Complete Review - Most Popular Reviews¶
说明¶
Complete Reivew 由 Michael Orthofer（生于奥地利，现居于美国）于 1999 年创建，主要专注当代英文翻译小说的评论。
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这里仅收录年度 top50 书单，每月 top10 请查看原网站 （2004、2007、2008、2009 仅分月数据，缺少年度数据，2005、2006 缺少数据）。
书单¶
1999-2005¶
| Index | Y2003 | Y2002 | Y2001 | Y2000 | Y1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3) | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1) | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (32) | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1) | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving |
| 2 | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1) | Lolita, Richard Corliss (7) | Big Women, Fay Weldon (3) | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (8) | An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz |
| 3 | Proof, David Auburn (9) | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (10) | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1) | Big Women, Fay Weldon (75) | An Equal Music, Vikram Seth |
| 4 | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (5) | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (6) | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (2) | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (18) | Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter |
| 5 | Lolita, Richard Corliss (2) | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (4) | The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard (10) | 'Art', Yasmina Reza (-) | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan |
| 6 | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (6) | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (3) | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (4) | On Love, Alain de Botton (16) | The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson |
| 7 | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (4) | Big Women, Fay Weldon (2) | Lolita, Richard Corliss (147) | The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (15) | Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic |
| 8 | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton (8) | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton (9.) | 'Art', Yasmina Reza (5) | Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss (39) | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard |
| 9 | 'Art', Yasmina Reza (10) | Proof, David Auburn (21) | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton (n.a.) | An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (3) | Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson |
| 10 | Atonement, Ian McEwan (-) | 'Art', Yasmina Reza (8) | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (n.a.) | The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard (126) | Eucalyptus, Murray Bail |
| 11 | Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss (13) | The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (11) | The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (7) | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (5) | De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch |
| 12 | Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (47) | Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, Thomas Brussig (23) | The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (114) | Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (13) | The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick |
| 13 | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick (14) | Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss (13) | Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss (8) | The Social Construction of What ?, Ian Hacking (-) | Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson |
| 14 | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (n.a.) | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick (15) | The Flight of Icarus, Raymond Queneau (20) | King, John Berger (17) | Zodiac, Neal Stephenson |
| 15 | Lolita: A Screenplay, Vladimir Nabokov (15) | Lolita: A Screenplay, Vladimir Nabokov (20) | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick (132) | The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (12) | The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester |
| 16 | The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (11) | The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (12) | The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (21) | House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski (n.a.) | On Love, Alain de Botton |
| 17 | Big Women, Fay Weldon (7) | Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (70) | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (17) | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (-) | King, John Berger |
| 18 | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (18) | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (17) | Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau (29) | An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (2) | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild |
| 19 | Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (17) | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (89) | Footsucker, Geoff Nicholson (19) | Footsucker, Geoff Nicholson (108) | Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Dubravka Ugresic |
| 20 | Life x 3, Yasmina Reza (107) | The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (16) | Lolita: A Screenplay, Vladimir Nabokov (-) | The Flight of Icarus, Raymond Queneau (-) | Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair |
| 21 | Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, Thomas Brussig (12) | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (30) | Proof, David Auburn (n.a.) | The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (26) | The Assault, Harry Mulisch |
| 22 | Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (23) | The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard (5) | Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges (81) | The Unexpected Man, Yasmina Reza (-) | England, England, Julian Barnes |
| 23 | Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (25) | Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (24) | Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, Thomas Brussig (-) | England, England, Julian Barnes (22) | In the Jaws of Life, Dubravka Ugresic |
| 24 | Copenhagen, Michael Frayn (86) | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (25) | Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (59) | Stupeur et tremblements, Amélie Nothomb (-) | The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier |
| 25 | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (21) | Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (45) | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (11) | Loving Sabotage, Amélie Nothomb (28) | The Death of the Author, Gilbert Adair |
| 26 | Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (179) | Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges (22) | Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb (24) | The Food Chain, Geoff Nicholson (118) | The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch |
| 27 | Faster than the Speed of Light, João Magueijo (n.a.) | The Flight of Icarus, Raymond Queneau (14) | Spinning into Butter, Rebecca Gilman (-) | The Mourning of John Lennon, Anthony Elliott (131) | American Tabloid, James Ellroy |
| 28 | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (19) | Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau (18) | The Sopranos, Alan Warner (39) | For and Against Method, I. Lakatos/P.Feyerabend (36) | Le Sabotage amoureux, Amélie Nothomb |
| 29 | The Little Friend, Donna Tartt (69) | Spinning into Butter, Rebecca Gilman (27) | The Triple Helix, Richard Lewontin (-) | The Assault, Harry Mulisch (21) | Babel Tower, A.S.Byatt |
| 30 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (49) | The Elemntary Particles, Michel Houellebecq (38) | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (48) | Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau (86) | The Crystal Frontier, Carlos Fuentes |
2006-2010¶
| Index | Y2010 |
|---|---|
| 1 | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga |
| 2 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery |
