As in the best books I have read in 2019.
Fiction
- Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
- Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Andrea Camilleri, The Overnight Kidnapper
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Verdacht
- Ian McEwan, The Cockroach
- Sally Rooney, Normal People
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- Anna Sun, Dreamers of the Absolute: A Book of Hours
Poetry/Plays
- Anne Carson, Nay Rather
- Anne Carson (trans.), Euripides, Bakkhai
- Anne Carson (trans.), Euripides, Iphigenia among the Taurians
Non-Fiction
- Sarah Bachelard, Resurrection and Moral Imagination
- David Benjamin Blower, Sympathy for Jonah: Reflections on Humiliation, Terror and the Politics of Enemy-Love
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Widerstand und Ergebung: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft
- Douglas E. Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology
- Dorothee d’Aprile, Barbara Bauer, Katharina Döbler, Niels Kadritzke (eds), Grenzgebiete: Mauern, Schmuggel, Reisefreiheit
- Georgi Gospodinov, The Story Smuggler
- Etty Hillesum, Essential Writings
- Luce Irigaray, Sharing the World
- Shahram Khosravi, ‘Illegal Traveller’: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
- Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
- Christopher Pramuk, Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters across the Color Line
- Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love
- Nigel Slater, The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories and 100 Essential Recipes for Midwinter
- Patrick Woodhouse, Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed
Brief thoughts & quotes … 