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 Tre...