Safe Return Doubtful

My best of 2019 split into 3 categories…

Published (or thereabouts..) in 2019

Doggerland – Ben Smith

Lanny – Max Porter

The Redeemed – Tim Pears (last in the West Country trilogy)

The Offing – Benjamin Myers

Fell – Jenn Ashworth

Night Theatre – Vikram Paralkar

Broken Ghost – Niall Griffiths

Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City – KJ Parker

10 minutes and 38 seconds in This Strange World – Elif Shafak

and my winner…. Night Boat To Tangier – Kevin Barry

In translation

The Storm – Tomas Gonzalez

Doppler – Erlend Loe

The Thief – Nakamura

The Pine Islands – Marion Poschmann

Babylon – Yasmina Reza

Children of the Cave – Virve Sammalkorpi

The Wind That Lays Waste – Selva Almada

The Governesses – Ann Serre

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches – Gaetan Soucy

and my winner… Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead – Olga Tokarczuk

And, from all time…

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

Sweetland – Michael Crummey

Berg – Ann Quinn

Dog of the South – Charles Portis

Father and Son – Larry Brown

Provinces of Night – William Gay

Smonk – Tom Franklin

and my joint winner… Cockfighter by Charles Willeford and The Ponder Heart – Eudora Welty