Book Reviews

416 reviews

1. To The Dogs

   Louise Welsh · Fiction · Read October 2026

   8.5/10

2. The Flamethrowers

   Rachel Kushner · Fiction · Read October 2026

   7/10

3. The Energy Trap

   Richard Lyon · Non-fiction · Read September 2026

   N/R

4. The Woman in the Wall

   Heidi Amsinck · Fiction · Read September 2026

   9/10

5. The Spinning Heart

   Donal Ryan · Fiction · Read September 2026

   9/10

6. Change

   Édouard Louis · Fiction · Read 2026

   9/10

7. The Good Fairies of New York

   Martin Millar · Fiction · Read 2026

   8/10

8. Light Perpetual

   Francis Spufford · Fiction · Read 2026

   10/10

9. So Many Ways to Begin

   Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read 2026

   9/10

10. Through the Window

    Julian Barnes · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

11. Three Rooms

    Jo Hamya · Fiction · Read 2026

    9/10

12. The Vanishing Half

    Brit Bennett · Fiction · Read 2026

    10/10

13. Radical Candor

    Kim Scott · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

14. The Ministry for the Future

    Kim Stanley Robinson · Fiction · Read 2026

    9/10

15. Istanbul: Memories and the City

    Orhan Pamuk · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

16. North Woods

    Daniel Mason · Fiction · Read 2026

    9/10

17. Until August

    Gabriel García Márquez · Fiction · Read 2026

    8.5/10

18. The Russia House

    John le Carré · Fiction · Read 2026

    9.5/10

19. The Silence

    Don DeLillo · Fiction · Read 2026

    8.5/10

20. 10:04

    Ben Lerner · Fiction · Read 2026

    9.5/10

21. Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

22. Gotta Get Theroux This

    Louis Theroux · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

23. Brooklyn and Long Island

    Colm Tóibín · Fiction · Read 2026

    9.5/10

24. Killing Eve

    Luke Jennings · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

25. The Silentiary

    Antonio di Benedetto · Fiction · Read 2026

    4/10

26. Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity

    Venki Ramakrishnan · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

27. Intermezzo

    Sally Rooney · Fiction · Read 2026

    10/10

28. I'll Be the Monster

    Sean Gilbert · Fiction · Read 2026

    5/10

29. The Painted Veil

    Somerset Maugham · Fiction · Read 2026

    9/10

30. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

    Margaret Atwood · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

31. Pod

    Laline Paull · Fiction · Read 2026

    4/10

32. I Capture the Castle

    Dodie Smith · Fiction · Read 2026

    10/10

33. Novacene

    James Lovelock · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

34. Creation Lake

    Rachel Kushner · Fiction · Read 2026

    10/10

35. The Crumbling of a Nation and Other Stories

    Ryan David Ginsberg · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

36. Cathedrals of Steam

    Christian Wolmar · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

37. The Proof of My Innocence

    Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read 2026

    10/10

38. The Pedant in the Kitchen

    Julian Barnes · Non-fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

39. Mina's Matchbox

    Yoko Ogawa · Fiction · Read 2026

    8.5/10

40. Glorious Exploits

    Ferdia Lennon · Fiction · Read 2026

    6/10

41. Our Evenings

    Alan Hollinghurst · Fiction · Read 2026

    9.5/10

42. Travelling in a Strange Land

    David Park · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

43. Real Life

    Brandon Taylor · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

44. The Queen of Dirt Island

    Donal Ryan · Fiction · Read 2026

    8.5/10

45. Gabriel's Moon

    William Boyd · Fiction · Read 2026

    9.5/10

46. All the Lovers of the Night

    Mieko Kawakami · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

47. Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · Fiction · Read 2026

    8/10

48. Devils in Daylight

    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · Fiction · Read 2026

    N/R

49. Should We Stay or Should We Go

    Lionel Shriver · Fiction · Read 2026

    8.5/10

50. The Technological Republic

    Alexander Karp · Non-fiction · Read December 2025

    N/R

51. The Reservoir Tapes

    Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read December 2025

    9.5/10

52. Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears

    Andrew Turvil · Non-fiction · Read December 2025

    N/R

53. The Rabbit Hutch

    Tess Gunty · Fiction · Read December 2025

    9/10

54. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

    Nikolai Gogol · Fiction · Read December 2025

    8/10

55. Marching Powder

    Rusty Young · Non-fiction · Read November 2025

    N/R

56. The Last Kings of Sark

    Rosa Rankin-Gee · Fiction · Read November 2025

    8/10

57. Writing from Within / Making an Elephant

    Graham Swift · Non-fiction · Read November 2025

    N/R

58. Cat's Eye

    Margaret Atwood · Fiction · Read November 2025

    9.5/10

59. Kitchen Curse

    Eka Kurniawan · Fiction · Read November 2025

    9/10

60. Grotesque

    Natsuo Kirino · Fiction · Read October 2025

    9/10

61. The Vulnerables

    Sigrid Nunez · Fiction · Read October 2025

    6/10

62. Written Lives

    Javier Marías · Non-fiction · Read October 2025

    N/R

63. After the Crash

    Michel Bussi · Fiction · Read October 2025

    6/10

64. You Will Never Be Forgotten

    Mary South · Fiction · Read September 2025

    10/10

65. The Dwarves of Death

    Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read September 2025

    7.5/10

66. Prophet Song

    Paul Lynch · Fiction · Read September 2025

    7/10

67. The Little Drummer Girl

    John le Carré · Fiction · Read September 2025

    9.5/10

68. The Ninth Wave

    Russell Sellin Jones · Fiction · Read August 2025

    7.5/10

69. The Ash and the Beech

    Richard Mabey · Non-fiction · Read November 2025

    N/R

70. Lightning Rods

    Helen DeWitt · Fiction · Read August 2025

    4/10

71. Mr. Loverman

    Bernardine Evaristo · Fiction · Read August 2025

    10/10

72. Orbital

    Samantha Harvey · Fiction · Read July 2025

    10/10

73. Shadow State

    Luke Harding · Non-fiction · Read July 2025

    N/R

74. The Tin Drum

    Günter Grass · Fiction · Read July 2025

    7.5/10

75. The Tenth Man

    Graham Greene · Fiction · Read July 2025

    8/10

76. Delicate Edible Birds

    Lauren Groff · Fiction · Read June/July 2025

    8/10

77. Elizabeth Finch

    Julian Barnes · Fiction · Read June 2025

    6/10

78. The Seven Good Years

    Etgar Keret · Non-fiction · Read June 2025

    N/R

79. Sea of Tranquility

    Emily St. John Mandel · Fiction · Read June 2025

    10/10

80. Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck · Fiction · Read June 2025

    7.5/10

81. The Thing About December

    Donal Ryan · Fiction · Read May 2025

    10/10

82. A Delicate Truth

    John le Carré · Fiction · Read May 2025

    9.5/10

83. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Anne Brontë · Fiction · Read May 2025

