The Bibliophile's Compass

2005 | 📖 My Cleaner by Maggie Gee | United Kingdom | 352 pages | @maggiegeenovelist 2016 | 📖 Disoriental by Négar Djavadi | France / Iran | 346 pages | ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @negardjavadi | My Review 2019 | 📖 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi | India / United States | 240 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @avnidoshi 2026 | 📖 Life of M by Rachel Cusk | United Kingdom | 147 pages | 2026 | 📖 Dèy by Edwidge Danticat | Haiti / United States | 256 pages | @edwidge_danticat 2026 | 📖 The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier | United States | 368 pages | @elizabethdelozierwrites 2026 | 📖 The Carousel of Forgotten Places by S. Hati | United States | 288 pages | 2026 | 📖 Best Served Cold (Beyond and Within) | United Kingdom | 416 pages | @crimeauthors 2026 | 📖 Fallen for France by Elizabeth Letts | United States | 336 pages | @elizabethletts 2026 | 📖 Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias | Costa Rica / United States | 352 pages | @johnmanuelarias 2026 | 📖 Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osbor...

2021 | 📖 The Women of Troy by Pat Barker | United Kingdom | 307 pages | 2021 | 📖 A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins | United Kingdom | 307 pages | 🏆🏆 | @paulahawkins2010 2021 | 📖 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | United States | 816 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2023 | 📖 Lazy City by Rachel Connolly | United Kingdom | 288 pages | 🏆 | @rachel___connolly 2023 | 📖 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch | Ireland | 259 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @paullynchauthor 2025 | 📖 So This Is Christmas by Helen Rolfe | United Kingdom | 322 pages | @helen_j_rolfe

Title : Winter Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2017 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 322 Source : physical book Genre : literary fiction, postmodernism, political fiction Awards : Orwell Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2019) After reading ten books by Ali Smith, I feel that whatever I write will inevitably become a repetition of whatever I have already said about her work — which, to be fair, is also something she does in her books, though with far more skill and fewer signs of intellectual exhaustion. One thing I may not have said before, however, is that Smith’s books have an almost transient quality. They move incredibly fast. You can easily read a 300-page novel in a day or two, provided you do not stop every five minutes to look up a reference, an artwork, a political event, a mythological allusion, or a word that suddenly makes you question your entire education. And this is where the problem begins. The books move quickly, but the intert...

2012 | 📖 Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan | United Kingdom | 320 pages | 🏆🏆 | @ianmcewan.author 2022 | 📖 Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang | United States | 545 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 |⭐⭐⭐⭐ | @kuangrf 2022 | 📖 Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste | United States | 307 pages | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐| @gwendolynkiste 2022 | 📖 Haven by Emma Donoghue | Ireland / Canada | 272 pages | 🏆🏆 | @e_donoghue 2023 | 📖 Umbilical by Teika Marija Smits | United Kingdom | 261 pages | 🏆 |