I’ve read over 50 books this year, the most since I started noting on this site. Retirement from full-time work is beginning to reap benefits. Looking through the whole list I find my scoring system does exactly relate to the ones that stick in my memory most. Here are the 5 stars anyway.
- The Book of Goose : Yiyun Li, ★★★★★
- Review: Flashlight by Susan Choi : Susan Choi, ★★★★★
- Seascraper : Benjamin Wood, ★★★★★
- little monsters : Adrienne Brodeur, ★★★★★
- There There : Tommy Orange, ★★★★★
- Golden Child : Claire Adam, ★★★★★
- Bel Canto : Ann Patchett, ★★★★★
- Winter : Ali Smith, ★★★★★
- The Unwilding : Mariana Kemp, ★★★★★
- In Ascension : Martin MacInnes, ★★★★★
- The Divorcees : Rowan Beaird, ★★★★★
- Lone Wolf : Adam Weymouth, ★★★★★
- Highway Thirteen : Fiona Mcfarlane, ★★★★★
- The Blazing Heather : Colm Tóibín, ★★★★★
- Half of a Yellow Sun : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ★★★★★