5* Books Read in 2021-2023
2021
Fiction
- Pearl Abraham, Die Romanleserin
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
- Naomi Alderman, Disobedience
- Ewald Arenz, Alte Sorten
- Andrea Camilleri, The Cook of the Halcyon
- Andrea Camilleri, Riccardino
- Max Frisch, Stiller
- Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
- Pascal Mercier, Das Gewicht der Worte
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Strafe
- Martin Suter, Elefant
- Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Poetry
- Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
Non-Fiction
- Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park: A Memoir
- Rosemary Radford Ruether, Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
2022
Fiction
- Marco Balzano, Ich bleibe hier
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Inseparables
- Sandra Lüpkes, Die Schule am Meer
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
- Dror Mishani, Drei
- Mariette Navarro, Über die See
- Bernhard Schlink, Abschiedsfarben
- Bernhard Schlink, Die Enkelin
- Joachim B. Schmidt, Tell
- Alex Schulman, Die Überlebenden
- Colm Tóibín, The Magician
- Juli Zeh, Über Menschen
Poetry
- Brian Bilston, Refugees
Non-FICTION
- Guli Francis-Dehqani, Cries for a Lost Homeland: Reflections on Jesus’ Sayings from the Cross
- Martin Gayford, Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
- Mark Thiessen Nation, Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Yvonne Sherwood, A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
- Monica Weis and Harry L. Hinkle, Thomas Merton’s Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise
2023
Fiction
- Claire Keegan, Foster
- Connie Palmen, Du sagst es
- Joachim B. Schmidt, Kalmann
Poetry
- Kenneth Steven, Iona: New and Selected Poems
Non-FICTION
- Henri J. M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
- Gordon Oyer, Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology
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