The Bibliophile's Compass

2020 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories by Laura van den Berg | United States | 224 | 2020 Crossings by Alex Landragin | Australia / France / United States | 384 | 🏆 2020 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey | United States | 213 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2022 Ancestry by Simon Mawer | United Kingdom | 428 | 🏆 2021 Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green | Australia | 432 | 2021 When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent | Australia / Hong Kong | 348 | 2022 Naomi's Gift by Martha Hall Kelly | United States | 53 | 2026 The Felicity Complex by August Clarke | United States | 320 | 2026 Meet Me in Paris by Kristin Harmel | United States | 368 | 2026 City of Widows by Nadia Hashimi | United States / Afghanistan | 384 | 2026 Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena | Canada | 352 | 2026 Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim | United States | 448 | 2026 Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli | Mexico / United States | 368 | 2026 Then Came the Fall by K.J. Micci...

2015 Noonday by Pat Barker | United Kingdom | 272 | 2017 Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell | United Kingdom | 356 | 🏆 2020 The We and The They by Kyra Ann Dawkins | United States | 139 | 2021 Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena | Canada / United States | 349 | 🏆 2023 Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner | United Kingdom | 160 | 💡 Did you know? ⭕ In Lisa Jewell’s dark, psychological bestseller Then She Was Gone , the story unravels the ten-year disappearance of a teenage girl through a chilling web of secrets, obsession, and maternal intuition when her mother meets a man whose young daughter bears an uncanny resemblance to her missing child. ⭕ Isabel Waidner’s surrealist novel Corey Fah Does Social Mobility uses a time-bending, bizarro-world quest involving an eight-legged deer to hilariously and radically interrogate late capitalism, literary success, and class precarity. “Today in History (July),” on Fable. https://fable.co/list/e57c57be-7d9f-49bc-bf34-ba6cab34f191/shar...

Title : Don’t Let Him In Author : Lisa Jewell Publication Year : 2025 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (fun rating) Pages : 361 Duration : 12 hrs 15 mins Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : mystery, thriller Awards : Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense (2026), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery/Thriller (2025), She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Audiobook (2025) There are books with unlikeable characters… and then there are books where you actively, passionately wish fictional death upon them. Don’t Let Him In is very much in the second category. The “him” in the title is so repulsive that I’m convinced the only appropriate justice would be every woman he abused or killed taking a turn. Individually. Repeatedly. Let’s just say: maximum consequences. Anything less feels disappointingly mild. And this is coming from a pacifist. I hated every single relationship in this book so much that I kept reading purely to make sure he got what he deserved. He does get some kind of comeuppance, ...

2016 The Unseen World by Liz Moore | United States | 451 | 2022 Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah | United States | 258 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2022 The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell | United Kingdom | 452 | 🏆 2022 An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy | United States | 288 | 2022 A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys | United States | 352 | 💡 Did you know? ⭕ In Oscar Hokeah’s PEN/Hemingway Award-winning debut Calling for a Blanket Dance, the polyphonic narrative structure mirrors the traditional Kiowa custom of a blanket dance, where community members lay down blankets and offer gifts to support a young person, with each family voice contributing a piece of strength to help the protagonist navigate intergenerational trauma. ⭕ Liz Moore’s sweeping novel The Unseen World connects 1980s computer science innovation with early artificial intelligence to build a heartbreaking investigation into family secrets, memory loss, and legacy. “Today in History (July),” on Fable. https://fable.co/list/e57...