Moonbath

by Yanick Lahens

Back to Haiti

Hadriana in All My Dreams

by René Depestre

The Violins of Saint-Jacques

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

His only novel, set on a fictional island that seems like Haiti

Penance

by Kanae Minato

Japanese crime

Six Four

by Hideo Yokoyama

Like Death

by Guy de Maupassant

My TBR shelf is now stocked with old Russians but I also want to read more 19th C. Lit from everywhere, starting with this.

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

by Angela Nagle

More reading to find out how we got here. George Saunders called it a "headbutt" of a book.

American War

by Omar El Akkad

First batch of 2017 books going into paperback...

New York 2140

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Someone at a Distance

by Dorothy Whipple

Hmmm—after two dystopian novels set in the near-future US, let's end on an upbeat note: the only title available in the US by the most delightful author I read in 2017!