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A running ranking of the year's best books


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 273 min read


Frankie
★★★☆☆ A recounting of the fictional life of Frankie Howe, from Ireland to London to America and back, spanning the 1950s to today.

Greg Barlin
Mar 213 min read


Kills Well With Others
★★★★☆ Author Raybourn runs it back with everyone's favorite female assassins in their 60s in a sequel that's just as good as the original.

Greg Barlin
Mar 112 min read


Dead Money
★★★★★ Kerr's mature and tightly-plotted debut follows the murder investigation of the founder of a fictitious tech company in San Francisco.

Greg Barlin
Mar 83 min read


The Warbler
★★★☆☆ A woman tries to break a curse which causes the women in her family to transform into a tree forever if they stay in a place too long.

Greg Barlin
Mar 12 min read


This Book Will Bury Me
★★★☆☆ A novel about true-crime aficionados that uses the recent University of Idaho murders as its source material, an ill-conceived choice.

Greg Barlin
Feb 222 min read


Summer Romance
★★★☆☆ A 38-year-old nearly-divorced mother of three starts a summer fling with a dashing, slightly younger man. Can it last?

Greg Barlin
Feb 153 min read


The Fourth Consort
★★★☆☆ A colonizer from Earth is stuck on an alien planet and must unravel the internal politics of the local species while trying to survive

Greg Barlin
Feb 103 min read
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