Brook:
1) Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellmann
2) The Adventures of Sally, P.G. Wodehouse
3) The Martian, Andy Weir
4) The Swiss Family Robinson, Johan David Wyss
5) Vi, Kim Thúy (trans. Sheila Fischman)
6) A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, C. A. Fletcher
7) The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth
8) Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier (trans. Frank Davison)
9) The Churn, James S. A. Corey
10) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin
11) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
12) The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark\
13) Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scot
14) Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortimer
15) Faith Fox, Jane Gardam
16) The Red and the Black, Stendhal (trans. Lloyd C. Parks)
17) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
18) Catch-22, Joseph Heller
19) Restoration, Rose Tremain
20) Halfbreed, Maria Campbell
21) A Little Hatred, Joe Abercrombie
22) The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak
23) Gods of Risk, James S. A. Corey
24) The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham
25) Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
26) Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Deborah Feldman
27) Fate, Ian Hamilton
28) Cane, Jean Toomer
29) Every Body Looking, Candice Iloh
30) The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
31) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
32) Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing, Kate Colquhoun
33) All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (trans. Brian Murdoch)
34) Hornblower and the Hotspur, C. S. Forester
35) 84K, Claire North
36) Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovich
37) Agent Running in the Field, John le Carré
38) The Girl on the Boat, P. G. Wodehouse
39) …But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, Anita Loos
40) The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
41) Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, Robyn Maynard
42) A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
43) Codename Villanelle, Luke Jennings
44) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
45) Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
46) Sins of Empire, Brian McClellan
47) Little Constructions, Anna Burns
48) Who is Vera Kelly?, Rosalie Knecht
49) This Mournful Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga
50) Nemesis Games, S. A. Corey
51) Ms Ice Sandwich, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Louise Heal Kawai)
52) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
53) The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
54) All Systems Red, Martha Wells
55) A Damsel in Distress, P. G. Wodehouse
56) Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal
57) Frying Plantain, Zalika Reid-Benta
58) The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
59) Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
60) The Trouble With Peace, Joe Abercrombie
61) Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
62) The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
63) Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
64) The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
65) Foresight, Ian Hamilton
66) The Mayor of Leipzig, Rachel Kushner
67) The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
68) Pariah, Anthony Ryan
69) Twelve Days in Persia, Vita Sackville-West70) The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner
Colleen:
The Last Children of Tokyo, Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani)
The Seas, Samantha Hunt
Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century, trans. Muireann Maguire
The Alchemist, Ben Jonson (re-read)
The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon this Soul, Ryka Aoki
The Story of Hong Gildong, trans. Minsoo Kang
Maigret and the Nahour Case, Georges Simenon (trans. William Hobson)
Furthermore, Damon Runyon
Spring Garden, Tomoka Shibasaki (trans. Polly Barton)
Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion
The Newcomes, W. M. Thackeray
The Stolen Bicycle, Wu Ming-Yi (trans. Darryl Sterk)
Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz
The Nakano Thrift Shop, Hiromi Kawakami (trans. Allison Markin Powell)
Money in the Bank, P. G. Wodehouse
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino
Where Europe Begins, Yoko Tawada (trans. Susan Bernofsky and Yumi Selden)
The Summer After the Funeral, Jane Gardam
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, Tessa McWatt
The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories, Saki
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Public Image, Muriel Spark
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Dorothy Gilman
Southern Mail/Night Flight, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (trans. Curtis Cate)
Ms Ice Sandwich, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Louise Heal Kawai)
Maigret Afraid, Georges Simenon (trans. Margaret Duff)
In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker)
Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence, M.F.K. Fisher
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
Isolde, Irina Odoevtseva (trans. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg)
The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata (trans. Edward M. Seidensticker)
All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
Miracle on Cherry Hill, Hwang Sun-Mi (trans. Kim Chi-Young)
The Mayor of Leipzig, Rachel Kushner
Animals, Hebe Uhart (trans. Robert Croll)
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (re-read)
A Christmas Garland, Max Beerbohm
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, Kai Cheng Thom