Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures
★☆☆☆☆
A first-hand account of the hunt for two lions which terrorized the crew building a railway line in Eastern Africa.
The Silent Patient
★★★★☆
A criminal psychotherapist joins a facility with the specific aim of working with one of their celebrity inmates, painter Alicia Berenson. Does he just want the publicity, or does he have a more sinister motive...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
★★★★☆
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in the slums of 18th-century France, with an extraordinary gift of smell. Working as a perfumer, he starts the grisly task of bottling up.. the essence of women.
An Artist of the Floating World
★★★★☆
Set in post-war Japan, the story explores the rapid modernization of the country and the resentment held against the older generation for thrusting the country into a needless war.
Cloud Atlas
★★★★★
A thought-provoking tale spanning generations and eons, from the distant past to a post-apocalyptic far future, and examines how souls drift across time, and how the souls are interconnected
I Am Legend
★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...
Big Little Lies
★★★★★
Things get out of hand at a school fundraising event, and one of the Kindergarden parents ends up dead. And as the mystery of the death is examined, each of the parents' perfect little lives also unravels.
Tell No One
★★★★☆
Gripping thriller in which a widower doctor is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of life-threatening scenarios, starting when he gets a mail from beyond the grave...
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
★☆☆☆☆
Lara Jean never spoke about her crushes. She just writes letters to them as a way of coping, and hides the letters under her bed. But when those letters suddenly get sent out, havoc!
The Thursday Murder Club
★★★★★
Four senior citizens in a retirement community solve murders... several, actually