There are too many new-to-me authors that I’ve discovered this year. They’ve all brought me surprise and joy: it would be unfair to rank them. However, the books on the list below did make me want to seek out everything else their authors have ever written.
Lauren Beukes: Broken Monsters (review to follow shortly)
Sebastian Fitzek: Therapy
William McIlvanney: Laidlaw
Jung-Myung Lee: The Investigation
Koren Zailckas: Mother, Mother
Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs
Andrew Solomon: Far From the Tree
Minae Mizumura: A True Novel
Miriam Toews: All My Puny Sorrows
Ann Patchett: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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