    9/10

84. Earthlings

    Sayaka Murata · Fiction · Read May 2025

    10/10

85. The Fraud

    Zadie Smith · Fiction · Read April 2025

    5/10

86. The Project

    David Graham · Non-fiction · Read April 2025

    N/R

87. The Memory Chalet

    Tony Judt · Non-fiction · Read April 2025

    N/R

88. The Seventh Son

    Sebastian Faulks · Fiction · Read April 2025

    4/10

89. The Story of the Forest

    Linda Grant · Fiction · Read April 2025

    10/10

90. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

    Geoff Dyer · Fiction · Read April 2025

    8.5/10

91. How to Lie with Maps

    Mark Monmonier · Non-fiction · Read March 2025

    N/R

92. Doctor Fischer of Geneva

    Graham Greene · Fiction · Read March 2025

    8/10

93. Owlish

    Dorothy Tse · Fiction · Read March 2025

    7/10

94. Love and Virtue

    Diana Reid · Fiction · Read March 2025

    8/10

95. Meltdown

    Duncan Mavin · Non-fiction · Read March 2025

    N/R

96. April in Spain

    John Banville · Fiction · Read March 2025

    5/10

97. The Vaster Wilds

    Lauren Groff · Fiction · Read March 2025

    8/10

98. A Cook's Tour

    Anthony Bourdain · Non-fiction · Read February 2025

    N/R

99. Single & Single

    John le Carré · Fiction · Read February 2025

    9.5/10

100. Everything I Never Told You

     Celeste Ng · Fiction · Read February 2025

     9.5/10

101. Absolutely and Forever

     Rose Tremain · Fiction · Read February 2025

     9/10

102. Basil

     Wilkie Collins · Fiction · Read February 2025

     9/10

103. Blue Ticket

     Sophie Mackintosh · Fiction · Read January 2025

     10/10

104. Small World

     David Lodge · Fiction · Read January 2025

     10/10

105. Tenth of December

     George Saunders · Fiction · Read January 2025

     9/10

106. Expo 58

     Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read January 2025

     9/10

107. The Memory Police

     Yoko Ogawa · Fiction · Read January 2025

     7.5/10

108. Unfinished Business

     Michael Bracewell · Fiction · Read January 2025

     8/10

109. Pet

     Catherine Chidgey · Fiction · Read January 2025

     10/10

110. Stuffed

     Pen Vogler · Non-fiction · Read December 2024

     N/R

111. Sweetbitter

     Stephanie Danler · Fiction · Read December 2024

     9.5/10

112. A Small Town in Germany

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read December 2024

     8.5/10

113. The Reader

     Bernhard Schlink · Fiction · Read November 2024

     8/10

114. Barcelona Dreaming

     Rupert Thomson · Fiction · Read November 2024

     8.5/10

115. Why We Read

     Josephine Greywoode · Non-fiction · Read November 2024

     N/R

116. In Your Defence

     Sarah Langford · Non-fiction · Read November 2024

     N/R

117. London, Burning

     Anthony Quinn · Fiction · Read November 2024

     9/10

118. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders

     Angela Carter · Fiction · Read October 2024

     N/R

119. Hungry

     Grace Dent · Non-fiction · Read October 2024

     N/R

120. In a Country of Mothers

     A.M. Homes · Fiction · Read October 2024

     7.5/10

121. Undercurrent

     Barney Norris · Fiction · Read October 2024

     8/10

122. The End of Nightwork

     Aidan Cottrell-Boyce · Fiction · Read October 2024

     6/10

123. Find Me

     Laura van den Berg · Fiction · Read September/October 2024

     8/10

124. Secret Rendezvous

     Kobo Abe · Fiction · Read September 2024

     5/10

125. The Drinker

     Hans Fallada · Fiction · Read September 2024

     9.5/10

126. Reservoir 13

     Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read September 2024

     9.5/10

127. Lord Jim at Home

     Dinah Brooke · Fiction · Read September 2024

     10/10

128. Lord Jim

     Joseph Conrad · Fiction · Read August 2024

     8/10

129. The Singer's Gun

     Emily St. John Mandel · Fiction · Read August 2024

     7.5/10

130. Dreamland

     Rosa Rankin-Gee · Fiction · Read August 2024

     10/10

131. Florida

