The Bibliophile's Compass

1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders | UK | 1004 | 1990 Beyond the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke & Gregory Benford | United Kingdom / United States | 256 | 2007 Life Class by Pat Barker | UK | 256 | 2018 The Other Woman by Daniel Silva | United States | 400 | 2018 The Late Bloomers' Club by Louise Miller | United States | 325 | 2018 The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons | US | 256 | 2024 House of Crimson Kisses by Ruby Roe | United Kingdom | 402 | 2026 Final Weeks by Mel Sherratt | United Kingdom | 320 | 💡 Did you know? ⭕ Matthew Flinders completed his immense 1004-page travelogue A Voyage to Terra Australis while under house arrest by the French on Mauritius, passing away just one day after the book was officially published and never living to see how his work permanently defined the map of the southern hemisphere. ⭕ Pat Barker’s masterful novel Life Class explores the turbulent lives of art students caught in the shadows of the First World War, reminding us...

1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | US | 234 | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling | UK | 672 | 🏆🏆🏆 2013 Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff | United States | 113 | 🏆 2019 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | US | 224 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2019 The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter | United States | 284 | 🏆 2024 The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness | United States | 480 | 🏆 2024 The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman | US | 688 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2026 Everything She Didn't Say by Jane Casey | Ireland / United Kingdom | 336 | 💡 Did you know? ⭕ When J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye on this exact day in 1951, he drew heavily from his own traumatic WWII experiences to shape Holden Caulfield’s deep emotional alienation, creating a generation-defining masterpiece that spent thirty weeks on the bestseller list. ⭕ Jane Casey's standalone thriller Everything She Didn't Say utilizes a re...

Title : Em Author : Kim Thúy Translator : Sheila Fischman Publication Year : 2020 published; 2021 translated Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 160 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, historical fiction, trauma fiction, war fiction Awards : Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2021), Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2023) Em by Kim Thúy is the story of lost lives, lands, chances, and even plants, all marked and disfigured by the atrocities of the Vietnam War. The novel moves through the lives of those on the front lines — mostly victims and a few perpetrators — without ever whitewashing what was done or what was endured. Although the story moves among many different characters, they are all woven together through family ties, adoption, and destiny. It also traces those who leave their more comfortable lives behind to cross the world in the hope of making a difference. Every fragment is rooted in historical fact; each chapter feels like a distilled moment, a ...

2014 World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters | United States | 320 | 🏆🏆 2025 An Inside Job by Daniel Silva | US | 416 | 2025 If You Love It, Let It Kill You by Hannah Pittard | US | 304 | 🏆 2025 The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks | UK | 336 | 2025 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna | United Kingdom | 336 | 🏆 2025 My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero | United States | 288 | 🏆 💡 Did you know? ⭕ Ben H. Winters' World of Trouble concludes his Edgar Award-winning apocalyptic trilogy with a police detective who continues to solve mysteries even as a massive asteroid looms days away from ending humanity, proving that our search for truth remains a fundamental human drive regardless of impending doom. ⭕ Hannah Pittard wrote If You Love It, Let It Kill You as a daring, razor-sharp piece of autofiction that plays with the boundaries of creative writing and ownership of personal history, incorporating hilarious, surreal interactions with a talking cat ...