With one exception, I've given the books ratings out of 5, sometimes with a link to the review/reasoning for my rating. A friend pointed out recently that it was easier to review books if you didn't like them much, because humans love to criticise.
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- Emma Donoghue - Stir-Fry (2/5)
- Shane Jones - Light Boxes (3/5)
- Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (1/5)
- A.S. King - Ask the Passengers (2/5)
- Wolfgang Herrndorf - Tschick (3/5)
- Jason Lee Norman - Beautiful Girls & Famous Men (4/5)
- Djuna Barnes - Nightwood (4/5)
- Julia Engelmann - Eines Tages, Baby (4/5)
- Hannah Kent - Burial Rites (4/5)
- Juan Pablo Villalobos - Down the Rabbit Hole (3/5)
- Adi Alsaid - Let's Get Lost (3/5)
- Siri Hustvedt - The Blindfold (4/5)
- Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train (3/5)
- Warsan Shire - Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (4/5)
- Kathrin Weßling - Drüberleben: Depressionen sind doch kein Grund, traurig zu sein (5/5)
- Leigh Matthews - Don't Bang the Barista! (4/5)
- Anna Friedrich - Holly: Die verschwundene Chefredakteurin (1/5)
- Catherine Lacey - Nobody Is Ever Missing (2/5)
- David Wagner - Berlin Triptych (3/5)
- Hélène Kohl - Une vie de pintade à Berlin (3/5)
- Jonathan Franzen - How To Be Alone (2/5)
- Marina Keegan - The Opposite of Loneliness (3/5)
- Cristina Henriquez - The Book of Unknown Americans (4/5)
- Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the Metro (2/5)
- Aliza Licht - Leave Your Mark: Land Your Dream Job. Kill it in Your Career. Rock Social Media. (3/5)
- Gaston Dorren - Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (2/5)
- Tiina Walsh - Fine-Tuning Hanna (3/5)
- Anna Winger - This Must Be the Place (1/5)
- Lydia Davis - Can't and Won't (4/5)
- Rory MacLean - Berlin: Imagine a City (3/5)
- Kate Zambreno - Green Girl (3/5)
- Sophie Senoner - Nachtaktiv (4/5)
- Louise Erdrich - Four Souls (3/5)
- Máire T. Robinson - Your Mixtape Unravels My Heart (4/5)
- Erica Fischer - Aimée & Jaguar: Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 (3/5)
- Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (2/5)
- Jana Frey - Schwarze Zeit (3/5)
- John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van (5/5)
- Máire T. Robinson - Skin Paper Stone (4/5)
- Kim Thúy - Mãn (3/5)
- Patricia Highsmith - Carol (3/5)
- Maxine Beneba Clarke - Foreign Soil (3/5)
- Patti Smith - Just Kids (4/5)
- Rut Hillarp - The Black Curve (no rating)
- Rachel Hills - The Sex Myth (4/5)
- Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl (3/5)
- Dean Garlick - Chloes (4/5)