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Black Duck by Bruce Pascoe
Hard Copy by Fien Veldman translated from Dutch by Hester Veldman
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Jaded by Ela Lee
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia translated from Portuguese by Zoe Perry
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Swift River by Essie Chambers
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, translated from Welsh by the author
The Daughter of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar
What I would do to you by Georgia Harper
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Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Eartheaters by Dolores Reyes translated from Spanish by Julia Sanchez
Hospital by Sanya Rushdi translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
No No Boy by John Okada
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma
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BookTubers and their Prediction Videos, check them out if you're not familiar with them:
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@stalkingkafka - youtube.com/watch?v=LGcjF950Cvw
Booktubers to post prediction videos after I filmed:
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I will update the Booker dozen with these wonderful videos in a few hours, once I've had a chance to catch up on them.
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121 Books (not including DNFs), 20 5 star reads!
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March - 17:52
April - 20:23
May - 24:54
June - 29:22
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Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
Dominoes by Phoebe McIntosh
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not by Imbi Neeme
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg, translated from Norwegian by Alison McCullough
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Remember, Remember by Elle Machray
The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra
The Tower by Flora Carr
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Women and Daughters by Tony Birch
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Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
Oh Sister by Jodie Chapman
Becoming Liz Taylor by Elizabeth Delo
Clear by Carys Davies
Tremor by Teju Cole
Hidden Fires by Sairish Hussain
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
The Work by Bri Lee
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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I've run out of characters for all the books, some are missing authors
Books Mentioned:
Question 7
What Will Survive of Us
The Voyage Home
The Women Behind the Door
Fanatic Heart
The Extinction
The Road to the Country
James
Choices
My Friends
Long Island
The Spoiled Heart
There are Rivers in the Sky
Tell Me Everything
Cahokia Jazz
Parade
Crooked Seed
Come and Get it
Playground
Intermezzo
Baumgartner
Blackouts
Praiseworthy
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Let us Descend
Heart, be at Peace
Small Rain
Martyr!
Headshot
Wandering Star
Clear
Whale Fall
Wellness
Passiontide
The Night Alphabet
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Parasol Against the Axe
Pity by Andrew McMillan
Hard by the Great Forrest
The Burrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh Ingrid Persaud
Julia
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
The Future
Restless Dolly Maunder
River East River West
A Trace of Sun
Same Bed Different Dreams
The Future Future
Caledonian Road
Orbital
Loot
The Land of Milk and Honey
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
The Storm We Made
Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Butcher
Interesting Facts About Space and Time
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
The Glutton by AK Blakemore
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Road to Belhaven by Margot Livesey
Wild House by Colin Barrett
I cheerfully refuse Leif Enger
Held by Anne Michaels
The Bullet Swallowers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Private Rites Julia Armfield
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Body Friend by Katherine Bradon
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Between You and Me by Joanna Horton
The Echos by Evie Wyld
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys
Fast by the Horns Moses McKenzie
Ghost Mountain Ronan Hession
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Exile by Aimée Walsh
The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Cross by Austin Duffy
This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack
Mouthing by Orla Mackey
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard
Habitat by Catriona Shine
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Once Upon A Time There Was A Man by Peter Scholes
You Are Here by David Nicholls
Elightenment by Sarah Perry
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
All Grown Up by Catherine Evans
Shaking Hands with Elvis: Check out anytime you like at the Grand Euthanasia Hotel by Paul Carroll
Leaving by Roxana Robinson
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
The Limits by Nell Freudenberger
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
All Fours by Miranda July
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
Jaded by Ela Lee
Mother Naked by Glen James Brown
The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
The Lodgers by Holly Pester
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Within Arm's Reach by Ann Napolitano
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Mongrel by Hanako Footman
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
Monumenta by Lara Haworth
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg
My Beloved Life by Amitava Kumar
The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump
The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas
Curandera by Irenosen Okojie
After Nora by Penelope Curtis
How to Be Somebody Else by Miranda Pountney
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands
Hyper by Agri Ismaïl
I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
The Vulnerable by Sigrid Nunez
Determination by Tawseef Khan
Day by Michael Cunningham
Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Dominoes by Phoebe Mcintosh
Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams,
Tremor by Teju Cole,
The Museum of Failures by Thirty Umrigar,
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Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
You Dream of Empire by Alvaro Enrigue translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
James by Percival Everett
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman, translated from French by Leslie Camhi
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Fruits of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci translated from Finnish by David Hackson
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Schmutz by Felica Berliner
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Redwood Court by DeLana Dameron
Thanks for having me by Emma Darragh
The Brink by Jamie Fewery
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
Memory Pieces by Lisa Ko
Sisters of Belfast by Melaine Maure
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
Feast by Emily O’Grady
An Imagine in a Mirror by Ijangolet Ogwang
Wandering Souls by Tommy Orange
Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago
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Here is a link to the paper mentioned for those of you who are interested - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337753
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Books Mentioned
Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
Broughtups by Christina Cooke
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Lioness by Emily Perkins
My Men by Victoria Kielland translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
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While most of the opinions are very positive, there are some negative opinions and I would like to remind you all that these are just books, we can disagree.
