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2025

December

Till We Have Faces, C.S.Lewis (UK) (Classic/Allegory) – currently reading

Intermezzo, Sally Rooney (Ireland) (Contemporary Fiction)

Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver (US) (Poetry)

Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton (UK) (Nature Writing/Memoir)

Mother Mary Come to Me, Arundhati Roy (India) (Memoir)

The Mushroom Tapes, Conversations of a Triple Murder Trial, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krashnostein (Australia) (True Crime)

The Stolen Village, Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates, Des Ekin (Ireland) (History)

November

Saltblood, Francesca de Tores (Australia) (historical fiction)

Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) (literary fiction)

Is A River Alive? Robert Macfarlane (UK) (Nature Writing) (nonfiction)

The Correspondent, Virginia Evans (US) (literary fiction)

Buckeye, Patrick Ryan (US) (popular fiction)

A Truce That Is Not Peace, Miriam Toews (Canada) (Memoir)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai (India) (literary fiction) (Booker shortlist)

Flashlight, Susan Choi (US) (literary fiction) (Booker shortlist)

October

Somebody is Walking On Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys, Mariana Enriquez (Argentina) tr. Megan McDowell (Spanish)

The Mothers, Brit Bennett, (US) (fiction)

Mother to Mother, Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) (literary fiction)

The Mother, Yvvette Edwards (UK) (literary fiction)

Crossing Over, Ann Morgan (UK) (literary fiction)

The Trees, Percival Everett (US)

Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann (US) (nonfiction/history)

Someone is Walking On Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez (Argentina) tr. Megan McDowell (Spanish) (nonfiction) (essays)

Brandy Sour, Constantia Soteriou (Cyprus) tr. Lina Protopapa (Greek) (short stories)

Go With the River, Shelley Read (US) (Historical fiction)

The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of the Kitchen, Shokoofeh Azar (Iran) tr. (Anonymous) (Historical fiction/magic realism)

August – WIT Month

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky (Russia) tr. Tim Mohr (German)

All Our Yesterdays, Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) tr. Angus Davidson, Intro Sally Rooney

The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Catalonia, Spain) tr. Tiago Miller (Catalan) (short stories)

Love Forms by Claire Adam (Trinidad/UK) (Booker Prize longlist 2025)

The Brittle Age, Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein

All That Remains, Virginie Grimaldi (France) tr.Hildegarde Serle

There’s No Turning Back, Alba de Céspedes (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein

July

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (US) (literary fiction)

Amma, Saraid de Silva (NZ/SriLanka) (historical fiction)

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken Hearted, Ben Okri (Nigeria/UK) (literary fiction/magic realism) (novella)

Coastliners, Joanna Harris (UK) (fiction)

The Body Where I Was Born, Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico) tr. J.T. Lichenstein (Spanish) (literary fiction)

Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss (UK) (novella)

This is Happiness, Niall Williams (Ireland) (historical fiction)

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, Elaine Feeney (Ireland) (literary fiction)

June

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka) (speculative literary fiction)

Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri tr. from Italian by Author (UK/US) (literary fiction/autofiction)

The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (US) (literary fiction)

By the Sea, Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar/UK) (literary fiction)

May

The Little Virtues, Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) tr. (nonfiction, essays)

Ash, Louise Wallace (NZ)(fiction)

Spinster, Making a Life of One’s Own, Kate Bolick (US) (memoir) (nonfiction)

Margaret Ogilvy, J.M.Barrie (Scotland) (memoir of a mother) (nonfiction)

April

Educated, Tara Westover (memoir)

Your Soul Had a Dream Your Life is It, Rebecca Campbell (nonfiction/spiritual)

Emotional Inheritance, Galit Atlas (nonfiction/psychology)

100 + Questions & Answers About the Akashic Records, Linda Howe (nonfiction/spiritual)

March

House of Splendid Isolation, Edna O’Brien (Ireland) (Literary fiction)

Clear, Carys Davies (Wales/UK) (Historical/literary fiction)

Birding, Rose Ruane (UK) (literary fiction) (WP longlist)

Fierce Appetites, Elizabeth Boyle (Ireland) (creative non-fiction)

Nesting, Roisin O’Donnell, (Ireland) (literary fiction)

The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell (Ireland/UK) (Historical fiction)

Fundamentally, Nussaibah Younis (Iraq/UK) (literary fiction) (WP longlist)

On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (literary fiction) Dunne Family #4

February

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (Alaska) (literary fiction)

Far, Rosa Riba (Spain) translated Charlotte Coombe (Spanish) (literary fiction)

A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (historical fiction) Dunne Family #3

Annie Dunne, Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (literary fiction) Dunne Family #2

Second-class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria/UK) (autofiction)

Small Worlds, Caleb Azumah Nelson (UK/Ghana) (literary fiction)

January

The Girl With the Louding Voice, Abi Daré (Nigeria) (Fiction)

Water, John Boyne (Ireland) (Literary fiction)

The Colony, Audrey Magee (Ireland) (literary fiction)

Absolutely and Forever, Rose Tremain (UK) (Historical fiction)

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See (US) (Historical fiction)

Lola in the Mirror, Trent Dalton (Australia) (Contemporary Fiction)

Heart, Be at Peace, Donal Ryan (Ireland) (Literary fiction)

2024

December

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami (Japan), tr. Sam Bett, David Boyd (Japanese) (Literary fiction)

Couver un astre, Sophie Fontanel (France) (Creative Non-fiction)

October

The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard (UK) (Historical fiction)

September

Best of Friends, Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan/UK) (Literary fiction)

The Silence of the Choir, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Senegal) tr.Alison Anderson (French)

Her Side of the Story, Alba de Céspedes (Italy) tr. Jill Foulston (literary fiction/modern classic)

Tree of Strangers, Barbara Sumner (NZ) (memoir/nonfiction)

The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté (US) (nonfiction) (science/psychology)

There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak (Turkey) (historical/literary fiction)

August

The Forgotten Seamstress, Liz Trenow (UK) (Historical Fiction)

The Winemaker’s Wife, Kristin Harmel (US) (Historical fiction)

The Cemetery of Untold Stories, Julia Alvarez (US/Dominican Republic) (literary fiction)

Time of the Flies, Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) tr. Frances Riddle (fiction)

Fresh Dirt From the Grave, Giovanna Rivero (Bolivia) tr. Isabel Adey (Spanish)(short stories)

Tidal Waters, Velia Vidal (Colombia) tr. Annie McDermott (epistolary fiction)

