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Read 2019

91 Distant Signs – Anne Richter

90 The Man of Fifty – J W Goethe

89 Goethe: Die ganze Wahrheit – Christian Moser

88 Kleine Funken aus Sachsen – Wilfried Schlosser

87 Tales of Mr Keuner – Bertolt Brecht and Ulf K

86 Berlin: City of Smoke – Jason Lutes

85 The Silent Death – Volker Kutscher

84 1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall – Peter Millar

83 Red Love – Maxim Leo

82 The Body Lies – Jo Baker

81 The Child – Sebastian Fitzek

80 Diary of A Provincial Lady – E M Delafield

79 High Wages – Dorothy Whipple

78 A Man In Love – Martin Walser

77 The Riders – Tim Winton

76 A Treachery of Spies – Manda Scott

75 The Fortnight in September – R C Sheriff

74 The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing – Mary Paulson-Ellis

73 The Devil Aspect – Craig Russell

72 The Handmaid’s Tale (The Graphic Novel) – Adapted by Renée Nault

71 The Eighth Life – Nino Haratischvili

70 The Jeweller – Caryl Lewis (Meet The Translator: Gwen Davies)

69 The Death of Idrat Mus si – Tommy Wieringa

68 Dream Sequence – Adam Foulds

67 The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins – Antonia Hodgson

66 The Great Gatsby – F S Fitzgerald

65 Dirt Music – Tim Winton

64 City of Jasmine – Olga Grjasnowa

63 Breath – Tim Winton

62 A Little Drop of Scottish Rain – Ron Butlin and Tim Kirkby

61 Reasons to Be Cheerful – Nina Stibbe

60 Clara – Janice Galloway

59 A Girl, Returned – Donatella Di Pietrantonio

58 The Hiding Game – Naomi Wood

57 Big Sky – Kate Atkinson

56 Shrines of Upper Austria – Phoebe Power

55 The Pine Islands – Marion Poschmann

54 In the Full Light of The Sun – Clare Clark

53 The Lost Man – Jane Harper

52 The Missing of Clairdelune – Christelle Dabos

51 Lisbon Tales (Meet The Translator: Amanda Hopkinson)

50 Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi

49 Selected Tales – Hugo von Hofmannsthal

48 The Empress and the Cake – Linda Stift

47 Young Gerber – Friedrich Torberg

46 The Third Man – Graham Greene

45 The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers

44 The Lonely Empress – Joan Haslip

43 The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt – Andrea Wulf and Lillian Melcher

42 Flotsam – Meike Ziervogel

41 Snegurochka – Judith Heneghan

40 A Perfect Explanation – Eleanor Anstruther

39 Barcelona Tales (Meet The Translator: Peter Bush)

38 The Parasites – Daphne Du Maurier

37 Liar – Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

36 White Shadow – Roy Jacobsen

35 Berlin: City of Stones – Jason Lutes

34 Metropolis – Philip Kerr

33 Roseanna – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

32 The Flight of The Falcon – Daphne du Maurier

31 Spring – Ali Smith

30 The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth (Readalong Part One, Part Two, Part Three)

29 Star – Yukio Mishima

28 The Kindness of Strangers – Saskia Vogel

27 Some Books Aren’t For Reading – Howard Marc Chesley

26 Blaupause – Theresia Enzensberger

25 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

24 What Would Boudicca Do? – E Foley and B Coates

23 Last Ones Left Alive – Sarah Davies-Goff

22 The Treasure Chest – Johann Peter Hebel

21 The Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Pötzsch

20 The Silver Road – Stina Jackson

19 The Blaue Reiter – Hajo Düchting

18 Assurances – J O Morgan

17 Blood – Maggie Gee

16 Babylon Berlin – Volker Kutscher

15 The Storyteller – Pierre Jarawan (Meet The Translators)

14 The Story of The Bauhaus – Frances Ambler

13 The Capital – Robert Menasse (Meet The Translator – Jamie Bulloch)

12 The Familiars – Stacey Halls

11 Children of The Cave – Virve Sammalkorpi

10 Red Snow – Will Deans

9 Dark Pines – Will Deans

8 And The Wind Sees All – Gudmundur Andri Thorsson

7 The Ice Virgin – Hans Christian Anderson

6 The True Deceiver – Tove Jansson

5 The Strawberry Girl – Lisa Stromme

4 Five Give Up The Booze – Vincent Bruno

3 Estoril – Dejan Tiago-Stanković

2 The Murderer’s Ape – Jakob Wegelius

1 The Legend of Sally Jones – Jakob Wegelius

Read 2018

112 A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos

111 Washington Black – Esi Edugyan

110 Five Go Gluten Free – Vincent Bruno

109 And Fire Came Down – Emma Viskic

108 A Darkling Plain – Philip Reeve

107 Allmen and The Dragonflies – Martin Suter

106 The Forger- Cay Rademacher

105 The Second Rider – Alex Beer

104 The Overstory – Richard Powers

103 Heimat – Nora Krug

102 A Long, Blue Monday – Eduard von Büren

101 The Dead – Christian Kracht

100 The Sky is Changing – Zoë Jenny

99 The Pollen Room – Zoë Jenny

98 The Emperor’s Tomb – Joseph Roth

97 Poems To Live Your Life By – Edited by Chris Riddell

96 Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard (Illustrated by Nicholas Mahler)

95 Alone Against Gravity – Thomas de Padova

94 Collision – Merle Kröger

93 The Book Jumper – Mechthild Gläser

92 Where Were You, Robert? – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

91 The Case of The Gilded Fly – Edmund Crispin

90 Vanish In An Instant – Margaret Millar

89 Schwüle Tage – Eduard von Keyserling

88 The Portable Dorothy Parker

87 Wish Her Safe At Home – Stephen Benatar

86 The Mangan Inheritance – Brian Moore

85 Stoner – John Williams

84 Transit – Anna Seghers

83 Journey by Moonlight – Antal Szerb

82 Oliver VII – Antal Szerb

81 Transcription – Kate Atkinson

80 The Nameless Day – Friedrich Ani

79 Macbeth – Jo Nesbo

78 The Madonna of The Mountains – Elise Valmorbida

77 You’re just jealous of My Jet Pack – Tom Gauld

76 The Green Crow – Krīstine Ulberga

75 In The Spirit of Spark – Ali Smith

74 How to Ride A Dragon’s Storm – Cressida Cowell

73 A Hero’s Gudie to Deadly Dragons – Cressida Cowell

72 The Boy Behind the Curtain – Tim Winton

71 Home, Elsewhere – Leila Aboulela

70 The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories – Teresa Solana

69 Only Killers and Thieves – Paul Howarth

68 Three Things About Elsie – Joanna Cannon

67 The Accident on the A35 – Graeme Macrae Burnet

66 Signs Preceeding the End of The World – Yuri Herrera

65 Prague Spring – Simon Mawer

64 An Untouched House – W F Hermans

63 The Last Resort – Carmen Posadas

62 The Sound of One Hand Killing – Teresa Solana

61 The Wardrobe Mistress – Patrick McGrath

60 My Purple Scented Novel – Ian McEwan

59 The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohleben

58 A Summer of Murder – Oliver Bottini

57 Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

56 The Shepherd’s Hut – Tim Winton

55 How To Be A Public Author – Francis Plug

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)

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