     Lauren Groff · Fiction · Read August 2024

     9/10

132. Still Here

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read August 2024

     7.5/10

133. The Human Factor

     Graham Greene · Fiction · Read July/August 2024

     8/10

134. The Swimmers

     Julie Otsuka · Fiction · Read July 2024

     8/10

135. Magpie

     Elizabeth Day · Fiction · Read July 2024

     10/10

136. Discipline Is Destiny

     Ryan Holiday · Non-fiction · Read July 2024

     N/R

137. The Loved One

     Evelyn Waugh · Fiction · Read July 2024

     8/10

138. The Factory

     Hiroko Oyamada · Fiction · Read July 2024

     9/10

139. The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories

     Susan Hill · Fiction · Read June/July 2024

     8/10

140. Yellowface

     Rebecca F. Kuang · Fiction · Read June 2024

     10/10

141. The Emperor's Babe

     Bernardine Evaristo · Fiction · Read June 2024

     8.5/10

142. Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend

     Christopher Ross · Non-fiction · Read June 2024

     N/R

143. The Romantic

     William Boyd · Fiction · Read June 2024

     10/10

144. Explorers of the New Century

     Magnus Mills · Fiction · Read June 2024

     8/10

145. Agent Running in the Field

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read June 2024

     9/10

146. The Bomber Mafia

     Malcolm Gladwell · Non-fiction · Read June 2024

     N/R

147. The Second Cut

     Louise Welsh · Fiction · Read May 2024

     9/10

148. Outnumbered

     David Sumpter · Non-fiction · Read May 2024

     N/R

149. The Remains of the Day

     Kazuo Ishiguro · Fiction · Read May 2024

     8.5/10

150. Moll Flanders

     Daniel Defoe · Fiction · Read April/May 2024

     9/10

151. The Song of Achilles

     Madeline Miller · Fiction · Read April 2024

     9.5/10

152. Fascination

     William Boyd · Fiction · Read April 2024

     8/10

153. Lessons

     Ian McEwan · Fiction · Read April 2024

     8/10

154. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

     Jay Rubin · Non-fiction · Read April 2024

     N/R

155. Reservoir

     Livi Michael · Fiction · Read April 2024

     10/10

156. Victory City

     Salman Rushdie · Fiction · Read April 2024

     10/10

157. Never Saw Me Coming

     Vera Kurian · Fiction · Read March 2024

     7.5/10

158. England Made Me

     Graham Greene · Fiction · Read March 2024

     8.5/10

159. Bournville

     Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read March 2024

     10/10

160. Even the Dogs

     Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read March 2024

     9/10

161. The Final Martyrs

     Shusaku Endo · Fiction · Read February 2024

     8/10

162. The Midwich Cuckoos

     John Wyndham · Fiction · Read February 2024

     8/10

163. Islands of Mercy

     Rose Tremain · Fiction · Read February 2024

     8.5/10

164. The Wine Lover's Daughter

     Anne Fadiman · Non-fiction · Read February 2024

     N/R

165. Young Mungo

     Douglas Stuart · Fiction · Read February 2024

     10/10

166. Of Boys and Men

     Richard Reeves · Non-fiction · Read February 2024

     N/R

167. Hypercapitalism

     Andrés Vaccari · Fiction · Read January 2024

     5/10

168. Our Game

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read January 2024

     9/10

169. Upstairs at the Party

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read January 2024

     8.5/10

170. Before the Coffee Gets Cold

     Toshikazu Kawaguchi · Fiction · Read January 2024

     5/10

171. Phenotypes

     Paulo Scott · Fiction · Read January 2024

     8/10

172. Space: The Human Story

     Tim Peake · Non-fiction · Read January 2024

     N/R

173. Love and Summer

     William Trevor · Fiction · Read December 2023

     8.5/10

174. Crossroads

     Jonathan Franzen · Fiction · Read December 2023

     9.5/10

175. The Lying Life of Adults

     Elena Ferrante · Fiction · Read December 2023

     9/10

176. Soul Tourists

     Bernardine Evaristo · Fiction · Read November 2023

