Murder on the Orient Express
★★★★★
A train stopped at midnight in the snow. A dead body found in a compartment. Twelve stab wounds leave no doubt it was murder. And Hercule Poirot, tasked with solving the crime, is certain the culprit is a passenger on the Orient Express.
Into Thin Air
★★★★★
A personal account of the Mount Everest disaster of 1996 by one of the climbers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
★★★★★
A classic study of shallowness, vanity, casual cruelty and hedonistic selfishness, all presented as a suspenseful Gothic horror novel
Rosemary's Baby
★★★★★
Dark and twisted horror novel with a slow build-up of a sense of unease, with both the reader and the protagonist asking themselves, "Is there something ominous, or are we reading too much into nothing?"
Station Eleven
★★★★☆
Story detailing the lives of a group people living before, through and after a pandemic wipes most of humanity. 'Survival is insufficient' - Star Trek Voyager
A Wrinkle in Time
★☆☆☆☆
Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.
And Then There Were None
★★★★★
Influential murder-mystery that is clever and suspenseful. This gem will keep you guessing!
Shutter Island
★★★★★
Fear, obsession, paranoia... this book is the stuff nightmares are made of. It is noir psychological suspense at its finest.
The Handmaid's Tale
★★★☆☆
The Handmaid's Tale is an incredibly well-written dystopian tome, presented as a diary of "Handmaid", living in an extremely misogynistic, horrifying world.
The Wizard of Earthsea
★★★★★
The origin story of sparrowhawk, the greatest wizard of Earthsea. As the young boy learns to be a wizard, his pride and ego causes him to take some mis-steps; and as a young man, he uses his skill and resourcefulness to rectify those mis-steps