Books Read in 2017

Books Read in 2017

~January~

• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
• The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
• A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto (translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai)

~February~

• The Arrangement by Ashley Warlick
• Caught In The Revolution by Helen Rappaport
• That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
• I See You by Clare MacKintosh
• The Light Princess by George MacDonald (short story)
• The Giant’s Heart by George MacDonald (short story)
• Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias (translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
• The Confessions of A Young Nero by Margaret George

~March~

• Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
• The Golden Key by George MacDonald (short story)
• The Years That Followed by Catherine Dunne (unfinished)
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (translated from Swedish by Henning Koch)
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, MBIP 2017 short list)
• War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (translated from Dutch by David Mckay, MBIP 2017 long list)
• The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen (translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, MBIP 2017 short list)
• Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson (translated from Icelandic by Philip Roughton, MBIP 2017 long list)
• Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg (translated from Polish by Eliza Marciniak, MBIP 2017 long list)

~April~

• Mirror, Shoulders, Signal by Dorthe Nors (translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra, MBIP 2017 short list)
• Judas by Amos Oz (translated from Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, MBIP 2017 short list)
• Letters and Papers From Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (translated from German by Christian Kaiser Verlag)
• Compass by Mathias Enard ( translated from French by Charlotte Mandell, MBIP 2017 short list)
• Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer (translated from German by Katy Derbyshire, MBIP 2017 long list)
• Earthly Remains by Donna Leon

~May~

• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani (translated by William Weaver)
• Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
• If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
• The Fix by David Baldacci (abandoned)
• Mad by Chloe Esposito (abandoned)

~June~

• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
• Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare (translated from Albanian by David Bellos)
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (for the JLC11)
• The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue

~July~

• The Switch by Joseph Finder
• Confessions by  Kanae Minato (translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel, for the JLC11)
• Atlantic Hotel by Joao Gilberto Noll (translated from Portuguese by Adam Morris)
• Tomorrow in The Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias (translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, for Spanish Lit Month)
• Milena, or the most beautiful femur in the world by Jorge Zepeda Patterson (translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, for Spanish Lit Month)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Man Booker Prize 2017 long lost)

~August~ 

• Penance by Kanae Minato (translated from Japanese by Phillip Gabriel for JLC11 and Women In Translation Month)
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Man Booker Prize long list 2017)
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Man Booker Prize long list 2017)
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Man Booker Prize long list 2017)
• Autumn by Ali Smith (Man Booker Prize long list 2017)
• Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders (Man Booker Prize long list 2017)

~September~

• The Red-Haired Girl by Orhan Pamuk (translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap)
• Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
• Billy and the Minpins by Roald Dahl
• If You Can Keep It by Eric Metaxes

~October~

• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen by Gin Phillips
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (for the JLC11)
• Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

~November~

• The Stand by Stephen King
• News of The World by Paulette Jiles
• Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane (for German Lit Month)
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hectore Garcia and Francesc Miralles

~December~

• Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn
• Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
• My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent