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Radhika's Reading Retreat

Two Months of Reading – January & February 2026

The Director – Daniel Kehlmann (tr. Ross Benjamin)

Seven Favourite Virago Modern Classics

Greyhound – Joanna Pocock

Catastrophe and Other Stories – Dino Buzzati (tr. Judith Landry)

Makeshift – Sarah Campion

A Dedicated Man – Elizabeth Taylor

The Corner That Held Them – Sylvia Townsend Warner

Stories for Winter and Nights by the Fire – Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield & more…

Authoritarianism & Resistance: Ten Excellent Books

2025: A Year of Reading in Pictures

A Month of Reading – December 2025

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea – Teffi (tr. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, and Irina Steinberg)

#NYRBWomen25 Special – Highlights of the Year

Best of 2025 (Honourable Mentions): Five Translated Books

My Best Books of 2025

There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein)

A Month of Reading – November 2025

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

Baron Bagge – Alexander Lernet-Holenia (tr. Richard and Clara Winston)

Lowest Common Denominator – Pirkko Saisio (tr. Mia Spangenberg)

The Wax Child – Olga Ravn (tr. Martin Aitken)

The Lowlife – Alexander Baron

The Boat in the Evening – Tarjei Vesaas (tr. Elizabeth Rokkan)

A Month of Reading – October 2025

Independent People – Haldór Laxness (tr. J. A. Thompson)

Sofia Petrovna – Lydia Chukovskaya (tr. Aline Werth)

Crooked Cross – Sally Carson

Good and Evil and Other Stories – Samanta Schweblin (tr. Megan McDowell)

Eight Unsettling Books for October

Iceland and A Month of Reading – September 2025

Turtle Diary – Russell Hoban

Brandy Sour – Constantia Soteriou (tr. Lina Protopapa)

A Month of Reading – August 2025

Talk – Linda Rosenkrantz

The Death of a Beekeeper – Lars Gustafsson (tr. Janet K. Swaffar & Gutram H. Weber)

We Do Not Part – Han Kang (tr. E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris)

Lili is Crying – Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs)

#SpinsterSeptember: Ten Wonderful Books

NYRB: Horror & the Supernatural – Six Recommendations

Killing Stella – Marlen Haushofer (tr. Shaun Whiteside) – Radhika's Reading Retreat

A Month of Reading – July 2025

Nothing Grows by Moonlight – Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee) – Radhika's Reading Retreat

WIT Month: Some Favourite Books in 2024 & 2025

Free Day – Inès Cagnati (tr. Liesl Schillinger)

Money to Burn – Asta Olivia Nordenhof (tr. Caroline Waight)

Paris Stories – Mavis Gallant

Great Fear on the Mountain – Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (tr. Bill Johnston)

Two Months of Reading – May & June 2025

Tea With Mr Rochester – Frances Towers

Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark – Celia Fremlin

Angel – Elizabeth Taylor

A House and Its Head – Ivy Compton-Burnett

Favourite Books on Three Generations of Women

Guard Your Daughters – Diana Tutton

Daunt Books Publishing: Ten Favourites

Harriet – Elizabeth Jenkins

A Month of Reading – April 2025

The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati (tr. Stuart C. Hood)

Great Granny Webster – Caroline Blackwood

Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

A Favourite of the Gods – Sybille Bedford

Two Months of Reading – February & March 2025

Written on Water – Eileen Chang (tr. Andrew F. Jones)

The Horla – Guy de Maupassant (tr. Charlotte Mandell)

Life with a Star – Jiří Weil (tr. Rita Klímová with Roslyn Schloss)

On the Calculation of Volume, 1 – Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J. Haveland)

Zone – Mathias Énard (tr. Charlotte Mandell)

Miss Hargreaves – Frank Baker

Favourite Non-Fiction by Women Writers – Memoirs, Essays, Diaries & Biographies

Family and Borghesia – Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Beryl Stockman)

Lies and Sorcery – Elsa Morante (tr. Jenny McPhee)

Lonely Women in Literature

A Month of Reading – January 2025

A Start in Life – Anita Brookner

A Spring of Love – Celia Dale

A Sunny Place for Shady People – Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell)

The Children’s Bach – Helen Garner

2024: A Year of Reading in Pictures

A Month of Reading – December 2024

Galley Beggar Pocket Ghosts: Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell & Muriel Spark

Best of 2024: Three Wonderful Books That Missed Out

#NYRBWomen24 Special – Highlights of the Year

My Best Books of 2024

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia – Joan Chase

A Month of Reading – November 2024

Morning and Evening – Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searls)

Falling – Elizabeth Jane Howard

Seven Empty Houses – Samanta Schweblin (tr. Megan McDowell)

A Month of Reading – October 2024

A Month of Reading – September 2024

Stay with Me – Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Martin Aitken)

Passing Ceremony – Helen Weinzweig

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative – Isabella Hammad

Background for Love – Helen Wolff (tr. Tristram Wolff)

McNally Editions: Eight Favourites

Ten Wonderfully Unsettling Books for October

The Little Man from Archangel – Georges Simenon (tr. Siân Reynolds)

Two Months of Reading – July & August 2024

Hons and Rebels – Jessica Mitford

The Girls – John Bowen

Rhine Journey – Ann Schlee

The Stepdaughter – Caroline Blackwood

In Diamond Square – Mercè Rodoreda (tr. Peter Bush)

Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories – Taeko Kono (tr. Lucy North)

