favorites

• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
• The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes
• Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
• Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill

excellent

• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
• O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
• The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
• Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop
• The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
• Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
• How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
• A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch
• Ilium by Lea Carpenter
• One's Company by Ashley Hutson
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
• Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
• We Have always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

great

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
• Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard
• Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea
• Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
• Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
• The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
• Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
• The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Femina by Janina Ramirez
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
• Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
• My Husband by Maud Ventura
• Anite de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• The It Girl by Ruth Ware
• The Jinn Daughter by Rania Hanna
• How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
• How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
• The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
• The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
• All Fours by Miranda July
• One by One by Frieda McFadden
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
• The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
• Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
• The Astrology House by Carinn Jade
• Brat by Gabriel Smith
• The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Most by Jessica Anthony

good

• The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathiew
• Big in Sweden by Sally Franson
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber
• How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
• Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
• Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
• The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
• The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe
• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Bad Mormon by Heather Gay
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
• The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
• There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh
• Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
• Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

okay

• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
• The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
• The Fury by Alex Michaelides
• One of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
• Death in the Air by Ram Murali
• Figuring by Maria Popova
• The Details by Ia Genberg
• Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

not for me

• Finlay Donovan Is Doing Just Fine by Elle Cosimano
• The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapeike-Dale