     9/10

177. Endurance

     Alfred Lansing · Non-fiction · Read November 2023

     N/R

178. The School for Good Mothers

     Jessamine Chan · Fiction · Read November 2023

     8/10

179. Last Days in Cleaver Square

     Patrick McGrath · Fiction · Read November 2023

     8.5/10

180. Ghosts of the Tsunami

     Richard Lloyd Parry · Non-fiction · Read November 2023

     N/R

181. Naming the Bones

     Louise Welsh · Fiction · Read October 2023

     8/10

182. The Great Gatsby

     F. Scott Fitzgerald · Fiction · Read October 2023

     9/10

183. Mercury Pictures Presents

     Anthony Marra · Fiction · Read October 2023

     4/10

184. Outlive

     Dr Peter Attia · Non-fiction · Read September/October 2023

     N/R

185. The Art of Fiction

     David Lodge · Non-fiction · Read September/October 2023

     N/R

186. Machines Like Me

     Ian McEwan · Fiction · Read September 2023

     7.5/10

187. Lily

     Rose Tremain · Fiction · Read September 2023

     7/10

188. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

     Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read September 2023

     10/10

189. Pachinko

     Min Jin Lee · Fiction · Read September 2023

     8/10

190. On Chesil Beach

     Ian McEwan · Fiction · Read August 2023

     8/10

191. The Constant Gardener

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read August 2023

     9.5/10

192. The Forensic Records Society

     Magnus Mills · Fiction · Read August 2023

     8/10

193. Lapvona

     Ottessa Moshfegh · Fiction · Read August 2023

     7.5/10

194. Here We Are

     Graham Swift · Fiction · Read August 2023

     9/10

195. Talking to Strangers

     Malcolm Gladwell · Non-fiction · Read August 2023

     N/R

196. Hotel du Lac

     Anita Brookner · Fiction · Read July 2023

     8/10

197. Wild Horses

     Jordi Cussà · Fiction · Read July 2023

     9/10

198. Our Country Friends

     Gary Shteyngart · Fiction · Read July 2023

     9.5/10

199. Convenience Store Woman

     Sayaka Murata · Fiction · Read July 2023

     8/10

200. Put Out More Flags

     Evelyn Waugh · Fiction · Read July 2023

     8/10

201. The Accidental Connoisseur

     Lawrence Osborne · Non-fiction · Read June/July 2023

     N/R

202. Beautiful World, Where Are You

     Sally Rooney · Fiction · Read June 2023

     7.5/10

203. Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

     Dieter Helm · Non-fiction · Read June 2023

     N/R

204. Death on the Nile

     Agatha Christie · Fiction · Read June 2023

     7/10

205. The Rachel Papers

     Martin Amis · Fiction · Read May/June 2023

     8/10

206. Remind Me Who I Am Again

     Linda Grant · Non-fiction · Read May 2023

     N/R

207. Piercing

     Ryu Murakami · Fiction · Read May 2023

     9/10

208. The Every

     Dave Eggers · Fiction · Read May 2023

     10/10

209. Under the Volcano

     Malcolm Lowry · Fiction · Read May 2023

     4/10

210. Lean Fall Stand

     Jon McGregor · Fiction · Read April 2023

     9/10

211. Eating for England

     Nigel Slater · Non-fiction · Read April 2023

     N/R

212. The Nimrod Flip-Out

     Etgar Keret · Fiction · Read April 2023

     8/10

213. Perfume

     Patrick Süskind · Fiction · Read April 2023

     9/10

214. Lessons in Chemistry

     Bonnie Garmus · Fiction · Read April 2023

     6/10

215. More

     Philip Coggan · Non-fiction · Read March 2023

     N/R

216. Just the Plague

     Ludmila Ulitskaya · Fiction · Read March 2023

     8/10

217. Cakes and Ale

     Somerset Maugham · Fiction · Read March 2023

     8/10

218. Heaven

     Mieko Kawakami · Fiction · Read March 2023

     8/10

219. Cork Dork

     Bianca Bosker · Non-fiction · Read March 2023

     N/R

220. Assembly

     Natasha Brown · Fiction · Read March 2023

     9/10

221. The Discomfort of Evening

     Marieke Lucas Rijneveld · Fiction · Read March 2023

     9/10

222. Our Kind of Traitor

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read February 2023

