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The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Classics First Published: 1993 Length: 250 pages Setting: Michigan I enjoyed this book a lot more than I...


You made a fool of death with your beauty - by Akwaeke Emezi
Genre: Romance, Fiction, LGBT, Adult fiction First published: 2022 Length: 288 pages Setting: New York City and an unnamed tropical...


Burying Eva Flores, by Jennifer Alsever
Genre: Young adult, crime fiction, thriller, paranormal First published: 2022 Length: 388 pages Setting: Town of Paonia in Colorado This...


Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Asian Literature First Published: 2013 Length: 213 Publication Language: Japanese Setting: Tokyo A...


Daisy Darker, by Alice Feeney
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense First published: 2022 Length: 352 pages Setting: a remote house on a causeway in Cornwall, UK A great...


Kim JiYoung, Born 1982, by Cho Nam-Joo
Genre: Fiction, Feminism, Contemporary, Asian Literature First published: 2016, first published in English in 2020 Length: 163 pages...


The Trees, by Percival Everett
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Crime First Published: 2021 Length: 309 pages Setting: Mississippi Such an incredible book - don’t want...


Really Good, Actually, by Monica Heisey - a spoiler-free review
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Humor First Published: 2023 Length: 384 pages Setting: Canada I really enjoyed this book - I’ve...


The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I personally thought that this book deserves every bit of hype it gets! Whilst reading, I had to constantly remind myself that I was...


Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart
Wow this was an emotional, distressing and beautiful book. Set in the working class housing estates in Glasgow in super homophobic,...


The Maid, by Nita Prose
This was such an enjoyable, funny, wholesome murder mystery told from the perspective of a young maid at a hotel who discovers a dead...


No Exit, by Taylor Adams
This book is about a woman who was trying to travel home for Christmas to see her terminally ill mother, when she is caught in a...


The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox
This book is a mixture of so many genres: it is a fantasy that is set within our world and others, with elements of mythology, mystery,...


Bunny, by Mona Awad
Imagine if Mean Girls was a horror/supernatural novel - this is kind of how I imagine it would be. I really, really enjoyed it, and had...


Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
This book tells the incredible story of the lives of the wife and children of Shakespeare and how their lives were changed by the plague....


The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton
This book was so different to anything I had read before - imagine a Sherlock Holmes detective story crossed with all the action and...


How to Kill Your Family, by Bella Mackie
I always love books with unconventional narrators and this certainly didn’t disappoint. It is about a girl who is in prison for a crime...


The Wolf of Baghdad, by Carol Isaacs
I cannot recommend this graphic novel / memoir enough! It is about the author reflecting on her family’s history in Iraq, where her...


Yinka, where is your husband? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
A feel-good, empowering and interesting romance story about Yinka - a British born Nigerian Christian in her 30s, who is constantly asked...


Big Girl Small Town, by Michelle Gallen
For anyone who loves Derry Girls you really should read this! It’s very funny and quirky, set in Northern Ireland in the 2000s. It is...


Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
This was a lovely lighthearted & short read about a Japanese woman who has worked in the same convenience store for 18 years. She loves...


The Twyford Code, by Janice Hallett
Having loved The Appeal last year, I was so excited to read another book by Janice Hallett! This book also has a unique format and the...


The Daisy Chain, by Al Campbell
The book is set in England in 1771 and is a historical fiction tale about botany, art, scientific discovery, exploration, trade and the...


My Best Friend’s Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix
This was my second time reading a Grady Hendrix novel and I’m quickly becoming a big fan! I love the cover of this book so much - and the...


Horrorstör, by Grady Henrix
This whole book is designed to look like an IKEA catalogue - how cool is that?? It was such a fun and unique experience to read - there...


Rock Paper Scissors, by Alice Feeney
This book is a really intriguing psychological thriller all about a couple who travel to the Scottish Highlands for a break as a last...


Heartstopper graphic novel series by Alice Oseman
I love everything about this series! The drawings are simplistic and so adorable, the books are so wholesome and I know I will be reading...


Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason
A really beautiful story that is written so well I kept thinking I was reading a memoir! The stream of consciousness writing style was...


The Appeal, by Janice Hallett
This was such a unique and captivating murder mystery, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys trying to solve the mysteries...


The Sanatorium, by Sarah Pearse
This book is about a woman and her partner who travel to a newly renovated hotel in Switzerland that used to be a sanatorium/hospital for...


The Hunting Party, by Lucy Foley
I really enjoyed The Guest List, so I was happy that this book was pretty similar (it also had multiple perspectives/narrators, dual...


Away With the Penguins, by Hazel Prior
Veronica is an old woman who lives alone in her house in a peaceful, remote area in Scotland, and has no one to pass on her fortune to...


Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot is on a train travelling from Istanbul to Calais when a man approaches him and offers an extraordinary amount of money in...


The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
This book is about a woman who decides that she no longer wants to live, and wakes up in a library. She is told by the librarian that all...


Evidence of the Affair, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This short story is told through the letters sent back and forth between a man and a woman who have found out that their partners are...


The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
I want to start off with a quote from Steinbeck, because I think it really describes why this book is the way it is: ‘I’ve done my...


The Frequency of Us, by Keith Stuart
This book is about an old man who is presumed to have dementia, and social services send a carer around to evaluate whether he needs...


My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The book starts with the narrator receiving a call from her sister, saying she has killed someone, and needs her help. It is not the...


Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A gentle, tender, beautiful, hopeful book about growing up, identity, family and relationships. This book is the absolute opposite of one...


Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I loved the concept of this book - it is a cosy little fantasy about a tiny coffee shop in Japan that offers customers the ability to...


The Confessions of Frannie Langton, by Sara Collins
A historical fiction (and kind of a murder mystery) book set in the 1800s about a girl called Frannie who is born on a cane plantation in...


Galatea, by Madeline Miller
This really short book (just 64 pages!) was surprisingly immersive and gripping, and is a reimagining of the myth of Galatea and...


The Christie Affair, by Nine De Gramont
This book is a re-imagining of the time when Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days and never explained what happened. It is told from...


Blind Spot, by Paula Hawkins
This short and accessible crime thriller is about a woman who finds out that her husband is dead, and that his best friend discovered his...


A Terrible Kindness, by Jo Browning Wroe
In October 1966, a landslide at a coal mine in Aberfan in Wales crushed a row of houses and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults....


A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting, by Sophie Irwin
I think this book will be perfect for fans of Jane Austen - it’s a cosy and comforting story about a young woman in the late 1800s who is...


The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Absolutely blown away by this book, I read it over 6 months ago but continue to think about it a lot. Yes it did break my heart but it’s...


Daughter of the Moon Goddess
This book is a Chinese legend retelling, and the first book in the Celestial Kingdom duology. The Moon Goddess gained her immortality in...


Diary of a Void, by Emi Yagi
An easy-to-read, super enjoyable book set in modern day Japan about a woman who lies about being pregnant. As the only woman in her...


Babel, by R.F. Kuang
Set in an alternative universe in 1800s Oxford, a young Cantonese orphan is taken back to England with a man who gives him an education....
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