As in the best books I have read in 2016.
Fiction
- Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
- Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Robert Seethaler, Der Trafikant
- Robert Seethaler, Die weiteren Aussichten
- Martin Suter, Montecristo
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 1)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 2)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, vol. 3)
Poetry
- Rumi, Rumi’s Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos
- Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Non-Fiction
- Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase
- Yitzhak Berger, Jonah in the Shadows of Eden
- Mary Charles-Murray, Art and Prayer
- Joan D. Chittister, The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
- Daniel Coleman, In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
- Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible with the Damned
- Anselm Grün, Schönheit: Eine neue Spiritualität der Lebensfreude
- Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud (eds), Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
- Keith James, Mission-shaped Hermit: Thomas Merton, Mission and Spirituality
- Yasmin Khan, The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
- Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa
- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
- Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters. The Essential Collection
- Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Lucy Popescu (ed.), A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers
- Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
- Martin Schleske, Der Klang: Vom unerhörten Sinn des Lebens
- Samuel Wells, A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God
- John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster
- Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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