De TLS (Times Literary Supplement vroeg aan al haar medewerkers om hun favoriete boeken van het jaar te noemen. Hieronder noemen we er enkele, maar we lichten er even de waarderende woorden van Claire Lowdon over Falling Is Like Flying van Manon Uphoff, vertaald door Sam Garrett uit:

Uphoff takes the opposite approach in her brilliantly uncowed account of a young girl being raped repeatedly by her father. Ablaze with specificity and unique material, this novel-cum-memoir lovingly conjures up the textures of a lost childhood world and lays them in powerful contrast to the brutality at the heart of the parent-child relationship.

Enkele andere titels:
James – Percival Everett
Blessings – Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Nevermore – Cécile Wajsbrot
All Fours – Miranda July
Caledonian Road – Andrew O’Hagan
The Message – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Shattered – Hanif Kureishi
Question 7 – Richard Flanagan
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out – Katherine Bucknell
Long Island – Colm Tóibín

De complete lijst is hier te vinden.