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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got paid, bought books. Starting to understand why I only have books and no money.

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Ivy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I do love a bit of Muriel Spark and The Bachelors was no exception. Everyone in this slight little novel has the piss mercilessly taken out of them. Every sentence is hilarious. If you're new to Muriel, it could be a great place to start. #booksky #justfinished

The front cover of The Bachelors by Muriel Spark in a vintage Penguin Classics edition. The top quarter is bright orange and the rest of the cover features a black line drawing of a circle of people appearing to be in some kind of dispute on a white background.

Text from The Bachelors by Muriel Spark:

'He doesn't need a job,' Walter said. 'He's got his private income and his basement. And he's an Anglo-Catholic. Anglo-Catholics always get jobs.'

'He hasn't got much income,' Chloe said. 'Have you seen the way he lives? That basement is going down and down. No one to look after him.'

'He ought to have got married,' Matthew said.

'He's not the marrying type,' said Chloe.

'He pees in the sink,' said Walter, 'not that I hold that against him.'

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve never read anything quite like The Trees by Percival Everett. Absolutely batshit, completely subverted my expectations. And I loved it. #booksky #justfinished

The front cover of The Trees by Percival Everett against the backdrop of my bookshelves featuring Hilary Mantel, Raymond Chandler, Anita Brookner amongst others. The front cover features stylised cherries partly in red and green, partly in black and white. I am not good at describing art.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our October book will be Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, in any of its translations. We'll be meeting to discuss on Monday 5th October at 7pm UK time. All welcome - PM for the Zoom link!

The front cover of Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges in its Penguin Modern Classics edition translated by Andrew Hurley, featuring a large open book tied in position by string.

A black and white image of Jorge Luis Borges, an old white man with thinning hair, wearing a dark suit and tie with a white shirt.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reading Zadie Smith makes me feel inarticulate and poorly read, and I love her for it. Some Notes on Mediated Time is a particular highlight in this collection. #booksky #justfinished

A hardback copy of Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith. The front cover features a woman wearing a white top and a black head covering, facing away from the viewer.

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two days to go! It's a short one, you've still got time to squeeze it in and join us.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 7, sneaking in at the end - The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-Ae, translated by Anton Hur. Unflinching snapshots of Korean lives under the Japanese occupation of Korea and Manchuria. Not an easy read, but an important one.

The front cover of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-Ae, translated by Anton Hur. The cover is white with a red rectangle in the middle, on which is displayed a grey head seen from above.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 6: Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar. I found this a little uneven and sometimes confusing but it was a fascinating portrait of a girl’s life in the Afro-Ecuadorian community surrounded by music and family. TW for sexual violence and…

The front cover of Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar and published by Tilted Axis Press in the UK. It is lime green with dark brown text and features the distinctive Tilted Axis slash.

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Lory Widmer Hess @lorywidmerhess.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nonfiction in translation, anyone? Organ Speak by Giulia Enders, translated by Jamie Bulloch, is packed with fascinating information, written in a quirky style that might not be to everyone's taste. I enjoyed it, though some word choices seemed distractingly strange. #BookSky #WITMonth

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Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

30 years ago, teenage Ana’s body was found in a Buenos Aires suburb. This brilliant novel considers the repercussions for her family, with sections from the perspectives of different characters. My new favourite! I hope lots of people read this. Insightful, moving, and a great read #WITMonth 💙📚🖋️

Cathedrals
By Claudia Piñeiro
Translated by Frances Riddle

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is a collection of short stories CHOCK FULL of women & mothers who are scientists and astronauts, destroyers & saviors of worlds, cyborgs & uploaded pseudo-consciousnesses. And every once in a while a man is also there.

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our September book will be Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar and published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on Monday 7th September at 7pm UK time. All welcome - PM for the Zoom link!

An image of Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, a Black woman with curly black hair wearing a black top and a nose ring.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 5: Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle and published by @charcopress.com. Oh my goodness. What a ride. Crime, religion, family drama, this book has it all, and we’re masterfully led through it by this incredible writer/translator duo.

