transl. by Shirley Kaufman,1988)
  • Reunion (poem, tr. Shirley Kaufman and Judith Herzberg)

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

• Stoner, by John Williams (1965)

1966

• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (1966)

1969

• The Fire-Dwellers, by Margaret Laurence (1969)

1970s

1970

• Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox (1970)

1972

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

1974

• The Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968, by Louise Bogan (1974)
  • Tears in Sleep (poem)
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll, transl. Leila Vennewitz, 1994 (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, 1974)

1977

• Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, written by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous)
• The Passion of New Eve, by Angela Carter (1977)

1978

• The Weight of Things, by Marianne Fritz, translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2015 (Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse, 1978)

1980s

1980

• Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson (1980)

1981

• Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (1981)
• Poemas escolhidos: Chosen Poems, by Henriqueta Lisboa, tr. Hélcio Veiga Costa (1981)
  • Suffering (poem)
  • Frutescence (poem)
  • Faithfulness (poem)

1982

• In Night’s City, by Dorothy Nelson (1982)
• Smoke and Other Early Stories, by Djuna Barnes (1982)

1983

• Alguns Poemas da Rua do Forte, by Al Berto (1983)
  • The Moon Tamer (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (1983)
  • The Man-Moth, by Elizabeth Bishop (poem)
• The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983)

1984

• Good Daughters, by Mary Hocking (1984)

1987

• The Door, by Magda Szabo, tr. Len Rix, 2005 (Az ajtó, 1987)

1988

• But What: Selected Poems, by Judith Herzberg (transl. by Shirley Kaufman,1988)
  • Reunion (poem, tr. Shirley Kaufman and Judith Herzberg)
• The Headlong Heart, by Adélia Prado, tr. Ellen Doré Watson (1988)
  • Simple flesh (poem)
• The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983)

1990s

1991

• The Laws, by Connie Palmen, tr. Richard Huijing (1993. De Wetten, 1991)

1992

• The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück (1992)
  • April (poem)

1993

• Ava, by Carole Maso (1993)

1994

• Chorus of Mushrooms, by Hiromi Goto (1994)
• Nature: Poems Old and New, by May Swenson (1994)
  • Feel me (poem)
  • I Will Be Earth (poem)
  • The Truth is Forced (poem)
  • Hearing the Wind at Night (poem)

1995

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

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)

1998

• Explicação das árvores e outros animais, by Daniel Faria (1998)
  • It turned out that things got destroyed without him surviving (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• Homens que são como lugares mal situados, by Daniel Faria (1998)
  • Men who are like misplaced places (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)

1999

• The Dark Bride, by Laura Restrepo, transl. Stephan Lytle, 2003 (La Novia Oscura, 1999)
• Incest, by Christine Angot, tr. Tess Lewis, 2017 (L’Incest, 1999)
• Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, by Aglaja Veteranyi, transl. by Vincent Kling, 2012 (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht, 1999)

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21st-century

2000s

2000

• Dos Líquidos, by Daniel Faria (2000)
  • There are men opening their hands like books (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • They bring the waters in us and land us (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan (2000, originally written in the 1940’s)

2001

• Cosmétique de l’ennemi, by Amélie Nothomb (2001. The Enemy’s Cosmetique, not translated yet)
• Symphony in White, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2010 (Sinfonia em branco, 2001)

2002

• As Fábulas, by Fiama Hasse Paes Brandao (2002)
  • Of the voice of things (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• Das blaue Kleid, by Doris Dörrie, not translated yet (“The blue dress”, 2002)

2003

• Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
• Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003
• Swallow Summer, by Larissa Boehning, tr. Lyn Marven, 2016 (Schwalbensommer, 2003)

2004

• Runaway, by Alice Munro, 2004

2006

• A Cidade Líquida e Outras Texturas, by Filipa Leal (2006)
  • On sad days no one talks of birds (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)

2007

• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, by Susan Sontag (2007)
  • Acts of resistance (quote)
• The House in Smyrna, by Tatiana Salem Levy, tr. Alison Entrekin ( Scribe, 2015, 160 p. Original title: A chave de casa, 2007)
• Hut of Fallen Persimmons, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2011 (Rakushisha, 2007)
• 20 Poemas para o seu Walkman, by Marília Garcia (2007)
  • a woman saved from drowning (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
  • M.A. (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
  • Le Pays N’est Pas La Carte (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)

2008

• Adam and Evelyn, by Ingo Schulze, transl. John E. Woods, 2011 (Adam und Evelyn, 2008)
• 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)
  • 1. Not to repeat myself (quote, 1961)
• The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt (2008)

2009

• The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (2009;  2016)
• Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie (2009)
• Sinuca embaixo d’água, by Carol Bensimon (2009)
• A vida submarina, by Ana Martins Marques (2009)
  • Penelope (i-iv) (poem, translated by Julia Sanches)

2010s

2010

• Annabel, by Kathleen Winter (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)
  • Woman overboard (poem, translated by Juliana Brina)
• Palabras in Each Fist, by Rebecca Balcarcel (2010)
  • Ferry crossing (poem)

2011

• The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (2011)
• Da arte das armadilhas, by Ana Martins Marques (2011)
  • Clocks (poem, translated by Elisa Wouk Almino)
• Easter, by Jill Alexander Essbaum (poem, in Poetry, January, 2011)
• The house, by Filipa Leal (poem, tr. Juliana Brina, unpublished, 2011)
• Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy (2011)
• There But For The, by Ali Smith (2011)

2012

• 1914: a novel, by Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale, 2014 (14, 2012)

2013

• A girl is a half-formed thing ,by Eimear McBride (2013)
• “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”, by Cristina de Stefano, translated from the Italian by Marina Harss (Other Press, 2017. First published in Italian as “Oriana, una donna”, Rizzoli, 2013)
• Rabo de baleia, by Alice Sant’Anna (2013)
  • That moment an enormous tail (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The cousins (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The water rushing in the sink (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The postcard from Clara reached me (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
• Um útero é do tamanho de um punho, by Angélica Freitas (2013)
  • Artichoke (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
  • dear angélica (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
  • woman in red (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
  • grad (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
  • woman is a construct (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
• We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)

2014

• The Blazing World, by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
• Desalinho, by Laura Liuzzi (2014)
  • Gravity (poem. tr. Rob Packer)
  • Deep (poem, tr. Rob Packer)
• Fever Dream (2017), by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Distancia de rescate, 2014)
• How to Be Both, by Ali Smith (2014)
• I Am the Brother of XX, by Fleur Jaeggy, tr.  Gini Alhadeff (2017. Original: Sono il fratello di XX, 2014)
• Jij blijft bij mij, by Maarten van Roozendaal (2014, posthumous)
  •  Barmhart (2006, album)
    • Mooi (song)
• The Mystical Rose: Selected Poems, by Adélia Prado, tr. Ellen Doré Watson (2014)
  • Lesson (poem)
  • Guide (poem)
• Nueva Correspondencia Pizarnik, ed.  Ivonne Bordelois and Cristina Pina (2014. Selected Letters by Alejandra Pizarnik, not translated yet)
• um teste de resistores, by Marília Garcia (2014)
  • A Departure with Hilary Kaplan (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
  • At Berlin Schönefeld Airport (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)

2015

• Based on a True Story, by Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller (2017. Original: D’après une histoire vraie, 2015)
• The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips (2015)
• Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
• Kameleon: gedichten, by Charlotte van den Broeck (2015)
  • Laundromat De Netezon (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• O livro das semelhanças, by Ana Martins Marques (2015)
  • The Earring (poem, translated by Alison Entrekin)
• Miss Emily, by Nuala O’Connor (2015)
• The Past, by Tessa Hadley (2015)
• Public Library and Other Stories, by Ali Smith (2015)
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (2015)

2016

• Autumn, by Ali Smith (2016)
• From the Lake, by Natalie Eilbert (poem, originally published in PEN America, November 30, 2016)
• The Girls, by Emma Cline (2016)
• Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood (2016)
• Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy (2016)
• Irony, by Layli Long Soldier (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 7, 2016)
• Mischling, by Affinity  Konar (2016)
• Modern Lovers, by Emma Straub (2016)
• Notes on the below, by Ada Limón (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 29, 2016)
• Tail of the Whale, by Alice Sant’Anna (2016, translated by Tiffany Higgins. Original: Rabo de baleia, 2013)
  • That moment an enormous tail (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The cousins (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The water rushing in the sink (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
  • The postcard from Clara reached me (poem, tr. Tiffany Higgins)
• Traffic, by Rae Armantrout (poem, first published in Granta December, 5th, 2016)
• Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler (2016)
• Wildfire Moon, by Carol Muske-Dukes (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 14, 2016)

2017

• After Kathy Acker: A Biography, by Chris Kraus (2017)
• Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller (2017)
• Based on a True Story, by Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller (2017. Original: D’après une histoire vraie, 2015)
• Câmera lenta, by Marília Garcia (2017)
  • it’s a love story and it’s about an accident (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
• Flesh of the Peach, by Helen McClory (2017)
• Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss (2017)
• I Am the Brother of XX, by Fleur Jaeggy, tr.  Gini Alhadeff (2017. Original: Sono il fratello di XX, 2014)
• Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich (2017)
• Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, by Xiaolu Guo (2017)
  • Also published in the United States with the title Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (2017)
• “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”, by Cristina de Stefano, translated from the Italian by Marina Harss (Other Press, 2017. First published in Italian as “Oriana, una donna”, Rizzoli, 2013)
• See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt (2017)
• The Territory Is Not the Map, by Marília Garcia (2017, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
  • A Departure with Hilary Kaplan (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
  • At Berlin Schönefeld Airport (poem, tr. Hilary Kaplan)
• The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, by Ronald Hutton (2017)

2018

• The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (2018)