Overland (2024), Yasmin Cordery Khan (UK) (historical fiction)

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, Lynne Olson (US) (nonfiction) (biography/history)

July

The Years (Les Années)(2008) Annie Ernaux (France) tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017)

All Our Mothers, Joanna Glen (UK) (fiction)

The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O’Farrell (Ireland/UK) (Fiction)

Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton (Australia) (Fiction)

January, Sara Gallardo, (Argentina) tr. Frances Riddle, Maureen Shaughnessy (Spanish) (novella)

The Axeman’s Carnival, Catherine Chidgey (NZ) (Fiction)

Daughters Beyond Command, Véronique Olmi (France) tr. Alison Andersen (French) (Historical fiction)

Cairn, Kathleen Jamie (Scotland) (creative nonfiction/vignettes/poetry)

June

James, Percival Everett (US) (Fiction)

The Hypocrite, Jo Hamya (UK) (Literary Fiction)

My Friends, Hisham Matar (UK/Libya) (Literary Fiction) (Winner Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024)

Tom Lake, Ann Patchett (US) (Fiction) (DNF at 27%)

Unearthing, A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets, Kyo Maclear (Canada/UK) (Nonfiction/Memoir)

May

Brotherless Night, V.V.Ganeshananthan (Sri Lanka) (Fiction) Women’s Prize shortlist

Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad (UK) (Fiction) Women’s Prize shortlist

Describing the Past, Ghassan Zaqtan (Palestine) (Fiction) (novella) (#1 in trilogy)

We, The Heartbroken, Gargi Bhattacharyya (UK) (nonfiction) (essays)

When I Sing, Mountains Dance, Irene Solà (Spain) tr. Mara Faye Lethem (Catalan)

April

Seaborne, Nuala O’Connor (Ireland) (Historical Fiction) – currently reading

Undiscovered, Gabriela Wiener (Peru) tr. Julia Sanches (Spanish) (Autofiction) (Intl Booker longlist ’24)

Erasure by Percival Everett (2001) (US) (Literary Fiction)

So Much Blue (2017), Percival Everett (US) (Fiction)

Hagstone (2024), Sinead Gleeson (Ireland) (Literary Fiction)

Yellowface (2023), R.F. Kuang (US) (Fiction)

Why Did You Come Back Every Summer (2024), Belén López Peiró (Argentina) tr. Maureen Shaughnessy

Sagittarius, Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) tr. Avril Bardoni (novella) (literary fiction)

The House on Via Gemito, Domenico Starnone (Italy) tr. Oonah Stransky (Intl Booker longlist ’24)

Not a River, Selva Almada (Argentina) tr. Annie McDermott (literary fiction) (novella) (Intl Booker Shortlist)

Awaken Your Multidimensional Soul, Lee Harris (UK) (Spiritual)

Relinquished, The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, Gretchen Sisson (Nonfiction) (Research on Effects of Separation)

Penelope Unbound, Mary Morrissy (Ireland) (Speculative Fiction)

March

Girl in the Tunnel, My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries, Maureen Sullivan (Ireland) (Memoir)

In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History, Carmel McMahon (Ireland) (Nonfiction/Memoir)

Where I End, Sophie White (Ireland) (literary horror)

The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (Turkey) (fiction/magic realism)

Conversations with the Z’s, Book One: The Energetics of the New Human Soul, Lee Harris, Dianna Edwards (UK)(Spirituality)

Awaken Your Multidimensional Soul: Conversations with the Z’s, Book Two Lee Harris, Dianna Edwards (UK) (Spirituality)

February

Remember Me (2022), Charity Norman (UK/NZ) (Mystery) (Ngaio Marsh Award winner 2023)

The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), Carson McCullers (US) (Novella) (Classic)

A Respectable Occupation (2017), Julia Kerninon (France) tr. Ruth Driver (2020) (nonfiction/memoir)

Kusamakura (1906), Natsume Sōseki (Japan), tr. Meredith McKinney (2008) (Literary fiction)

January

Valentino, Natalia Ginzburg (1957) (Italy), tr. Avril Bardoni (2023) (novella)

bell hooks, The Last Interview (2023), bell hooks, Mikki Kendall (Introduction)

Greek Lessons (2011), Han Kang (Korea) tr. Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won (2023)

A Horse at Night, On Writing (2022), Amina Cain (Nonfiction, Essays)

2023

December

The Promise, Damon Galgut (South Africa) (Fiction)

Shame (1997), Annie Ernaux (France) tr. Tanya Leslie (French) (Nonfiction)

A Bigger Picture, My Fight To Bring A New African Voice To The Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate (Uganda) (Nonfiction/Memoir)

Redemption Ground, Essays & Adventures, Lorna Goodison (Jamaica) (nonfiction)

The Last Train From Paris, Juliet Greenwood (Wales) (Historical Fiction) – currently reading

Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux (France) tr. Tanya Leslie (French) (autofiction)

November

The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny & Murder, David Grann (US) (Nonfiction/History)

Seeing For Ourselves and Even Stranger Possibilities, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (UK) (Nonfiction) (Essays)

Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy (Ireland) (Literary Fiction)

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek (Gaza, Palestine) (vignettes of childhood)

How To Build A Boat, Elaine Feeney (Ireland) (Fiction)

Poor, Grit, courage and the life-changing value of self-belief, Katriona O’Sullivan (Ireland) (Memoir)

Old God’s Time, Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (Literary fiction)

My Fourth Time We Drowned, Sally Hayden (Ireland) (Nonfiction) (Orwell Prize 2022)

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) tr.Frances Fenaye (Italian) (Fiction)

October

Soundings, Journeys in the Company of Whales, Doreen Cunningham (UK) (Nonfiction)

This Plague of Souls, Mike McCormack (Ireland) (Literary Fiction)

Indignez-vous! [Time For Outrage], Stéphane Hessel (France) (Essay)

Cacophony of Bone, Kerri ní Dochartaigh (Ireland) (Creative Nonfiction)

The Delivery, Margarita Garcia Robayo (Colombia) tr. Megan McDowell (Spanish) (Literary Fiction)

Mother of Pearl, Mary Morrissy (Ireland) (Fiction)

A Little Luck, Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) tr. Frances Riddle (Spanish) (Literary Fiction)

These Days, Lucy Caldwell (Northern Ireland) (Historical Fiction)

September

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (Italy) tr. Jenny McPhee (Autofiction)

