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Read 2018

55 How To Be A Public Author – Paul Ewen

54 A Petrol-Scented Spring – Ajay Close

53 Strangers – Ursula Archer and Arno Strobel

52 The Collector of Worlds – Iliya Troyanow

51 The Photographer – Meike Ziervogel

50 The Public Image – Muriel Spark

49 Such Small Hands – Andrés Barbra

48 Old Rendering Plant – Wolfgang Hilbig

47 The Children of Jocasta – Natalie Haynes

46 Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie

45 Antigone – Sophocles

44 I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

43 To Be A Machine – Mark O’Connell

42 Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi

41 The Annotated Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

40 Colony – Hugo Wilcken

39 Gut – Guilia Enders

38 Abandon – Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

37 The Sound of My Voice – Ron Butlin

36 Prussian Blue – Phillip Kerr

35 Baba Dunja’s Last Love – Alina Bronsky

34 The Life of I – Anete Konste & Reinis Pētersons

33 Fade to Black – Zoë Beck

32 Breathing into Marble – Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite

31 Brecht at Night – Mati Unt

30 Sweet Days of Discipline – Fleur Jaeggy (1989/2018)

29 The Tobacconist – Robert Seethaler (2012/2016)

28 Ill Will – Michael Stewart (2018)

27 See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt (2017)

26 Franklin’s Flying Bookshop – Jen Campbell (2017)

25 Anna – Niccolò Ammaniti (2017/2017)

24 Can You Hear Me? – Elena Varvello (2016/2017)

23 The Diary of A Bookseller – Shaun Bythell (2017)

22 You Were Never Really Here – Jonathan Ames (2016)

21 The Darkness that Divides Us – Renate Dorrestein (2003/2015)

20 Soviet Milk – Nora Ikstena (2015/2018)

19 You Have Me to Love – Jaap Robben (2014/2016)

18 Bloody Scotland – The Anthology (2017)

17 Blue Night – Simone Buchholz (2018)

16 The White Crucifixion – Michael Dean (2018)

15 Hamlet: Prince of Denmark: A Novel- A J Hartley & David Hewson (2014)

14 Macbeth: A Novel – A J Hartley & David Hewson (2012)

13 The Book of Air – Joe Treasure (2016)

12 Robinson – Muriel Spark (1958)

11 My Sweet Orange Tree – José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1969/2018)

10 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (2017)

09 The Explorer – Katherine Rundell (2017)

08 I’ll Keep You Safe – Peter May (2018)

07 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos – Dominic Smith (2016)

