I read and review around fifty books each year. Here, I list my favourites. Click the link to read the review.
(A-Z by author first name)
A. K. Blakemore, THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES
Alex Pheby, MORDEW
Benjamin Myers, THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE
Christopher Buehlman, BETWEEN TWO FIRES + THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF + THE DAUGHTER’S WAR + THOSE ACROSS THE RIVER
Claire Fuller, UNSETTLED GROUND
D. H. Lawrence, LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
Dan Simmons, HYPERION
Daniel Maidman, THE EXILE OF ZANZIBAR
Evelyn Waugh, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Flannery O’Connor, EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE
Frank Herbert, DUNE + DUNE MESSIAH + CHILDREN OF DUNE + GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE
Fyodor Dostoevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Garth Nix, SABRIEL
Gene Wolfe, THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER
Gustave Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY
Hannah Kent, BURIAL RITES
Janny Wurts, THE CURSE OF THE MISTWRAITH
Jen Williams, THE NINTH RAIN + THE BITTER TWINS
Joan Lindsay, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Joe Abercrombie, THE BLADE ITSELF + BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED
John Fowles, THE MAGUS
John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN
Joseph Sale, VIRTUE’S END
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE BURIED GIANT + KLARA AND THE SUN + THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
Kerstin Hall, STAR EATER
Kritika H. Rao, THE SURVIVING SKY
Lauren Groff, MATRIX
Leonora Carrington, THE HEARING TRUMPET
Leo Tolstoy, ANNA KARENINA
Maggie O’Farrell, HAMNET + THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
R. Scott Bakker, THE DARKNESS THAT COMES BEFORE + THE WARRIOR PROPHET + THE THOUSANDFOLD THOUGHT
Ray Nayler, THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA
Richard Swan, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS + THE TYRANNY OF FAITH
Robert A. Heinlein, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
Samantha Shannon, THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
Seth Dickinson, THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT + EXORDIA
Susanna Clarke, PIRANESI
T. R. Napper, 36 STREETS + THE ESCHER MAN
Tasha Suri, THE JASMINE THRONE
Ursula K. Le Guin, A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA + THE TOMBS OF ATUAN + THE FARTHEST SHORE + TEHANU + TALES FROM EARTHSEA + THE LATHE OF HEAVEN
Yuval Kordov, THE HAND OF GOD
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