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The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

He had lived within the narrow grooves of habit so long that he had learned to see in his dark world without the aid of eyes I let my brother borrow my copy of this book shortly after he’d been made homeless and had washed up in our kitchen on a camp-bed. This was short-sighted for two reasons: firstly, his track record of borrowing my books is very poor – my copy of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart has never resurfaced, and I had to confiscate The Sellout after finding it covered in tea and tobacco on a damp surface – and secondly, it seemed to trigger something in him which sent him off to find strong, cheap dark ale at Lidl and saw him sleep through more hours (and general kitchen noise) than he probably should have been able so to do. Not that it takes much for him to consider alcohol the principal solution. When I asked him about it, he said it was just like his life, only substitute the sewer for Bridgend and being tortured into confessing a double homicide for getting drunk an

Slumberland by Paul Beatty

The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer

The Whitewash by Siang Lu

The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time by Steven Sherrill

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

The Book Of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

Evenfall: The Golden Linnet by Alexander Armstrong

Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll

Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

In memoriam - Ismail Kadare

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Ball Is Round: A Global History Of Football by David Goldblatt

Telephone by Percival Everett

Elis and John Present the Holy Vible: The Book The Bible Could Have Been by Elis James and John Robins

Loose Head by Joe Marler

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

Severance by Ling Ma

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Yips by Nicola Barker

James by Percival Everett

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

The Delivery by Margarita Garcia Robayo

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

The Cartoonist by Richard Beard

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Glyph by Percival Everett

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

When Lions Roared: The Lions, The All Blacks, And The Legendary Tour Of 1971, by Tom English and Peter Burns

The Book Of Paradise by Itzik Manger

A Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Dr. No by Percival Everett

Love Murder by Saul Black

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

King Rat by China Miéville

Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor

The Android Mirror by Christopher Hall

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes

From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami

There There by Tommy Orange

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Quicksand by Steve Toltz