December
77. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai
76. The Woman from Tantoura – Radwa Ashour
75. Brightly Shining – Ingvild Rishøi
November
74. And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon – Nikolai Gogol
73. Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
72. The Stronghold (The Tartar Steppe) – Dino Buzzati
71. WTF! (Woman Turning F*fty) – Marga Ortigas
70. And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
69. A History of Pugachev – Alexander Pushkin
68. The Queen of Spades – Alexander Pushkin
67. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine – Alina Bronsky
66. Notes from the Dead House – Fyodor Dostoevsky
65. Apples are from Kazakhstan – Christopher Robbins
“Reading… a special gift that showed you how much of the world still lay beyond the safety of your comfort zone.” — Marga Ortigas
October
64. Arturo’s Island – Elsa Morante
63. A Romance on Three Legs – Katie Hefner
62. Second Opinion – Gideon Lasco
61. Satantango – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
September
How This Reader Remembers September
60. Firewalkers – Erwin E. Castillo
59. Shattered Lands – Sam Dalrymple
58. Ravel – Jean Echenoz
57. Piano Notes – Charles Rosen
56. In Farthest Seas – Lalla Romano
August
55. Babylon, Albion – Dalia Al-Dujaili
54. Munting Aklat ng Baybayin – Ian Alfonso
53. Collected Works – Lydia Sandgren
52. Traces of Enayat – Iman Mersal
“That’s what literature was. Gathering, processing.” – Lydia Sandgren
July
51. Rajah Versus Conquistador – Kahlil Corazo
50. A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile – Aatish Taseer
49. Homer’s Daughter – Robert Graves
48. Magellan – Stefan Zweig
June
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear to me… It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.” — Percival Everett, James
47. The Experiment of the Tropics – Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
46. Forbidden Notebook – Alba de Céspedes
45. Her Side of the Story – Alba de Céspedes
44. A Bookshop in Berlin – Francoise Frenkel
43. Background for Love – Helen Wolff
42. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
41. James – Percival Everett
May
40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
39. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite – Ian Penman
37. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Alba de Céspedes
36. There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes
35. On the Calculation of Volume I – Solvej Balle
“Because the paper remembers… And there may be healing in sentences.” — Solvej Balle
April
34. Heart Lamp – Banu Mushtaq
33. Covert Joy – Clarice Lispector
32. Journey to the Edge of Life – Tezer Ozlu
31. To the Wedding – John Berger
30. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
29. Canone Inverso – Paolo Maurensig
28. The Dissenters – Youssef Rakha
27. Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves – Lio Mangubat
“It is the boundless realm of literature that has set me on this road, through words and beyond them…” — Tezer Ozlu
March
“Truth helps the story on.” – I, Claudius, Robert Graves
25. Three Filipino Women – F. Sionil Jose
24. Light – Eva Figes
23. Cold Nights of Childhood – Tezer Ozlu
21. The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem
20. The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
19. A Woman is a School – Celine Semaan
Feburary
17. The Golden Road – Willam Dalrymple
16. The Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
15. Nothing but the Night – John Williams
14. A Re-reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. Face Shield Nation – Gideon Lasco
12. Fires – Marguerite Yourcenar
11. A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar
“Only love and art can do this: only inside a book or in front of a painting can one truly be let into another’s perspective. It has always struck me as a paradox how in the solitary arts there is something intimately communal.” — Hisham Matar
