Books of 2019- Looking to 2020

So the end of 2019 is nigh and overall it's been a pretty shit year. But books have been good to me. Books have always been good to me. Even when I'm reading something I don't particularly enjoy, books are good to me. So I've been thinking about what I want 2020 to be in terms of books and I've decided I'm going to try to read a lot of books in translation. We'll see what actually happens. I get distracted by the proverbial shiny book all the time.... Still in keep with my aspiration of reading books in translation I ran across this incredible listing of speculative fiction in translation from this year!!! So I'm sharing it here, bookmarking it here, reminding myself about it here.

Some of the books that sound interesting to me are:

Frontiers of the Imperium by Jan Kotouc (translated from Czech by Isabel Stainsby)

The Nine Cloud Dream by Manjung Kim (translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl)

The Book of Disappearance by Ibitisam Azem (translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon)

Harbart by Nabarun Bhattacharya (translated from Bengali by Sunandin Banerjee)

Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson (translated from Icelandic by Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson)

Mars by Asja Bakic (translated from Croatian by Jennifer Zoble)

Ha Ha Hu Hu: A Horse-headed God in Trafalgar Square by Viswanatha Satyanarayana (translated from Telugu by Velecheru Narayana Rao)

The Night Circus and Other Stories by Ursula Kovalyk (translated from Solvakain by Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood)