The Bibliophile's Compass

1609 Sonnets by William Shakespeare | UK | 160 | 1882 Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen | Norway | 72 | 2025 Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq | India | 224 | 🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 2025 The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien | CAN | 368 | 🏆 2025 Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle | US | 400 | 2025 That's All I Know by Elisa Levi | Spain | 192 | 2025 Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li | China | 192 | 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 2025 Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel | US | 272 | 2025 We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough | UK | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share

1958 Birthday Party by Harold Pinter | UK | 127 | 2015 Seveneves  by Neal Stephenson | US | 880 | 🏆🏆 2020 The Certainties by by Aislinn Hunter | CAN | 248 | 🏆 2020 Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour | US-Iran | 240 | 2020 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | US | 517 | 2020 F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton | US | 208 | 2020 Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner | US | 368 | 2026 Soon by You by Dahlia Adler | US | 336 | 2026 Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One by Violet Allen | US | 336 | 2026 The Arcane Arts by S. D. Coverly | US | 400 | 2026 Canon by Paige Lewis | US | 475 | 2026 Safari Murder Party by Rachel Moore | US | 346 | 2026 Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler | CAN | 384 | 2026 Murder at the Hotel Orient by Alessandra Ranelli | US | 416 | 2026 Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis | US | 432 | 2026 My Brother Oliver by R.L. Toalson | US | 464 | 2026 Turn Back Time by Eleanor Tucker | UK | 324 | 2026 Attention-See...

1839 The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe | US | 31 | ⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin | US | 272 | 1960 The Balcony by Jean Genet | FR | 112 | 2020 Beach Read by Emily Henry | US | 400 | 2021 Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller | UK | 330 | 🏆🏆 2021 Phase Six by Jim Shepard | US | 256 | 2026 The Summer That Changed Us by Jami Albright | US | 306 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share

1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum | US | 263 | 1979 The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta | UK-NIG | 226 | 2007 Walk the Blue Fields: Stories by Claire Keegan | Ireland | 192 | 2016 This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 400 | 2022 You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead | US | 272 | 2022 Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera | US | 336 | 2022 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub | US | 320 | 2022 Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan | Ireland | 256 | 2022 Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri | UK-US | 208 | 2022 The Red Arrow by William Brewer | US | 272 | 2022 Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach | US | 2023 Joy by B.R.M. Evett | US | 409 | 🏆 2026 The Seaside Book Club by Helen Rolfe | UK | 289 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share