     8/10

223. The Children of Dynmouth

     William Trevor · Fiction · Read February 2023

     9/10

224. Magpie Lane

     Lucy Atkins · Fiction · Read February 2023

     9/10

225. Life of Pi

     Yann Martel · Fiction · Read February 2023

     10/10

226. Infinite Detail

     Tim Maughan · Fiction · Read February 2023

     8.5/10

227. The Empty Family

     Colm Tóibín · Fiction · Read January 2023

     8/10

228. Girl, Woman, Other

     Bernardine Evaristo · Fiction · Read January 2023

     10/10

229. Matrix

     Lauren Groff · Fiction · Read January 2023

     9/10

230. The Inheritors

     William Golding · Fiction · Read January 2023

     4/10

231. My Education

     Susan Choi · Fiction · Read January 2023

     8/10

232. Chums

     Simon Kuper · Non-fiction · Read December 2022

     N/R

233. Mr. Wilder and Me

     Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read December 2022

     8/10

234. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

     Raymond Carver · Fiction · Read December 2022

     N/R

235. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

     Mariana Enríquez · Fiction · Read December 2022

     8.5/10

236. Night of Fire

     Colin Thubron · Fiction · Read November 2022

     7.5/10

237. Mindset

     Carol S. Dweck · Non-fiction · Read November 2022

     N/R

238. Hot Stew

     Fiona Mozley · Fiction · Read November 2022

     8.5/10

239. Silverview

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read November 2022

     8/10

240. Nocturnes

     Kazuo Ishiguro · Fiction · Read October/November 2022

     8.5/10

241. Nightbitch

     Rachel Yoder · Fiction · Read October 2022

     10/10

242. Last Exit to Brooklyn

     Hubert Selby Jr. · Fiction · Read October 2022

     9/10

243. Civilizations

     Laurent Binet · Fiction · Read October 2022

     3/10

244. Sympathy

     Olivia Sudjic · Fiction · Read October 2022

     8.5/10

245. The House on the Strand

     Daphne du Maurier · Fiction · Read September/October 2022

     9/10

246. Limitless

     Tim Peake · Non-fiction · Read September 2022

     N/R

247. Lord of the Flies

     William Golding · Fiction · Read September 2022

     9.5/10

248. The Dark Circle

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read September 2022

     9/10

249. Zero Degrees of Empathy

     Simon Baron-Cohen · Non-fiction · Read September 2022

     N/R

250. Decline and Fall

     Evelyn Waugh · Fiction · Read August/September 2022

     9.5/10

251. A Theatre for Dreamers

     Polly Samson · Fiction · Read August 2022

     6/10

252. Homesick for Another World

     Ottessa Moshfegh · Fiction · Read August 2022

     8.5/10

253. Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

     Robert Chandler · Non-fiction · Read August 2022

     N/R

254. Territory of Light

     Yuko Tsushima · Fiction · Read August 2022

     8.5/10

255. Call for the Dead

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read July 2022

     8/10

256. Serotonin

     Michel Houellebecq · Fiction · Read July 2022

     6/10

257. Lizard

     Banana Yoshimoto · Fiction · Read July 2022

     7.5/10

258. Insane Mode

     Hamish McKenzie · Non-fiction · Read July 2022

     N/R

259. The Glass Hotel

     Emily St. John Mandel · Fiction · Read July 2022

     9.5/10

260. In Praise of Shadows

     Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · Non-fiction · Read July 2022

     N/R

261. Little Eyes

     Samantha Schweblin · Fiction · Read June/July 2022

     10/10

262. Trio

     William Boyd · Fiction · Read June 2022

     8.5/10

263. Hawthorne and Child

     Keith Ridgway · Fiction · Read June 2022

     5/10

264. Utopia Avenue

     David Mitchell · Fiction · Read June 2022

     10/10

265. The Complete Short Stories, Volume 2

     J. G. Ballard · Fiction · Read June 2022

     N/R

266. Think Like a Freak

     Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner · Non-fiction · Read May 2022

