Books | 13 of 17

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman 14 Sep 2023

★★★★★
Four senior citizens in a retirement community solve murders... several, actually

★★★★☆
Several attempts have been made to silence the guns of Navarone, but all have failed. A small team of experienced mountaineers and saboteurs make one last attempt... the lives of 1200 men are at stake.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr. 4 Sep 2023

★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.

Binti: Home

by Nnedi Okorafor 28 Aug 2023

★☆☆☆☆
Binti comes back home from Oomza for a break, with her Meduse friend in tow. But not everyone is thrilled, as she sets out to discover more about her father's side of the family, the nomadic desert people...

Red Rising

by Pierce Brown 25 Aug 2023

★☆☆☆☆
A group of teens fight each other brutally in a gladiatorial contest on Mars

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis 14 Aug 2023

★★☆☆☆
Patrick Bateman is the archetypal yuppie. Rich, handsome, charming, excellent taste in music, art, food and all things fine. He is also a psychopathic killer.

Super Sad True Love Story

by Gary Shteyngart 5 Aug 2023

★★☆☆☆
A hopeless romantic navigates a one-sided love affair while America crumbles around him. The story evolves from his diary and her social media account.

Flipped

by Wendelin Van Draanen 2 Aug 2023

★★★☆☆
A romance between two teens which builds up over many years. She flipped the first time she saw him, but realized he wasn't quite as wonderful as she thought. He ran when she first appeared, but slowly realizes how amazing she is...

Memory Man

by David Baldacci 27 Jul 2023

★☆☆☆☆
Muscle-man ex-cop who is down and under is caught up in an investigation of a series of crimes which seem to involve him specifically and directly...

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin 24 Jul 2023

★★★★☆
The grand original O.G. dystopian novel, that influenced everything from 1984 to Brave New World, and everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to Ayn Rand. D-503 of the totalitarian OneState is a mathematician who thinks in numbers and equations. But he discovers he has a soul, and passions...

Binti

by Nnedi Okorafor 21 Jul 2023

★★★☆☆
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people to be offered a place at the prestigious Oomza university. But that would mean leaving her world behind forever and entering a world at war with the Meduse...

Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton 20 Jul 2023

★★★★★
Revolutionary new techniques in genetic engineering allow scientists to bring back long-dead animals. They choose to use the technology to make the most amazing theme park ever envisioned... until something goes wrong.

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque 14 Jul 2023

★★★★★
A young soldier in WW1 recounts his moving story of horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett 12 Jul 2023

★★★☆☆
An orphaned girl is sent to live with a reclusive uncle, where she finds a secret garden which changes the lives of herself and everyone around her

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut 10 Jul 2023

★★★★★
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, the story follows the life of Billy Pilgrim. as he reflects on the events of his life across time and space.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 6 Jul 2023

★★★★★
The story of labour-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's gulags.