Books Reviewed:
Hangman by Maya Binyam
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
The Maiden by Kate Foster
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams
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Please note that I get muddled in this video and say Pakistan when I mean to say Palestine. I apologise for this complete accident. To be extra confusing I also say Pakistan at other points in this video when I mean to say Pakistan, but hopefully you'll figure things out by the context.
Book's Mentioned:
10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world by Elif Shafak
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misery
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Germinal by Emile Zola
Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts
I Remember Abu by Humayun Azad
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Our Bodies Their Battlefields – War through the lives of Women by Christina Lamb
When I hit you: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
Woman At Point Zero by Nawel El Saadawi
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Books Mentioned in the order they appear in the video:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Watership Downs Richard Adams
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
The Performance by Claire Thomas
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
Pyre by Perumal Murugan
One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
Les Miserables
Germinal by Zola
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Human Acts by Han Kang
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Night by Elie Wiesel
Fredrick Backman
Minor Details by Adania Shibli
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Bolla by Pajtim Statovic
Magma by Thora Hjorlesifdottir
I want to die but I want to get Tteokpokki
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Black Butterflies by Priscila Morris
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad
A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Diary of Anne Frank
Night by Elie Wiesel
How We Disappear by Jing Jing Lee
Maus by Art Spiegelman
First They Killed by Father Loung Ung
The Mountains Sing Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
As Long As The Lemon Tree Grows Zoulfa Katouh
The Girl Who Smiled Beads Clemantine Wamariya
The Last Girl Nadia Murad
Our Bodies Their Battlefields War through the Lives of Women Christina Lamb
Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Bech
War and Peace
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Behold the Dreamer by Imbolo Mbue
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Kite Runner
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Amnesty by Aravinda Adiga
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Kim JiYoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Valley of the Dolls by Jacquline Susan
Hello Mum by Bernadine Evaristo
No One Is Talking About This by Patrica Lockwood
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
10 minutes and 38 seconds in this world by Elif Shafak
Thomas Hardy
George Gissing New Grubb Street
Tolstoy
the Brontes
Plath
Kafka
Steinbeck
Upton Sinclair
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misery
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
If Beale Streets Could Talkby James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Shakespeare’s tragedies
Les Mis
The hunch back of Norte Damn
A Tale of Two Cities
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Come and get it by Kiley Reid
Close to Home by Michael Magee
Family Meal Bryan Washington
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
Hard by the Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
The House of Plain Truth by Donna Hemans
How to kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman translated from French by Ros Schwartz
Quinn by Em Strang
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Sugar Baby by Celine Saintclare
Things We didn’t know by Elba Iris Perez
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Book's Reviewed:
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Haniff
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
As Long as the lemon tree grows by Zoulfa Katouh
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chan
Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza translated from French by Rachel McGill
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruze
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, translated by Asa Yoneda
Lie With Me by Phillipe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
Minor Details by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
Nives by Sacha Naspini translated from Italian by Clarissa Botsford
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich
We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb
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A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Brainwryms by Alison Rumfitt
Chlorine by Jade Song
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
I am I am I am by Maggie O’Farrell
Julia by Sandra Newman
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Mercy Street by Jennifer Haige
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Pity by Andrew McMillian
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
Three Daughter of Eve by Elif Shafak
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Newman
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
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I also mention another video I made recently where I talk about 76 new releases, here's the link - youtu.be/VwfIltc35aw
Books Mentioned:
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain – Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kauzo Ishiguro, illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel
And So I Roar by Abi Dare
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
Black Duck by Bruce Pascoe
Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers
Dirrayawadha: Rise Up by Anita Heiss
Diana Reid - TBC
The Boat – 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
Towards Eternity by Anton Hur
Honeyeater by Jessica Tu
Fast By The Horns by Moses McKenzie
Scandalous Women – A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jaqueline Susan by Gil Paul
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Blessing by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Fragile Animal by Genevieve Jagger
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Anyone’s Ghost by August Thompson - apologise I called this Anyone's Guest in the video, it is an error, Anyone's Ghost is the actual title.
A Thousand Times before by Asha Thanki
If you go by Alice Robinson
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Butter by Asako Yuzuki translated by Polly Barton
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
There’s going to be Trouble by Jen Silverman
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Girl
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Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
Clotel by Williams Wells Brown
Echolalia – Briony Doyle
Leaving Atlanta – Tayari Jones
North Wood – Daniel Mason
Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
The Connellys of County Down – Tracey Lange
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine – Ilan Pappe
The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas
The Future – Naomi Alderman
The God of Good Looks – Breanne McIvor
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Hi, these are your favourite books of 2023, I hope you find a good read!
