The reading club was launched in March 2020, as we went into Covid-19 lockdown. This year we read 59 stories, many written originally in English but also translations from many languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Malayalam, French, Polish, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese.
- Folding Beijing, by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu
- This is Pleasure, by Mary Gaitskill
- Afterimage, novella by Patrick Modiano
- The Accusation, by Bandi, translated by Deborah Smith
- A Feast at Countess von Doff’s, by Witold Gombrowicz
- Premeditated Crime, by Witold Gombrowicz
- Virginity, by Witold Gombrowicz
- The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor, by Allan Gurganus
- Nawabdin Electrician, by Daniyal Muinuddin
- Foreign Returned, by Sadia Shepherd
- The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street, by Mavis Gallant
- Night Beat, by Lisa Chen
- What You’ve Been Missing, by Maria Dahvana Headley
- Give Her Honey When She Screams, by Maria Dahvana Headley.
- Four Ghana-da stories, Mosquito, Pebble, Glass, and Fish, by Premendra Mitra, translated by Amlan Dasgupta
- About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her, by Mieko Kawakami
- How Much Heart, by Mieko Kawakami
- Four refugee themed stories:
- The Wanderers, by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Sophie Hughes
- The War Years, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Refugee, by Bernard Malamud
- Dori and Jina, by Choi Jin-young, translated by Soje
- Two Malayalam stories
- The Faithful Wife, by T.S. Pillai, translated by K.M. George
- The Blue Light, by V.M. Basheer, translated by V. Abdulla
- Ghost Child, by S.P. Tenhoff
- Radical Closure, by Bennett Sims
- The Heroic Cyclist, by Murali Kamma, translated by
- Cream, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
- The Miniature Wife, by Manuel Gonzales
- Haddad: A Requiem, by Edward Hamlin
- Headlights, by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
- Toward Happy Civilization, by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
- Baba Yaga and the Pelican Child, by Joy Williams
- With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold, by Neil LaBute
- Grace Jones, by Irenosen Okojie
- Cargo, by Syed Waliullah
- Who is Like God, by Akwaeke Emezi
- Little Cousins Make Bad Third World Wheels, novel excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi
- Pedro Paramo, novel excerpt from Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
- Havana Red, novel excerpt from Leonardo Padura, translated by Peter Bush
- House Taken Over, by Julio Cortazar, translated by Paul Blackburn
- We Wanted More, memoir excerpt from Justin Torres
- Tiger! Tiger!, by Kunal Basu
- The Poem of All My Days, by Norah Burke
- One More Night Behind the Walls, by Peter Mountford
- Lemon Trees, by Ellen Weeren
- Orange World, by Karen Russell
- Daddy Thing, by K.C.Mead-Brewer
- Bad Neighbors, by Edward P. Jones
- Silence, Exile, Cunning, by Siddhartha Deb
- The Abandoned Village, by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright
- Rhythmic Exercise, by Mohamed Makhzangi, translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh
- Spider the Artist, by Nnedi Okorafor
- Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs, by Lavie Tidhar
- The Luncheon, by Somerset Maugham
- The Luncheon, by Jeffrey Archer
- The PersuAsians, by Karen Yamashita
- Hell is the Absence of God, by Ted Chiang
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