Best reads of 2019

[Daniel del Real]

I'm back and expected to see this thread already open. I suggest around 10, but you decide.
Here are mine with no order in particular:

?? Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Antología Poética
?? Dacia Maraini, Il Treno dell’ultima Notte
?? Adolfo Bioy Casares, El Sueño de los Héroes
?? Kafū Nagai, A Strange Tale from East of the River
?? João Cabral de Melo Neto, A Educação pela Pedra
?? Giorgos Seferis, Mythhistórima
?? Kjell Askildsen, Short Stories (1953-1996)
?? Mia Couto, As Areias do Imperador
?? László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
?? Leo Perutz, By Night Under the Stone Bridge

 

[tiganeasca]

In reverse order of my reading them...

??/?? Maria Dermout, The Ten Thousand Things
?? Evald Flisar, My Father's Dreams
?? E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
?? Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
?? Jeremias Gotthelf, The Black Spider
?? Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
?? Fulvio Tomizza, Materada
?? Drago Jančar, The Prophecy and other stories
?? Karel Schoeman, Promised Land

 

[Stevie B]

In reverse of of my reading them...

??/?? Maria Dermout, The Ten Thousand Things
?? Evald Flisar, My Father's Dreams
?? E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
?? Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
?? Jeremias Gotthelf, The Black Spider
?? Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
?? Fulvio Tomizza, Materada
?? Drago Jančar, The Prophecy and other stories

Glad to see The Remains of the Day on your list. It's one of my all-time favorites (speaking of which, have you read Stoner by John Williams?). I also bought a copy of the Dermout novel following your recent post (at $12, it was a very reasonably-priced copy of the rare UK hardcover edition).

 

[Americanreader]

?? Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War
?? Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
??????? Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9
?? Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral
?? Mo Yan, Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
?? Ismail Kadare, Broken April
?? Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
?? Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
??Adam Zagajewski, Asymmetry
?? Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
?? Abdellatif Laabi, In Praise of Defeat
?? Luis de Camoes, Selected Sonnets
?? Adonis, Selected Poems
?? Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma

 

[Ludus]

??Men in the Sun - Ghassan Kanafani
??Átomo verde número cinco - José Donoso
??Crime and Punishment - Dostoievski
??Plainwater - Anne Carson
??Historias de la Artámila - Ana María Matute
??Flights - Olga Tokarczuk
??This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun
??El arte de la fuga - Sergio Pitol
??Satantango - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
??Poesía - San Juan de la Cruz
??El pozo - Juan Carlos Onetti
??A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - Peter Handke
??La supremacía Tolstoi - Fabián Casas

 

[tiganeasca]

Glad to see The Remains of the Day on your list. It's one of my all-time favorites (speaking of which, have you read Stoner by John Williams?). I also bought a copy of the Dermout novel following your recent post (at $12, it was a very reasonably-priced copy of the rare UK hardcover edition).

I'm embarrassed that it took me so long to get to Ishiguro (not to mention Forster). MUST get to more of both this year. (And no, Stoner is not yet on my list. I've only discovered it--and him--this past year or two and there's a few other things ahead on the list ) Congrats on the Dermout edition--hope you enjoy it; I think it's a pretty offbeat thing, but I enjoyed it a great deal.

 

[kpjayan]

Marcel Proust - In search of Lost Time : This has been my best effort for 2019.
Harry Mulisch - The Discovery of Heaven
Hjalmar Soderberg - Doctor Glas
Svetlana Alexievich - Secondhand Time
Anna Burns - Milkman
Syed Shamsul Haq - Two Novellas
Jeremy Tiang - State of Emergency

 

[lucasdiniz]

?? Novel Without A Name, Duong Thu Huong
?? Insensatez, Horacio Castellanos Moya

Only now I realized how these two novels, written by authors from very different countries, speak so much to each other. Both of them deal with trauma and loss. They're also incredibly well written. I recommend them a lot.

 

[Bartleby]

I’ve read only a dozen of books last year (I wish I’m able to read more this time around) tho all of those were well picked reads, but I would highlight (with no order of preference):

Primeval and Other Times - Olga Tokarczuk

A Moment of True Feeling - Peter Handke

O Senhor Presidente (El Señor Presidente) - Miguel Angel Asturias

Unseen Hand - Adam Zagajewski

Red Bird - Mary Oliver

 

[Bagharu]

I read 3 books from your lists my dear friends, Doctor Glas from Jayans, By Night Under the Stone Bridge from Daniels and Broken April from Americanreaders list, I am having a very good reading year hence ? Looking forward to pick more from this thread ?

 

[Leseratte]

In reverse order of my reading them...

??/?? Maria Dermout, The Ten Thousand Things
?? Evald Flisar, My Father's Dreams
?? E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
?? Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
?? Jeremias Gotthelf, The Black Spider
?? Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
?? Fulvio Tomizza, Materada
?? Drago Jančar, The Prophecy and other stories
?? Karel Schoeman, Promised Land

The Black Spider! I hope you enjoyed it.