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Read 2021

102 Friends and Heroes – Olivia Manning

101 Biography of A Fly – Jaap Robben

100 Summer Brother – Jaap Robben

99 Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden

98 Quesadillas – Juan Pablo Villabollos

97 A Poem For Every Winter’s Day – Ed. Allie Esiri

96 His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet

95 Cathedral – Ben Hopkins

94 The Buried Candelabrum – Stefan Zweig

93 Confession of A Murderer – Joseph Roth

92 Love and Death in Bali – Vicki Baum

91 The Visit – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

90 The Basel Killings – Hansjörg Schneider

89 The Living Sea of Waking Dreams – Richard Flanagan

88 A Lonely Man – Chris Power

87 An Inventory of Losses – Judith Schalansky

86 The Dear Departed – Brian Moore

85 A Guardian Angel Recalls – Willem Frederik Hermans

84 The Liquid Land – Raphaela Edelbauer

83 Motley Stones – Adalbert Stifter

82 After Midnight – Irmgard Keun

81 The Plantagenet Prelude – Jean Plaidy

80 Madgermanes – Birgit Weyhe (How to make a Graphic Novel – Katy Derbyshire)

79 Papa Hamlet – Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf

78 Mrs Jekyll and Cousin Hyde – Jeremy Hodges

77 The Storm of Echoes – Christelle Dabos

76 Untraceable – Sergei Lebedev

75 Resilience – Bogdan Hrib

74 Kraft – Jonas Lüscher

73 A Poem for Every Summer Day – Ed. Allie Esiri

72 The Dark Remains – William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

71 Rizzio – Denise Mina

70 The Long Drop – Denise Mina

69 Your Inner Hedgehog – Alexander McCall-Smith

68 Planet of Clay – Samar Yazbek

67 Forty Lost Years – Rosa Maria Arquimbau

66 Not A Novel – Jenny Erpenbeck

65 Seat 7a – Sebastian Fitzek

64 The Disaster Tourist – Yun Ko-Eun

63 In A Lonely Place – Dorothy B Hughes

62 The Captain and The Enemy – Graham Greene

61 The Bitch – Pilar Quintana

60 Elena Knows – Claudia Piñeiro

59 Death In The Andes – Maria Vargas Llosa

58 Crocodile Tears – Mercedes Rosende

57 Antonio – Beatriz Bracher

56 The Woman Next Door – Yemande Omotoso

55 Woman of the Ashes – Mia Couto

54 Summer – Ali Smith

53 Sleepless – Romy Hausmann

52 The Dead Girls’ Class Trip – Anna Seghers

51 Hyde – Craig Russell

50 The Employees – Olga Ravn

49 You’re Not Dying – Kathrin Schmidt

48 A Poem for Every Spring Day (Ed. Allie Esiri)

47 The War of the Poor – Eric Vuillard

46 The Dancing Plague – Gareth Brookes

45 The Spoilt City – Olivia Manning

44 The High-Rise Diver – Julia von Lucadou

43 Higher Ground – Anke Stelling

42 All Human Wisdom – Pierre Lemaître (Meet the translator)

41 The Union of Synchronised Swimmers – Cristina Sandu (Meet the author/translator)

40 The Passenger – Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

39 The Atomics – Paul Maunder

38 Higher Ground – Anke Stelling

37 Leopoldstadt – Tom Stoppard

36 Remote Sympathy – Catherine Chidgey

35 Silenced – Sólveig Pálsdóttir (Meet The Translator)

34 It Gets Me Home This Curving Track – Ian Penman

33 Mephisto – Klaus Mann

32 War of the Newts – Karel Čapek

31 A Room Made of Leaves – Kate Grenville

30 Containment – Vanda Symon

29 De Luxe – Lenny Bartulin

28 The Black Russian – Lenny Bartulin

27 The Ditch – Herman Koch

26 Something Has To Happen – Maarthe Wortel (VERZET 8)

25 Shelter – Sanneke van Hassel (VERZET 7)

24 The Tourist Butcher – Jamal Ouariachi (VERZET 4)

23 Bergje – Bregje Hofstede ( VERZET 3)

22 Thank You For Being With Us – Thomas Heerma van Voss (VERZET 2)

21 Reconstruction – Karin Amatmoekrim (VERZET 1)

20 Brat Farrer – Josephine Tey

19 The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Selim Özdogan

18 The Ten Thousand Things – John Spurling

17 The Peacock – Isabel Bogdan

16 Days in the Caucasus – Banine

15 The Pear Field – Nana Ekvtimishvili

14 My Grandmother’s Braid – Alina Bronsky

13 Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead – Barbara Comyns

12 Irmina – Barbara Yelin

11 The Summer of Her Life – Thomas von Steinaecker

10 Hurdy Gurdy – Christopher Wilson

9 The Last Snow – Stina Jackson

8 The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine – Alina Bronsky (Reread)

7 Die Winterreise – Wilhelm Müller

6 The Passenger: Japan

5 The Unbeliever – Oggy Botychev

4 Snow – Marcus Sedgwick

3 Deep as Death – Katja Ivar

2 Evil Things – Katja Ivar

1 All The Land – Jo Lendle