Still Life, Sarah Winman (UK) (Historical Fiction)

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (US) (Fiction)

Salvation, bell hooks (US) Nonfiction

Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary (France) tr. John M. Beach (Memoir, Nonfiction)

August

Lioness, Emily Perkins (NZ) (Fiction)

Pet, Catherine Chidgey (NZ) (Fiction)

July

Go Tell it On The Mountain, James Baldwin (US) (Fiction) (Classic)

Boulder, Eva Baltasar (Spain) tr. Julia Sanches (Catalan) (Fiction)

Permafrost, Eva Baltasar (Spain) tr. Julia Sanches (Catalan) (Fiction)

The Maid, Nita Prose (Canada) (Mystery/Fiction)

Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) tr. Frances Riddle (Spanish) (Literary Fiction)

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Gamus (US) (Fiction)

June

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See (US) (Historical Fiction)

The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler (US) (Fiction)

Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty (Australia) (Fiction)

Whale, Cheon Myeong-Kwan (Korea) tr. Jae Won Chung (Korean) (fiction)

Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au (Australia) (Fiction)

May

Of Cattle and Men, Ana Paula Maia (Brazil) tr. Zoe Perry (Portuguese) (fiction/novella)

Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter (NZ/Ireland), Noelle McCarthy (memoir)

River Spirit, Leila Aboulela (Sudan/Scotland) (Fiction)

Pod, Laline Paull (UK) (Natural World Fiction)

April

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico), tr. Rosalind Harvey (Spanish)

The Remains, Margot Glantz (Mexico), tr. Ellen Jones (Spanish)

Dance Move, Wendy Erskine (Ireland) (Short Stories)

March

Trespasses, Louise Kennedy (Northern Ireland) (Fiction)

A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen (Ireland) (Fiction) (Classic)

The Country Girls Trilogy, Edna O’Brien (Ireland) (Fiction) (Classic)

#1 The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien (1960)

#2 The Lonely Girl, Edna O’Brien (1962)

#3 Girls In Their Married Bliss, Edna O’Brien (1964)

Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes (Italian/Cuban) tr. Ann Goldstein (Italian) (Fiction)

February

Factory Girls, Michelle Gallen (Ireland) (Fiction)

Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton (New Zealand) (Fiction)

You Shall Leave Your Land, Renato Cisneros (Argentina) tr. Fionn Petch (Spanish) (Autofiction)

Things They Lost, Okwiri Oduor (Kenya) (Fiction/Magic Realism)

The Art of Losing, Alice Zeniter (French) tr. Frank Wynne (Historical Fiction)

Two Sherpas, Sebastian Martinez Daniell (Argentina) (Literary Fiction) tr. Jennifer Croft (Spanish)

Admiring Silence, Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar/Tanzania/UK) (Fiction) – Nobel Prize Literature (2021)

January

Seven Steeples, Sara Baume (Ireland) (Fiction)

All My Wild Mothers, Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden by Victoria Bennett (UK) (Nonfiction/Nature/Memoir)

The Arsonist’s City, Hala Alyan (Palestinian/American) (Fiction)

Dear Senthuran, A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria) (Nonfiction/Epistolary)

Child of Fortune, Yuko Tsushima (Japan) (Fiction) (Novella), tr. Geraldine Harcourt  (Japanese)

Three, Valérie Perrin (France) (Fiction) tr. Hildegarde Serle (French)

Free Love, Tessa Hadley (UK) (Fiction)

2022

December

Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (UK/Ireland) (Fiction)

The Glass Blowers, Daphne du Maurier (UK) (Historical Fiction)

Man’s Search For Meaning, Victor E. Frankl (Austria) (Nonfiction/Psychology)

August

Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame (NZ) (Fiction)

June

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre (France)  tr. Tina Kover (French) (historical fiction)

My Father’s Daughter, Hanna Azieb Pool (UK/Eritrea) (Adoptee Memoir)

April

Why Woo Woo Works, David Hamilton (Scotland) (Alternative Medicine/Therapy, Well-Being)

Ancestor Trouble, A Reckoning & a Reconciliation, Maud Newton (US) (Memoir/Genealogy)

What My Bones Know,  A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stefanie Foo (US) (Memoir)

Nora, A Love Story of Nora Barnacle & James Joyce, Nuala O’Connor (Ireland) (Historical Fiction)

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems, Warsan Shire (UK) (Poetry)

March

The River Capture, Mary Costello (Ireland) (Fiction)

What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, Bruce Perry, Oprah Winfrey (US) (Psychology)

The Statement, Brian Moore (Northern Ireland) (Political Thriller)

The Passenger – Ireland (Essays, Art, Investigative Journalism)

Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh (Northern Ireland) (Creative Nonfiction)

I Will Die in a Foreign Land, Kalani Pickhart (US) (Set in Ukraine 2013/14) (Historical Fiction)

Saltwater in the Blood, Easkey Britton (Ireland) (Nonfiction)

The China Factory, Mary Costello (Ireland) (Short Stories)

The Last Resort, Jan Carson (N.Ireland) (Fiction)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk(Poland) tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fiction)

Assembly, Natasha Brown (UK) (Fiction)

February

There There, Tommy Orange (US) (Fiction)

All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks (US) (Nonfiction)

Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey (New Zealand) (Historical Fiction)

Marzhan, mon amour, Katja Oskamp (Germany) tr; Jo Heinrich (German) (Fiction)

A Man’s Place, Annie Ernaux (France) tr. Tanya Leslie (French) (Autofiction)

A Sister’s Story, Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein (Italian) (Fiction)

January

Notes on Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) (Essay)

2021

December

Real Estate, Deborah Levy (South Africa/UK) (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction)

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (US) (Creative Non Fiction)

Postcard Stories, Jan Carson (Northern Ireland) (Short stories)

The Magician’s Wife, Brian Moore (Historical Fiction) (France/Algeria 1856)

The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein (Italian)

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, (Ireland) (Fiction)

November

Chouette, Claire Oshetsky (US) (Fiction)

A Line Made by Walking, Sara Baume (Ireland) (Fiction)

Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong (US) (Creative Nonfiction/Essays)

Corregidora, Gayl Jones (US) (Fiction)

The Son of the House, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe- Onuobia (Nigeria/Canada) (Fiction)(Giller Prize shortlist)

A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvvette Edwards (UK) (Literary Fiction)

The Gods of Tango, Caroline de Robertis (Uruguay) (Historical Fiction)

Bewilderment, Richard Powers (US) (Fiction)

October

The Doctor’s Wife, Brian Moore (Northern Ireland) (Literary Fiction)

My Place, Sally Morgan (Australia) (Autobiography)

Voices of the Lost, Hoda Barakat (Lebanon) tr. Marilyn Booth (Arabic) (Literary Fiction) (Winner International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019)

The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy (South Africa/UK) (Memoir/Essay)

Conjure Women, Akia Atakora (UK/US) (Historical Fiction) (Slavery)

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (UK) (Fantasy Fiction) (Winner Women’s Prize 2021)

Winter Flowers, Angélique Villeneuve (France) tr. Adriana Hunter (Literary Fiction) (WWI)

Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy (South Africa/UK) (Memoir/Essay)

Diary of a Young Naturalist, Dara McAnulty (Northern Ireland) (Non Fiction) (Nature Writing)

Sept

Sugar, Bernice McFadden (US) (Fiction)

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (US) (2 Letters/Essays)

How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon/US) (Fiction)

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams (Australia) (Historical Fiction)

Cut From the Same Cloth, Muslim Women on Life in Britain, Edited Sabeena Akhtar (UK) (Essays) (Non Fiction)

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi (US/Ghana) (Literary Fiction)

Islands of Mercy, Rose Tremain (UK) (Historical Fiction)

A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Canada) (Literary Fiction) (Booker Prize Longlist)

Waiting for the Waters to Rise, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe) tr. Richard Philcox (French) (Fiction)

Aug

Loop, Brenda Lozano (Mexico) tr. Annie McDermott (Spanish) (Fiction)

July

The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell (Zambia) (Fiction)

June

Aroha, Hinemoa Elder (NZ) (Nonfiction)

Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Haiti), tr. Rose Myriam-Rèjouis, Val Vinokur (Fiction Trilogy, Novellas)

The Female Archangels, Claire Stone (UK) (Spiritual Well-Being)

Sea People, Christina Thompson (Australia/US) (History/Nonfiction)

Breath, James Nestor (US) (Nonfiction)

The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey (Trinidadian-British) (Fiction)

Silence is a Sense, Layla AlAmmar (Kuwait) (Fiction)

May

Forced to Grow, Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) (Autobiography 2)

To My Children’s Children, Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) (Autobiography 1)

April

Worth, Bharti Dir (Uganda) (Memoir)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Brian Moore, (Northern Ireland) (Fiction)

Nurturing Our Humanity, Riane Eisler, Douglas Fry (Austria/US) (Social Science/Cultural History/Anthropology)

Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free, Nancy Levin (US) (Self Help, Psychology)

Sensitive is the New Strong, Anita Moorjani (Spiritual Well-Being) (Hong Kong/India/US)

March

Constellations, Reflections From Life, Sinéad Gleeson (Ireland) (Non Fiction)

Tangleweed and Brine, Deirdre Sullivan (Ireland) (Classic Fairytale Feminist Retellings)

The Fire Starters, Jan Carson (Ireland) (Fiction)

The First Woman, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbui (Uganda/UK) (Fiction)

Infinite Country, Patricia Engel (Colombia/US) (Fiction)

Lies of Silence, Brian Moore (Ireland) (Fiction)

The Soul of a Woman, Isabelle Allende (Chile/US) (Memoir)

February

The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett (US) (Fiction)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (US) (Fiction)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (UK/Jamaica) (Gothic Fiction)

A Mercy by Toni Morrison (US) (Fiction)

A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf (US/UK) (Historical Fiction) (inspired by great great grandparents)

Beyond Black There is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad by Maryam Diener (Iran) (Fiction)

The Great Fortune, The Balkan Trilogy 1 by Olivia Manning (UK) (Historical Fiction)

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua/America) (Fiction)

January

The Yield, Tara June Winch (Australia) (Fiction)

Gratitude, Delphine de Vigan (France) tr. George Miller (French) (Fiction)

I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes With Death, Maggie O’Farrell (Northern Ireland/British) (Non Fiction) (Memoir)

Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf (US) (Fiction)

When All is Said, Anne Griffith (Ireland) (Fiction)

Potiki, Patricia Grace (NZ) (Fiction)

Spill Simmer Falter Wither, Sara Baume (Ireland) (Fiction)

December

Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin (France) tr. Hildegarde Serle (French) (Fiction)

Love After Love, Ingrid Persaud (Trinidad & Tobago) (Fiction)

The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria) (Fiction)

The Last Migration, Charlotte McConaghy (Australia) (Fiction)

Everything Inside, Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) (Short Stories)

All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung (US) (Memoir)

A Spell in the Wild, A Year & Six Centuries of Magic, Alice Tarbuck (Scotland) (NonFiction)

November

I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe) tr. Richard Philcox (French)

Tituba of Salem Village, A Novel Based on the Witch Trials of 1692 by Ann Petry (Historical Fiction)

The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein (Italian)

Atlantis, A Journey in Search of Beauty, Carlo & Renzo Piano (Italy), tr. Will Schutt (Italian) (Nonfiction)

Handiwork, Sara Baume (Ireland) (Creative Nonfiction)

You Don’t Look Adopted, Anne Heffron (US) (Nonfiction)

Hadji Murad, Leo Tolstoy (Russia) tr. Maude Aylmer (Auto-fiction) (Classic)

The Kindness of Enemies, Leila Aboulela (Sudan/Scotland) (Historical Fiction)

October

Leonard & Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession (Ireland) (DNF)

Strange Flowers, Donal Ryan (Ireland) (Fiction)

Savage Her Reply, Deidre Sullivan (Ireland) (Irish Fairytale)

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ni Ghriofa (Ireland) (Creative Nonfiction)

A Girl Returned, Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Italy), tr. Ann Goldstein (Italian) (Fiction Novella)

Intimations, Zadie Smith (UK) (Essays)

The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia) (Historical/Literary Fiction)

September

The Death of Bagrat Zakharych and Other Stories, Vazha-Pshavela (Georgia) tr. Ruth Gould (Classic Short Story)

In the Shadow of Death, Rudolf Blaumanis (Latvia) tr. Uldis Balodis (Classic Short Story)

Tofylis, or The Marriage of Zose, Zemaite (Lithuania) tr. Violeta Keletas (Classic Short Story)

The Butterfly Man & Other Stories, Mehis Heinsaar (Estonia) tr. Adam Cullen, Tina Randviir (Classic Short Story)

This Mournable Body, (Nervous Conditions #3) Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) (Fiction)

