The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Usual rules - one entry per person, use edit post to update. List the ones you have read or started in order of preference best first

These are the 13 longlisted books:

Not a River by Selva Almada translated by Annie McDermott (Charco), Spanish/Argentina
Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn (Seven Stories), Spanish/Venezuela
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta), German/Germany
The Details by Ia Genberg translated by Kira Josefsson (HarperVia), Sweden/Swedish
White Nights by Urszula Honek translated by Kate Webster (MTO), Poland/Polish
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae (Scribe), Korean/South Korea
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare translated by John Hodgson (Harvill Secker), Albanian/Albania
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose), Ukrainain/Ukraine
What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey (Scribe), Dutch/Netherlands
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo translated by Leah Janeczko (Virago), Italian/Italy
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone translated by Oonagh Stransky (Europa), Italian/Italy
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso), Portuguese/Brazil
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener translated by Julia Sanches (HarperVia), Spanish/Peru

League Tables

My adjusted weightings method:

Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places, STD
1, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, 3.60, 2.83, 10, 4, 1.34
2, Not a River by Selva Almada, 3.11, 3.66, 9, 1, 1.44
3, White Nights by Urszula Honek, 2.33, 3.96, 3, 1, 1.09
4, The Details by Ia Genberg, 4.00, 4.32, 15, 3, 2.09
5, Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, 3.64, 5.33, 11, 2, 1.91
6, What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, 5.60, 5.58, 10, 0, 1.91
7, The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, 6.67, 5.67, 3, 0, 1.07
8, Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, 6.15, 6.50, 13, 3, 2.59
9, Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, 6.70, 7.10, 10, 1, 2.42
10, Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, 6.33, 7.33, 3, 1, 1.27
11, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, 7.86, 7.43, 7, 0, 2.11
12, Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, 7.43, 8.03, 7, 0, 2.18
13, The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, 11.86, 10.86, 7, 0, 2.80

Paul-style aggregate of comparisons

Pos, Book, Average, Relative ranking, Count, First Places
1, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, 3.60, 41, 10, 4
2, Not a River by Selva Almada, 3.11, 25, 9, 1
3, The Details by Ia Genberg, 4.00, 24, 15, 3
4, White Nights by Urszula Honek, 2.33, 17, 3, 1
5, Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, 3.64, 8, 11, 2
6, The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, 6.67, 5, 3, 0
7, What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, 5.60, 0, 10, 0
8, Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, 6.33, -5, 3, 1
9, Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, 6.15, -15, 13, 3
10, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, 7.86, -16, 7, 0
11, Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, 7.43, -18, 7, 0
12, Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, 6.70, -23, 10, 1
13, The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, 11.86, -43, 7, 0

3 Not a River
4 What I'd Rather Not Think About
8 Simpatía

1. Not a River
2. Undiscovered
3. Kairos
4. Crooked Plow
5. The Details
...
11. What I’d Rather Not Think About
12. A Dictator Calls
13. The Silver Bone (zero interest in period or themes, not going to read it)

1. Mater 2-10

1. Kairos
2. Not A River
3. The Details
4. Crooked Plow
5. What I'd Rather Not Talk About
6.
7.
8. Simpatia
9. The House on Via Gemito
10. A Dictator Calls
11. Undiscovered
12. Lost On Me
13. The Silver Bone

1. The Details
2. Not A River
3.Lost on Me
4.
5.
6. Undiscovered

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10. Kairos

1. Not a River
(...)
3. The Details
4. Kairos
5. Crooked Plow
6. What I'd Rather Not Think About
(..)
8. Lost On Me
9. Undiscovered
(...)
13. Simpatia

1. The Details (3.5)
2. What I’d Rather Not Think About (3)
3. A Dictator Calls (3)
4. Crooked Plow (3)
5. Undiscovered (3)

1. Undiscovered
2. What I'd Rather Not Think About
3. Crooked Plow
4. Simpatia
5. Not a River

1. Kairos 4* (4.5)
2. White Nights 4*
3. The House at Via Gemito 4*
4. Not a River 4*
5. Crooked Plow 4*
6. The Details 3* (3.5)
7. Undiscovered 3*
8. A Dictator Calls 3* (2.5)
9. Mater 2-10 2* (2.5)
10. What I'd Rather Not Think About 2*
11, The Silver Bone 2*
12. Simpatía 2* (1.5)
13. Lost on Me 1*

1. Crooked Plow

1.Crooked Plow 4
2. The Details 3.5
3. Lost on Me 3.25
4. Undiscovered 3
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skipped/dnf'd:
Simpatia
The Silver Bone
Kairos

1.
2. The Details
3.
4. Kairos
5.
6.
7. A Dictator Calls
8. The House on Via Gemito
9.
10.
11. The Silver Bone
12. Undiscovered
13.

6. The Details
7. Undiscovered
8. Lost on Me
11. What I'd Rather Not Think About

1. Kairos
2. Not A River
3. The Details
4. White Nights

1. Undiscovered - 5
2. Crooked Plow - 4.5
3. The Details - 4

1.
2.
3. The Details
4.
5.
6.
7. Lost On Me
8.
9. Mater 2-10
10. The Silver Bone

1. Lost on Me
2. A Dictator Calls
3. Mater 2-10

5. Undiscovered
6. Kairos

7. Not a River

10. Crooked Plow
11. The Details

13. The Silver Bone

1. White Nights
2. Kairos
3. The House on Via Gemito
4. Not a River
5. Simpatía
6. Mater 2-10
7. What I'd Rather Not think About
8. Lost On Me
9. Crooked Plow
10. Undiscovered
11.The Details
12.The Silver Bone
13. A Dictator Calls

1. Kairos
2. Not a River
3. Simpatía
4. Crooked Plow

1. The Details
2. What I'd Rather Not Think About
3. Lost On Me