This is a list of my 2023 reviews: click on the link to read the post 🙂
Reviews marked with asterisks are my recommendations each month.
December
100) *Summer by Ali Smith*
99) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
98) Suitcase (트렁크) by Kim Ryeo-ryeong
97) A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai
96) Temporale by Marina Warner
95) Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
94) Nothing Belongs to You by Nathacha Appanah
93) The Heron Catchers by David Joiner
92) Spring by Ali Smith
November – German Literature Month
91) *Verstörung (Gargoyles) by Thomas Bernhard*
90) Demian by Hermann Hesse
89) Die Lust, gekannt zu sein (The Desire to be Known) by Christa Wolf
88) Moskauer Novelle (Moscow Story) by Christa Wolf
87) Das große Lesebuch (The Big Reader) by Theodor Storm
86) Seerücken (The Ridge) by Peter Stamm
October
85) Kanazawa by David Joiner
84) Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
83) Winter by Ali Smith
82) The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung
81) The End of August by Yū Miri
80) Murnane by Emmett Stinson
79) *Collected Short Fiction by Gerald Murnane*
78) The Man Who Loved Siberia by Roy Jacobsen and Annaliese Pitz
77) Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías
September
76) Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal
75) How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino
74) Ada’s Realm by Sharon Dodua Otoo
73) Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga
72) Autumn by Ali Smith
71) Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
70) *Greek Lessons by Han Kang*
69) Confession by Martín Kohan
August – Women in Translation Month
68) Open Your Heart by Alexie Morin
67) The Lost Garden by Li Ang
66) The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
65) Niederungen (Lowlands) by Herta Müller
64) *A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro*
63) Tierra fresca de su tumba (Fresh Dirt from the Grave) by Giovanna Rivero
62) Togani by Gong Ji-young
61) History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir
60) Wound by Oksana Vasyakina
59) Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
July
58) The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa
57) Pet by Catherine Chidgey
56) *A Certain Woman by Takeo Arishima*
55) Inside My Glass Doors by Natsume Sōseki
54) The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
53) Counterweight by Djuna
52) Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri
51) Audition by Pip Adam
June
50) In einer dunkelblauen Stunde (In a Dark-Blue Hour) by Peter Stamm
49) Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures by Jason Pamment
48) Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
47) Dandelion Daughter by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
46) The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales, translated by Adam Kabat
45) The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
44) Hospital by Sanya Rushdi
43) Marseillaise My Way by Darina Al Joundi
42) The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing by Darina Al Joundi
41) *Austral by Carlos Fonseca*
May
40) Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
39) The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories, edited by Bruce Fulton
38) The Kokinshū: Selected Poems, translated and introduced by Torquil Duthie
37) Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
36) The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu by Augusto Higa Oshiro
35) Venom by Saneh Sangsuk
34) *Owlish by Dorothy Tse*
33) Everything Is Ori by Paul Serge Forest
April
32) Pyre by Perumal Murugan
31) Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming) by Clemens Meyer
30) Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
29) Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
28) *Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright*
27) I Went to See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin
26) Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth
25) The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé
March
24) The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
23) Boulder by Eva Baltasar
22) Permafrost by Eva Baltasar
21) *Trollope by Victoria Glendinning*
20) In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
19) The Narrow Cage by Vasily Eroshenko
February
18) Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado
17) Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
16) German Fantasia by Philippe Claudel
15) A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
14) The Fawn by Magda Szabó
13) *Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur*
12) Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
11) Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
January – January in Japan
10) Inhabitation by Teru Miyamoto
9) The Broken Commandment by Shimazaki Tōson
8) Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburō Ōe
7) *Scandal by Shūsaku Endō*
6) The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
5) Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada
4) Choses dont je me souviens (Recollections) by Natsume Sōseki
3) The Saga of Dazai Osamu by Phyllis I. Lyons
2) Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima
1) One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika
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