The Bibliophile's Compass

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

2023 Yellowface by R. F. Kuang | US | 336 |🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2023 The Three of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams | UK-Nigeria | 192 | 2023 King: A Life by Jonathan Eig | US | 688 | 🏆🏆 2023 Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis | US | 320 | 2023 The Guest by Emma Cline | US | 290 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share

1711 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | UK | 28 | 2018 Milkman by Anna Burns | UK | 368 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter | UK-Jamaica | 384 | 🏆 2025 Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore | UK | 349 | 2025 Winter's End by Barbara Pronin | US | 277 | 2025 Mrs Spy by M. J. Robotham | AUS | 321 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share

1925 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | UK | 240 | 2013 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigerian | 588 | 🏆🏆🏆 2013 Inferno by Dan Brown | US | 480 | 2019 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende | Chile | 384 | 2024 All Fours by Miranda July | US | 🏆 2024 This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud | US | 448 | 🏆🏆 2024 Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru | UK | 272 | 2024 We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons | US | 288 | 2024 My First Book by Honor Levy | US | 224 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share