Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 2

2003 Thursbitch by Alan Garner (UK)

Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead.

2007 Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro 

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

• Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022

2014 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath, through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s, and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.

• 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (shortlisted)
• 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlisted)
• 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (won)
• 2015 Green Carnation Prize (won)
• 2015 Man Booker Prize (won)
• 2015 Minnesota Book Award (won)
• 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (won)
• 2015 PEN Open Book Award (longlisted)
• 2016 International Dublin Literary Award (shortlisted)

2025 I Dreamt That You Loved Me by Emery Rose

Our story began when I found a notebook in Tompkins Square Park and fell in love with the words of a wildly romantic soul.