David Auerbach’s Books of the Year 2019

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai
(New Directions)

Unions: Two Stories
Robert Musil
(Contra Mundum Press)

And Go Like This: Stories
John Crowley
(Small Beer Press)

Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
(New Directions)

The Prosecutor
Augusto Roa Bastos
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)

Convalescent Conversations (Lost Literature)
Laura Riding
(Ugly Duckling Presse)

Experts Are Puzzled
Laura Riding
(Ugly Duckling Presse)

Dictator
Philip Terry
(Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Love in the New Millennium (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Can Xue
(Yale University Press)

Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)
Ilse Aichinger
(Seagull Books)

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

(Penguin Classics)

All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 - 2018

(McSweeney's Publishing)

Necropolis (Russian Library)
Vladislav Khodasevich
(Columbia University Press)

The Best of R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty
(Gollancz)

R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master

(Gollancz)

The Revenger's Tragedy (Arden Early Modern Drama)

(The Arden Shakespeare)

The White Devil (Arden Early Modern Drama)
John Webster
(The Arden Shakespeare)

Where Reasons End: A Novel
Yiyun Li
(Random House)

Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn
(Penguin Classics)

The Labyrinth of Tender Force: 166 Love Stories (The German List)
Alexander Kluge
(Seagull Books)

World-Changing Rage: News of the Antipodeans (The German List)
Georg Baselitz, Alexander Kluge
(Seagull Books)

Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Maxim Osipov
(NYRB Classics)

The Magic: (October 1961-October 1967) Ten Tales by Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny
(Positronic Publishing)

West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe's "Notes and Essays" & the unpublished poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Gingko Library)

Abel and Cain (New York Review Books Classics)
Gregor von Rezzori
(NYRB Classics)

Dante's Divine Comedy: Part One: Hell. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
Alisdair Gray
(Canongate Books)

PURGATORY: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
Dante Alighieri
(Canongate Books)

Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata

(Oxford University Press)

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
(Random House)

Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences
Barbara Maria Stafford
(University of Chicago Press)

Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
Gerard Passannante
(University of Chicago Press)

A History of Ambiguity
Anthony Ossa-Richardson
(Princeton University Press)

Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
Sarah Stroumsa
(Princeton University Press)

Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
Fred Lerdahl
(University of California Press)

Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation)
Alexander Kluge
(Cornell University Press)

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla Townsend
(Oxford University Press)

Cassius Dio (Ancients in Action)
Jesper Majbom Madsen
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions
Ann E. Lucas
(University of California Press)

The Oulipo and Modern Thought
Dennis Duncan
(OUP Oxford)

Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context
Jacques Jouanna
(Princeton University Press)

A History of Art History
Christopher Wood
(Princeton University Press)

I, the Poet: First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius
Kathleen McCarthy
(Cornell University Press)

Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century
Johnny Farraj, Sami Abu Shumays
(Oxford University Press)

Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Lindsay C. Watson
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Reading Backwards
John Crowley
(Subterranean)

A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought (Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought)

(Columbia University Press)

The Essence of Tsongkhapa's Teachings: The Dalai Lama on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(Wisdom Publications)

Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading
Matthew Meyer
(Cambridge University Press)

Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Laura Swift
(Oxford University Press)

Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings: The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1

(Oxford University Press)

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
Hannah Frank
(University of California Press)

Chaucer: A European Life
Marion Turner
(Princeton University Press)

How to Be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Richard Bett
(Cambridge University Press)

Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity
Colin Burrow
(Oxford University Press)

The Cypria (Hellenic Studies Series)
Malcolm Davies
(Center for Hellenic Studies)

Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981 (The MIT Press)
Klara Kemp-Welch
(The MIT Press)

How to Read a Japanese Poem
Steven D. Carter
(Columbia University Press)

Knowing Our Limits
Nathan Ballantyne
(Oxford University Press)

Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (Music in Context)
Nicole Grimes
(Cambridge University Press)

Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism
Alexander J. B. Hampton
(Cambridge University Press)

Kinship in Ancient Athens: Two-Volume Set: An Anthropological Analysis
S. C. Humphreys
(Oxford University Press)

Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re-examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy
Oskari Kuusela
(Oxford University Press)

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes
Timothy Raylor
(OUP Oxford)

The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
Solomon Maimon
(Princeton University Press)

The Roots of Platonism: The Origins and Chief Features of a Philosophical Tradition
John Dillon
(Cambridge University Press)

Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography
Frederick C. Beiser
(OUP Oxford)

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays
Richard Seaford
(Cambridge University Press)

Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life
Jacqueline Feke
(Princeton University Press)

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph LeDoux
(Viking)

Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
Daniel S. Milo
(Harvard University Press)

Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
Barbara Tversky
(Basic Books)

Brains as Engines of Association: An Operating Principle for Nervous Systems
Dale Purves
(Oxford University Press)

The Reality of Time Flow: Local Becoming in Modern Physics (The Frontiers Collection)
Richard T. W. Arthur
(Springer)

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy Book 33)
Tim Maudlin
(Princeton University Press)

The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
Stephen T. Asma
(Harvard University Press)

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
Michael Tomasello
(Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press)

UNIX: A History and a Memoir
Brian Kernighan
()

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
David Sloan Wilson
(Pantheon)

Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"
William Newman
(Princeton University Press)

Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Andrew Scull
(University of California Press)

The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology)
Anya Bernstein
(Princeton University Press)

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain (Ideas in Context)
Gregory Conti
(Cambridge University Press)

World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
Emanuel Adler
(Cambridge University Press)

Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
Branko Milanovic
(Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press)

Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Lorraine Milam
(Princeton University Press)

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
(Oxford University Press)

Why Should We Obey the Law? (Political Theory Today)
George Klosko
(Polity)

To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Eleonory Gilburd
(Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press)

Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable (Princeton University Press (Wildguides))
Eviatar Zerubavel
(Princeton University Press)

Economy and Society (2 Volume Set)
Max Weber
(University of California Press)

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Histories of Economic Life)
Professor Amy C. Offner
(Princeton University Press)

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
David Abulafia
(Oxford University Press)

The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Robert Culp
(Columbia University Press)

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
(Yale University Press)

Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Amin Saikal
(Princeton University Press)

The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
Isser Woloch
(Yale University Press)

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany
Ulrich Herbert
(Oxford University Press)

The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
Jacqueline de Romilly
(Cornell University Press)

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Walter Scheidel
(Princeton University Press)

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V
Geoffrey Parker
(Yale University Press)

Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
Noel Malcolm
(Oxford University Press)

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 (The Penguin History of Europe)
Ian Kershaw
(Viking)

Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present (The Wiles Lectures)
Robert Gildea
(Cambridge University Press)

The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
(Yale University Press)

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Richard J. Evans
(Oxford University Press)

Reincarnation Stories
Kim Deitch
(Fantagraphics)

Maggy Garrisson
Lewis Trondheim
(SelfMadeHero)

Infinity 8 Vol. 3: The Gospel According to Emma
Fabien Vehlmann, Lewis Trondheim
(Lion Forge)

Clyde Fans
Seth
(Drawn and Quarterly)

Stay
Lewis Trondheim
(Lion Forge)

Bezimena
Nina Bunjevac
(Fantagraphics)

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Nora Krug
(Scribner)

George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". The Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944
Alexander Braun
(TASCHEN)

The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918
George Herriman
(Fantagraphics)

The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992
Riad Sattouf
(Metropolitan Books)

Petit: The Ogre Gods Book One
Hubert Boulard
(Lion Forge)

Half-Blood: The Ogre Gods Book Two
Hubert Boulard
(Lion Forge)

The Great Man: The Ogre Gods Book Three
Hubert
(Lion Forge)

Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
Franz Kafka
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
(W. W. Norton & Company)