August
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Women in Translation Month
47. I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan – Translated by Eliza Griswold
46. The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth – Veeraporn Nitiprapha
45. In Late Summer – Magdalena Blažević
44. Voracious – Malgorzata Lebda
July
43. The Book Collectors – Delphine Minoui
42. Angel Down – Daniel Kraus
41. A Life’s Music – Andreï Makine
40. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
39. Paradiso 17 – Hannah Lillith Assadi
38. Even Ducks Get Liver Cancer – Will Liangco
June
37. Cathedrals – Claudia Piñeiro
36. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
35. O Caledonia – Elspeth Barker
34. Good People – Patmeena Sabit
33. Good People – Claire Betita de Guzman
32. The Finest Hotel in Kabul – Lyse Doucet
May
30. Canticles for Dark Lovers – Wilfrido D. Nolledo
29. The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
28. She Who Remains – Rene Karabash
27. The Artist – Lucy Steeds
25. For the Sun After Long Nights –Nilo Tabrizy & Fatemeh Jamalpour
April
24. The Museum of Modern Love –Heather Rose
23. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow –Zoulfa Katouh
22. Breasts and Eggs – Mieko Kawakami
21. The Persian Boy – Mary Renault
20. The Bridge of San Luis Rey –Thornton Wilder
18. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
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
February Between and Beyond Book Covers
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
2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
1. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