The Clothes in the Wardrobe (Book 1 of The Summer House Trilogy) – Alice Thomas Ellis

WIT Month: Some Favourite Books in 2023 & 2024

The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns

The Trouble Makers – Celia Fremlin

Two Months of Reading – May & June 2024

A Game of Hide and Seek – Elizabeth Taylor

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild – Mathias Enard (tr. Frank Wynne)

NYRB Noir: Five Great Reads

Greengates – RC Sherriff

Endless Night – Agatha Christie

Life with Picasso – Françoise Gilot & Carlton Lake

Favourite Archipelago Books

Miserable Marriages: Ten Excellent Books

Eastmouth and Other Stories – Alison Moore

A Tiler’s Afternoon – Lars Gustafsson (tr. Tom Geddes)

One Afternoon – Siân James

Two Months of Reading – March & April 2024

Last Words from Montmartre – Qiu Miaojin (tr. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Käsebier Takes Berlin – Gabriele Tergit (tr. Sophie Duvernoy)

Not a River – Selva Almada (tr. Annie McDermott)

Feminist Themes: Ten Favourite Books

A Crack in the Wall – Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Miranda France)

A Dark Corner – Celia Dale

Two Months of Reading – January & February 2024

Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym

The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu – Augusto Higa Oshiro (tr. Jennifer Shyue)

Valentino and Sagittarius – Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Avril Bardoni)

Favourite Books by 20th Century Women Writers – A Baker’s Dozen

Mary Olivier: A Life – May Sinclair

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead – Barbara Comyns

Mothers & Daughters in Literature: Eight Excellent Books

A Jest of God – Margaret Laurence

Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints – Teffi (tr. Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler & Others)

Her Side of the Story – Alba de Céspedes (tr. Jill Foulston)

Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 – Marina Tsvetaeva (tr. Jamey Gambrell)

Characters on Holiday: Ten Excellent Books

Twice Lost – Phyllis Paul

2023: A Year of Reading in Pictures

A Month of Reading – December 2023

The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson

#NYRBWomen23 – A Highlight of My Reading This Year

Best of 2023: The Runner-Up Quartet

My Best Books of 2023

The Oppermanns – Lion Feuchtwanger (tr. James Cleugh, revised by Joshua Cohen)

A Month of Reading – November 2023

Ghachar Ghochar – Vivek Shanbhag (tr. Srinath Perur)

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories – Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal & Silvester Mazzarella)

A Wreath for the Enemy – Pamela Frankau

Eastbound – Maylis de Kerangal (tr. Jessica Moore)

Five Excellent Novella Collections

My Death – Lisa Tuttle

A ‘Spooky’ Month of Reading – October 2023

Roman Stories – Jhumpa Lahiri (tr. Jhumpa Lahiri & Todd Portnowitz)

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

No Love Lost: Selected Novellas – Rachel Ingalls

Women in a Dystopian World: Seven Stellar Books

A Helping Hand – Celia Dale

Two Months of Reading – August & September 2023

The Mountain Lion – Jean Stafford

The Skin Chairs – Barbara Comyns

Female Friendship in Fiction: Ten Favourite Books

Dusty Answer – Rosamond Lehmann

The Devastating Boys – Elizabeth Taylor

Sisters in Literature: Ten Excellent Reads

Iza’s Ballad – Magda Szabó (tr. George Szirtes)

The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter – Élisabeth Gille (tr. Marina Harss)

A Month of Reading – July 2023

The Ten Thousand Things – Maria Dermoût (tr. Hans Koning)

Kick the Latch – Kathryn Scanlan

WIT Month: Some Favourite Books in 2022 & 2023

Thus Were Their Faces – Silvina Ocampo (tr. Daniel Balderston)

A Little Luck – Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)

A Month of Reading – June 2023

I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz)

Ex-Wife – Ursula Parrott

Favourite Chunksters

Italian War Diaries: A Chill in the Air & War in Val d’Orcia – Iris Origo

Rattlebone – Maxine Clair

Two Months of Reading – April & May 2023

Forbidden Notebook – Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein)

The Feast – Margaret Kennedy

Cold Nights of Childhood – Tezer Özlü (tr. Maureen Freely)

Favourite NYRB Classics

Bookshops in Prague & Cesky Krumlov: A Photo Feature

All Our Yesterdays – Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Angus Davidson)

Boulder – Eva Baltasar (tr. Julia Sanches)

The Stone Angel – Margaret Laurence

A Month of Reading – March 2023

Five Great Books with Numbers in the Title

The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin – Maeve Brennan

Crampton Hodnet – Barbara Pym

In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes

A Month of Reading – February 2023

Great Books by Women on International Women’s Day

Young Man with a Horn – Dorothy Baker

Two Sherpas – Sebastián Martínez Daniell (tr. Jennifer Croft)

Two Thousand Million Man-Power – Gertrude Trevelyan

Grand Hotel – Vicki Baum (tr. Basil Creighton)

The Twilight Zone – Nona Fernández (tr. Natasha Wimmer)

A Month of Reading – January 2023

Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (tr. Margaret Sayers Peden)

The Waiting Years – Fumiko Enchi (tr. John Bester)

Salka Valka – Haldór Laxness (tr. Philip Roughton)

After Rain – William Trevor

The Hearing Trumpet – Leonora Carrington

The English Understand Wool – Helen DeWitt

2022: A Year of Reading in Pictures

My Best Books of 2022