Today in Bookish and Literary History, February 4

πŸ™‹πŸ»‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list?


πŸ”΄ 1922 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand |

πŸ”΄ 1943 The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht | GR | 112 P

πŸ”΄ 1944 Antigone by Jean Anouilh | FR | 85 P

πŸ”΄ 2009 True Colors by Kristin Hannah | US | 400 [

πŸ”΄ 2020 Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham | Nigeria | 277 P

πŸ”΄ 2020 Weather by Jenny Offill | US | 208

πŸ”΄ 2020 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland | US | 266 P | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

πŸ”΄ 2020 Survival Is a Style: Poems by Christian Wiman | US | 112 P

πŸ”΄ 2020 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey | US | 176 P | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

πŸ”΄ 2020 The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler | US | 224 p

πŸ”΄ 2020 Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick | US | 176 p

πŸ”΄ 2020 A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary | 240 p

πŸ”΄ 2020 Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch | US | 208 p | πŸ†

πŸ”΄ 2021 Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford | UK | 336 p

πŸ”΄ 2021 Paradais by Fernanda Melchor | MEX | 128

πŸ”΄ 2021 How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue | US/Cameroon | 384 p

πŸ”΄ 2021 Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson | UK/Ghana | 145 p | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

πŸ”΄ 2025 Isola by Allegra Goodman | US | 368 p | πŸ†πŸ†

πŸ”΄ 2025 Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva | Argentine | 224 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 Gliff by Ali Smith | UK | 288 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito | SP | 208 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha | EGY | 272 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 The Lamb by Lucy Rose | UK | 336 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi | UK | 336 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey | US | 320 p

πŸ”΄ 2025 Atrocity: A Literary History by Bruce Robbins | US | 294 p


πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February:

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