| 3 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson |
| 4 | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee |
| 5 | The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| 6 | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser |
| 7 | Freedom, Jonathan Franzen |
| 8 | Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 9 | Atonement, Ian McEwan |
| 10 | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen |
| 11 | The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt |
| 12 | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov |
| 13 | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones |
| 14 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell |
| 15 | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi |
| 16 | Snow, Orhan Pamuk |
| 17 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki |
| 18 | Q & A, Vikas Swarup |
| 19 | Saturday, Ian McEwan |
| 20 | Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki |
| 21 | Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki |
| 22 | Solar, Ian McEwan |
| 23 | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild |
| 24 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie |
| 25 | Proof, David Auburn |
| 26 | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving |
| 27 | The Colorado Kid, Stephen King |
| 28 | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 29 | The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell |
| 30 | 'Art', Yasmina Reza |
| 31 | Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier |
| 32 | 2666, Roberto Bolaño |
| 33 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid |
| 34 | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan |
| 35 | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard |
| 36 | Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson |
| 37 | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa |
| 38 | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick |
| 39 | The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson |
| 40 | My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk |
| 41 | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat |
| 42 | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard |
| 43 | Meditations, Marcus Aurelius |
| 44 | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin |
| 45 | Spies, Michael Frayn |
| 46 | Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk |
| 47 | The Housekeeper and the Professor, Ogawa Yoko |
| 48 | The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood |
| 49 | In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati |
| 50 | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett |
2011-2015¶
| Index | Y2015 | Y2014 | Y2013 | Y2012 | Y2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga |
| 2 | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee |
| 3 | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | Atonement, Ian McEwan |
| 4 | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 5 | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | 1Q84, Murakami Haruki |
| 6 | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | Q & A, Vikas Swarup | The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery |
| 7 | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | Atonement, Ian McEwan | Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet |
| 8 | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt | The History Boys, Alan Bennett | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones |
| 9 | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee | Q & A, Vikas Swarup |
| 10 | The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Q & A, Vikas Swarup | 1Q84, Murakami Haruki | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson |
| 11 | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki |
| 12 | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain |
| 13 | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Atonement, Ian McEwan | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| 14 | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen |
| 15 | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov |
| 16 | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Q & A, Vikas Swarup | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson | The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid |
| 17 | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The Assault, Harry Mulisch | The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 18 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser |
| 19 | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The History Boys, Alan Bennett | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard |
| 20 | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Freedom, Jonathan Franzen |
| 21 | The Children Act, Ian McEwan | The Assault, Harry Mulisch | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki |
| 22 | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser | Proof, David Auburn | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell |
| 23 | In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar | Atonement, Ian McEwan | The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson | Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro | Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki |
| 24 | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard | Spies, Michael Frayn | Spies, Michael Frayn | Snow, Orhan Pamuk |
| 25 | The Assault, Harry Mulisch | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | 'Art', Yasmina Reza | Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka |
| 26 | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | Proof, David Auburn |
| 27 | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi | The History Boys, Alan Bennett | Saturday, Ian McEwan |
| 28 | Norwegian Wod, Murakami Haruki | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard | Snow, Orhan Pamuk | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa |
| 29 | Atonement, Ian McEwan | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki | 'Art', Yasmina Reza |
| 30 | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | Proof, David Auburn | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | Spies, Michael Frayn |
| 31 | The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng | Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 'Art', Yasmina Reza | The Assault, Harry Mulisch | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie |
| 32 | Voss, Patrick White | The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick | Meditations, Marcus Aurelius | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi |
| 33 | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | One World, Peter Singer | Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki | The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt |
| 34 | Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser | The Dinner, Herman Koch | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane |
| 35 | The History Boys, Alan Bennett | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | Saturday, Ian McEwan | My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk |
| 36 | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell | The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White |
| 37 | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy | 'Art', Yasmina Reza | Snow, Orhan Pamuk | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan |
| 38 | The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Spies, Michael Frayn | The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin |
| 39 | Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee | Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat |
| 40 | Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick | In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati |
| 41 | 'Art', Yasmina Reza | Proof, David Auburn | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard | Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier |
| 42 | Spies, Michael Frayn | Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Voss, Patrick White | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild |
| 43 | Proof, David Auburn | One World, Peter Singer | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki | Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier | 2666, Roberto Bolaño |
