The Time Traveller’s Almanac, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer. Found this when I was checking out 19th-century-style book covers, and bought it to see how others write science fiction (that is, writers other than the ones I translate eg Théodore de Banville).
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende. I’ve heard she’s a winning writer, and the translator, Margaret Sayers Peden, is one of my favourites. I bought it in a 2nd-hand bookshop that has since closed. That’s the way it is now.