The front cover of Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle. The cover is deep purple with a stained glass window in pink, orange, yellow and white. I am not doing justice to how beautiful it is.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Already cried on p. 81 of a 290 page book - this doesn’t bode well for my poor little heart!

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 4: Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle. A re-read of one of my favourite contemporary novels by one of my favourite contemporary writers for a book club. Just as astounding as the first read and now incredibly hyped for Cathedrals, which is up next!

The front cover of Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle. It is bright yellow with a stylised blue face and torso intersecting with a chair.

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo, tr. Lola Rogers. In 🇫🇮, only pretty, submissive women can reproduce; the intelligent are sterilised. Vanna, secretly intelligent, needs money to help her sister, so gets involved in trafficking a stimulant: chillis. Scary. #WomenInTranslationMonth 💙📚 #xl8 🌐

Photo of the front cover of the novel The Core of the Sun, by Johanna Sinisala, translated into English by Lola Rogers. The background is black, the title appears just above the centre in yellow, with a bright red chilli overlaying it. At the top are two rows of little girls, identically dressed; the little girl top left has red hair and is cradling a toy fire engine, and all the other little girls have blonde hair and are cradling dolls. At the bottom are two rows of women, identically dressed; the woman bottom right has red hair and is cradling a giant chilli and all the other women have blonde hair and are cradling babies. The author's name appears in red between the two rows of women. The translator's name is not mentioned on the cover.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

August is #WomenInTranslation month, #WITMonth, and I love a book stack. Here are the books I read by women writers translated into English between last August and this one. Titles, authors and translators follow in comments.

This is a tall stack of books by women authors translated into English.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 3: The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson. Fragments of a life told through four of its important people fuse together to form a whole. Not gonna lie I was a little bit disappointed with this...

The front cover of The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson. It features four fragments of black and white photos of a woman on a white background, with the title in bright pink capital letters.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Related: Love it when you read a great book and then you do a bit of digging and discover there's another by the same author and translator pair coming next year 🥳

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 2: All Flesh by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. A deeply uncomfortable read that probably needs a few trigger warnings (food, obesity, some body horror at the end) but which somehow I just couldn’t stop reading. It asks a lot of questions about how we...

The front cover of All Flesh by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. The cover shows a close up of stylised human flesh, coloured hot pink with black blobs on it, and the title features in white capital letters.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#WITmonth 2026 book 1: Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan. Short but definitely not sweet. Beautiful prose juxtaposed with roadkill, shouldn’t work but really does. Packs more into 115 pages than novels three times its size. Recommended!

A copy of Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Meia translated by Padma Viswanathan. The cover is off-white with barbed wire criss crossing it with a bright pink circle to one side.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 03/08/2026

yes same. and this is also true for the many people I love and respect and learn so much from who have substacks :(

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy #WITmonth!!!🥳🎊🎉💃 🎶 It's the most wonderful tiiiiiime of the year 🎶

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Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pulled some great options from the bookshelves for #witmonth #witmonth2026 Will likely start with Taiwan Travelogue but open to suggestions for must reads during the month. I am hoping to get through at least ten.

A pile of books on a window sill:
Greek Lessons - Han Kang
Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuang-zi
Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro
Eastbound - Maylis De Kerangal
Abigail - Magda Szabó
Sun City - Tove Jansson
Crazy Genie - Inès Cagnati
The Seventh Cross - Anna Seghers
Stay With Me - Hanne Ørstavik
Yell, Sam, If You Still Can - Maylis Besserie

A pile of books on a windowsill:
Childhood, Youth, Dependency - Tove Ditlevsen
The City and the House - Natalia Ginzburg
A Little Luck - Claudia Piñeiro
Violets - Kyung-Sook Shin
Malina- Ingeborg Bachmann
A Single Rose - Muriel Barbery
The Naked Eye - Yoko Tawada
There's No Turning Back - Alba de Céspedes
Just A Little Dinner - Cécile Tlili
Thunder and Light - Marie-Claire Blais
Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A world of possibilities for #WITmonth 2026. I know I'll never read all of these in a month, but it's fun to dream!

