Books I have read which inspired me, touched me, or made me think about life in new ways:
Small Pleasures (2020), Clare Chambers, UK Where the Crawdads Sing (2018), Delia Owens, USA Little Siberia (2019), Antti Tuomainen, Finland Idaho (2017), Emily Ruskovich, USA Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (2016), Cho Nam-joo, South Korea
Convience Store Woman (2016), Sayaka Murata, Japan The Little Prince (1943), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, France One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979), Italo Calvino, Cuba
Hot Milk (2016), Deborah Levy, Spain The Sound of Waves (1954), Yukio Mishima, Japan Outline (2014), Rachel Cusk, Greece My Dark Vanessa (2020), Kate Elizabeth Russell, USA The Remains of the Day (1989), Kazuo Ishiguro, UK
Leviathan (1992), Paul Auster, USA Arabian Nights and Days (1995), Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt White Teeth (2000),Zadie Smith, UK On Chesil Beach (2007), Ian McEwan, UK 1Q84 (2011), Haruki Murakami, Japan
Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf, UK My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), Ottessa Moshfegh, USA Vilette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte, UK Franny and Zooey (1961), JD Salinger, USA My Brilliant Friend (2011), Elena Ferrante, Italy
Fault Lines (2021), Emily Itami Things we do not tell the people we love (2020), Huma Quershi Five Tuedays in Winter (2022), Lily King Stillicide (2019), Cynan Jones
