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Previous month's position given in brackets.
Not applicable ("n.a.") indicates book is new.
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March, 2023
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (3)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (1)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (5)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (24)
- Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (74)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (18)
- The Birthday Party, Laurent Mauvignier (n.a.)
- The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (50)
- First Blood, Amélie Nothomb (n.a.)
- Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (10)
- Happy Valley, Patrick White (-)
- Ghosts in Princeton, Daniel Kehlmann (n.a.)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (81)
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February, 2023
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (52)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (6)
- Siblings, Brigitte Reimann (n.a.)
- The Hive, Camilo José Cela (n.a.)
- Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (68)
- Black Empire, George S. Schuyler (n.a.)
- Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (28)
- I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai (n.a.)
- Collected Works, Lydia Sandgren (n.a.)
- Love at Six Thousand Degrees, Kashimada Maki (n.a.)
- A Man's Place , Annie Ernaux (27)
- Never, Ken Follett (14)
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January, 2023
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (4)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis (n.a.)
- The Reunion, Guillaume Musso (42)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (15)
- The Voice, Gabriel Okara (8)
- Mr. Breakfast, Jonathan Carroll (n.a.)
- Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes (n.a.)
- The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (35)
- One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (-)
- Woman of the Dead, Bernhard Aichner (-)
- Silverview, John le Carré (33)
- Never, Ken Follett (29)
- Idol, Burning, Usami Rin (n.a.)
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December, 2022
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (1)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (7)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
- Antagony, Luis Goytisolo (n.a.)
- The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas (-)
- The Voice, Gabriel Okara (40)
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (52)
- Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis, Hermann Burger (n.a.)
- Slow Horses, Mick Herron (n.a.)
- The Singing Detective, Dennis Potter (-)
- The End of the Century at the End of the World, C.K.Stead (n.a.)
- Chaka, Thomas Mofolo (46)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (9)
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November, 2022
- Reviews -
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (1)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
- Crisis, Karin Boye (-)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
- Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis, Hermann Burger (n.a.)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (19)
- Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane (64)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (12)
- The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt (n.a.)
- Novelist as a Vocation, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
- Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux (4)
- A Man's Place , Annie Ernaux (5)
- The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa (21)
- Nights of Plague, Orhan Pamuk (n.a.)
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October, 2022
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (16)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux (-)
- A Man's Place , Annie Ernaux (-)
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka (12)
- Happening, Annie Ernaux (93)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
- Heartpiece (Herzstück), Heiner Müller (n.a.)
- Cleaned Out, Annie Ernaux (-)
- A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux (-)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (6)
- Fifty Forgotten Books, R.B. Russell (n.a.)
- The Years, Annie Ernaux (-)
- The Last Chairlift, John Irving (n.a.)
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September, 2022
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (4)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (11)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (6)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (7)
- Goat Days, Benyamin (62)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (13)
- How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (-)
- Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (37)
- Never, Ken Follett (5)
- Silverview, John le Carré (3)
- The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt (n.a.)
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka (n.a.)
- Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet (n.a.)
- The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol (80)
- The Enigma of Room 622, Joël Dicker (n.a.)
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August, 2022
- Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (5)
- Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (3)
- Silverview, John le Carré (4)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (8)
- Never, Ken Follett (10)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (-)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
- The Galton Case, Ross Macdonald (n.a.)
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (20)
- Diary of a Void, Yagi Emi (n.a.)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (25)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (14)
- Three Assassins, Isaka Kotaro (n.a.)
- Lambda, David Musgrave (n.a.)
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July, 2022
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (12)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (7)
- Silverview, John le Carré (5)
- Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (-)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
- One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (71)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (3)
- Never, Ken Follett (10)
- Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman (n.a.)
- The Lisbon Syndrome, Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (n.a.)
- House of All Nations, Christina Stead (n.a.)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (6)
- Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, Onda Riku (n.a.)
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June, 2022
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (3)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
- Silverview, John le Carré (7)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (9)
- Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (-)
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (-)
- Grand Hotel Europa, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (n.a.)
