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!