A pile of books for Women in Translation month 2026, from top to bottom:
Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated by Madeleine Arenivar
Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan
Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
All Flesh by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
Juja by Nino Haratischvili, translated by Ruth Martin
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-Ae, translated by Anton Hur
An Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lauren Elkin
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland
The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've done a #WITmonth Starter Pack. I do not claim it to be remotely all-encompassing but if you've used the hashtag (as per the criteria⤴️), hopefully I've found and added you. If I haven't, please let me know. go.bsky.app/KEkwYR6

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Aliya Vasylenko @aliyav.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Spotted this over on Instagram and I'm thinking of giving it a go, will definitely be looking for recommendations that cover more than one prompt though 😅 #WITmonth #WomenInTranslationMonth #WITpassport

1) A country you've never read from 2) Backlist title published 10+ years ago 3) New release published this year or last year 4) Short story collection 5) Food in the title or on the cover 6) One-word title 7) Horror or speculative fiction 8) From a language with less than 10 million speakers 9) Based on Folklore or mythology 10) Queer characters/author 11) Debut novel 12) Currently on your physical TBR

Women-In-Translation Passport readathon hosted by @adelicatereader and @readwit

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Max Cairnduff @maxcairnduff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I get slightly stressed picking books towards the end of July in case I don’t finish them before start August and my first #witmonth read then becomes someone writing in English. Yes, I know it’s absurd. #witmonth is entirely voluntary and to my knowledge nobody is policing it.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I enjoy the juxtaposition of reading Zadie Smith essays in the queue to watch Gladiators being filmed. Multiple levels of culture!

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What are the books you yammer on about? DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro (trans. Frances Riddle) THE DEVIL'S DANCE by Hamid Ismailov (trans. Donald Rayfield) MEMENTO MORI by Muriel Spark

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Our August book will be A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 3rd August at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!

The cover of A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.

Dark, black and white image of László Krasznahorkai, an older white man with a white beard and long-ish, receding white hair.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Showers are for cleaning, baths are for lying down and thinking

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Meytal has a new #WITmonth post up! biblibio.blogspot.com/2026/07/witm...

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Finally finished Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose in a leisurely bath this evening. Loved all the quotes and the anecdotes - my TBR has gone up by about a hundred now! But also full of ideas on how to put it into practice in the new novel I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks.

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Thoughtbarf @thoughtbarf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

hello everyone i am working on a big piece for guardian about the CURRENT STATE OF MUSIC ZINES!!!! i have many already but i want to get as many as poss from FAR AND WIDE in uk so pls either fill out the form here or email me directly (email on my website in bio) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

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Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it

To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine scene

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by @jmz.bsky.social! Such wonderful work. My thoughts in Asymptote Journal: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm launching a new history deep dive podcast BEFORECAST! Starting with a series on Machiavelli. Hopefully launching in July; you can subscribe here! www.patreon.com/adapalmer/po...

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New "BEFORECAST" Launching | Ada Palmer

New "BEFORECAST" Launching by Ada Palmer on Patreon. Join Ada Palmer's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Germans turned him into a compound noun. That’s true love.

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Leafed @leafedapp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

hot take: your "want to read" list is just a mirror of who you wish you were no shame. mine has three philosophy books and a novel in portuguese what's been on yours the longest? #booksky

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our July book will be Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 6th July at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!

The cover of Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley. It features two women, one upside down, on a blue background with a red substance coming from their mouths.

An image of Lau Yee-Wa against a backdrop of a river with a cityscape in the distance, holding a book.

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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Congrats to Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Lin King and @andotherstories.bsky.social! A reminder too that this is our June book and we'll be meeting to discuss on the 1st June.

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Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m genuinely gutted about this. Don’t think I’ll be reading it.

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