Are these the best translated books of the year? No Chinese-language ones featured…but perhaps that will soon change? Who do you think should make the list?

Taiye Selasi, author of the excellent Ghana Must Go, shares her writing playlist.

Were loving this app concept from Literature Across Frontiers. Gimbal allows you to navigate a city via its fiction. What books would you include for the Beijing-version?

A great loss for the literary world. E.L. Konigsburg passed away this week. “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler” is one of our favorite books. Period. Who doesn’t want to spend the night in the Museum of Natural History?!