January

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro | ★★★★★
• Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson | ★★★★☆
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak | ★★★★★
• The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning | ★★★☆☆
• Worry by Alexandra Tanner | ★★★☆☆
• One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware | ★★★★☆
• Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison | ★★★★☆
• Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler | ★★★☆☆
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton | ★★☆☆☆
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow | ★★★★☆

February

• The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey | ★★★★☆
• Devil Is Fine by John Vercher | ★★★★★
• We Spread by Ian Reid | ★★★★★
• Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward | ★★★★☆
• Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su | ★★★★☆
• Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley | ★★☆☆☆
• Gliff by Ali Smith | ★★★★★
• James by Percival Everett | ★★★★★

• ✔ a pun in the title: Cheddar Luck Next Time by Beth Cato
• ✔ a character with red hair: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
• ✔ title starts with the letter "m": Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley
• title starts with the letter "n":
  • nicked mt anderson
  • night film marisha pessl
  • new animal ella baxter
  • neverwhere enil gaiman
  • never saw me coming vera kurian
  • natural beauty ling ling huang
  • night tiger yangsze choo
  • night train to lisbon
  • nightbitch
  • no one is talking abou this
  • north and south elizabeth gaskell
  • not what she seems yaasmine angoe
  • nw zadie smith
• ✔ plot includes a heist: Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley
• ✔ genre one: set in spring: Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods (fantasy)
• ✔ genre two: set in summer: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (lit fic)

• April
• The hope spring brings

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
• We Spread by Ian Reid
• Gliff by Ali Smith
• James by Percival Everett
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Boy by Nicole Galland
• Wordslut by Amanda Montell
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peter
• Cheddar Luck Next Time by Beth Cato
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
• When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
• Gulf by Mo Ogrodnik
• Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe