As in the best books I have read in 2018.
Fiction
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Omar Khaled Ahmad et al., Shatila Stories
- Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud
- Andrew Cowan, Pig
- Jess Jochimsen, Abschlussball
- Bodo Kirchhoff, Widerfahrnis: Eine Novelle
- Mariana Leky, Was man von hier aus sehen kann
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Das Kind von Noah
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Nachtfeuer: Was ich in der Wüste erlebte
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Der Fall Collini
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Tabu
Non-Fiction
- Sarah Bachelard, Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing
- Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
- Walter Brueggemann, Subversive Obedience: Truth-Telling and the Art of Preaching
- Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
- E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
- Janet Hodgson, Mission from Below: Growing a Kingdom Community
- The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
- Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom
- Thomas Merton, Where Prayer Flourishes
- John Moses, The Art of Thomas Merton: A Divine Passion in Word and Vision
- John O’Donohue, Echoes of Memory
- Christopher Pramuk, At Play in Creation: Merton’s Awakening to the Feminine Divine
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