A Year in Reading: 2023

Note:
*** → masterpiece
** → great

In reverse chronological order:

Hiromi Itō: とげ抜き新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller)
Anne Berest: La Carte postale (The Postcard)
Katja Oskamp: Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin (Marzahn, mon amour)
Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls
Jonathan Coe: Bournville
Kim Hye-jin: 딸에 대하여 -김혜진 장편소설 (Concerning My Daughter)
Sayaka Murata: コンビニ人間 (Convenience Store Woman)
Juli Zeh: Neu Jahr (New Year)
Khaled Al Khamissi: ‫تاكسي‬ (Taxi)
Minae Mizumura: 私小説 from left to right (An I-Novel)***
Sang Young Park: 대도시의 사랑법 (Love in the Big City)
Elena Ferrante: La vita bugiarda degli adulti (The Lying Life of Adults)
Marcelo Figueras: Kamchatka**
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir: Ungfrú Ísland (Miss Iceland)
Lorenzo Silva: La flaqueza del bolchevique (The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik)
Agota Kristof: Le Grand Cahier (The Notebook)***
Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive
Omaima Al-Khamis: مسرى الغرانيق في مدن العقيق (The Book Smuggler)***
Eugen Ruge: In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In Times of Fading Light)
Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close
Amara Lakhous: Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio (Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio)
Ali Smith: Seasonal Quartet (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)***
Alina Bronsky: Scherbenpark (Broken Glass Park)
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: להעיר אריות (Waking Lions)
Saskia Goldschmidt: De hormoonfabriek (The Hormone Factory)
Lena Divani: Εγώ ο Ζάχος Ζάχαρης (Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat)
Therese Bohman: Den andra kvinnan (The Other Woman)
Claudia Piñeiro: Elena sabe (Elena Knows)***
Lisa Howorth: Summerlings**
Laurent Binet: Civilizations**
Clay McLeod Chapman: Whisper Down the Lane
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian**
Max Brooks: Devolution
Dathan Auerbach: Penpal
Caitlín R. Kiernan: The Red Tree
Richard Powers: Bewilderment
Harald Voetmann: Vågen (Awake)
Alaa Al Aswany: جمهورية كأن (The Republic of False Truths)
Jonathan Coe: The Dwarves of Death
Mieko Kawakami: ミス・アイスサンドイッチ (Ms Ice Sandwich)
Hiroko Oyamada: 穴 (The Hole)
Louise Welsh: The Cutting Room
Michela Murgia: Accabadora
Arto Paasilinna: Jäniksen vuosi (The Year of the Hare)
Rahul Raina: How to Kidnap the Rich**
Uladzimir Karatkievich: Дзікае паляванне караля Стаха (King Stakh's Wild Hunt)**
Martha Batalha: A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao)
Kikuko Tsumura: この世にたやすい仕事はない (There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job)**
Alina Bronsky: Der Zopf meiner Großmutter (My Grandmother's Braid)
Ibtisam Azem: سفر الاختفاء (The Book of Disappearance)
Gilbert Adair: And Then There Was No One**
David Foenkinos: Le Mystère Henri Pick (The Mystery of Henri Pick)
David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue
Jaume Cabré: Jo Confesso (Confessions)***
Christopher Wilson: Hurdy Gurdy
Olga Tokarczuk: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead)***
Scholastique Mukasonga: Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
Mieko Kawakami: 夏物語 (Breasts and Eggs)***
Alex Michaelides: The Silent Patient
Jonathan Coe: Mr Wilder & Me
Shalom Auslander: Mother for Dinner
Julia Kerninon: Ma dévotion (My Devotion)
María José Ferrada: Kramp (How to Order the Universe)
Ge Fei: 人面桃花 (Peach Blossom Paradise)**
Heda Margolius Kovály: Nevina aneb Vražda v Příkré ulici (Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street)**
Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
James Hynes: The Lecturer’s Tale***
Saud Alsanousi: ساق البامبو (The Bamboo Stalk)
Donatella Di Pietrantonio: L'Arminuta (A Girl Returned)
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
Ben H. Winters: The Last Policeman**
Ling Ma: Severance
Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex 1
Mojca Kumerdej: Kronosova žetev (The Harvest of Chronos)***
Aleksandar Gatalica: Veliki rat (The Great War)**
Dubravka Ugrešić: Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain)***
Amélie Nothomb: Stupeur et tremblements (Fear and Trembling)

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