books 2017 so far
wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no.
Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler
Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz
The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie
The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak
Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai
Adaptation - Malinda Lo
The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb
Central Station - Lavie Tidhar
Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg)
The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua
IQ - Joe Ide
The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis
The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert
Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell
Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)
Sum - David Eagleman
Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich
Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner
Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)
Selection Day - Aravind Adiga
The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale
Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja
Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton
Audition - Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy
A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen
Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside
Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor
Being A Beast - Charles Foster
The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin
Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
The Mistletoe Murder - PD James
The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt
Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz
The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst
Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton
Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown
Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House
Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson
The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez
The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth
There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe
Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke
His Bloody Project - Graham McRae
Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff
Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates
Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple
Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper
The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick
History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Inheritance - Malinda Lo
Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre
Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older
Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Monstress - Marjorie Liu
This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin
The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison
Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)
Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse
Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester
A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale
A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin
Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
Huntress - Malinda Lo
The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies
Life's Work - Willie Parker
The Mothers - Brit Bennett
We Are Okay - Nina LaCour
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
Time Travel - James Gleick
Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw
Words on the Move - John McWhorter
Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang
Teeth - Mary Otto
Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz
We The Animals - Justin Torres
Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al
Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood
English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee
The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry
The Girl Before - JP Delaney
The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent
Half-Bad - Sally Green
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll
Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu
The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Plucked - Rebecca Herzing
The Outsiders - SE Hinton
Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge
Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson
Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin
The Dry - Jane Harper
History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund
See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg
Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar
Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser
The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser
The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore
Otherbound - Connie Duyvis
Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan
Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)
Bright Air Black - David Vann
Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder
The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin
Medusa - Michael Dibdin
Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen
A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume
My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul
Two Women of London - Emma Tennant
Stoner - John Williams
The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Oranges - John McPhee
Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran
The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse
The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed
The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz
Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin
Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al
The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin
End Games - Michael Dibdin
What If? - Randall Munroe
Taft 2012 - Jason Heller
Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al
Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
God's Philosophers - James Hannam
Ravished - Amanda Quick
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot
Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu
Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)
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A FEW
Marta Sanz, or Sylvia Plath, or Mary Shelley, or Ingeborg Bachmann, or Virginia Woolf, or María Llopis, or Clara Janés, or Yolanda Castaño, or Caitlin Moran, or Virginie Despentes, or Amélie Nothomb, or Natalia Ginzburg, or Chika Sagawa, or Silvina Ocampo, or Gloria Fuertes, or Sara Mesa, or Ruth Llana, or Chantal Maillard, or Cristina Rivera Garza, or Maria Mercè Marçal, or Isla Correyero, or Emma Cline, or Anne Carson, or Yasmina Reza, or Lucy K. Shaw, or Safo, or Jenn Díaz, or JK Rowling, or Alice Munro, or Svetlana Alexievich, or Catalina Stanislav, or Carmen Laforet, or Lisa Dierbeck, or Angela Carter, or Alejandra Pizarnik, or Elena Medel, or Joyce Mansour, or Carson McCullers, or Elena Garro, or Iris Murdoch, or Joan Didion, or Simone de Beauvoir, or Belén Gopegui, or Jane Austen, or Sara Torres, or Montserrat Roig, or Elvira Lindo, or Anne Sexton, or Emilia Pardo Bazán, or Sharon Olds, or Emily Witt, or Milena Busquets, or Marie Darrieussecq, or Dorothy Parker, or María Sánchez, or Margaret Atwood, or Rosalía de Castro, or Isabel Escudero, or Luciana Peker, or Laura Fernández, or Forough Farrojhzad, or Emily Dickinson, or Gioconda Belli, or Carmen Martín Gaite, or Patti Smith, or Daniela Camacho, or Emily Berry, or Valeria Luiselli, or Ana María Matute, or Julianne Pachico, or Natalia Litvinova, or Elena Ferrante, or Fatena Al-Gurra, or Claudia Apablaza, or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, or Agatha Christie, or Dorothy M. Johnson, or Roxane Gay, or Lara Moreno, or Andrea Wulf, or Gabby Bess, or Amalia Bautista, or Delphine de Vigan, or Lucía Baskaran, or Mina Loy, or Ida Vitale, or Lola Nieto, or Alfonsina Storni, or Elvira Navarro, or Susan Sontag, or Diana di Prima, or Tálata Rodríguez, or Anaïs Nin, or Nina Yargekov, or Sara Herrera Peralta, or Donna Tartt, or Selva Almada, or Valérie Mréjen, or Lila Azam, or Tracy K. Smith . . . or whatever you want, say it. But when you talk about literature, quote a woman from time to time, ok? Thanks.
by Luna Miguel, translated from the original Spanish by Jeremy Spencer in Real Pants
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