     N/R

267. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

     Jay Rubin · Fiction · Read May 2022

     N/R

268. The Left Hand of Darkness

     Ursula K. Le Guin · Fiction · Read May 2022

     8/10

269. Berta Isla

     Javier Marías · Fiction · Read May 2022

     10/10

270. Sterling Karat Gold

     Isabel Waidner · Fiction · Read May 2022

     4/10

271. Leaving the Atocha Station

     Ben Lerner · Fiction · Read May 2022

     8/10

272. NVK

     Temple Drake · Fiction · Read April 2022

     9/10

273. Heartburn

     Nora Ephron · Fiction · Read April 2022

     8/10

274. The Lola Quartet

     Emily St. John Mandel · Fiction · Read April 2022

     10/10

275. The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The Long Goodbye

     Raymond Chandler · Fiction · Read April 2022

     10/10

276. Calypso

     David Sedaris · Fiction · Read March/April 2022

     4/10

277. The Children of Men

     P. D. James · Fiction · Read March 2022

     9.5/10

278. Ex Libris

     Anne Fadiman · Non-fiction · Read March 2022

     N/R

279. The Secret Lives of Colour

     Kasia St Clair · Non-fiction · Read March 2022

     N/R

280. Beyond Flavor

     Nick Jackson · Non-fiction · Read March 2022

     N/R

281. Asylum Road

     Olivia Sudjic · Fiction · Read March 2022

     8.5/10

282. Memories of the Future

     Siri Hustvedt · Fiction · Read March 2022

     7.5/10

283. Ashenden

     Somerset Maugham · Fiction · Read March 2022

     7/10

284. You People

     Nikita Lalwani · Fiction · Read February 2022

     8/10

285. Special Topics in Calamity Physics

     Marisha Pessl · Fiction · Read February 2022

     7/10

286. Afterlives

     Abdulrazak Gurnah · Fiction · Read February 2022

     6/10

287. A Murder of Quality

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read January 2022

     8.5/10

288. Air

     Geoff Ryman · Fiction · Read January 2022

     8/10

289. The Clothes on Their Backs

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read January 2022

     9.5/10

290. We

     Yevgeny Zamyatin · Fiction · Read January 2022

     8/10

291. Doxology

     Nell Zink · Fiction · Read January 2022

     7/10

292. Souvenir

     Michael Bracewell · Non-fiction · Read January 2022

     N/R

293. Piranesi

     Susanna Clarke · Fiction · Read December/January 2022

     10/10

294. The Power of Geography

     Tim Marshall · Non-fiction · Read December 2021

     N/R

295. Little Failure – A Memoir

     Gary Shteyngart · Fiction · Read December 2021

     N/R

296. The Party Upstairs

     Lee Conell · Fiction · Read December 2021

     7.5/10

297. The Pier Falls

     Mark Haddon · Fiction · Read December 2021

     8/10

298. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read November/December 2021

     9/10

299. The Topeka School

     Ben Lerner · Fiction · Read November 2021

     7.5/10

300. Strangers on a Train

     Patricia Highsmith · Fiction · Read November 2021

     8/10

301. The Water Cure

     Sophie Mackintosh · Fiction · Read November 2021

     7/10

302. When I Lived in Modern Times

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read November 2021

     9.5/10

303. In Other Worlds: SF + The Human Imagination

     Margaret Atwood · Non-fiction · Read November 2021

     N/R

304. Mrs. Dalloway

     Virginia Woolf · Fiction · Read November 2021

     10/10

305. The Innocent

     David Szalay · Fiction · Read October 2021

     4/10

306. The Testaments

     Margaret Atwood · Fiction · Read October 2021

     7.5/10

307. The Handmaid's Tale

     Margaret Atwood · Fiction · Read October 2021

     9/10

308. A Cat, a Man and Two Women

     Jun'ichirō Tanizaki · Fiction · Read October 2021

     7/10

309. Viral

     Matthew Sperling · Fiction · Read October 2021

     3/10

310. The Shape of the Ruins

     Juan Gabriel Vásquez · Fiction · Read October 2021

     9/10

311. A Stranger City

     Linda Grant · Fiction · Read September/October 2021

     10/10

312. The Cockroach

     Ian McEwan · Fiction · Read September 2021

     7/10

313. Murder on the Orient Express

     Agatha Christie · Fiction · Read September 2021

     7/10

314. When We Speak of Nothing

     Olumide Popoola · Fiction · Read September 2021

     6.5/10

315. I Don’t Expect Anyone To Believe Me

     Juan Pablo Villalobos · Fiction · Read September 2021

     9.5/10

316. Blueprint

     Robert Plomin · Non-fiction · Read September 2021

     N/R

317. Snakes and Earrings

     Hitomi Kanehara · Fiction · Read September 2021

     8/10

318. The Carer

     Deborah Moggach · Fiction · Read September 2021

     6/10

319. Fly Already Stories

     Etgar Keret · Fiction · Read August/September 2021

     9/10

320. Circe

     Madeline Miller · Fiction · Read August 2021

     9/10

321. The Power and the Glory

     Graham Greene · Fiction · Read August 2021

     9/10

322. The Discreet Hero

     Mario Vargas Llosa · Fiction · Read August 2021

     9/10

323. A Metropolitan Murder

     Lee Jackson · Fiction · Read July/August 2021

     6/10

324. The Italian Teacher

     Tom Rachman · Fiction · Read July 2021

     9.5/10

325. A Legacy of Spies

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read July 2021

     9/10

326. Shuggie Bain

     Douglas Stuart · Fiction · Read July 2021

     10/10

327. All Souls

     Javier Marías · Fiction · Read June/July 2021

     7.5/10

328. The Lost Daughter

     Elena Ferrante · Fiction · Read June 2021

     9/10

329. The Third Hotel

     Laura van den Berg · Fiction · Read June 2021

     8.5/10

330. Exciting Times

     Naoise Dolan · Fiction · Read June 2021

     7/10

331. Red Clocks

     Leni Zumas · Fiction · Read 2021

     9.5/10

332. Shady Characters

     Keith Houston · Non-fiction · Read 2021

     N/R

333. Up at the Villa

     Somerset Maugham · Fiction · Read 2021

     8/10

334. The Bitch

     Pilar Quintana · Fiction · Read 2021

     9/10

335. South Wind

     Norman Douglas · Fiction · Read May 2021

     7/10

336. The Lying Game

     Ruth Ware · Fiction · Read May 2021

     6/10

337. Hamnet

     Maggie O'Farrell · Fiction · Read 2021

     5/10

338. The Wall

     John Lanchester · Fiction · Read 2021

     9.5/10

339. Paradise Rot

     Jenny Hval · Fiction · Read 2021

     4/10

340. Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

     David Karashima · Non-fiction · Read April 2021

     N/R

341. Rites of Spring: New Writing from London

     Peter Florence · Non-fiction · Read 2021

     N/R

342. Lake Success

     Gary Shteyngart · Fiction · Read April 2021

     10/10

343. Klara and the Sun

     Kazuo Ishiguro · Fiction · Read 2021

     10/10

344. Mansfield Park

     Jane Austen · Fiction · Read 2021

     9/10

345. Scoff

     Pen Vogler · Non-fiction · Read 2021

     N/R

346. The Fatal Eggs

     Mikhail Bulgakov · Fiction · Read March 2021

     8/10

347. Little Fires Everywhere

     Celeste Ng · Fiction · Read March 2021

     8/10

348. The Ditch

     Herman Koch · Fiction · Read March 2021

     6.5/10

349. Snow Crash

     Neal Stephenson · Fiction · Read February 2021

     8.5/10

350. Bitter

     Francesca Jakobi · Fiction · Read February 2021

     9/10

351. Vox

     Christina Dalcher · Fiction · Read February 2021

     6/10

352. The Captain and the Glory

     Dave Eggers · Fiction · Read February 2021

     7.5/10

353. New York 2140

     Kim Stanley Robinson · Fiction · Read January 2021

     8.5/10

354. Idiopathy

     Sam Byers · Fiction · Read January 2021

     8/10

355. In Defense of Dogs

     John Bradshaw · Non-fiction · Read January 2021

     N/R

356. Minor Detail

     Adania Shibli · Fiction · Read January 2021

     7/10

357. The Truants

     Kate Weinberg · Fiction · Read January 2021

     10/10

358. Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction

     Alfred Birnbaum (editor) · Fiction · Read December 2020

     N/R

359. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

     Carlo M. Cipolla · Non-fiction · Read December 2020

     N/R

360. Facial Justice

     L. P. Hartley · Fiction · Read December 2020

     7/10

361. Superforecasting

     Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner · Non-fiction · Read November 2020

     N/R

362. Middle England

     Jonathan Coe · Fiction · Read November 2020

     9/10

363. Great Eastern Land

     D. J. Taylor · Fiction · Read November 2020

     6/10

364. The Incendiaries

     R. O. Kwon · Fiction · Read November 2020

     9.5/10

365. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

     John le Carré · Fiction · Read November 2020

     10/10

366. Cooked

     Michael Pollan · Non-fiction · Read November 2020

     N/R

367. The Noise of Time

     Julian Barnes · Fiction · Read November 2020

     8/10

368. The Dreams of Bethany Melmoth

     William Boyd · Fiction · Read October 2020

     9/10

369. Lights Out for the Territory

     Iain Sinclair · Non-fiction · Read October 2020

     N/R

370. The Complete Short Stories Volume 1

     J. G. Ballard · Fiction · Read October 2020

     N/R

371. Ordinary People

     Diana Evans · Fiction · Read October 2020

     4/10

372. The Diving Pool

     Yoko Ogawa · Fiction · Read October 2020

     7.5/10

373. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

     Anthony Marra · Fiction · Read October 2020

     9.5/10

374. After the Party

     Cressida Connolly · Fiction · Read September 2020

     8/10

375. Absolutely on Music

     Haruki Murakami · Non-fiction · Read September 2020

     N/R

376. Fleishman Is in Trouble

     Taffy Brodesser-Akner · Fiction · Read September 2020

     8/10

377. Last Stories

     William Trevor · Fiction · Read September 2020

     8/10

378. Eileen

     Ottessa Moshfegh · Fiction · Read September 2020

     7/10

379. The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 2

     E. F. Benson · Fiction · Read August 2020

     8/10

380. The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 1

     E. F. Benson · Fiction · Read August 2020

     8/10

381. The Course of Love

     Alain de Botton · Fiction · Read August 2020

     4/10

382. Station Eleven

     Emily St. John Mandel · Fiction · Read July/August 2020

     10/10

383. Love Is Blind

     William Boyd · Fiction · Read July 2020

     9/10

384. The Secret Agent

     Joseph Conrad · Fiction · Read July 2020

     9/10

385. Where Are the Snows?

     Maggie Gee · Fiction · Read July 2020

     9/10

386. The Lost Art of Walking

     Geoff Nicholson · Non-fiction · Read June 2020

     N/R

387. The Aerodrome

     Rex Warner · Fiction · Read June 2020

     9.5/10

388. The Emissary

     Yoko Tawada · Fiction · Read June 2020

     7/10

389. On the Map

     Simon Garfield · Non-fiction · Read June 2020

     N/R

390. My Year of Rest and Relaxation

     Ottessa Moshfegh · Fiction · Read June 2020

     10/10

391. War and Peace

     Leo Tolstoy · Fiction · Read May 2020

     10/10

392. The History of Bees

     Maja Lunde · Fiction · Read May 2020

     8.5/10

393. Sorry! The English and Their Manners

     Henry Hitchings · Non-fiction · Read April 2020

     N/R

394. Killing Commendatore

     Haruki Murakami · Fiction · Read April 2020

     10/10

395. How Democracies Die

     Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt · Non-fiction · Read April 2020

     N/R

396. The Plague

     Albert Camus · Fiction · Read April 2020

     8/10

397. The Lido

     Libby Page · Fiction · Read April 2020

     8/10

398. The Double

     Fyodor Dostoevsky · Fiction · Read March 2020

     7/10

399. Turbulence

     David Szalay · Fiction · Read March 2020

     5/10

400. Our Little Racket

     Angelica Baker · Fiction · Read March 2020

     10/10

401. Perfidious Albion

     Sam Byers · Fiction · Read March 2020

     10/10

402. Notes From an Apocalypse

     Mark O'Connell · Non-fiction · Read March 2020

     N/R

403. Submission

     Michel Houellebecq · Fiction · Read March 2020

     10/10

404. Thus Bad Begins

     Javier Marías · Fiction · Read February 2020

     9.5/10

405. Rum Punch

     Elmore Leonard · Fiction · Read February 2020

     7.5/10

406. Unlubricated

     Arthur Nersesian · Fiction · Read February 2020

     8/10

407. Man Tiger

     Eka Kurniawan · Fiction · Read February 2020

     9/10

408. Children of the Abyss

     Jack London · Non-fiction · Read February 2020

     N/R

409. Raw Material

     Jörg Fauser · Fiction · Read January 2020

     8/10

410. Factfulness

     Hans Rosling · Non-fiction · Read January 2020

     N/R

411. Kitchen

     Banana Yoshimoto · Fiction · Read January 2020

     8/10

412. The Good Soldier

     Ford Madox Ford · Fiction · Read January 2020

     7/10

413. Summerland

     Malcolm Knox · Fiction · Read January 2020

     9/10

414. Milkman

     Anna Burns · Fiction · Read January 2020

     8/10

415. Man with a Seagull on His Head

     Harriet Paige · Fiction · Read January 2020

     8.5/10

416. My Last Supper

     Jay Rayner · Non-fiction · Read Dec/Jan 2020

     N/R

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