5 Stars Maror by Lavie Tidhar Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe The Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese Golden Hill by Francis Spufford 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 The Fraud by Zadie Smith The Language of Trees by Katie Holden Erasure by Percival Everett North Woods by Daniel Mason The Overstory by Richard Powers Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwoods & Dan Richards The Postcard by Anne Berest | 4.5 Stars The Priory by Dorothy Whipple The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom 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 So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim This Other Eden by Paul Harding Thunderclap by Laura Cumming Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Lessons by Ian McEwan Water by John Boyne Munich Wolf by Rory Clements |