Below is the list of all the books, but warning, that be spoilers for the video. I'm not sure why I suddenly started typing with a pirate accent then, sorry.
Babel by RF Kuang
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Foster by Claire Keegan
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacquline Harpman translated from French by Ros Schwartz –
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Mrs S by K Patrick
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The New Life by Tom Crewe
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden (Who can be found on youtube here @katiejlumsden)
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Wandering Souls by Cecil Pin
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The 70 books on the longlist, sorry the translator isn't provided:
"1000 Coils of Fear" by Olivia Wenzel
"A History of the Island" by Eugene Vodolazkin
"A Minor Chorus" by Billy-Ray Belcourt
"Ada’s Realm" by Sharon Dodua Otoo
"An Astronomer in Love" by Antoine Laurain
"Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton
"Breakwater" by Marijke Schermer
"Canción" by Eduardo Halfon
"Chain-Gang All-Stars" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
"Crimson Spring" by Navtej Sarna
"Crooked Plow" by Itamar Vieira Junior
"Dandelion Daughter" by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
"Day’s End" by Garry Disher
"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Falling Hour" by Geoffrey Morrison
"Feast" by Emily O’Grady
"HADES" by Aishah Zainal
"Haven" by Emma Donoghue
"Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano
"Hollow Bamboo: A Novel" by William Ping
"Human Nature" by Serge Joncour
"Identitti" by Mithu Sanyal
"If I Survive You" by Jonathan Escoffery
"Limberlost" by Robbie Arnott
"Lone Women" by Victor LaValle
"Memorial, 29 June" by Tine Høeg
"Monsters Like Us" by Ulrike Almut Sandig
"My Father’s House" by Joseph O’Connor
"My Men" by Victoria Kielland
"Now I am Here" by Chidi Ebere
"Old God’s Time" by Sebastian Barry
"Open Heart" by Elvira Lindo
"Orgy" by Gábor Zoltán
"Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng
"Our Share of Night" by Mariana Enriquez
"Pet" by Catherine Chidgey
"Praiseworthy" by Alexis Wright
"Properties of thirst : a novel" by Marianne Wiggins
"Querelle of Roberval: A Syndical Fiction" by Kevin Lambert
"River Sing Me Home" by Eleanor Shearer
"Rombo" by Esther Kinsky
"Schmutz" by Felicia Berliner
"Small Mercies" by Dennis Lehane
"Soldier Sailor" by Claire Kilroy
"Solenoid" by Mircea Cărtărescu
"Stolen" by Ann-Helén Laestadius
"Stone and Shadow" by Burhan Sönmez
"Take What You Need" by Idra Novey
"The Ascent" by Stefan Hertmans
"THE AXEMAN’S CARNIVAL" by Catherine Chidgey
"The Birthday Party" by Laurent Mauvignier
"The Chinese Groove" by Kathryn Ma
"The Crane Husband" by Kelly Barnhill
"The Drinker of Horizons" by Mia Couto
"The Exhibition" by Miodrag Kajtez
"The Eye of the Beholder" by Margie Orford
"The Fire" by Daniela Krien
"The Ghetto Within" by Santiago H. Amigorena
"The Great Reclamation" by Rachel Heng
"The House of Fortune" by Jessie Burton
"The Moonday Letters" by Emmi Itäranta
"The Orphans of Amsterdam" by Elle Van Rijn
"The Sleeping Car Porter" by Suzette Mayr
"The Words that Remain" by Stênio Gardel
"The World and All That It Holds" by Aleksandar Hemon
"This Other Eden" by Paul Harding
"Thistlefoot" by Genna Rose Nethercott
"Ti Amo" by Hanne Ørstavik
"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin
"When We Were Fireflies" by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
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Books Mentioned:
Abomination – Ashley Goldberg
Call and Response – Gothataone Moeng
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa
Fresh Water for Flowers – Valerie Perrin
Inflamed – Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
Miss Kim Knows – Cho Nam Ju
Mister Mister - Guy Gunaratne
Stoner – John Williams
The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossman
The Happy Couple - Naoise Dolan
The Leftover Woman – Jean Kwok
The Museum of Failures – Thrity Umrigar
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – Lola Shoneyin
This is Salvage – Vauhini Vara
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Abomination by Ashley Goldberg
At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph
All that’s left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Black butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Don’t Cry for me by Daniel Black
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
Fayne by Ann Marie MacDonald
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
Joan by Katherine J Chen
Magma by Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
The Poet by Louisa Reid
The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow
When things are Alive they hum – Hannah Bent
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