and thanks for the books!
January
“I should like to see a good flare up. It would clear the air. At present we are all thinking so much, and saying so little.” — Hercule Poirot
- Spring
- In the Kingdom of Ice
- El misterioso caso de Styles
- Deacon King Kong

February
“It was a comfortable life. There is much to be said in defense of comfort.” – John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
- Barbarian Days
- The Thursday Murder Club
- Mil veces hasta siempre
- Universal Harvester
March
“A major conflict in the first half of the book is when he was slightly embarrassed to live alone with an orange blanket.” — An American Cynic on The Dispossessed
- Grayson
- The Dispossessed
- Signs of Life
- Archive of Alternate Endings
April
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.” – Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
- Agent Running in the Field
- Owls of the Eastern Ice
- A Tale for the Time Being
- Ana, la de Tejas Verdes
May
“I am feeling that the world is so big, so full of our dreams and our love stories, and our grief too.” — Lovely, A Burning
- Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres
- The Moth and the Mountain
- A Burning
- The Book Collectors of Daraya
June
“While other people don’t matter, either, treat them like they do.” – Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
- Why Fish Don’t Exist
- Butter Honey Pig Bread
- Evvie Drake Starts Over
- Sobre los huesos de los muertos
July
“One simply jumped into loaded cars, as I see it, and stayed seated in them.” — Buddy Glass, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
- Summer
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
- Maldad bajo el sol
August
“One must shake off the curse of books.” — W.H. Hudson, A Most Remarkable Creature
- A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Sunset Route
- El Extranjero
- What is Not Yours is Not Yours
- Wayward
September
“The afternoon felt like a giant soap bubble.” — Thomas Grattan, The Recent East
- The Recent East
- Millones de pasos
- Beautiful World, Where are You
October
“We have to admire the world for not ending on us.” – Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
- TransAtlantic
- Girlhood
- Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost
- Bajo la fría luz de octubre
November
“Be as wonderful tomorrow as you were today.” – Manager, Klara and the Sun
- Dishwasher
- On Animals
- Klara and the Sun
- Desierto de agua
- Mating in Captivity
- Mad Prairie
December
“This journey will go better if I don’t dread and curse the things I cannot control.” – Mr. Fabulous, The Unlikely Thru-Hiker
- Below the Edge of Darkness
- Icebound
- Land of Big Numbers
- El rumor del oleaje
- The Blue Castle
- The Unlikely Thru-Hiker
- Girl, Woman, Other
I probably read one of those books! Nice job.
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