- Never, Ken Follett (13)
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (n.a.)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (45)
- Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (5)
- The Book of Murder, Guillermo Martínez (-)
- Happy Valley, Patrick White (47)
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May, 2022
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (4)
- The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (10)
- Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (n.a.)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
- Silverview, John le Carré (7)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (5)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (13)
- Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (6)
- Emperor Shaka the Great, Mazisi Kunene (-)
- 533 Days, Cees Nooteboom (n.a.)
- Never, Ken Follett (8)
- Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov (9)
- The White Room, Zoran Živković (n.a.)
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April, 2022
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (4)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (18)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (5)
- Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (22)
- Silverview, John le Carré (3)
- Never, Ken Follett (6)
- Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov (12)
- The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (13)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (7)
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (11)
- Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (n.a.)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (31)
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (9)
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March, 2022
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (8)
- Silverview, John le Carré (2)
- Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (44)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (15)
- Never, Ken Follett (4)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
- The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan (32)
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (1)
- Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (68)
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (7)
- Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov (95)
- The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (67)
- Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (28)
- Salka Valka, Halldór Laxness (n.a.)
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February, 2022
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (1)
- Silverview, John le Carré (3)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- Never, Ken Follett (7)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
- Killing Floor, Lee Child (-)
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (5)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (11)
- God, Francesca Stavrakopoulou (n.a.)
- Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (9)
- Where You Come From, Saša Stanišić (n.a.)
- Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra (n.a.)
- Countries That Don't Exist, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (n.a.)
- The Pages, Hugo Hamilton (n.a.)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (12)
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January, 2022
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (4)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- Silverview, John le Carré (3)
- The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (5)
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (n.a.)
- Goat Days, Benyamin (81)
- Never, Ken Follett (6)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
- Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (27)
- My Annihilation, Nakamura Fuminori (n.a.)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (14)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (38)
- Islandia, Austin Tappan Wright (n.a.)
- The Invitation, Claude Simon (n.a.)
- Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (37)
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December, 2021
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (3)
- Silverview, John le Carré (5)
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (7)
- The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (23)
- Never, Ken Follett (1)
- Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (10)
- Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson (-)
- Cremation, Rafael Chirbes (n.a.)
- White Teeth, Okot p'Bitek (25)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
- Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (51)
- The Last One, Fatima Daas (n.a.)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (11)
- Divya, Yashpal (42)
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November, 2021
- Never, Ken Follett (8)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (6)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (1)
- Silverview, John le Carré (7)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (n.a.)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (n.a.)
- Morning Yet on Creation Day, Chinua Achebe (84)
- Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (17)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (18)
- Trust, Domenico Starnone (n.a.)
- Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo (22)
- The Sea Lies Ahead, Intizar Husain (61)
- The Lost Library, Walter Mehring (n.a.)
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October, 2021
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (1)
- The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (22)
- The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgaard (n.a.)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (7)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (13)
- Silverview, John le Carré (n.a.)
- Never, Ken Follett (n.a.)
- Be as Children, Vladimir Sharov (n.a.)
- Lemon, Kwon Yeo-sun (n.a.)
- Malpertuis, Jean Ray (n.a.)
- Ahab (Sequels), Pierre Senges (n.a.)
- God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam (n.a.)
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (-)
- Everything and Less, Mark McGurl (n.a.)
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September, 2021
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (9)
- Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (1)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
- When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (n.a.)
- Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Wole Soyinka (n.a.)
- The American, Henry James (n.a.)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal(19)
- Last Words on Earth, Javier Serena (n.a.)
- The N'Gustro Affair, Jean-Patrick Manchette (n.a.)
- Awake, Harald Voetmann (n.a.)
- The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup (90)
- La Madre, Grazia Deledda (n.a.)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (20)
- The Voice, Gabriel Okara (31)
- Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (7)
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August, 2021
- Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (58)
- Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (5)
- Pessoa, Richard Zenith (n.a.)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
- We Who Are About To ..., Joanna Russ (n.a.)
- Malicroix, Henri Bosco (n.a.)
- Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (-)
- Last Loosening, Walter Serner (n.a.)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (61)
- Martin Eden, Jack London (n.a.)
- Shikasta, Doris Lessing (n.a.)
