March | International Women’s Month
17. In Diamond Square – Merce Rodoreda
16. The Nights are Quiet in Tehran – Shida Bazyar
15. Regarding the Pain of Others – Susan Sontag
14. House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk
13. The Afghans – Asne Seierstad
12. Restoration – Ave Barrera
February
11. A Horse at Night: On Writing – Amina Cain
10. The Piano Cemetery – Jose Luis Peixoto
9. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
8. Memoirs of an Art Forger – Julian Tiongson, Jr.
7. A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
January
“‘No books!’ I exclaimed. ‘How do you contrive to live here without them? …take my books away, and I should be desperate!’” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
6. The Sisters – Jonas Hassen Khemiri
5. A Calamity of Noble Houses – Amira Ghenim
4. A View from the Ground – Atom Araullo
3. In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut
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