poetry

• the year of blue water - yanyi
• the crying book - heather christle
• brute: poems - emily skaja
• wild angels - ursula k. le guin
• the tradition - jericho brown
• you don't have to go to mars for love - yona harvey
• good boys: poems - megan fernandes
• vintage sadness - hanif abdurraquib
• odes to lithium - shira erlichman
• this wound is a world - billy-ray belcourt
• catalog of unabashed gratitude - ross gay
• obit - victoria chang
• look: poems - solmaz sharif
• when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities - chen chen
• all day i dream about sirens - domenica martinello
• dancing in odessa - ilya kaminsky
• oculus: poems - sally wen mao
• the white book - han kang
• ghost of - diana khoi nguyen
• eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers - jake skeets
• not here - hieu minh nguyen
• averno - louise glück
• the wild iris - louise glück

autobiography

• how we fight for our lives - saeed jones

short stories

• mr salary - sally rooney
• how to pronounce knife - souvankham thammavongsa
• the best girls - min jin lee
• people from my neighbourhood - hiromi kawakami
• where the wild ladies are - aoko matsuda
• cleanness - garth greenwell
• her body and other parties - carmen maria machado

contemporary fiction

• the vegetarian - han kang
• almond - won-pyung sohn
• please look after mom - shin kyung-sook
• convenience store woman - sayaka murata
• earthlings - sayaka murata
• in the dream house - carmen maria machado
• my dark vanessa - kate elizabeth russell
• winter in sokcho - elisa shua dusapin
• before the coffee gets cold - toshikazu kawaguchi
• before the coffee gets cold: tales from the café - toshikazu kawaguchi
• little gods - meng jin
• the perfect world of miwako sumida - clarissa goenawan
• ms ice sandwich - mieko kawakami
• breasts and eggs - mieko kawakami
• swimming in the dark - tomasz jedrowski
• lie with me - philippe besson

thriller

• the good son - you-jeong jeong

horror

• tender is the flesh - agustina bazterrica