The Bird Within Me, Sara Lundberg (Sweden), tr. B.J.Epstein (Children’s)

The Rain Heron, Robbie Arnott (Australia) (Fiction)

The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions #2) Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) (Fiction)

Summerwater, Sarah Moss (UK) (Fiction)

August

The Party Wall, Catherine Leroux (Canada) tr. Lazer Lederhendler (French)

Naondel, #2 Maria Turtschaninoff (Finland) tr. Annie Prime (Finnish) (YA Fantasy)

Maresi, #1 Maria Turtschaninoff (Finland) tr. Annie Prime (Finnish) (YA Fantasy)

Sex and Lies, Leila Slimani (Morocco) tr. Sophie Lewis (French) (Nonfiction Essays)

The Red Sofa, Michèle Lesbre (France) tr. David Ball, Nicole Ball (French) (Fiction)

Crossing the Mangrove, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe) tr. Richard Philcox (French) (Fiction)

Stories of the Sahara, Sanmao (Taiwan) tr. Mike Fu (Chinese) (Nonfiction, Memoir)

Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein(Italian) (Fiction)

The Wind that Lays Waste, Selma Almara (Argentina) tr. (Spanish)(Fiction)

Berji Kristen, Tales from the Garbage Hills, Latife Tekin (Turkey) tr. Kay Hekkinnen (Turkish) (Fiction)

July

The Woman From Tantoura, Radwa Ashour (Egypt) tr. Kay Heikkinen (Arabic) (Fiction)

The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson (US) (Non-fiction)

The Warmth of Other Suns, Irene Wilkerson (US) (Non-fiction)

Writers & Lovers, Lily King (US) (Fiction)

June

Bird Summons, Leila Aboulela (Sudan/Scotland)(Fiction)

Passing, Nella Larsen (US) (Fiction)

Quicksand, Nella Larsen (US) (Fiction) (semi-autobiographical)

Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes (US) (Novel – semi-autobiographical)

The Ferryman’s Daughter, Juliet Greenwood (Wales) (Historical Fiction)

Burn, Patrick Ness (US/London) (Fantasy YA)

Recollections of My NonExistence, Rebecca Solnit (US) (Essays)

I Am Dust, Louise Beech (UK)

May

Auē, Becky Manawatu (NZ)

Big Girl, Small Town, Michelle Gallen (Northern Ireland) (Fiction)

Three Ways to Disappear, Katy Yocom (US) (Set in India)

The Resilient Farmer, Doug Avery (NZ) (Memoir)

On Chapel Sands, Laura Cumming (UK) (Memoir)

Circe, Madeline Miller (US)

Butterfly, From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope & Triumph Yusra Mardini (Syria) (Memoir)

The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain (UK)

Apr

Good Behaviour, Molly Keane (Ireland) (Anglo-Irish Fiction)

Far Away and Long Ago, William H.Hudson (Argentina) (Childhood Memoir, Naturalist)

Courageous Dreaming, Alberto Villoldo (Cuba) (Shamanic Philosophy)

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (Korea) (Historical Fiction)

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor (UK)

Dodging Energy Vampires, Christiane Northrup (US) (Well-Being)

Benediction, Kent Haruf (US) #3 (Trilogy)

Eventide, Kent Haruf (US) #2 (Trilogy)

Plainsong, Kent Haruf (US) #1 (Trilogy)

Surfacing Part I, Kathleen Jamie (Scotland) (Nature/Archaeology Essays)

Surfacing Part II, Kathleen Jamie (Scotland) (Nature/Archaeology Essays)

The Adventures of China Iron, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Argentina), tr. Fiona Mackintosh, Iona Macintyre (Spanish)

Mar

The Shackle, Colette tr. Antonia White (France)

The Book of Harlan, Bernice L.McFadden (US) (HIstorical Fiction)

Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (US) (Historical Fiction)

The Situation & The Story, The Art of the Personal Narrative, Vivian Gornick (US) (Nonfiction)

Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (US)

1968: The Year That Rocked the World, Mark Kurlanksy (US) (History)

Feb

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Azar Shokoofeh (Iran)(translated from Farsi)

Map of Another Town, M.F.K.Fisher (US)(Essays on Aix en Provence)

Jan

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa (Japan)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (US)

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E.Harrow (US)

Angelic Attendants, What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life to the Next, Julie Ryan

2019

December

Remembering the Future, Colette Baron-Reid

The Grief Recovery Handbook, by John W. James, Russell Friedman

August

Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother & Her Daughters, Maria José Silveira (Brazil) tr. Eric Becker (Portuguese)

Celestial Bodies, Jokha AlHarthi (Oman) tr. Marilyn Booth (Arabic)

This Mortal Boy, Fiona Kidman (NZ)

Mary Magdalene Revealed, The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet, Meggan Watterson (US)

July

Transit, Anna Seghers (Germany) tr. Barbara Bray (German)

The Long Song, Andrea Levy (UK)

The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler (US) (Social History)

The Gold Letter, Lena Manta (Greece) tr. Gail Holst-Warhaft (Greek)

Never Stop Walking, A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World, Christina Rickardsson (Brazil), tr.
Tara F. Chace (Swedish)

Without a Map, Meredith Hall (US)

Maria in the Moon, Louise Beech (UK)

June

The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See (US)

Feebleminded, Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), (Reviewed on Goodreads)

Gardens in the Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko (US)

May

Vintage 1954, Antoine Laurain (France) tr. Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce (French)

La Tresse, Laetitia Colombani (France) (read in French)

Crooked Grow the Trees, Carmel Hanes (US)

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace, Letters, Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright, Edited by Anne Wright

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (US)

April

Drawing Lessons, Patricia Sands (Canada)

Becoming, Michelle Obama (US)

If I Had Two Lives, Abbigail Rosewood (Vietnam)

Secret, Philippe Grimbert (France), tr. Polly McLean (French)

Trout, Belly Up, Rodrigo Fuentes (Guatemala), tr. Ellen Jones (Spanish)

Zuleikha, Guzel Yakhina (Russia) tr. Lisa Hayden (Russian)

The Turquoise Ledge, Leslie Marmon Silko (US)

March

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria)

Hourglass – Time, Memory, Marriage, Dani Shapiro (US)

Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani (Hong Kong)

February

Every Light in the House Burnin’ by Andre Levy (UK)

The Atlas of Reds and Blues, Devi S. Laskar (US)

The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (US)

