The Bibliophile's Compass

2008 | 📖 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer | United States | 756 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2016 | 📖 The Hike by Drew Magary | United States | 278 pages | 🏆 | 2018 | 📖 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan | Canada | 334 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2022 | 📖 The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias | United States | 320 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @gabino_iglesias 2022 | 📖 Gangland by Chuck Hogan | United States | 352 pages | 🏆 | 2022 | 📖 Shutter by Ramona Emerson | United States | 296 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @reelindian 2022 | 📖 All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews | United States | 320 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @smathewss

1911 | 📖 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | United Kingdom / United States | 331 pages | 🏆 | 1938 | 📖 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | United Kingdom | 449 pages | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 1978 | 📖 Son of the Morning by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 392 pages | 1992 | 📖 The Enchantment by Kristin Hannah | United States | 404 pages | @kristinhannahauthor 1993 | 📖 Hysteria by Terry Johnson | United Kingdom | 112 pages | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 1993 | 📖 Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 313 pages | 2005 | 📖 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson | Sweden | 480 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2006 | 📖 One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson | United Kingdom | 418 pages | 2014 | 📖 A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman | Israel | 208 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2016 | 📖 Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý | Sweden | 176 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2019 | 📖 Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior | Brazil | 288 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @itamarvieirajr 2020 | 📖 How to Stay Sane in a...

1786 "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" by Robert Burns | United Kingdom | 240 1991 The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka | United States | 622 1998 The Hours by Michael Cunningham | United States | 230 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2012 In the Footsteps of the Silver King by Paul Kareem Tayyar | Iran / United States | 162 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany | United Kingdom | 320 | 🏆🏆🏆 2018 Okay, Fine, Whatever by Courtenay Hameister | United States | 320 2025 The First Jasmines by Saima Begum | United Kingdom / Bangladesh | 245 2025 The Therapist by Nicole Trope | Australia | 288 💡 Did you know? ⭕ When Robert Burns published Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect on this exact day in 1786, the instant success of the Kilmarnock edition earned him six hundred pounds and saved him from emigrating to Jamaica, cementing his legacy as Scotland’s national bard. ⭕ Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpie...

1935 First Penguin books published by Sir Allen Lane | United Kingdom | 256 1991 A Handful of Heaven by Kristin Hannah | United States | 448 | 🏆 2024 The Wedding People by Alison Espach | United States | 384 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 2024 Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier | United States | 224 | 2024 Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu | United States / Ethiopia | 272 | 🏆 2026 Laura Clark Is Away From Her Desk by Helen Russell | United Kingdom | 410 2026 The Valley of Ravens by Barbara Erskine | United Kingdom | 509 | 2026 Kitten by Stacey Yu | United States | 304 | 💡 Did you know? ⭕ On this exact day in 1935, Sir Allen Lane launched the very first paperback Penguin Books, fundamentally revolutionizing the global publishing industry by making high-quality literature accessible to everyone at the price of a pack of cigarettes. Legend has it that Sir Allen Lane came up with the idea for Penguin Books while standing on a railway platform after visiting Agatha Christie, reali...