I’ve organised my reviews by star rating so you can easily find your next read!
Five Stars = I hold this book in my heart everywhere I go. I will mention it in every conversation until I die. The characters will haunt me throughout my days.
Alvarez, Julia – How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Arthurs, Alexia – How to Love a Jamaican
Atwood, Margaret – The Testaments
Babalola, Bolu – Love In Colour
Bennett, Brit – The Vanishing Half
Castillo, Elaine – America is Not the Heart
Edim, Glory – Well-Read Black Girl
Ephron, Nora – Heartburn
Evaristo, Bernadine – Girl, Woman, Other
Haynes, Natalie – A Thousand Ships
Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kent, Hannah – Burial Rites
O’Farrell, Maggie – Hamnet
Reid, Kiley – Such a Fun Age
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Shamsie, Kamila – Home Fire
Ward, Jesmyn – Men We Reaped
Yousafzai, Malala – We Are Displaced
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Dawson, Juno – Meat Market
Gyasi, Yaa – Transcendent Kingdom
Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Jackson, Naomi – The Star Side of Bird Hill
Lawton, Georgina – Raceless
Millwood-Hargrave, Kiran – The Mercies
Mustapha, Sahar – The Beauty of Your Face
Owens, Delia – Where The Crawdads Sing
Shreeves-Lee, Jac – Broadwater
Straub, Emma – All Adults Here
Thomas, Angie – The Hate You Give
Whitehead, Colson – The Nickel Boys
Wilkinson, Lauren – American Spy
Zayyan, Hafsa – We Are All Birds of Uganda
Zoboi, Ibi – American Street
Four Stars = I will recommend this book to everyone I come into contact with for the next three months. Several of my friends and family will receive it for their birthday presents.
Acevedo, Elizabeth – Clap When You Land
Alammar, Layla – The Pact We Made
Amaka, Rosanna – The Book of Echoes
Azumah-Nelson, Caleb – Open Water
Benary, Margot – Castle on the Border
Bourne, Holly – Am I Normal Yet?
Braithwaite, Oyinkan – My Sister, The Serial Killer
Brooks, Geraldine – People of the Book
Chadwick, Elizabeth – The Summer Queen
Cruz, Angie – Dominicana
Dalcher, Christina – Vox
Daré, Abi – The Girl with the Louding Voice
Dawson, Juno – Clean
Evaristo, Bernadine – Mr Loverman
Gyasi, Yaa – Homegoing
Haynes, Natalie – Pandora’s Jar
Healey, Jane – The Animals at Lockwood Manor
Herbert, Adrienne – Power Hour
King, Stephen – On Writing
Morris, Brittney – The Cost of Knowing
Okechukwu, Nzelu – The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
Papillon, Buki – An Ordinary Wonder
Rahman, Khurrum – East of Hounslow
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Shamsie, Kamila – A God in Every Stone
Shukla, Nikesh – Brown Baby
Slimani, Leïla – Lullaby
Taddeo, Lisa – Three Women
Tartt, Donna – The Goldfinch
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Adebayo, Ayobami – Stay With Me
Adeyemi, Tomi – Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Bourne, Holly – The Places I’ve Cried in Public
Channing-Brown, Austin – I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Gregory, Philippa – Tidelands
Lefteri, Christy – The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Loupas, Elizabeth – The Red Lily Crown
Mengiste, Maaza – The Shadow King
Morris, Stephen – Black Tea
O’Porter, Dawn – So Lucky
Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea
Rooney, Sally – Normal People
Ryan, Madeleine – A Room Called Earth
Smith, Zadie – Intimations
Söderberg, Hjalmar – Doctor Glas
Woodson, Jacqueline – Red At The Bone
Washington, Bryan – Lot
Three Stars = I will forget the details of the plot after a couple of weeks, but I will smile when I see it on my bookshelf.
Ashour, Radwa – Granada
Burns, Anna – Milkman
Burton, Jessie – The Miniaturist
Chadwick, Elizabeth – The Winter Crown
Cole, Teju – Every Day is For the Thief
Ephron, Nora – I Feel Bad About My Neck
Evaristo, Bernadine – Hello Mum
Machado, Carmen Maria – Her Body & Other Parties
Rahman, Yasmin – All The Things We Never Said
Rushdie, Salman – Midnight’s Children
Selmi, Habib – The Scents of Marie-Claire
Two Stars = I will cry with disappointment at the time wasted trying to finish this book.
One Star = I stopped reading before my soul was crushed.
Sebald, W.G. – The Rings of Saturn
