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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,...
Mar 16, 20232 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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....
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


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....
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Illuminae, by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
This book is written in such a unique and creative way - the story it told through drawings, documents, diagrams, and digital...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
I think this is a book you should read without knowing much about it before - it has such an unusual setting and things unravel slowly so...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
After reading The House in the Cerulean Sea and it becoming one of my favourite books of all time, I was so excited to read this book!...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


And Then She Vanished, by Nick Jones
This book is about a man whose younger sister vanished when they were at a fair as young children. She was never seen again, and it...
Nov 9, 20211 min read


The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge
This is a young adult gothic fantasy fiction set in the Victorian age about a young girl called Faith who is brave, curious, incredibly...
Nov 9, 20211 min read


The Silent Companions, by Laura Purcell
This is the best scariest ghost story I have read so far! It is set in the 1800s and is a gothic, dark horror that hooked me from the...
Nov 9, 20211 min read


The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton
An absolute favourite! I have never read anything quite like it - imagine ground hog day but as a psychological thriller murder mystery!...
Oct 5, 20211 min read


The House in The Cerulean Sea, by T. J. Klune
This has to be the most delightful book I have ever read! I didn’t want it to end, I wish there was a sequel or a whole series with these...
Oct 5, 20212 min read


The Keeper of Lost Things, by Ruth Hogan
This story is about an old man who collects lost objects that he finds in the hope of reuniting them with their owners one day....
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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