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We Tag The Following Channels, check them out and subscribe to them if you haven't already, the first two are newer channels and they're just as fantastic as the other 4 more established ones -
TAG Questions: 1. If you haven’t already explained in another tag (or you wish to expound upon), what made you start a Booktube channel? 2. How do you decide to subscribe? How many channels are you subscribed to? 3. Do you unsubscribe from inactive channels? If so, how do you decide to unsubscribe? 4. When and where do you watch Booktube? 5. How do you respond to comments? Do you always respond? Right away or on a set schedule? Do you comment on every video you watch? 6. Do you keep up with content as it comes out, or do you catch up on older content? How do you filter through old content, if so? 7. Do you use your homepage feed to decide what to watch, or do you work down your list of channel subscriptions? Or some other method? 8. Tag some folks!
Do you like silly tag videos? Holden Caulfield Insults? Calling out problematic authors such as feminists who don't believe transwomen should be included in their version of feminism? Intelligent discussion videos? Idiotic discussion videos? Unhealthy vendettas against Charles Dickens? Perfectly normal and healthy vendettas against Dan Brown? Your favourite BookTubers randomly being jumped on by Staffordshire Terriers who want a hug? Then put a fresh batch of toast on and hit that subscribe button.
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
1. Read a book by an Australian Author 2. Deadly Books - Read a book written by an Indigenous, Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander. 3. Migrant Books - Read a book about migrants, by a migrant or by the child or family of a migrant. 4. Boats, Sea and Beach - Read a book that relates to one or all of these words. 5. Heat, Fire, Desert - Read a book that relates to one or all of these words. 6. Two or Second - Read a book that relates to one or both of these words.
#strayaseptember2
This video was filmed and edited on unceded land belonging to the Bunurong people. Treaty Now.
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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