06 The Ice Palace – Tarjei Vesaas (1963/2018)

05 Fear – Dirk Kurbjuweit (2014/2018)

04 Zen and The Art of Murder – Oliver Bottini (2006/2018)

03 Charlotte Brontë’s Secret Love – Jolien Janzing (2013/2015)

02 The Collected Stories Vol 1 – Anton Chekhov (1888-1891)

01 The Taste of Sorrow – Jude Morgan (2009)

Read 2017

114 Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowicz

113 Persuasion – Jane Austen

112 Germanii – Vladislav Hristov

111 Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek – Anthony O’Neill

110 The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

109 Elanus – Ursula Poznanski

108 The Travelling Companion – Ian Rankin

107 Resurrection Bay – Emma Viskic

106 The Island At the End of Everything – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

105 The Sun is God – Adrian McKinty

104 The Guesthouse at The Sign of The Teetering Globe – Franziska du Reventlow

103 Winter – Ali Smith

102 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

101 A Sketchbook of Edinburgh – Iain Fraser and Anne Fraser Sim

100 How A Ghastly Story …. Johan Peter Hebel

99 Angels and Eagles – Juli Zeh

98 Grieshuus – Theodor Storm

97 The Mentor – Daniel Kehlmann

96 In The Restaurant – Christoph Ribbat

95 Swallow Summer – Larissa Boehming

94 Memoirs of A Polar Bear – Yoko Tawada

93 Imperium – Christian Kracht

92 A Small Town in Germany – John Le Carré

91 The Moth: All These Wonders

90 1917 Stories and Poems from The Russian Revolution

89 October – China Miéville

88 Autumn – Ali Smith

87 Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann

86 Baking With Kafka – Tom Gauld

85 Kruso – Lutz Seiler

84 This House is Mine – Dörte Hansen

83 Spring Garden – Tomoka Shibasaki

82 Excavating Kafka – James Hawes

81 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

80 How to Twist A Dragon’s Tale – Cressida Cowell

79 Euphoria – Heinz Helle

78 No Dominion – Louise Welsh

77 The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead

76 Midwinter Break – Bernhard MacLaverty

75 New Boy – Tracy Chevalier

74 Auntie Poldi and The Sicilian Lions – Mario Giordano

73 A Horse Walks Into A Bar – David Grossman

72 The Disappearances – Emily Bain Murphy

71 Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck

70 The Mentor – Daniel Kehlmann

69 In the Name of the Family – Sarah Dunant

68 Blood and Beauty – Sarah Dunant

67 The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

66 The Wolf Children – Cay Rademacher

65 The Murderer in Ruins – Cay Rademacher

64 Im Schloss – Theodor Storm

63 Viola Tricolor – Theodor Storm

62 The Aftermath – Rhydian Brook

61 The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm

60 The Shortest History of Germany – James Hawes

59 Germanii – Vladistav Hristov

58 You Should Have Left – Daniel Kehlmann

57The Good People – Hannah Kent

56 Mirror,Shoulder, Signal – Dorthe Nors

55 The Unseen – Roy Jacobsen

54 Golden Hill – Francis Spufford

53 Death is A Welcome Guest – Louise Welsh

52 A Country Road, A Tree – Jo Baker

51 Into the Water – Paula Hawkins

50 The Moth – 50 Extraordinary True Stories

49 The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood

48 Fever Dream – Samatha Schweblin

47 The Bird Tribunal – Agnes Ravatn

46 The Wednesday Club – Kjell Westö

45 This Census Taker – China Miéville

44 To be Continued – James Robertson

43 Paradise Lodge – Nina Stibbe

42 The Truth and Other Lies – Sascha Arango

41 How to Cheat A Dragon’s Curse – Cressida Cowell

40 A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson

39 The Story Of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli

38 Confession of the Lioness – Mia Couto

37 The Hour of the Jackal – Bernhard Jaumann

36 Where Were You, Adam? – Heinrich Böll

35 Maigret’s Memoirs – Georges Simenon

34 My Cousin Rachel – Dapne Du Maurier

33 How to Speak Dragonese – Cresida Cowell

32 Sand – Wolfgang Herrndorf

31 The Nightingale Question – 5 poets from Saxony

30 The Clown – Heinrich Böll

29 Clara – Janice Galloway

28 Memoirs of A Polar Bear – Yoko Tawada

27 The Intrusions- Stav Sherez

26 Billionaire’s Banquet – Ron Butlin

25 Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

24 Under A Pole Star – Stef Penney

23 What’s to become of the Boy? – Heinrich Böll

22 Things Look Different in the Light – Medardo Fraile

21 The Governess and Other Stories – Stefan Zweig

20 The Last Days – Laurent Selsik

19 The Parrots – Filippo Bologna

18 One Night, Markovitch – Ayelet Gundar Goshen

17 Rasputin and Other Ironies – Teffi

16 Bullfight – Yasushi Inoue

15 The Hunting Gun – Yasushi Inoue

14 Stasi Wolf – David Young

13 Signs for Lost Children – Sarah Moss

12 Lesen und lesen lassen (Read and let read)

11 The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson

10 Stasi Child – David Young

09 The Jewel – Catherine Czerkawska

08 The Haunted Bookshop – Christopher Morley

07 Parnassus on Wheels – Christopher Morley

06 When the Doves Disappeared. – Sofi Oksanen

05 Woman of the Dead – Bernard Aichner

04 Craving – Esther Gerritsen

03 Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte

02 The Book Collector – Alice Thompson

01 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte

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