The Bibliophile's Compass

1980 | 📖 Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 592 pages | 🏆 | @joycecaroloates3146 2020 | 📖 Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses | United States | 317 pages | 🏆 | @m.salesses 2026 | 📖 Under the Falls by Richard Russo | United States | 256 pages | 2026 | 📖 Mia by Leslie Bazzett | United States | 320 pages | 2026 | 📖 Hocus Pocus by Brinda Charry | United States | 336 pages | @brinda_charry2 2026 | 📖 Counting the Days by Laura Chinn | United States | 320 pages | @laurachinnnn 2026 | 📖 A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young | South Korea | 112 pages | 2026 | 📖 A Tender Age by Chang-rae Lee | United States | 368 pages | 2026 | 📖 A Thousand Painted Hours by Barbara O'Neal | United States | 480 pages | @barbaraonealauthor 2026 | 📖 Sunrise by Téa Obreht | United States / Serbia | 336 pages | @teaobreht 2026 | 📖 The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope | United States | 496 pages | @leslyepenelope 2026 | 📖 The True Meaning of Love by Dan...

1988 | 📖 Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn | United Kingdom | 104 pages | 2023 | 📖 The Orchid Hour by Nancy Bilyeau | United States | 340 pages | @tudorscribe

Title : Then the Fish Swallowed Him Author : Amir Ahmadi Arian Publication Year : 2020 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 288 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : historical fiction, Iranian fiction, political fiction I cannot decide whether this is a 3.5-star or 4-star book, which feels strangely appropriate for a novel that left me unsettled rather than satisfied. Let’s start with the title and cover, because I was deeply curious about them. Then the Fish Swallowed Him immediately calls to mind the story of Jonah, the prophet swallowed by a fish until he learns his lesson and returns to the right path. Here, the main character is named Yunus — aka Jonah — and the parallel feels painfully ironic. Or maybe irony is too soft a word for it. I believe the author somehow subverts the story, though I am not entirely sure how to name it. If we consider Yunus as Jonah and the solitary cell as the fish, then what does that leave the despotic system to be? Yunus Turabi is an ordinary man: a bus ...

1854 | 📖 Walden by Henry David Thoreau | United States | 352 pages | 2011 | 📖 The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson | United States | 320 pages | 2016 | 📖 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood | United States | 368 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @bryngreenwood 2016 | 📖 Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson | United States | 192 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @jacqueline_woodson 2016 | 📖 When Watched by Leopoldine Core | United States | 240 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2018 | 📖 Where Shall We Run To? by Alan Garner | United Kingdom | 194 pages | 2021 | 📖 An Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije | Namibia / Rwanda | 384 pages | @remythequill 2022 | 📖 Stay Awake by Megan Goldin | United States | 340 pages | @authormegangoldin 2022 | 📖 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy | United States | 304 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @jennettemccurdy 2026 | 📖 Codename: 61 by Alex Shaw | United Kingdom | 278 pages | @alexshawthrillerwriter