The Short Stories of Lydia Davis

Selected works

  • The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories, Living Hand, 1976[4]
  • Sketches for a Life of Wassilly. Station Hill Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-930794-45-3.
  • Story and Other Stories. The Figures. 1985. ISBN 978-0-935724-17-2.
  • Break It Down. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1986. ISBN 0-374-11653-9.
  • The End of the Story. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1994. ISBN 978-0-374-14831-7. (novel)
  • Almost No Memory. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1997. ISBN 978-0-374-10281-4.
  • Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. McSweeney's. 2001. ISBN 978-0-9703355-9-3.
  • Varieties of Disturbance. Farrar Straus & Giroux. May 15, 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-28173-1.
  • Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red. Center for Writers and Translators. 2007. ISBN 9780955296352.
  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2009. ISBN 978-0-374-27060-5.
  • The Cows. Sarabande Books. 2011. ISBN 9781932511932.
  • Lydia Davis: Documenta Series 078. Hatje Cantz. 2012. ISBN 9783775729277
  • Can't and Won't: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374118587.
  • Essays One. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. ISBN 9780374148850.
  • Essays Two. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. ISBN 9780374148867.
  • Our Strangers: Stories. Bookshop Editions. 2023. ISBN 9798987717103. [26][27][28]

Anthologies

  • Bill Henderson, ed. (1989). The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-58-2.
  • E. Annie Proulx, Katrina Kenison, ed. (1997). "St. Martin". The Best American Short Stories 1997. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-79866-9.
  • Robert Hass; David Lehman, eds. (2001). "A Mown Lawn". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7432-0384-5. Lydia Davis.
  • Charles Wright; David Lehman, eds. (2008). "Men". The Best American Poetry 2008. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9975-6.

Selected translations

  • Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère (1977). China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation. Translators Paul Auster and Lydia Davis. Pantheon Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Georges Simenon (1979). Aboard the Aquitaine (Simenon African Trio). Translators Paul Auster and Lydia Davis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-103955-0.
  • Claude Nori (1979). French Photography, from Its Origins to the Present. Translator Lydia Davis. Pantheon Press.
  • Maurice Blanchot (1981). P. Adams Sitney (ed.). The Gaze of Orpheus, and Other Literary Essays. Translator Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press. ISBN 978-0930794378.
  • Joseph Joubert (1983). Paul Auster (ed.). The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. Translator Paul Auster. North Point Press. ISBN 0865471088. (Davis translated the 19-page afterword by Maurice Blanchot, "Joubert et l'espace.")
  • Conrad Detrez (1984). A Weed for Burning. Translator Lydia Davis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Michel Butor (1986). The Spirit of Mediterranean Places. Translator Lydia Davis. Marlboro Press.
  • Françoise Giroud (1986). Marie Curie: A Life. Translator Lydia Davis. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 0841909776.
  • André Jardin (1988). Tocqueville: A Biography. Translator Lydia Davis. Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 0374521905.
  • Pierre Jean Jouve (1996). The Desert World. Translator Lydia Davis. Marlboro Press. ISBN 978-0810160187.
  • Pierre Jean Jouve (1997). Hecate: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: I. Translator Lydia Davis. Marlboro Press. ISBN 978-0810160385.
  • Michel Leiris (1997). The Rules of the Game: Scratches. Translator Lydia Davis. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801854865.
  • Marcel Proust (2004). Lydia Davis; Christopher Prendergast (eds.). Swann's Way. Translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-243796-4.
  • Vivant Denon (2009). Peter Brooks (ed.). No Tomorrow. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-59017-326-8.
  • Gustave Flaubert (2010). Lydia Davis (ed.). Madame Bovary. Translated by Lydia Davis. Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0-670-02207-6.
  • Ollivant, Alfred (2014). Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Gray Dog of Kenmuir. New York Review Children's Collection. Translated by Lydia Davis. ISBN 9781590177297.
  • Snijders, A.L. (2016). Grasses and Trees. Translated by Lydia Davis. AFDH. ISBN 9789072603586.

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