Praise Song for the Butterflies, Bernice L. McFadden (US)

An Affair With My Mother, Catriona Palmer (Ireland)

January

Total Chaos, Jean-Claude Izzo (France) tr: Howard Curtis (2005)

House of Stone, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Zimbabwe) (2019)

The Baghdad Clock, Shahad Al Rawi (Iraq), tr. Luke Leafgren (Arabic) (2018)

Teethmarks on My Tongue, Eileen Battersby (Ireland) (2016)

Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel, Ruth Hogan (UK) (2019)

Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)  (1998)

Nothing But Dust, Sandrine Collette (France), tr. Alison Anderson (2018)

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (US) (1984)

2018

December

One Spirit Medicine by Alfredo Villoldo (US)

A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver (US)

Just Like February, Deborah Batterman (US)

Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams (US)

November

Bad Blood, Lorna Sage (Wales)

Farewell, My Orange, Iwaki Kei (Japan/Australia) tr. Merdith McKinney (Japanese)

A Long Way Home (Lion), Saroo Brierley (Australia/India), Larry Buttrose (ghostwriter)

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness, Betty Jean Lifton (US)

Milkman, Anna Burns (N.Ireland)

October

Little, Edward Carey (UK)

Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller (UK)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman (UK)

August

Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson (Sweden) tr. Joan Tate

The Other Side of the Mountain, Erendiz Atasu (Turkey), Elisabeth Maslen

Smoking Kills, Antoine Laurain (France) Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)

The Open Door, Latifa Al-Zayyat (Egypt), Marilyn Booth(Translator)

Disoriental, Négar Djavadi (Iran/France), Tina Kover (translator)

Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky (translator)

Mend the Living, Maylis de Kerangal (France), Jessica Moore (translator)

July

The Four Insights – Wisdom, Power and Grace of the Earthkeepers by Alberto Villoldo

Shaman, Healer, Sage – How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of The Americas by Alberto Villoldo

The Hope Fault, Tracy Farr (NZ/Australia)

May

Cross Stitch (Outlander #1), Diana Gabaldon (US) (set in Scotland)

The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan (UK)

April

Songs From the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman (NZ)

A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington (US)

The Long Forgotten by David Whitehouse (UK)

The Sealwoman’s Gift, Sally Magnusson (Icelandic/Scottish)

The Stolen Bicycle, Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan) tr. Darryl Sterk

March

Die, My Love, Ariana Harwicz (Argentina) tr. Caroline Orloff

Kintu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda)

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, Meena Kandasamy (India)

Three Things About Elsie, Joanna Cannon (UK)

Anything is Possible, Elizabeth Strout (US)

My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout (US)

February

Happiness, Aminatta Forna (Scotland)

Winter Sisters, Robin Oliveira (US)

The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne (Ireland)

So Long A Letter, Mariama Bâ (Senegal), tr. Modupé Bodé-Thomas (French)

Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (UK)

Intuition, Osho (India)

Petit Pays by Gaël Faye (France)

January

The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit (US)

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (US)

The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry (UK)

Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie (Scotland)

The Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell (US)

2017

December

I am Missing, Tim Weaver

November

Autumn by Ali Smith

Light Warrior, Kyle Gray

October

Rise Sister Rise, Rebecca Campbell

Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward (US)

Salt Creek, Lucy Treloar (Australia)

September

Light is the new Black, Rebecca Campbell (UK based Australian)

Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan (France) tr. George Miller (French)

Eve out of her Ruins, Ananda Devi (Mauritius) tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman (French)

August

The Complete Claudine, Colette (France), tr. Antonia White, An Introduction Judith Thurman

Book 1: Claudine at School

Book 2: Claudine in Paris

Book 3: Claudine Married

Book 4: Claudine and Annie

Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh (India)

All We Shall Know, Donal Ryan (Ireland)

The Story of the Cannibal Woman, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/France), tr. Richard Philcox

Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie (UK/Pakistan)

The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso (Barbados/UK/Sth Africa)

July

Swing Time, Zadie Smith (UK)

The Power, Naomi Alderman (UK)

The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong (UK)

Two Old Women, An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival, Velma Wallis (Alaska)

Ladivine, Marie NDiaye (France), tr. Jordan Stump (French)

The Mountain in my Shoe, Louise Beech (UK)

June

The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden (US)

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan)

Sealskin, Su Bristow (UK)

May

Raise Your Vibration, Kyle Gray (UK)

The Map, Colette Baron Reid (Canada)

April

Salt Houses, Hala Alyan (US)

Eva Sleeps, Francesca Melandri (Italy) tr. Katherine Gregor

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone, Maurizio De Giovanni (Italy), tr. Andrew Shugaar

Frantumaglia, A Writer’s Journey, Elena Ferrante (Italy) tr. Ann Goldstein

Ties, Domenico Starnone (Italy), Jhumpha Lahiri (translator)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien (Canada)

March

The Last Gods of Indochine by Samuel Ferrer (Cambodia)

Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo (Nigeria)

Three Daughters of Eve, Elif Shafak (Turkey)

The Outermost House, Henry Beston (US)

February

Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)

The Good People, Hannah Kent (Australia)

Worthy, Nancy Levin (US)

January

My Story, Jo Malone (UK)

Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo (Trinidad)

Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka)

Swimming Lessons, Claire Fuller (UK)

Blue Nights, Joan Didion (US)

2016

December

The Dry, Jane Harper (Australia)

The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (New Zealand)

A Woman on the Edge of Time, Jeremy Gavron (England)

November

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson (England)

Uncharted, Colette Baron Reid (Canada)

October

Ocean Echoes, Sheila Hirst

How To Be Brave, Louise Beech

One Hundred Shadows, Hwang Jungeun (Korea), Jung Yewon (translator)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Making Life Easy, A Simple Guide to a Divinely Inspired Life, Christiane Northrup

The Humans, Matt Haig

The Ballroom, Anna Hope

September

What if this is Heaven? How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us From Experiencing Heaven on Earth, Anita Moorjani (Hong Kong/US)

Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys (Dominca/UK)

August

An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon)

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, Herta Müller (Romania), Philip Boehm(German) – DNF

Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Sherif Hetata (translator)

The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante (Italy), Ann Goldstein (translator)

Affections, Rodrigo Hasbun (Bolivia), tr. Sophie Hughes (Spanish)

Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan (France), Irene Ash (translator)

Where the River Parts, Radhika Swarup (India)

Masks, Fumiko Enchi (Japan), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator)

