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A running ranking of the year's best books


The Oligarch's Daughter
★★☆☆☆ Part international espionage, part man on the run, a novel that suffers from plot holes big enough to drive a Russian tank through.

Greg Barlin
Apr 192 min read


Sunrise on the Reaping
★★★★★ Collins returns to give us the origin story of Haymitch Abernathy in a way that might make this the best Hunger Games novel to-date.

Greg Barlin
Apr 153 min read


Throwback
★★★★★ Goo's sweet time travel tale sees a 17-year-old from 2025 transported back to 1995 to try to help her own mother win homecoming queen.

Greg Barlin
Apr 144 min read


Wild Dark Shore
★★★★★ When a woman washes ashore on a remote island, the lone family living there nurses her back to health. But both parties have secrets...

Greg Barlin
Apr 123 min read


Famous Last Words
★★★★☆ When her husband goes off the rails, taking three people hostage, his wife tries to save him while unraveling the why behind his act.

Greg Barlin
Apr 62 min read


Real Americans
★★★★☆ A multi-generational novel that focuses on a Chinese-American family while tackling issues of class, race, technology, and belonging.

Stephanie Barlin
Apr 52 min read


Memorial Days
★★★★☆ Brooks recounts the ongoing impact of the unexpected death of her husband of 35 years and her process years later to properly grieve.

Greg Barlin
Apr 13 min read


Black Woods, Blue Sky
★★★★☆ A young mother falls for a strange, disfigured man and chooses to live with him and her 6-year-old daughter in a remote Alaskan cabin.

Greg Barlin
Mar 283 min read
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