Just finished the German translation of
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. The twist at the end came unexpected, while you should've seen it coming at the same time. I liked the novel's major theme (relationship between humans and animals), too.
Just picked up
The Underground Railroad, because I've heard so many good things about Colson Whitehead. I'm really excited!
I'm about to read
The Hate U Give with my upper high-school (or whatever the American equivalent is...) English students. I made them pick between that one and
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, an autobiographical graphic novel about a girl's emigration after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. I was surprised they picked a real novel over a graphic novel, because foreign-language novels are really hard to read for them.
Lastly, y'all should pick up a copy of my friend Becky Mandelbaum's debut novel
The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals. Animals, Kansas, antisemitism, supporters of a certain giant orange cheese puff... doesn't sound great, I know... but trust me, it is! Plus, Becky's fun and weird and has her heart in the right place and needs that money to buy more mini dolls, which she's obsessed with.