This is a perhaps-incomplete, after-the-fact list of books I’m positive I did read during 2018.
- Graeme Davis, Jim Bambra, Phil Gallagher, The Enemy Within (1986) and Shadows over Bögenhafen (1987)
- Tova Gerge, Pojken (2018)
- Maria Maunsbach, Bara ha roligt (2018)
- Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart (original 1943; English translation, Penguin Classics, 2014)
- Mary Beard, SPQR (2016)
- Kerstin Ekman, Rövarna i Skuleskogen (1988)
- Gunnar Wetterberg, Levande 1600-tal: essäer (2003)
- Leslie Hotson, Shakespeare by Hilliard: A Portrait Deciphered (1977)
- Natalie Zemon Davis, Martin Guerres återkomst (Swedish translation, Ordfront, 1985)
- Jack Vance, The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)
- China Mieville, This Census-taker (2016)
- Emily Webber, Building Successful Communities of Practice (2016)
- Mary Beard, Women and Power: A Manifesto (2017)
- Elias Lönnrot (ed.) Kalevala (Swedish translation, Atlantis, 1999)
- Nina Björk, Drömmen om det röda: Rosa Luxemburg, socialism, språk och kärlek (2016)
- Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2016)
- Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (English translation, Penguin, 1998)
Notes, not reviews
The premise of Leslie Hotson’s book on a Shakespeare portrait is not widely accepted. Here’s the scathing section in the Wikipedia article Portraits of Shakespeare: A Man Clasping a Hand from a Cloud, by Nicholas Hilliard dated 1588. This was identified as Shakespeare by Leslie Hotson in his book Shakespeare by Hilliard (1977). Skeptical scholars believe this is unlikely. Roy Strong suggested that it is Lord Thomas Howard, first Earl of Suffolk. (National Portrait Gallery, London)