Happy 2018!
In this post we continue to present you some good reads by authors internationally and reviewed by Australians media
AF
George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (Man Booker winner 2017). It’s the first full-length novel by the American writer, who knocked out everyone with his short-story collection Tenth of December. This was reviewed by many critics.
The Mirror and the Light (HarperCollins), the third and final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, in which Thomas Cromwell will meet his fate.
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster who created a boy by DNA becomes 4 boys.
Carve the mark by Veronica Roth, Into the water by Paula Hawkins and Origin by Dan Brown all are on the bestseller list.
While the Hogarth series in which the Bard’s plays are reimagined by well-known writers, such as English writer Edward St Aubyn has called his new novel King Lear; some re imaged Greek mythology. The house of names by Colm Toibin, and Bright air black by David Vann, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is re work of Sophocles’ Antigone.
The Heart’s invisible furies by John Boyne
The 7th function of language by Laurent Binet (French)
Pond (debut) by Claire-Louise Bennett
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Men Without Women (short stories) by Haruki Murakami
My Struggle (fictional bio) by Karl Ove Knausgaard ( Norwegian)
The World Made Straight by Ron rash
Darke (debut novel) by Rick Gekoski
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
Difficult Women (short story) by Roxane Gay
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
Breaking Cover by Stella Rimington (former MI5 chief)
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Winter by Ali Smith
Some Tests by Wayne Macauley
The Forensic Record Society by Magnus Mills
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
ANF
Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds by Philippe Paquet
How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England by Chris Hilliard
Home by John Freeman (ed)
The Town by Shaun Prescott
Belladonna by Dasa Drndic
Euphoria by Heinz Helle
The Country Road: Stories by Regina Ullmann
The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
Red or Dead by David Peace
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
Between Them: Remembering My Parents (Biography) by Richard Ford (Pulitzer prize-winner)
Stranger in the woods (ANF) by Michael Finkel
The Dog’s Last Walk (essays) by Howard Jacobson
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess by Jane Hoffman
Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight
Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism by Bill Schutt
Heart: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Important Organ by Johannes Hinrich von Borstel
River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
Sex After Sixty by Marie de Hennezel
Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? by Ben Ambridge
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-61 by Nicolas Reynold
The Tar Baby: A Global History by Bryan Wagner
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture – a new earth by Charles Massy
Like Nothing on this Earth: A literary history of the wheatbelt by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
Trouble: On trial in Central Australia by Kieran Finnane
October: The story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
As The Lonely Fly by Sarah Dowse
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Nick Cave: Mercy on me by Reinhard Kleist
White Trash: The 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg
No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified system of higher education by Stuart Macintyre, André Brett, and Gwylim Croucher
Seas and Trees by Vahni Capildeo
Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle
Age of Anger: A history of the present by Pankaj Mishra
Equipment for Living: On poetry and pop music by Michael Robbins
Ordinary Jews: Choice and survival during the Holocaust by Evgeny Finkel
Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, community, and Soviet identity, 1917–1991 by Claire L. Shaw
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
An Odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Blind Spot by Teju Cole
Staying With The Trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway
The Call of The Reed Warbler by Charles Massy
Crossing the Line: Australia’s secret history in the Timor Sea by Kim McGrath
The Australian Bird Guide by Peter Menkhorst
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
Little Book on Form: An exploration into the formal imagination of poetry by Robert Hass
Civil Wars: A history in ideas by David Armitage
Fibrils by Michel Leiris
Technicians of the Sacred by Jerome Rothenberg
Being Here: The life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq (French)
The Dangers of Truffle Hunting by Sunni Overland
No Way But This by Jeff Sparrow
Breaking the Mould: Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport by Angela Pippos
Late Essays 2006-17 by J.M. Coetzee
Who Rules the World by Noam Chomsky
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Affirmation of Poetry by Judith Balso
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
Field-Russia: spare like a black twig in snow by Gennady Aygi
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford