Bram Presser

Best of 2024

Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright 

Elaine Kraf - The Princess of 72nd Street 

Hospital - Sanya Rushdi

Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi

Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot 

Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova

Ghost Mountain -  Rónán Hession

The Singularity - Balsam Karam

Woodworm - Layla Martinez 

Boy with a Black Rooster - Stefanie Vor Schulte

On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle

The Holy and The Broken - Ittay Flescher

Looking forward to 

Devil Is Fine - John Vercher

Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek

The Book Censor’s Library - ‘Bothayna Al-Essa, Ranya Abdelrahman

David Leo Rice 

Best of 2024

Mevlido’s Dreams - Antoine Volodine

The inquisitors' Manual - António Lobo Antunes

Annihilation - Houellebecq

Layman’s Report - Eugene Martin 

Wolves of Eternity - Knausgaard 

The Guest - Emily Cline 

Mysticism - Simon Critchley 

Trickster Makes The World - Lewis Hyde 

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - Larry McMurtry

Herscht 07769 LK

Rejection: Fiction - Tulathimutte

2025

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Álvaro Mutis

Black Brane - Michael Cisco

New Morning Star series book 

Context Collapse - Ryan Ruby 

Incurable Graphomania - Anna Krivolapova

Major Arcana - John Pistelli

Schattenfroh 

Kafka Diaries 

Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur 

More António Lobo Antunes

Into the Universe of Technical Images - Vilém Flusser

Enrique Vila Matas 

Cesar Aria - Fulgentius

Gene Wolfe

Strange Beasts of China - Yan Ge

Emmett Stinson 

Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy 

Hospital - Sanya Rushdi

Nicholas John Turner - Let The Boys Play 

Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock

Save Yourself If You Can Six Plays - Thomas Bernhard

Rebecca West - The Fountain Overflows

2025 

New Sergio De La Pava - Every Arc Bends It’s Radian

Roberto Bolaño - Collected Stories 

Blue Lard - Sorokin 

The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years - Heimito von Doderer

Greg Gerke 

Highlights of 2024 

Garille Lutz - Backwardness 

Schism Blue - Christina Tudor-Sideri

Rod Moody Corbett - Hides 

https://socratesonthebeach.com/ 

Pascal Quignard 

2025

Anna DeForest 

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions 

J.M. Tyree - The Haunted Screen.

Ryan Ruby - Context Collapse 

Nathan Knapp 

Wrong Norma - Anne Carson (first 2/3)

Guy Davenport - Essays and

Every Force Involves a Form

Across My Big Brass Bed Gary Amdahl 

Sutree - Cormac McCarthy 

Memoirs from Beyond The Grave - François-René de Chateaubriand

Jon Fosse - Morning and Evening 

Gary Indiana - Essays 

2025

My Heresies - Alina Stefanescu

Garielle lutz  - Backwardness 

Gabrielle Blackwell - Comment Section

American Abductions- Mauro Javier Cardenas 

Hannah

Best books of 2024

Babysitters Club - Christie’s Big Day

Ada

Sister Showdown - Rachel Rene Russel

2025 

New Babysitters Club - Mallory and the Trouble With The Twins

My list 

Best books of 2024

Berlin Atomised 

Backwardness 

The Empusium 

Children of the Dead 

Daybook  Nathan Knapp

In Suavity of the Rock

Esther Kinsky- Seeing further 

Headshot - Rita Bullwinkle 

Once upon Argentina 

The Son of Man 

Bruce Wagner   

2025

Tetra Nova- Sophia Terazawa

Sam Mills - The Watermark 

The National Telepathy

by Roque Larraquy

The Deserters - Mathias Énard

The Honditsch Cross Ingeborg Bachmann

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria

José Donoso

Sacha Naspini -The Malcontents

Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza

Dareknbloom - Eve Menasse

All our Tomorrows - Amy De Bellis Clash 

Borges Bioy Caseres 

Afterward - Bristol Vardrin 

Brother Bronte - Fernando A Flores 

The Suicides - Antonio De Benedetto 

May Our Joy Endure - Kevin Lambert 

Empty Wigs - Jonathan Meades 

Golden Grove - Patrick McCabe Unbound 

Scahattenfroh 

Andrew Gallix- Loren Ipsum 

On The Calculation of volume 

Wendy Erskine 

David Keenan  

The Delegation -Avner

Atillia - Open Letter Katie Whittimore 

I Am Clarence - Elaine Kraf 

The House of Madelaine: A Novel

Elizabeth Ellen - American Thighs