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A running ranking of the year's best books


The Children
★★★★☆ A haunting, dual-timeline tale of estranged siblings reckoning with a traumatic childhood serves up a unique blend of family drama and dark fairy tale.

Greg Barlin
May 203 min read


The Ending Writes Itself
★★★★☆ Six authors compete on a remote Scottish island to finish a dead writer's final novel in this middling Clue-like send-up of the publishing industry.

Greg Barlin
May 172 min read


Our Perfect Storm
★★★★☆ When a woman's fiancé leaves her on their wedding day, she ends up taking her lifelong (gorgeous, heterosexual) male best friend on her honeymoon. What could happen?

Greg Barlin
May 112 min read


Five
★★★★★ Jaw-dropping dialogue and moral judgement set the tone for this dark exploration of five neurodiverse characters, one of which we're told will die by the end of the book.

Greg Barlin
May 113 min read


Sublimation
★★★★☆ A thought-provoking sci-fi debut exploring identity and immigration through "instances" where a copy of a person is created when they immigrate to a new country.

Greg Barlin
May 83 min read


You With the Sad Eyes
★★★★☆ In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Christina Applegate lays bare her life in Hollywood and her private battles with breast cancer, MS, and self-loathing.

Greg Barlin
May 72 min read


One and Only
★★★★★ When a professional matchmaker meets her "fated" match, she must choose between her prophesied destiny and an undeniable connection she has with someone else.

Greg Barlin
May 23 min read


London Falling
★★★★☆ A gripping and fascinating piece of investigative journalism that seeks to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of a young London man in 2019.

Greg Barlin
Apr 292 min read
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