Today in Bookish and Literary History, April 1



1724 Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift | Ireland | 272 |

1854 Hard Times by Charles Dickens begins serialisation | UK | 368 |

1857 The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville | US | 251 |

1893 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 114 |

1941 Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman | US | 180 |

1998 The Voice That Thunders by Alan Garner | UK | 224 |

2000 The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone | Italy | 480 | 🏆

2014 Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall | UK | 37 | 🏆

2023 Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright | AUS | 736 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

2025 The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller | UK | 384 | 🏆🏆

2025 Flesh by David Szalay | CAN | 349 | 🏆🏆

2025 Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree | IND | 432 |

2025 A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton | US | 496 |

2025 The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes | UK | 256 |

2025 The Snares by Rav Grewal-Kök | CAN - Hong Kong | 320 | 🏆

2025 A Hole in the Story by Ken Kalfus | US | 208 |

2025 The Night Trembles by Nadia Terranova | Italy | 192 | 🏆

2025 Journey to the Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü | TR | 184 |

2026 As Far as She Knew by Diana Awad | US | 329 |

2026 The Opprimo Conspiracy: AI's Covenant with Babylon by Gary Wayne | US | 330 |


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