2024 was another bumper year of Asian Review of Books / New Books Network podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights from short stories and pop-classics in translation to biography, history, society and the arts. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
Best books list
This entirely subjective list of 50 highlights from 2024 include reviews of fiction, literature, poetry and non-fiction. Translations remained strong in this year’s list, including literature, poetry and non-fiction, ranging from Chinese, Korean and Japanese, through Thai, Tagalog and Vietnamese to Kazakh, Bengali, Telegu, Arabic, Russian and French. Non-fiction entries ranges from history, biography and memoir to art, photograpy and culture.
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2024? As before, this list takes a broad view of what constitutes an “Asian” book. Click on the title for our review and listen to the podcast where listed.
Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights from short stories and pop-classics in translation to biography, history, society and the arts.
Translations remained strong in this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention, ranging from Chinese, Korean and Japanese, through Tagalog, Hindi, Turkish, French and Spanish and including autobiography, poetry and graphic novels as well as fiction. Non-fiction ranges from history and biography to art and culture.
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2023? A bit better than 2022, possibly. As before, this list takes a broad view of what constitutes an “Asian” book.
Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a fifteen highlights. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
2022 seems to have a been a good year for translations: fully one-half of this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention were in translation in languages from Persian and Turkish to Bahasa Indonesia and Korean. The balance is shared between English fiction, poetry and non-fiction: memoir, history and art.
How, as we ask every year, did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2022?
How did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2021? Not perhaps as well as in 2020, if this (highly unscientific) sampling is anything to go by, despite taking a broad view of what constitutes an “Asian” book.
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