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Alana S Portero Recommends

The Man Who Fall In Love With The Moon
Tom Spanbauer

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Sonetos Del Amor Oscuro
Federico García Lorca

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
William Shakespeare

Brit Bennett Recommends

Your Face In Mine
Jess Row

Passing 
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson 

A Chosen Exile
Allyson Hobbs

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Recommends

The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
Andrzej Szczypiorski

Anil’s Ghost
Michael Ondaatje

A Boy In Winter
Rachel Seiffert

Douglas Stuart Recommends

Young Adam 
Alexander Trocchi

The End Of Eddy
Édouard Louis

Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin

Foster 
Claire Keegan

Emma Cline Recommends

The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith

The Stranger
Albert Camus

The Lover
Marguerite Duras

Problems
Jade Sharma

Emma Dabiri Recommends

Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher

George Saunders Recommends

Beloved
Unknown Author

Edie
Jean Stein and George Plimpton

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

Ironweed
William Kennedy

Glenn Lutz Recommends

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Born A Crime
Trevor Noah

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius 

The Measure Of A Man
Sidney Poitier

Mama
Terry McMillan

Hay Festival Cartagena Recommends

Holiday Heart
Margarita García Robayo (translated by Charlotte Coombe)

House Of Beauty
Melba Escobar (translated by Elizabeth Bryer)

Abyss
Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman)

In The Beginning Was The Sea
Tomás González (translated by Frank Wynne)

Retrospective
 Juan Gabriel Vásquez (translated by Anne McLean)

Khaled Hosseini Recommends

Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

Runaway
Alice Munro