An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses is a book by Judith Schalansky originally published in Germany in 2018 by Suhrkamp Verlag (). It placed fourth in Stiftung Buchkunst's "The Most Beautiful German Books" competition (German: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher) in 2019 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Its English translation by Jackie Smith was published in 2020 by New Directions and MacLehose Press. The chapters are oriented around twelve of the world's losses, each using a different writing style and having what sometimes might seem only a tangential relation to its title.