5* Books Read in 2016-2020
2016
Fiction
- Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
- Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Robert Seethaler, Der Trafikant
- Robert Seethaler, Die weiteren Aussichten
- Martin Suter, Montecristo
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 1)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 2)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 3)
Poetry
- Rumi, Rumi’s Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos
- Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Non-Fiction
- Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase
- Yitzhak Berger, Jonah in the Shadows of Eden
- Mary Charles-Murray, Art and Prayer
- Joan D. Chittister, The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
- Daniel Coleman, In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
- Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible with the Damned
- Anselm Grün, Schönheit: Eine neue Spiritualität der Lebensfreude
- Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud (eds), Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
- Keith James, Mission-shaped Hermit: Thomas Merton, Mission and Spirituality
- Yasmin Khan, The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
- Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa
- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
- Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters. The Essential Collection
- Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Lucy Popescu (ed.), A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers
- Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
- Martin Schleske, Der Klang: Vom unerhörten Sinn des Lebens
- Samuel Wells, A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God
- John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster
- Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
2017
Fiction
- Jessie Burton, The Muse
- Andrea Camilleri, A Nest of Vipers
- Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus
- Max Frisch, Homo Faber: Ein Bericht
- Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
- Herta Müller, Herztier
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Poetry
- Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
Non-Fiction
- Joani Blank, Femalia
- Lucian Freud, Lucian Freud: 1996-2005
- Flaminio Gualdoni, Female Nude
- Nick Karras, Petals
- Christopher Lloyd, Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels
- Jennifer M. McBride: Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel
- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- Nigel Slater, Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food
- Samuel Wells, Hanging by a Thread: The Questions of the Cross
2018
Fiction
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Omar Khaled Ahmad et al., Shatila Stories
- Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud
- Andrew Cowan, Pig
- Jess Jochimsen, Abschlussball
- Bodo Kirchhoff, Widerfahrnis: Eine Novelle
- Mariana Leky, Was man von hier aus sehen kann
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Das Kind von Noah
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Nachtfeuer: Was ich in der Wüste erlebte
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Der Fall Collini
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Tabu
Non-Fiction
- Sarah Bachelard, Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing
- Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
- Walter Brueggemann, Subversive Obedience: Truth-Telling and the Art of Preaching
- Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
- E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
- Janet Hodgson, Mission from Below: Growing a Kingdom Community
- The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
- Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom
- Thomas Merton, Where Prayer Flourishes
- John Moses, The Art of Thomas Merton: A Divine Passion in Word and Vision
- John O’Donohue, Echoes of Memory
- Christopher Pramuk, At Play in Creation: Merton’s Awakening to the Feminine Divine
2019
Fiction
- Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
- Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Andrea Camilleri, The Overnight Kidnapper
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Verdacht
- Ian McEwan, The Cockroach
- Sally Rooney, Normal People
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- Anna Sun, Dreamers of the Absolute: A Book of Hours
Poetry/Plays
- Anne Carson, Nay Rather
- Anne Carson (trans.), Euripides, Bakkhai
- Anne Carson (trans.), Euripides, Iphigenia among the Taurians
Non-Fiction
- Sarah Bachelard, Resurrection and Moral Imagination
- David Benjamin Blower, Sympathy for Jonah: Reflections on Humiliation, Terror and the Politics of Enemy-Love
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Widerstand und Ergebung: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft
- Douglas E. Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology
- Dorothee d’Aprile, Barbara Bauer, Katharina Döbler, Niels Kadritzke (eds), Grenzgebiete: Mauern, Schmuggel, Reisefreiheit
- Georgi Gospodinov, The Story Smuggler
- Etty Hillesum, Essential Writings
- Luce Irigaray, Sharing the World
- Shahram Khosravi, ‘Illegal Traveller’: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
- Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
- Christopher Pramuk, Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters across the Color Line
- Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love
- Nigel Slater, The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories and 100 Essential Recipes for Midwinter
- Patrick Woodhouse, Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed
2020
Fiction
- Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water
- Andrea Camilleri, The Sicilian Method
- Andrea Camilleri, The Terracotta Dog
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame: Eine tragische Komödie
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Herkules und der Stall des Augias. Der Prozeß um des Esels Schatten: Griechische Stücke
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Romulus der Große: Eine ungeschichtliche historische Komödie in vier Akten
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman. Aufenthalt in einer kleinen Stadt: Fragment
- Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
- Max Frisch, Andorra: Stück in zwölf Bildern
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
Poetry
- Rupi Kaur, Home Body
Non-Fiction
- Peter Boxall, 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die
- René Girard, The Scapegoat
- Emmanuel Katongole, Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa
- Robert J. Myles, The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew
- Kathleen M. O’Connor, Lamentations and the Tears of the World
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