Independent & Small Press

Books from independent publishers and small presses, each confirmed against an Open Library edition from that press.

42 books

Literary Fiction

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

Eimear McBride · 2013

A fractured, interior narrative of a young Irish woman and her brother. Published by Galley Beggar Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Black Moses

Alain Mabanckou · 2015

An orphan in 1970s Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville, comes of age under a Marxist regime. English edition published by Serpent's Tail.

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Lyric Essay

Bluets

Maggie Nelson · 2009

Numbered prose propositions circling the colour blue, love and grief. Published by Wave Books.

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Nature Writing

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation on Indigenous knowledge and the natural world. Published by Milkweed Editions.

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Poetry

Bright Dead Things

Ada Limón · 2015

Poems of grief, love and home. Published by Milkweed Editions.

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Poetry

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Kaveh Akbar · 2017

A debut poetry collection on addiction, recovery and faith. Published by Alice James Books.

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Poetry & Essay

Citizen

Claudia Rankine · 2014

A book-length lyric work on everyday racism in the United States. Published by Graywolf Press.

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Memoir in Translation

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga · 2006

A memoir of a Tutsi childhood in Rwanda and of family lost in the 1994 genocide. English edition published by Archipelago Books.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Die, My Love

Ariana Harwicz · 2012

An intense interior novel of a new mother unravelling in rural France. English edition published by Charco Press.

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Literary Fiction

Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann · 2019

An Ohio baker's thoughts unfold across a single, vast run-on sentence. Published by Galley Beggar Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Elena Knows

Claudia Piñeiro · 2021

A mother with Parkinson's disease sets out across Buenos Aires to investigate her daughter's death. English edition published by Charco Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Fireflies

Luis Sagasti · 2011

A digressive, essay-like novel linking art, history and coincidence. English edition published by Charco Press.

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Short Fiction in Translation

Fish Soup

Margarita García Robayo · 2019

Two novellas and a set of stories about desire, escape and the Caribbean coast. English edition published by Charco Press.

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Poetry

Glass, Irony and God

Anne Carson · 1995

Poems and essay-poems by the Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson. Published by New Directions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Hurricane Season

Fernanda Melchor · 2017

The murder of a woman known as the Witch in a Veracruz village, told in torrential prose. English edition published by New Directions.

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Historical Fiction

I Hotel

Karen Tei Yamashita · 2010

Ten linked novellas set around San Francisco's International Hotel, 1968–1977. Published by Coffee House Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Island of Shattered Dreams

Chantal Spitz · 1991

A Tahitian family saga set against French nuclear testing in Polynesia. English edition published by Huia.

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Literary Fiction

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead · 2018

A young Two-Spirit Indigiqueer man prepares to return to his reserve for his stepfather's funeral. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press.

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Literary Fiction

Kintu

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi · 2014

A multigenerational Ugandan family saga shaped by an eighteenth-century curse. Published by Transit Books.

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Literary Fiction

Leaving the Atocha Station

Ben Lerner · 2011

A young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid questions art and authenticity. Published by Coffee House Press.

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Literary Fiction

Lote

Shola von Reinhold · 2020

An obsessive search through the archives for a forgotten Black modernist poet. Published by Jacaranda Books.

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Memoir

Mean

Myriam Gurba · 2017

A darkly funny memoir of growing up queer and Chicana in California. Published by Coffee House Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli · 2017

Two linked narratives, decades apart, around a crime committed in 1949. English edition published by New Directions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Mr. Gwyn

Alessandro Baricco · 2011

A celebrated novelist gives up writing books to write portraits of people instead. English edition published by McSweeney's.

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Contemporary Fiction

Nevada

Imogen Binnie · 2013

A trans woman in New York leaves for an unplanned road trip west. First published by Topside Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor · 2020

Two teenage boys at a gated luxury development drift toward a terrible act. English edition published by New Directions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Seeing Red

Lina Meruane · 2012

A young Chilean writer loses her sight and returns to Santiago. English edition published by Deep Vellum.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera · 2009

A young woman crosses from Mexico into the United States to deliver a message and find her brother. English edition published by And Other Stories.

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Literary Fiction

Solar Bones

Mike McCormack · 2016

An engineer reflects on his life in rural Ireland in a single flowing sentence. Published by Tramp Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Sphinx

Anne Garréta · 1986

A love story told without revealing either lover's gender. English edition published by Deep Vellum.

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Historical Fiction in Translation

Texas

Carmen Boullosa · 2012

A historical novel of conflict on the Texas–Mexico border in the 1850s. English edition (Texas: The Great Theft) published by Deep Vellum.

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Memoir & Criticism

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson · 2015

Memoir and critical theory interwoven around love, gender and family-making. Published by Graywolf Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

The Bottom of the Sky

Rodrigo Fresán · 2009

Two friends, a girl and the end of the world in a novel steeped in science fiction. English edition published by Open Letter.

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Science Fiction in Translation

The Employees

Olga Ravn · 2018

Statements from the crew of a deep-space ship, human and humanoid alike. English edition published by Lolli Editions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

The Gringo Champion

Aura Xilonen · 2017

A young undocumented Mexican immigrant fights his way through life in a US border town. English edition published by Europa Editions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada · 2020

A woman who moves to the countryside encounters a strange animal and a hole. English edition published by New Directions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

Alina Bronsky · 2010

A domineering grandmother narrates three generations of family life from the Soviet Union to Germany. English edition published by Europa Editions.

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Short Stories in Translation

The Houseguest

Amparo Dávila · 2018

Unsettling short stories by the Mexican writer Amparo Dávila. English edition published by New Directions.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

The Wind That Lays Waste

Selva Almada · 2012

A travelling preacher and his daughter are stranded at a remote roadside garage. English edition published by Charco Press.

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Literary Fiction

Tinkers

Paul Harding · 2009

A dying clockmaker's memories of his father and childhood in rural New England. Published by Bellevue Literary Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree · 2018

An eighty-year-old woman in northern India sets out to confront her past across the border. English edition published by Tilted Axis Press.

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Literary Fiction in Translation

Tram 83

Fiston Mwanza Mujila · 2015

Life in a nightclub in a secessionist mining city. English edition published by Deep Vellum.

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