In 2012 I read all the Booker longlisted titles, books from 17 nations (ignoring Britain and the US) and happily explored many new-to-me authors. I read far more contemporary novels this year than I have done in recent years so it was a fun learning curve. When I started making my list of notable fiction books I realised it was long enough to split into contemporary and older works, here's the first part of the list focusing on books first published in 2009-2012, links will take you to my full reviews...
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