April 2019: Book of the Month

We’re already in the middle of May, so this post is coming a bit late – but now that I’m actually keeping track of what I’m reading, I can curate my favourite book of the month. But first, let’s have a look at the books I finished in April:

1. Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
2. Forgotten Girl by Eva-Maria Silber
3. Das siebte Kreuz by Anna Seghers
4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
5. My Own Devices by Dessa
6. A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
7. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
8. How to Like Everything: A Utopia by Paul Shepheard
9. Erde und Asche by Atiq Rahimi
10. Hundehaut by Fatos Kongoli
11. Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson
12. “Ihr seid hier im Paradies”: meine Kindheit in Nordkorea by Hyok Kang

Now to the big question: comparing all of these, which one was my favourite of the bunch? There are a few close contestors: Murder Most Unladylike, Hundehaut, Erde und Asche, and Ihr seid hier im Paradies were all great – and they’re all very different from one another, which makes the decision even harder. If I had to choose one though, I think I would take Murder Most Unladylike, just because it was so much fun to read.