A catalogue of five-star reads I love and recommend without reserve!
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
The Animals In That Country – Laura Jean McKay
The Arsonist – Chloe Hooper
B
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Big Lies In A Small Town – Diane Chamberlain
Booth – Karen Joy Fowler
C
Calypso – David Sedaris
Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cry – Helen Fitzgerald
D
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
E
Earthlings – Sayaka Murata
Educated – Tara Westover
Empire Of Pain – Patrick Radden Keefe
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead – Emily Austin
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G
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos
Good Talk – Mira Jacob
The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Pretender – Susanna Cahalan
H
The Helpline – Katherine Collette
Her Body And Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
Horrorstor – Grady Hendrix
Hunger – Roxane Gay
I
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark – Michelle McNamara
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Importance Of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
In The Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
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Less – Andrew Sean Greer
The Library Book – Susan Orlean
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
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Mammoth – Chris Flynn
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project – Lenore Appelhans
The Martian – Andy Weir
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
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Notes On A Scandal – Zoë Heller
O
The One-Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
The Other Side Of Beautiful – Kim Lock
P
Pain And Prejudice – Gabrielle Jackson
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz
Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen
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R
Rabbits For Food – Binnie Kirshenbaum
Room – Emma Donoghue
S
Sadvertising – Ennis Ćehić
She Said – Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
A Short History Of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
The Speechwriter – Martin McKenzie-Murray
The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
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To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han
Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko
The Trauma Cleaner – Sarah Krasnostein
U
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
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W
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
Weather Girl – Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Weekend – Charlotte Wood
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56 Days – Catherine Ryan Howard