| 44 | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard | Voss, Patrick White | Closer, Patrick Marber | Voss, Patrick White | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett |
| 45 | Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | Closer, Patrick Marber | A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving |
| 46 | To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett | In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar | King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild | Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert |
| 47 | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser | Closer, Patrick Marber | 1Q84, Murakami Haruki | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan | Meditations, Marcus Aurelius |
| 48 | Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard | My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk | In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand |
| 49 | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | In the Light of What We Know, Zia Haider Rahman | Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson | The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh | Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson |
| 50 | Amir Arsalan, Muhammad 'Ali Naqib al-Mamalik | The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood | Double Indemnity, James M. Cain | An Equal Music, Vikram Seth | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo |
2016-2020¶
| Index | Y2020 | Y2019 | Y2018 | Y2017 | Y2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo |
| 2 | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat |
| 3 | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal |
| 4 | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand |
| 5 | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | The Snowman, Jo Nesbø | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek |
| 6 | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy |
| 7 | Goat Days, Benyamin | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 8 | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Basti, Intizar Husain | Goat Days, Benyamin | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat |
| 9 | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo |
| 10 | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade | Goat Days, Benyamin | Basti, Intizar Husain | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
| 11 | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda |
| 12 | Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett |
| 13 | The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa |
| 14 | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ |
| 15 | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo |
| 16 | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka |
| 17 | Basti, Intizar Husain | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat |
| 18 | Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga |
| 19 | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin |
| 20 | Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee | Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Neal Stephenson | The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 21 | Big Girls Don't Cry, Fay Weldon | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | Spies, Michael Frayn |
| 22 | The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray | The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | Spies, Michael Frayn | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane |
| 23 | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | Wasting Time on the Internet, Kenneth Goldsmith | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah | Voss, Patrick White |
| 24 | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton |
| 25 | The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | Indignation, Philip Roth |
| 26 | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah | Voss, Patrick White | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan |
| 27 | The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov |
| 28 | Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | Quicksand, Malin Persson Giolito | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah |
| 29 | Case Histories, Kate Atkinson | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett |
| 30 | First Love, Ivan Turgenev | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade | Voss, Patrick White | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | Atonement, Ian McEwan |
| 31 | Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar | Without a Name, Yvonne Vera | Anniversaries, Uwe Johnson | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy | The Children Act, Ian McEwan |
| 32 | Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Aleksievich | Veronica My Daughter, Ogali Ogali | River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder | Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa |
| 33 | Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | The Suns of Independence, Ahmadou Kourouma | 2666, Roberto Bolaño |
| 34 | Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | Memoirs, Pablo Neruda | River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder | The Assault, Harry Mulisch |
| 35 | One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat | The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson | Veronica My Daughter, Ogali Ogali | Thousand Cranes, Kawabata Yasunari | Norwegian Wod, Murakami Haruki |
| 36 | The Voice, Gabriel Okara | Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Atonement, Ian McEwan | The Healers, Ayi Kwei Armah |
| 37 | River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder | Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar | Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay | Snow, Orhan Pamuk | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki |
| 38 | This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata | The Assault, Harry Mulisch | Snow, Orhan Pamuk |
| 39 | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah | The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome | This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes | Amir Arsalan, Muhammad 'Ali Naqib al-Mamalik |
| 40 | The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup | Voss, Patrick White | Snow, Orhan Pamuk | Q & A (also published as: Slumdog Millionaire), Vikas Swarup | Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 41 | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Naguib Mahfouz | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki | 'Art', Yasmina Reza |
| 42 | Voss, Patrick White | Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela | This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes | The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata | In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar |
| 43 | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | Chaka, Thomas Mofolo | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard |
| 44 | On Love, Alain de Botton | Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan | The Solid Mandala, Patrick White | The Solid Mandala, Patrick White | Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones |
| 45 | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Life & Times of Michael K, J.M.Coetzee | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela | Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela |
| 46 | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder | Killing Commendatore, Murakami Haruki | The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome | The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng |
| 47 | Home and Exile, Chinua Achebe | Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya | Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy |
| 48 | One World, Peter Singer | A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux | Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss |
| 49 | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda | Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra | So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett | Arcadia, Iain Pears |