- Happy Valley, Patrick White (-)
- An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, Alain-Paul Mallard (n.a.)
- One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (43)
- Rakes of the Old Court, Mateiu Caragiale
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July, 2021
- Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (-)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (4)
- Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (26)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (17)
- The Luminous Novel, Mario Levrero (n.a.)
- The Atom Station, Halldór Laxness (n.a.)
- Adorable, Ida Marie Hede (n.a.)
- The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, Yury Tynyanov (n.a.)
- The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, Thomas De Quincey (n.a.)
- Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (n.a.)
- The Illustrious House of Ramires, José Maria de Eça de Queirós (n.a.)
- Babylon, René Crevel (n.a.)
- Midnight, Water City, Chris McKinney (n.a.)
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June, 2021
- Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (-)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (81)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (10)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (27)
- The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen (n.a.)
- The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (n.a.)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
- Heaven, Kawakami Mieko (n.a.)
- Box 21, Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström (-)
- The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Imamura Natsuko (n.a.)
- Solomon's Vineyard, Jonathan Latimer (n.a.)
- At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (99)
- October Child, Linda Boström Knausgård (n.a.)
- Sevastopol, Emilio Fraia (n.a.)
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May, 2021
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
- Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa (1)
- One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (-)
- Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (n.a.)
- King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes (n.a.)
- Nives, Sacha Naspini (n.a.)
- Antiquities, Cynthia Ozick (6)
- The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, Tanguy Viel (n.a.)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (n.a.)
- The Critical Case of a Man Called K, Aziz Mohammed (n.a.)
- Among the Hedges, Sara Mesa (n.a.)
- Chasing the Dream, Liane de Pougy (n.a.)
- Greed, Elfriede Jelinek (n.a.)
- Nocturne of Remembrance, Nakayama Shichiri (n.a.)
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April, 2021
- Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa (-)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
- J R, William Gaddis (n.a.)
- First Person Singular, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
- Antiquities, Cynthia Ozick (n.a.)
- Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya (9)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (41)
- Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (45)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (3)
- The Employees, Olga Ravn (n.a.)
- Thirst, Amélie Nothomb (n.a.)
- If You Kept a Record of Sins, Andrea Bajani (n.a.)
- The Tool & the Butterflies, Dmitry Lipskerov (n.a.)
- Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin (n.a.)
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March, 2021
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (n.a.)
- Hurdy Gurdy, Christopher Wilson (n.a.)
- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (12)
- Basti, Intizar Husain (37)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (23)
- Mona, Pola Oloixarac (n.a.)
- Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya (38)
- The Voice, Gabriel Okara (5)
- Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (n.a.)
- The Slaughterman's Daughter, Yaniv Iczkovits (n.a.)
- The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (14)
- The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan (n.a.)
- Ciuleandra, Liviu Rebreanu (n.a.)
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February, 2021
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- An I-Novel, Mizumura Minae (n.a.)
- Cowboy Graves, Roberto Bolaño (n.a.)
- The Voice, Gabriel Okara (-)
- How to Order the Universe, María José Ferrada (n.a.)
- Dissipatio H.G., Guido Morselli (n.a.)
- The Delivery, Peter Mendelsund (n.a.)
- Fragments of an Infinite Memory, Maël Renouard (n.a.)
- Peach Blossom Paradise, Ge Fei (n.a.)
- Maigret Hesitates, Georges Simenon (n.a.)
- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (63)
- The Passion according to Renée Vivien, Maria-Mercè Marçal (n.a.)
- The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (16)
- Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (88)
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January, 2021
- El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
- Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (6)
- Childhood, Tove Ditlevsen (n.a.)
- Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (23)
- Point Zero, Narek Malian (n.a.)
- The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (36)
- Untraceable, Sergei Lebedev (n.a.)
- The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol (n.a.)
- The Dark Domain, Stefan Grabiński (n.a.)
- Thebes at War, Naguib Mahfouz (n.a.)
- Kracauer, Jörg Später (n.a.)
- Game of the Gods, Paolo Maurensig (n.a.)
- Munchausen and Clarissa, Paul Scheerbart (n.a.)
- The Way Out, Ricardo Piglia (n.a.)
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