(alphabetized by author)
Fiction
- Jessica Abel, La Perdida
- Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (trans. unknown)
- Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
- Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli)
- Donald Barthelme & Seymour Chwast, Sam’s Bar: An American Landscape
- Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
- Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
- Jane Bowles, My Sister’s Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
- Dino Buzzati, The Siren: A Selection from Dino Buzzati (trans. Lawrence Venuti)
- Dino Buzzati, Poem Strip, Including an Explanation of the Afterlife
- Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Julio Cortázar, We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Julio Cortázar, All Fires the Fire (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine)
- Stanley Crawford, Gascoyne
- Stanley Crawford, Travel Notes (from here—to there)
- Stanley Crawford, Log of the S. S. The Mrs. Unguentine
- Stanley Crawford, Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to my Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of their Childhood
- John Crowley, Love & Sleep
- John Crowley, Dæmonomania
- John Crowley, Endless Things
- John Crowley, Novelties & Souvenirs
- R. Crumb, The Book of Genesis Illustrated
- Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
- Robertson Davies, The Manticore
- Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
- Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
- Samuel R. Delany, The Fall of the Towers
- Samuel R. Delany, Equinox
- Samuel R. Delany, Hogg
- Thomas M. Disch, 334
- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Eugene Jolas)
- Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes
- Stanley Elkin, Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
- Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show
- Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
- Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser
- Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom
- Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain
- Brian Evenson, Last Days
- Brian Evenson, Fugue State: Stories
- Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
- Max Frisch, I’m Not Stiller (trans. Michael Bullock)
- Carlos Fuentes, Where the Air Is Clear (trans. Sam Hileman)
- Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree
- Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
- Henry Green, Blindness
- Henry Green, Living
- Henry Green, Loving
- Henry Green, Party Going
- Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
- Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book 4
- Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
- Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Missing Person (trans. Mark Harman)
- Robert Kelly, Cities
- Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— (trans. Richard Stokes)
- Eric Kraft, Flying Home
- D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
- Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels
- Ursula Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest
- John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
- Gary Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
- Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
- Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels (trans. Henry Martin)
- Sarah Manguso, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well
- David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp
- James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey
- Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphase
- Herman Melville, ; or The Whale (ed. Damion Searls)
- Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
- Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome (trans. Tim Parks)
- Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (trans. David Short)
- Amélie Nothomb, Tokyo Fiancée (trans. Alison Anderson)
- Toby Olson, The Blond Box
- Georges Perec, Life a User’s Manual
- Georges Perec, 53 Days (ed. Harry Mathews & Jacques Roubaud, trans. David Bellows)
- Georges Perec (et al.), Winter Journeys
- Georges Perec with Harry Mathews, Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers
- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
- Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle
- Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
- Aaron Petrovich, The Session
- Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Buyer’s Market
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World
- Marcel Proust, The Lemoine Affair (trans. Charlotte Mandell)
- Ann Quin, Berg
- Jean Ricardou, Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book (trans. Jordan Stump)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
- Damion Searls, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going
- Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
- Leanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
- Dash Shaw, Bottomless Bellybutton
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
- Sophocles, Antigone (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
- Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal (trans. Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore)
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Camera (trans. Matthew B. Smith)
- Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
- Deb Olin Unferth, Minor Robberies
- Eloy Urroz, The Obstacles (trans. Ezra Fitz)
- Noël Vexin, Murder in Montmartre (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
- Robert Walser, The Tanners (trans. Susan Bernofsky)
- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
- Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
- Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
- Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
- Stephen Wright, M31: A Family Romance
- Unica Zürn, Dark Spring (trans. Caroline Rupprecht)
- Job (NRSV)
Poetry
- John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
- John Ashbery, Some Trees
- John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
- John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
- John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
- John Ashbery, Shadow Train
- John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- John Ashbery, A Wave
- John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