| 50 | A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux | Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Aleksievich | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | One World, Peter Singer |
2021-2024¶
| Index | Y2024 | Y2023 | Y2022 | Y2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poor Things, Alasdair Gray | Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal | Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal |
| 2 | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | Poor Things, Alasdair Gray | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo |
| 3 | Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan |
| 4 | Bird in a Cage, Frédéric Dard | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay |
| 5 | The Face of Another, Abe Kobo | Basti, Intizar Husain | Silverview, John le Carré | Noli Me Tangere*, José Rizal |
| 6 | Trilogy, Jon Fosse | Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre | Never, Ken Follett | Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre |
| 7 | The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray | Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa |
| 8 | The Empusium*, Olga Tokarczuk | Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov | Basti, Intizar Husain | The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante |
| 9 | Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee | Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa |
| 10 | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan | The Sentence, Louise Erdrich | Klara and the Sun*, Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 11 | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade | Grey Bees*, Andrey Kurkov | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade |
| 12 | El Filibusterismo, José Rizal | The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray | Bullet Train*, Isaka Kotaro | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| 13 | The Secret Hours, Mick Herron | A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka |
| 14 | The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz | Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov | The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier | Never*, Ken Follett |
| 15 | The Lost Steps*, Alejo Carpentier | Never, Ken Follett | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Silverview*, John le Carré |
| 16 | The Director, Daniel Kehlmann | Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree | Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa | Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy |
| 17 | Blue Lard*, Vladimir Sorokin | Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Goat Days, Benyamin | The Voice, Gabriel Okara |
| 18 | 2666, Roberto Bolaño | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | The Books of Jacob*, Olga Tokarczuk | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec |
| 19 | The City and its Uncertain Walls*, Murakami Haruki | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra |
| 20 | The Sleepwalkers*, Scarlett Thomas | How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl | Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov | Basti, Intizar Husain |
| 21 | The Most Secret Memory of Men, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | Silverview, John le Carré | The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
| 22 | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray |
| 23 | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton | Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux | A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux | Sofia Petrovna*, Lydia Chukovskaya |
| 24 | Nails and Eyes, Fujino Kaori | Meditations, Marcus Aurelius | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat |
| 25 | Kusumabale, Devanoora Mahadeva | Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo |
| 26 | The Third Realm*, Karl Ove Knausgaard | Heaven, Kawakami Mieko | A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka | Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa |
| 27 | The Crisis of Narration, Byung-Chul Han | Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo | Tomb of Sand*, Geetanjali Shree | Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo |
| 28 | The Crooked Line, Ismat Chughtai | Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo | Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux | Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz |
| 29 | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol | Happening, Annie Ernaux | The Anomaly*, Hervé Le Tellier |
| 30 | The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss | The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas | Crisis, Karin Boye | Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah |
| 31 | Burma Sahib*, Paul Theroux | The Shards*, Bret Easton Ellis | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida*, Shehan Karunatilaka | One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko |
| 32 | Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay | Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy | Chaka, Thomas Mofolo | Goat Days, Benyamin |
| 33 | The Singularity*, Dino Buzzati | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas | At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop |
| 34 | People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi | I Have Some Questions for You*, Rebecca Makkai | Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz | The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat |
| 35 | The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch | Happening, Annie Ernaux | Voss, Patrick White | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin |
| 36 | The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas | The Gift of a Cow, Premchand | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane | Morning Yet on Creation Day, Chinua Achebe |
| 37 | Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | The Enigma of Room 622, Joël Dicker | Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo | Voss, Patrick White |
| 38 | Ædnan*, Linnea Axelsson | Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa | Art, Yasmina Reza | Chaka, Thomas Mofolo |
| 39 | Serve the People !, Yan Lianke | Hell Screen, Akutagawa Ryunosuke | Case Histories, Kate Atkinson | Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee |
| 40 | The Bright Sword*, Lev Grossman | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | The White Tiger, Aravind:Adiga | White Teeth, Okot p'Bitek |
| 41 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)*, Solvej Balle | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec | The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan | Divya, Yashpal |
| 42 | Annihilation*, Michel Houellebecq | Case Histories, Kate Atkinson | Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis*, Hermann Burger | The Membranes*, Chi Ta-wei |
| 43 | The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade | Goat Days, Benyamin | The Ladies' Paradise, Émile Zola | The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup |
| 44 | Never, Ken Follett | Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat | The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin | The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton |
| 45 | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz | In the Miso Soup, Murakami Ryu | The Morning Star*, Karl Ove Knausgaard |
| 46 | Until August*, Gabriel García Márquez | The Reunion, Guillaume Musso | The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg | Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane |
| 47 | Precipice*, Robert Harris | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka | The Voice, Gabriel Okara | The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa |
| 48 | An Accidental Man, Iris Murdoch | Old Filth, Jane Gardam | Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur | Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda |
| 49 | Miri Jiyori, Bordoloi Rajanikanta | Voss, Patrick White | Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro | 2666, Roberto Bolaño |
| 50 | Memoirs, Pablo Neruda | The Face of Another, Abe Kobo | The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante | A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux |