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5 Stars The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape by Cal Flyn The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee Matrix by Lauren Groff The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Beth Chatto’s Green Tapestry revisited: A guide to a sustainably planted garden American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon Vine Street by Dominic Nolan Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields The Sentence by Louise Erdrich The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton Shibumi by Trevanian Still Life by Sarah Winman The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont City on Fire by Don Winslow The Night Tiger by Yngsze Choo Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty The Treeline by Ben Rawlence How Civil Wars Start: And how to stop them by Barbara F. Walter Portable Magic: A history of books and their readers by Emma Smith Bad Actors by Mick Herron Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny Trust by Hernan Diaz The Trees by Percival Everett Bournville by Jonathan Coe Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson * Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet An Immense World by Ed Yong The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid * Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Dr No by Percival Everett * Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo Spring Cannot be Cancelled by Hockney and Gayford * Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston * The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams * Babel by R. F. Kuang Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane The Road by Cormac McCarthy	4.5 Stars Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver Still Life by Louise Penny Solve for Happy: Engineer your path to joy by Mo Gawdat Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty Wild Interiors by Hilton Carter Angel by Elizabeth Taylor A Long Petal of Sea by Isabel Allende Music is History by Questlove Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Betrayal by David Gilman Real Estate by Deborah Levy Satori by Don Winslow Fibre for Life by Dr Khosro Ezaz-Nikpay May God Forgive by Alan Parks Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue The Blackbird by Tim Weaver Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton Slough House by Mick Herron Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang Semicolon by Cecelia Watson The Echo Chamber by John Boyne The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer The Candy House by Jennifer Egan The Story of Art without men by Katy Hessel Less by Sean Andrew Greer Judith Kerr’s Creatures Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer Darling by India Knight Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Willder The Red Notebook by Michel Bussi Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 12 Birds to Save Your Life by Charlie Corbett Midnight Atlanta by Thomas Mullen Euphoria by Elen Cullhed, translated by Jennifer Hayashida Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Heartburn by Nora Ephron read by Meryl Streep Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Nemesis by Wilbur Smith and Tom Harper The Other Mother by Michel Bussi The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang The Offing by Benjamin Myers The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse So Much Blue by Percival Everett Bolla by Pajtim Statovci Juliette by Camille Jourdy After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz The New Life by Tom Crewe In Memoriam by Alice Winn
4 Stars 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Seed to Dust: A gardener’s story by Marc Hamer Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Good Behaviour by Molly Keane The Kids by Hannah Lowe Sugar by Bernice L McFadden Empire of Pain: The secret history of the Sackler dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Forfeit by Barbara Nadal Open Season by C.J. Box The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan Howard’s Ending is on the Landing by Susan Hill Blood Grove by Walter Mosley The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden China Room by Sunjeev Sahota Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Northern Spy by Flynn Berry The Horseman by Tim Pears Threads of Life by Clare Hunter The Foot Soldiers by Gerald Seymour The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean Pendziwol Give Unto Others by Donna Leon The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins Opal Country by Chris Hammer Queen and Country by Alan Judd Dogstar Rising by Parker Bilal A Killing in November by Simon Mason Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker The Divinities by Parker Bilal Unto Us a Son is Given by Donna Leon A Season in Exile by Oliver Harris A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin Joan by Katherine J Chen Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Undertow by Anthony J Quinn Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks The Border by Don Winslow South to America by Imani Perry The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson Metronome by Tom Watson Every Man a King by Walter Mosley Weyward by Emilia Hart All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby Unsheltered by Barbara kingsolver The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle The Flames by Sophie Haydock The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld Dead Man’s Creek by Chris Hammer Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano I am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Victory City by Salman Rushdie Tom Lake by Ann Patchett I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead	3.5 Stars The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak The Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke Red Sands by Caroline Eden Bewilderment by Richard Powers A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith An Unholy Alliance by Susanna Gregory Execution by S. J Parris Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn Traitor King by Andrew Lownie The Khan by Saima Mir A Bone of Contention by Susanna Gregory The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Deacon King Kong by James McBride A Deadly Brew by Susanna Gregory The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst The Long Call by Ann Cleeves Two Women in Rome by Elizabeth Buchan By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley The Maidens by Alex Michaelides The Abstainer by Ian McGuire Every Cloak Rolled in Gold by James Lee Burke A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle The Amur River by Colin Thubron A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O’Donoghue Widowland by C. J. Carey L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Treacle Walker by Alan Garner The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz Racing the Light by Robert Crais Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Righteous Prey by John Sandford Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor The Darkest Sin by D. V. Bishop A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville The Fire of Joy by Clive James Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland Hungry by Grace Dent Americana by Luke Healy Memories from Limon by Edo Brenes The Furrows by Namwali Serpell The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks The Wrong Woman by J.P. Pomare The Maid by Nita Prose The Instant by Amy Liptrot Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby The City of Tears by Kate Mosse Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Book Lovers by Emily Henry Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams The Stranger in the Seine by Guillaume Musso The Last Drop by Tim Smedley Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill Repentance by Eloisa Diaz Alchemy by S.J. Parris Exercised by Daniel Lieberman The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction by Robert Goddard Horse by Gerladine Brooks SS-GB by Len Deighton On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
3 Stars Queenie by Candace Williams Carty The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen French Exit by Patrick DeWitt City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop The Personal Librarian by Benedict and Murray The Man in The Bunker by Rory Clements The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale A Devon Night’s Death by Stephanie Austin The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Haven by Emma Donoghue The Ink Black Heart by R Galbraith Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Past by Tess Hadley Queen High by C.J. Carey Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jenette McCurdy Fairy Tale by Stephen King Ducks by Kate Beaton Mad Honey by Jodie Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo Liberation Day by George Saunders To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan The Snake Head by Patrick Radden Keefe Either/Or by Elif Bautman The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence The English Fuhrer by Rory Clements A Winter Grave by Peter May The Paper Bark Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu The IT Girl by Ruth Ware Honey and Spice by Bolu Babola Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Watch us Dance by Leila Slimani Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twang Eng Biography of X by Catherine Lacey The Local by Joey Heartstone everything is under control by Phyllis Grant The Colour Storm by Damian Dibben Saltwater by Jessica Andrews Dark Angel by John Sandford The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Siberian Dilemma by Arkady Renko The Secret Hours by Mick Herron	2.5 Stars My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Something to Hide by Elizabeth George Into the Fire by Rachael Blok Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka Violeta by Isabel Allende Taste by Stanley Tucci Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef The Last Highway by RJ Ellory In the Garden: Essays on nature and growing Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris Children of Paradise by Camilla Gudrova Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn Great Novels from Dorling Kindersley
2 Stars The Magician by Colm Tóibín The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 1979 by Val McDermid no one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood Double Illusion by Barbara Nadal	1.5 Stars
1 Star The Bourne Evolution by Brian Freedman The GoldenAcre by Philip Miller Composting Masterclass by Tony O’Neill	0 Stars