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  “The Lie“ by Helen Dunmore: Two years after hostilities of First World War have ended Daniel, a young soldier, returns to his place of b...

  “The Colony” by Audrey Magee: This is a brilliant, beautifully touching novel, a thoughtful play on the private and the political, of th...

  “Long Day's Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neill: Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night ...

  “The Light of Day” by Graham Swift: This is my second book by Graham Swift, well, actually the third, if you count 100 pages into his Ev...

 “ Mothering Sunday” by Graham Swift: A naked man getting slowly dressed.  A naked woman coming down the stairs.  From the very first l...

  “Giovanni‘s Room“ by James Baldwin: ‘‘I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which i...

  “The Porpoise“ by Mark Haddon: Life is fragile and nothing can be taken for granted. - This motto might as well apply for this novel. It ...

  “The Reading List” by Sara Nisha Adams: In London, Wembley we meet elderly citizen Mukesh, grieving and recently widowed. Mukesh has yet ...

  “To Paradise“ by Hanya Yanagihara: This is an impressive, unusual read, an emotional brilliant novel that spans three centuries and pain...

  “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan:  As in many of Ian McEwan’s books this one, too, pivots around one single, central event and its rever...

  “Saving Beauty“ (“Die Errettung des Schönen“) by Byung-Chul Han: As the last book of a colorful variety of 58 books I read this year, whi...

  “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amos Towles: At the end of a year of avid reading I happened upon a book which in its tone if not its subject...

  “Intimacies“ by Katie Kitamura: A mysterious novel about a woman adrift in her own life and a new city. A story which constantly asks: W...

  “NIGHT. SLEEP. DEATH. The STARS.“ by Joyce Carol Oates: This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, awa...

 “ Bewilderment“ by Richard Powers: “Dad! Everything is going backwards.“  This frustrated outcry of a nine-year-old to his father is the ...