- John Ashbery, Three Poems
- bpNichol, The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader (ed. Darren Wershler-Henry & Lori Emerson)
- Clark Coolidge, Odes of Roba
- Robert Creeley, Words
- Paul Fattaruso, Bicycle
- Heather Green, No Omen
- Ernest Hilbert, Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
- Dick Higgins, Legends & Fishnets
- Susan Howe, Poems Found in a Pioneer Museum
- Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
- Tan Lin, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo
- Tan Lin, plagiarism/outsource / , Notes Towards the Definition of Culture / ,Untilted Heath Ledger Project / , a history of the search engine / ,disco OS
- Harry Mathews, Out of Bounds
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5
- Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
- Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
- Paul Metcalf, Mountaineers Are Always Free
- Paul Metcalf, Araminta and the Coyotes
- Paul Metcalf, Merrill Cove
- Chrisopher Middleton, Torse 3: poems 1949–1961
- Paul Muldoon, Madoc: A Mystery
- Fernando Pessoa, The Surprise of Being: Twenty-Five Poems (trans. James Greene & Clara de Azevado Mafra)
- Fernando Pessoa, The Keeper of Sheep (trans. Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown)
- Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos (ed. Richard Sieburth)
- Samuel Putnam, Paris Was Our Mistress
- Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems (trans. Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & John Ashbery)
- Jacques Roubaud, Some Thing Black (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop)
- Jacques Roubaud, The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (trans. Keith Waldrop & Rosmarie Waldrop)
- Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems
- Bruno Schulz, Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz (trans. Walter Arndt & Victoria Nelson)
- James Schuyler, ed., Locus Solus, issue I
- Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein on Picasso (ed. Edward Burns)
- Mark Strand, Selected Poems
- Stacy Szymaszek, Emptied of All Ships
- James Tate, Selected Poems
- Dara Wier, Remnants of Hanna
- Charles Wright, Chickamauga
Non-fiction
- Donald Antrim, The Afterlife: a memoir
- Helen Moore Barthelme, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound
- Gianfranco Baruchello & Henry Martin, How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture
- Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico
- Sven Birkerts, An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature
- Grégoire Bouillier, Report on Myself (trans. Bruce Benderson)
- Aldo Buzzi, The Perfect Egg, and Other Secrets (trans. Guido Waldman)
- Nick Caistor, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion
- Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
- Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (trans. Thomas Christensen)
- Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunham, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (trans. Anne McLean)
- Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
- Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Garlic Farm
- Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers
- Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
- Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
- Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
- Thomas M. Disch, On SF
- Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
- Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
- Marcel Duchamp, Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage . . . (ed. Anne d’Harnoncourt & Michael R. Taylor)
- Max Frisch, Sketchbook 1966–1971, trans. Geoffrey Skelton
- Kenneth Gangemi, The Volcanoes from Puebla
- William H. Gass, Finding a Form
- Josh Glenn, ed., Hermenaut 15: Fake Authenticity
- Henry Green, Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
- Hannah B. Higgins, The Grid Book
- Eva Huttenlauch, Nicolaus Schafhausen & Monika Szewczyk, eds., Sung Hwan Kim: Source Book 6
- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
- Dorothy Kosinski, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg
- John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith
- Damon Krukowski & Naomi Yang, Album Exact Change: 20 Years of Publishing
- D. H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico
- D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places
- David Lida, First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century
- Paul Maliszewski, Fakers: hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders
- André Malraux, Museum Without Walls (trans. Stuart Gilbert & Francis Price)
- Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
- Robert McAlmon & Kay Boyle, Being Geniuses Together
- Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer
- Christien Meindertsma, Pig 05049
- W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
- Howard Moss, The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
- Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way
- Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey & Jennifer Shahade, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
- Margarita de Orellana, ed., Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo
- Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, trans. Lysander Kemp
- Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts (trans. David Bellos)
- Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Natural History: a selection (ed. & trans. John F. Healy)
- Procopius, The Secret History, trans. G. A. Williamson
- Herbert Read, The Green Child
- Erik Anderson Reece, A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
- João Ribas, ed., Unica Zürn: Dark Spring
- Jacques Roubaud, The Great Fire of London (trans. Dominic Di Bernardi)
- John Ruskin, Præterita (and Dilecta)
- Damion Searls, Everything You Say Is True
- David Shields, Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- Francis Steegmuller, trans. & ed., Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life (trans. Taro Nettleton)
- Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
- Paul West, My Father’s War: A Memoir
- Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
- Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
- Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
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