We're three months in, so what have you been reading so far this year. For me, it's been filling in the blind spots with Lahiri's work. I expect that later this year I'll visit one of her novels. Also, Kang's novel on the Gwangju Uprising was incredibly powerful--great prose and style after I found The Vegetarian merely good.

Each year at this time I find myself turning to the Tournament of Books, which is its own March Madness styled bracket where a set of novels from the past year compete against one another. Several books make it from there onto my "to-read" pile pretty much immediately...

1. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
2. Han Kang’s Human Acts
3. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
4. Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
5. Ian McGuire’s The North Water
6. Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky
7. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
8. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees: Stories
9. Peter Ho Davies’s The Fortunes
10. Chris Bachelder’s Throwback Special
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Plays
Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon: Two Plays