Previous reads

2026

  • Midnight Robber – Nalo Hopkinson
  • Travelling While Black – Nanjala Nyabola

2025

  • When I Sing, Mountains Dance – Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
  • The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch

2024

  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • At Night All Blood is Black – David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (Translator)
  • Labyrinth – Kate Mosse
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow  – Gabriel Zevin
  • Free – Lea Ypi

2023

  • The Centre – Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
  • Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
  • Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution – R.F. Kuang
  • They Called Us Enemy – George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker (Illustrator)
  • Suite Française – Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator)
  • Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus

2022

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
  • The Liar's Dictionary – Eley Williams
  • The Faraway Nearby – Rebecca Solnit
  • No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood
  • Jews Don't Count – David Baddiel
  • Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  • Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck

2021

  • Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
  • The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste
  • An Unnecessary Woman – Rabih Alameddine
  • Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley
  • Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
  • Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
  • Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

2020

  • Martutene – Ramón Saizarbitoria
  • Obabakoak (Obaba) – Bernardo Atxaga
  • Patria (Homeland) – Fernando Aramburu