favorites

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

excellent

• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Enchantment by Katherine May
• Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• All's Well by Mona Awad
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Homecoming by Kate Morton
• Inanna by Emily H. Wilson

great

• The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törz
• The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker
• Almond by Sohn Won-pyung
• Rizzio by Denise Mina
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• City of Silver: A Mystery by Annamaria Alfieri
• Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Queens of Jerusalem by Katherine Pangonis
• All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter
• Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter
• The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
• Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

good

• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Club by Ellery Lloyd
• The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• The Cloisters by Katy Hays
• The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
• The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

okay

• Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman
• Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
• Intrigue in Istanbul by Erica Ruth Neubauer
• Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
• The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
• Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft
• The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

not for me

• The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
• Blond Hair, Blue Eyes by Karin Slaughter
• Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns
• Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton
• Moorewood Family Rules by HelenKay Dimon
• Verity by Colleen Hoover