The Mysterious Affair at Styles
★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance
Fooled by Randomness
★★★☆☆
A treatise on the role of randomness in all ventures, and how everyone often models all behaviour on repeating that one random outcome
City of Bones
★☆☆☆☆
A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family
The Alchemist
★☆☆☆☆
A young shepherd follows his dreams, quite literally, and learns alchemy along the way.
Flood of Fire
★★★★★
The conclusion of the magnificent Ibis trilogy, and another foray into the language and history of the British Raj
The Black Echo
★★★★☆
LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade
Behind Her Eyes
★★★★★
A doctor's secretary is having an affair with the doctor, while being a close confidant of his wife.
Little Women
★★★☆☆
A coming-of-age novel set around the American Civil war, detailing the lives of four sisters from childhood to womanhood.
Flowers for Algernon
★★★★★
A diary of an intellectually challenged young man detailing his experience being part of an experimental procedure to increase his intelligence
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
★★★★☆
An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it
The Assassin’s Apprentice
★★★★★
A young boy is taken in by the king’s men and trained to be an assassin, where he uses his unique gifts and intelligence to achieve his goals
The Left Hand of Darkness
★★★★★
In a world far away, and a culture even further away, one human works to bridge the chasm of differences
Good Omens
★★★★★
The end of times is upon us; the date for the apocalypse has been set, and the antichrist has been primed (sort of...). It’s up to one sympathetic pair, an angel and a demon, to calm things down and save the world.
The Bullet That Missed
★★★★★
The four senior citizen detectives are at it again, this time solving a ten year old case of a murdered TV journalist... while other events happen around them
Material World
★★★★★
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. The six fundamental raw materials which have shaped humanity and the world we live in. This book takes an in-depth look at each.
The Devotion of Suspect X
★★★☆☆
Tokyo police detective Kusanagi has a perplexing case on his hands; he has a body, but is unable to piece together the events leading up to the death...