A Season in Rihata, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), Richard Philcox (translated from French)

A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James (Jamaica)

The Bridge of Beyond, Simone Schwarz-(Guadeloupe), Barbara Bray (translated from French)

The Looking-Glass Sisters,  Gøhril Gabrielsen, (Norway) John Irons (translator)

The Blue Satin Nightgown by Karin Crilly

The Door, Magda Szabó (Hungary), tr. Len Rix (translator)

The Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey (Alaska)

The Vegetarian, Han Kang (South Korea) tr. Deborah Smith (translator)

The Rabbit House, Laura Alcoba (Argentina) tr. Polly McLean (translated from French)

July

The Bones of Grace, Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)

The Good Muslim, Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)

A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)

A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler (Austria) tr. Charlotte Collins (German)

June

Fever at Dawn, Péter Gárdos (Hungary), tr. Elizabeth Szász (Hungarian)

The Man Who Snapped His Fingers, Fariba Hachtroudi (Iran), tr. Alison Andersen (French)

Barkskins, Annie Proulx

May

April

The Infinite Air, Fiona Kidman (New Zealand)

A Drop in the Ocean, Jenni Ogden (New Zealand)

March

Paint Your Wife, Lloyd Jones (New Zealand)

The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka (US)

ARTE by Kei Ohkubo (Japan)

February

Human Acts, Han Kang (Korea), Deborah Smith (translator)

Into the Magic Shop, A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, James R. Doty (US)

Georgia, A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe by Dawn Tripp (US)

What Lies Between Us, Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka)

January

Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life, Sylvia Boorstein

Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles (US)

February, Lisa Moore (Canada)

Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert (US)

Brother, I’m Dying, Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

The Gift of Stones, Jim Crace (UK)

The Whispering Muse, Sjón (Iceland), Victoria Cribb (translator)

2015

December

Charming Billy, Alison McDermott (US)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (US)

The Poisoning Angel, Jean Teulé, (France) Melanie Florence (translator)

Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff (US)

The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks (Australia) set in Palestine

The Colour, Rose Tremain (UK) set in NZ

November

God Help the Child, Toni Morrison (America)

The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, Tracy Farr (Australia)

All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia)

Human Chain, Seamus Heaney (Poetry) Foster, Claire Keegan (Ireland)

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald (Sweden), Alice Menzies (translator)

The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)

October

The Pollen Room, by Zoë Jenny (Switzerland), Elizabeth Gaffney (translator) German

Miss Emily, Nuala O’Connor (Ireland)

Under the Udala Trees,  Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)

Segu, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), tr.Barbara Bray (French)

September

The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator) Italian

August

Agaat, Marlene van Niekerk (South Africa), Michiel Heyns (translator) Afrikaans

Purge, Sofi Oksanen (Estonia), Lola Rogers (translator) Finnish

Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina García

July

2666, Roberto Bolano (Chile) tr. Natasha Wimmer (Spanish)

A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

Victoire: My Mother’s Mother, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), tr.Richard Philcox (French)

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, Olivia Laing (UK)

Under the Sea-Wind, Rachel Carson (US)

From Caucasia, With Love, Danzy Senna (US)

Lotusland, David Joiner (set in Vietnam)

June

The Wall, Marlen Haushofer (Austria), tr. Shaun Whiteside (German)

The Writing Life, Annie Dillard (US)

Ru, Kim Thuy (Vietnamese-Canadian) (Read in French)

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, Jennifer Tseng (US)

Enchanted August, Brenda Bowen (US)

The President’s Hat, Antoine Laurain (France), tr. Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce, Louise Lalaurie (French)

Tales From The Heart, True Stories From My Childhood, Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), tr. Richard Philcox (French)

The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim (set in Italy)

May

Reader for Hire, Raymond Jean, tr. Adriana Hunter (French)

Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan

Moloka’i, Alan Brennert

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

April

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Rachel Joyce

March

The Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)

Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler

February

The Universe Versus Alex Woods, Gavin Extence

White Hunger, Aki Ollikainen, Emily Jeremiah, Fleur Jeremiah (translators) Finnish

The African Equation, Yasmina Khadra (Algeria), Howard Curtis (translator) French

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, The Life of Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley

Unbowed, One Woman’s Story, Wangari Maathai (Kenya)

The Tusk That Did The Damage, Tania James

The Red Notebook, Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken (transators) French

Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller

Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee

January

Wolf Winter, Cecilia Ekbäck

The Poet Slave of Cuba, A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, Margarita Engle

The Yellow Rain, Julio Llamazares, Margaret Jull Costa (translator) Spanish

Kamchatka, Marcelo Figueras, Frank Wynne (translator) Argentina, Spanish

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman, Friedrich Christian Delius, Jamie Bulloch (translator) German Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal, Laura McGloughlin, Paul Mitchell (translators) Catalan

Beside the Sea, Véronique Olmi, Adriana Hunter (translator) French

Wake by Elizabeth Knox

2014

December

Savage Girl, Jean Zimmerman

Under the Tripoli Sky, Kamal Ben Hameda, Adriana Hunter (translator) French

The Dead Lake, Hamid Ismailov, Andrew Bromfield (translator) Russian

Sidewalks, Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney (translator) Spanish

The Closet of Savage Mementos, Nuala Ní Chonchúir The Waves, Virginia Woolf

Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

Migrating Voids, David Walker

November

The Bees, Laline Paull

Ignoring Gravity, Sandra Danby

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, A.W.Wheen (translator) German

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator) Italian

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

October

The Vatican Cellars, Andre Gidé, Julian Evans (translator) French

The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator) Italian

Nora Webster, Colm Tóibín

H is For Hawk, Helen McDonald

September

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator) Italian

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone De Beauvoir, James Kirkup (translator) French

August

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain

July

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

Mrs. Hemingway, Naomi Wood

Family Heirlooms, Tavares, Zulmira Ribeiro,Daniel Hahn (translator) Portugese (Brazil)

Good Morning, Mr Mandela, Zelda la Grange

Sula, Toni Morrison

The Italian Chapel, Philip Paris

June

Art in Nature, Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal (translator) Swedish

May

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,  Joël Dicker, Sam Taylor (translator) French

Carrots and Jaffas, Howard Goldenberg

The Blue Room,  Hanne Ørstavik, Deborah Dawkin (translator) Norwegian

Before I Go to Sleep, S.J. Watson

The Toga and The Rose, Sheighle Birdthistle

Prayers for the Stolen, Jennifer Clement

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing,  Nina Sankovitch

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree, Wilma Stockenström, J.M Coetzee (translator) Afrikaans

April

The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal (translator) Swedish

Nada, Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (translator) Spanish

The Rooms Are Filled, Jessica Null Vealitzek

Nagasaki, Eric Faye, Emily Boyce (translator) French

The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

March

All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wyld

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, Fatima Bhutto

We That Are Left, Juliet Greenwood

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett

 

February

The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Alice Hoffman

The Missing One, Lucy Atkins

The Foundling Boy, Michel Deon, Julian Evans (translator) French

The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness

Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez

The People in the Book (Eux sur la photo), Hélène Gestern, Emily Boyce, Ros Schwartz (translators) French

 

January

I Always Loved You: A  Novel, Robin Oliveira

Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, Per Petterson, Don Bartlett (translator)  Norwegian

Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (translator) Russian

Chapters 1 & 2

Chapters 3 & 4

Chapters 5 & 6

Chapters 7 & 8

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman

2013

December

The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

The Lost Domain (Les Grandes Meaulnes), Alain Fournier

Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe Kiffe Demain), Faïza Guène

Brodeck’s Report, Phillipe Claudel

Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline

The Hidden Lamp, Florence Caplow

 

November

Excellent Women, Barbara Pym

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, Sun-mi Hwang

The First Rule of Swimming, Courtney Angela Brkic

The Hired Man, Aminatta Forna

The Sea Close By, Albert Camus (2 essays)

Unsettled, Neelima Vinod

 

October

Helium, Jaspreet Singh

Aimless Love, Billy Collins

The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo, F. G. Haghenbeck

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton

Mr Darwin’s Gardener, Kristina Carlson

A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler

 

September

Death in the Vines, M.L.Longworth

A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

The Drowning of Arthur Braxton, Caroline Smailes

 

August

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Cleaner of Chartres, Salley Vickers

A Hundred Thousand White Stones: An Ordinary Tibetan’s Extraordinary Journey, Kunsung Dolma

Look Again, Lisa Scottoline

We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

July

The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan

The Mussel Feast, Birgit Vanderbeke

Stet, An Editor’s Life, Diana Athill

The Son, Philipp Meyer (DNF)

Manolo Blahnik Drawings

Shoes Hair Nails, by Deborah Batterman

The Honey Thief, Najaf Mazari

The Rain Before it Falls, Jonathan Coe

Transatlantic, Colum McCann

 

June

The Examined Life, Stephen Grosz

Magda, Meike Ziervogel

The Exiles Return, Elisabeth De Waal

The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit

She Left Me the Gun, Emma Brockes

Portrait of a Turkish Family, Irfan Orga

 

May

The Dervish, Frances Kazan

Patasana, Ahmet Ümit

Istanbul: Memories of a City, Orhan Pamuk

Tender is the Night, F.Scott Fitzgerald (DNF)

The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout

 

April

Me Before You, Jojo Moyes

Shadows & Wings, Niki Tulk

Flight Behaviour, Barbara Kingsolver

The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

Lost Cat, Caroline Paul

Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou

Ignorance, Michéle Roberts

NW, Zadie Smith

 

March

Howard’s End is on the Landing, Susan Hill

Canada, Richard Ford

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edmund De Waal

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

The Romantics: A Novel, Pankaj Mishra

 

February

Elizabeth and her German Garden, Elizabeth von Armin

A Winter Book, Selected Stories by Tove Jansson

There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Life after Life, Kate Atkinson

Revenge, Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa

January

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan

Honour, Elif Shafak

The Happiness of Blond People: A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity, Elif Shafak

Findings, Kathleen Jamie

Le Testament Français, Andreï Makine (DNF)

The Zenith, Dương Thu Hương

The Industry of Souls, Martin Booth

2012

A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr

The Bridge Club, Patricia Sands

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Light Between Oceans, M.L.Stedman

Book 3, 1Q84, Haruki Murakami

A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel (DNF)

Rebecca, Daphne de Maurier

La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh, Philippe Claudel

The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng

The Black Count – Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss

The White Forest, Adam McOmber

Swimming Home, Deborah Levy

When Women Were Birds – 54 Variations on Voice, Terry Tempest Williams

The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan

Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, Kate Summerscale

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner

The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

Thomas Jefferson – Lessons from a Secret Buddha, Suneel Dhand

The Coward’s Tale, Vanessa Gebbie

A Lady Cyclists Guide to Kashgar, Suzanne Joinson

Lucretia and the Kroons, Victor Lavalle

Red Dust Road, Jackie Kay

Wild, Cheryl Strayed

And the Band Played On, Christopher Ward

A Night to Remember, Walter Lord

Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy

The Pearl, John Steinbeck

The Smile, Ray Bradbury

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

If This is a Man : The Truce, Primo Levi

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

Death at Château Bremont, M.L. Longworth

Sister, Rosamund Lupton

The Maid and the Queen – The Secret History of Joan of Arc, Nancy Goldstone

State of Wonder, Ann Patchett

In the Springtime of the Year, Susan Hill

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

Summer, Edith Wharton

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

Third Culture Kids, David Pollock & Ruth Van Reken

Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua

Eden’s Garden, Juliet Greenwood

Lives other than my own, Emmanuel Carrère

The Book of Lost Fragrances, M.J.Rose

The Château, William Maxwell

The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey ***Top Read***

The Wild Book, Margarita Engle

A Week in December, Sebastian Faulks

The Woman in Black, Susan Hill

That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott

All Our Worldly Goods, Irène Némirovsky

Fire in the Blood, Irène Némirovsky

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks

La Seduction – How the French play the game of life, Elaine Sciolino

The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht

Ragnörak, A.S. Byatt

Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese

2011

‘Perfect Hostage’ Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals, Justin Wintle

The Housekeeper + The Professor,  Yoko Ogawa

A Visit from the Goon Squad , Jennifer Egan

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino

The Pyschopath Test, Jonathan Ronson

Island Beneath the Sea, Isabelle Allende

The Forest for the Trees, Betsy Lerner

The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa

The Paris Wife, Paula McLain

In Her Wake, Nancy Rappaport

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver

Seven Days to Tell You, Ruby Soames

These is My Words +Sarah’s Quilt + A Star Garden, Nancy E Turner

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, Sandra Gulland

Tales of Passion- Tales of Woe, Sandra Gulland

The Last Great Dance on Earth,  Sandra Gulland