… as determined by a panel “of major and independent booksellers and representatives of reading groups, as well as World Book Day organisers.” The full list is in the Telegraph and includes a host of books I’ve never heard of. Might be a good reading group selection tool. You can vote for your favourite title.
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Seattle librarian David Wright at Shelf Talk provides a très petit glossary of French terms that relate to French fiction (e.g, L’esprit de l’escalier, Épater le bourgeois, ennui, noir) as well as a select list of French novels in English translation. Fun!
Japanese mystery writer Miyuki Miyabe is “prolific [46 novels], popular and prize-winning” in her own country but largely unknown in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. She is finally seeing some of her work published for the English-language market, including her fifth novel, The Devil’s Whisper, which just came out. Brief interview at Reuters.