Luckiest Girl Alive
★★★☆☆
Ani seems to have it all; fancy job, glamourous life, rich fiancé. But her past hides horrendous secrets which still haunt her...
> "Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth." -- Khaled Hosseini
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
★★★★★
Years after English magic is thought dead, a magician Mr. Norrell comes forth to help England in the Napoleonic wars
Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
★★★★☆
An brief and entertaining mathematical satire, where a 2-dimensional being encounters a 3-dimensional one
The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three
★★★★☆
The gunslinger travels to New York, in our world, and enters the minds of three different people at different times
We have always lived in the Castle
★★★★☆
A psychological horror novel which defined the genre, taking gothic horror to the next level
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
★★★★☆
A lonely and isolated 30-something woman makes a friend, and starts to open herself up
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
★★★☆☆
A collection of folk-tales from the Arab world, from the Islamic golden age
Something Fresh
★★★★☆
The first ever Blandings castle book and, as it always happens, there are visitors to the castle under an assumed identity
The Name of the Wind
★★★★★
Kvothe relates the story of his life, the tale of how he grew from a gifted child to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen
Maltese Falcon
★★☆☆☆
Private eye Sam Spade finds himself surrounded by several parties all vying to get hold of a jewel encrusted bird
Crooked House
★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?