January Reads: A Comparison of Now and Then

January 23, 2022 at 7:54 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, book lists, COVID Reading, English writers, German writers, Mary Russell, mysteries, nonfiction, novel, poetry, reading lists, science fiction, Sherlock Holmes, spies, translation, World War II

2022

• My Heart: A Novel, by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the verse translation by Simon Armitage
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, by Rebecca Donner
• Castle Shade, #17 in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, by Laurie R. King
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning of the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith

2021:

• Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, by Sharnush Parsipur
• The Relentless Moon, #3 in the Lady Astronaut Series, by Mary Robinette Kowal
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings with Erin Meyer
• High as the Waters Rise, by Anja Kampmann, translated from the German by Anne Posten