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Read 2020

101 A Poem for Every Autumn Day – Allie Esiri

100 The Fox – Solveig Palsdottir

99 The Turncoat – Siegfried Lenz

98 The Trip to Bordeaux – Ludwig Harig

97 Marrow and Bone – Walter Kempowski

96 The Loyal Subject – Heinrich Mann

96 Daughters – Lucy Fricke

95 Journey Through A Tragicomic Century – Frances Nenik

94 Undine – Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué

93 Porcelain – Durs Grünbein

92 Air Raid – Alexander Kluge

91 Gramsci’s Fall – Nora Bossong

90 The Lost and The Damned – Olivier Norek

89 The Last Summer – Ricarda Huch

88 The Wall – Max Annas

87 Black Ice – Hans Werner Kettenbach

86 Dear Child – Romy Hausmann

85 Reunion – Fred Uhlman

84 Beast In View – Margaret Millar

83 Desdemona, If Only You Had Spoken! – Christine Brückner

82 To Cook A Bear – Mikael Niemi

83 The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim – Sophie von La Roche

82 The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

81 The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante

80 The Silver Road – Stina Jackson

79 The Midnight – Library – Matt Haig

78 Aspects of Edinburgh – Stewart Conn

77 Dead Girls – Selva Almada

76 The Wind That Lays Waste – Selva Almada

75 Summerwater -Sarah Moss

74 The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa

73 The Weekend – Charlotte Wood

72 Purple People – Kate Bulpitt

71 Their Little Secret – Mark Billingham

70 The Zookeeper’s War – J W Mohnhaupt (Meet The Translator Interview)

69 Paula – Sandra Hoffmann

68 The Revolt – Clara Dupont-Monod

66 The Great Fortune – Olivia Manning

65 Gilgi, One of Us – Irmgard Keun

64 A Necessary Evil – Abir Mukherjhee

63 A Rising Man – Abir Mukherjee

62 A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

61 Around the World in 80 Trees – Jonathan Drori

60 Walks in the Wild – Peter Wohlleben

59 Summer of Reckoning – Marion Bruet

58 The Cold Summer – Guanrico Carofiglio

57 Käsebier Takes Berlin – Gabriele Tergit

56 Uncanny Valley – Anna Wiener

55 Two Blankets, Three Sheets – Rodaan Al Galidi

54 Aranyak – Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

53 A Cage In Search of A Bird – Florence Noiville

52 The Last Country – Svenja Leiber

51 The Hour Between Dog and Wolf – Silke Scheuerman

50 Plantagenet – The Epic Chronicle of a Dynasty

49 Black Diamond – Zakes Mda

48 The Golden Store – William Wordsworth

47 Your Ad Could Go Here – Oskana Zabuzhko

46 Sword – Teodorescu Bogdan

45 The Mirror and The Light – Hilary Mantel

44 Berlin: City of Light – Jason Lutes

43 The Birds and other Stories – Daphne Du Maurier

42 The Eighth Life – Nino Haratischwilli

41 I Will Judge Your By Your Bookshelf – Grant Snider

40 Department of Mind-Blowing Theories – Tom Gauld

39 Weeping Waters – Karin Brynard

38 Queen Lucia – E F Benson

37 Little Eyes – Samanta Schweblin

36 Pixel – Krisztina Tóth

35 Black Water Lilies – Michel Bussi

34 The World of Wolf Hall – Sam Binnie

33 Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

32 Where The World Ends – Geraldine McCaughrean

31 The Lost Lights of St Kilda – Elizabeth Gifford

30 A Little History of Poetry – John Carey

29 Stage Four – Sander Kollaard

28 Tyll – Daniel Kehlmann

27 The Blessed Rita – Tommy Wieringa

26 Winter In Wartime – Jan Terlouw

25 Little Siberia – Antti Tuomainen

24 Self-Portrait with A Swarm of Bees – Jan Wagner

23 Snow, Dog, Foot – Claudio Morandini

22 Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead – Olga Tokarczuk

21 The Old King in His Exile – Arno Geiger

20 A Woman In The Polar Night – Christiane Ritter

19 I Remain In Darkness – Annie Ernaux

18 Dark Satellites – Clemens Meyer

17 The Foundling – Stacey Halls

16 Life of A Counterfeiter – Yashushi Inoue

15 The Dark Lake – Hella Haasse

14 Customer Service – Benoît Duteurtre

13 The Quarter – Naquib Mahfouz

12 The Lime Tree – César Aira

11 The Waiting – Regi Claire

10 Stalin’s Nose – Rory McLean

9 Stasi State – David Young

8 Confession with Blue Horses – Sophie Hardach

7 The Years – Annie Ernaux (Meet The Translator)

6 This Little Art – Kate Briggs

5 One Ice-Cold Clear January Morning etc – Roland Schimmelpfennig

4 The Aosawa Murders – Riku Onda

3 The Honjin Murders – Sheishi Yokomizo

2 Mother Courage and Her Children – Bertolt Brecht

1 Party Fun with Kant – Nicholas Mahler

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