Every New Year’s Eve I read a book until midnight. It has to be a riveting, brilliant novel that I’ve never read before.
What book should I read this year?
What book should I read this year?
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Cloud Cuckoo Land (one storyline even features an owl!)
Excellent Women (Jane Austen-ish with Anglo-Catholics and an extra dose of feminism)
Circle of Friends (I ❤️ Maeve Binchy)
Veronica Speedwell series (for fluffy fun)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Steal the Sky by Megan E. O'Keefe
by Sarah Arthur
North Woods, Daniel Mason was real good. Spans genres. All about the soul of a geography.
Dinosaurs, Lydia Milllet is just really nice. I liked it about the same as Children’s Bible but its stakes are lower.
Honor - Thrity Umregar
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Devil and the Dark Water for historical mystery.
A House with Good Bones for mild horror with social commentary.
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev if you thought Daisy Jones needed more weightiness and meaning.
Or just I Cheerfully Refuse
The Corner That Held Them, Sylvia Townsend Warner.The Ninth Hour, Alice McDermott.
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
One of my favourite series. This book was so addicting that I keep coming back to it.
Content warning for plot-necessitated self-harm (it's dystopian fantasy/alternate universe type of thing) and violence.
Circe
Station Eleven
Homegoing
Pachinko
Piranesi
This is How You Lose the Time War
A Children's Bible
The Five Wounds
The Candy House / A Visit from the Goon Squad (fiction, not quite novels)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
How High We Go in the Dark
RF Kuang’s Poppy War trilogy: riveting, great world-building, very violent.
Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees: gripping story, lyrical writing.
Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man: philosophical unraveling of complex mystery of identity, gorgeously written.
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - if you want something slightly longer that's both heartbreaking & beautiful
Both brilliantly written.