The Bibliophile's Compass

📚 1892 Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 76 | 📚 1897 Fedora by Kate Chopin | US | 📚 2001 The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt | Scotland | 62 | 📚 2024 Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley | US | 208 | 📚 2024 Day One by Abigail Dean | UK | 368 | 📚 2024 Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison | US | 272 | 📚 2024 Ours: A Novel by Phillip B. Williams | US | 592 | 📚 2025 The Accidental Immigrants by Joanna McMillan | Scotland | 315 | 🏆 📚 2026 The Woman Who Turned Her Life Around by Fiona Gibson | UK | 263 | 📚 2026 The Cottage in the Clouds by Caroline Young | Scotland | 327 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1932 Light in August by William Faulkner | US | 480 | 📚 1963 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan | US | 239 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1678 Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | UK | 400 | 📚 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |US | 362 | 📚 2020 Real Life by Brandon Taylor | US | 336 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 📚 2020 Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin | US | 343 | 📚 2020 The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes | UK | 208 | 📚 2025 Dream State by Eric Puchner | US | 608 | 📚 2025 Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza | Mexico | 304 | 📚 2025 The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea by C. L. Miller | UK | 304 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1776 The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire (VOL1) by Edward Gibbon | UK | 928 | 📚 2015 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy | UK | 208 | 🏆 📚 2022 Plutoshine Book by LUCY KISSICK | UK | 410 | 🏆 📚 2026 Last Seen by Christopher Castellani | US | 368 | 📚 2026 Everything Lost Returns by Sarah Domet | US | 311 | 📚 2026 Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein | UK | 386 | 📚 2026 So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder | US | 384 | 📚 2026 Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif | UK-Pakistan | 320 | 📚 2026 Postscript by Cory McCarthy | US | 240 | 📚 2026 A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver | UK | 384 | 📚 2026 Cleaner by Jess Shannon | UK | 224 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 2021 A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas | US | 768 | 📚 2021 No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood | US | 224 | 🏆🏆 📚 2021 Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora | FR | 208 | 📚 2021 How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada | Chile | 180 | 📚 2021 Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño | Chile | 208 | 📚 2021 The Removed by Brandon Hobson | US | 288 | 📚 2021 A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke | US | 256 | 📚 2023 Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein | Trinidad and Tobago | 336 | 🏆🏆 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1887 The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 44 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 1932 There's Always Juliet by John Van Druten | UK | 184 | 📚 1939 The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman | US | 153 | 📚 2014 Scouting for the Reaper by Jacob M. Appel | US | 194 | 🏆 📚 2022 New Animal by Ella Baxter | AUS | 212 | 📚 2022 Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James | Jamaica | 656 | 📚 2022 Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra | Chile | 368 | 📚 2022 In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanwi Nandini Islam | US | 352 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1895 Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 58 | 📚 2023 Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill | Scotland | 400 | 📚 2023 My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin | US | 📚 2023 The Applicant by Nazli Koca | TR | 256 | 🏆 📚 2023 Playhouse by Richard Bausch | US | 352 | 📚 2023 The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo | ARG-US | 📚 2023 The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane | AUS | 352 | 📚 2023 The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith | UK | 208 📚 2023 Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix | US | 240 | 📚 2023 The Laughter by Sonora Jha | India | 320 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 2024 The Book of Love by Kelly Link | US | 📚 2024 What Feasts at Night by Ursula Vernon | US | 160 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 📚 2024 A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham | US | 272 | 📚 2024 Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell | US | 144 | 🏆 📚 2025 The Sirens by Emilia Hart | Uk/AUS | 352 | 📚 2025 The South by Tash Aw | Malaysia | 288 | 📚 2026 Live, Laugh, Murder by Danielle Morris | US | 375 | 🏆 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

📚 1889 The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen | Norway | 70 | 📚 2019 Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli | US/Mexico | 400 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 📚 2019 The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders | US | 368 | 🏆 📚 2026 Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya | India | 412 | 📚 2026 Sheltering Angel of Belleau Wood by Louella Bryant | US | 340 | 📚 2026 A Bookshop Summer by Stephanie Butland | UK | 350 | 📚 2026 Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | UK | 303 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🔴 1896 Salome by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 56 | 🔴 2020 The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall | US | 112 | 🏆 🔴 2020 Indelicacy by Amina Cain | US | 161 | 🏆🏆 🔴 2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart | Scotland/US | 448 | 🎥 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2025 We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes | UK | 464 | 🔴 2025 Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores | US / Mexico | 352 | 🏆 🔴 2025 Casual by Koji A. Dae | AUS | 320 | 🏆 🔴 2025 There's No Turning Back by Alba De Céspedes | IT / CUB | 304 | 🔴 2025 The Watermark by Sam Mill | US/FR | 544 | 🔴 2025 Covert Joy: Selected Stories by Clarice Lispector | Brazil | 165 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🔴 1923 Icebound by Owen Davis | US | 120 | 🏆 🎥 🔴 1966 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann | US | 442 | 🎥 🔴 2022 When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo | Trinidad | 304 | 🔴 2026 Wants and Needs by Roxy Dunn | UK | 304 | 🔴 2026 The Wandering Queen by Claire Heywood | UK | 329 | 🔴 2026 Footeprint: Eunice Newton Foote at the Dawn of Climate Science and Women's Rights by Lindsay H. Metcalf | US | 303 | 🔴 2026 Eradication: A Fable by Jonathan Miles | US | 176 | 🔴 2026 World's Edge: A Mosaic by James Sallis | US | 240 | 🔴 2026 Royal Spin by Omid Scobie and Robin Benway | UK US | 316 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

Title : Man of My Time Author : Dalia Sofer Publication Year : 2020 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 386 Source : audiobook at @storytel.tr Genre : Historical fiction, Persian Literature, Perpetrator Fiction How cruelly ironic it is to read a novel like this at such a time (i.e., to be living through the darkest chapter in your country’s history, with thousands massacred in two days and countless more dying since) only to pick up a book whose main character is complicit in the very machinery of that violence. The timing of this read feels almost like a deliberate wound, a twist of fate that deepens the sense of national grief and fury. I began Man of My Time knowing nothing about the plot or protagonist, simply following my resolution to read one Persian novel each month. Within the first pages, I was so disturbed by the perspective that I had to research the author, desperate for reassurance that she was not a regime sympathizer. Once certain of her opposition, I braced myself for a read...

🔴 1682 Venice Preserved by Thomas Otway | UK | 42 | 🔴 2021 Zorrie by Laird Hunt | US/Singapore | 176 | 🏆 🔴 2021 We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman | US | 336 | 🏆 🔴 2021 We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida | US | 272 | 🔴 2021 Super Host by Kate Russo | 368 | 🔴 2022 Pod by Laline Paull | UK | 272 | 🏆 🔴 2024 What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close | UK | 400 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🔴 1926 Plough & Stars by Sean O'Casey | Ireland | 122 | 🎥 🔴 1937 Masque of Kings by Maxwell Anderson | US | 150 | 🔴 1983 Painting Churches by Tina Howe | US | 94 | 🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2022 Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead | UK | 240 | 🔴 2022 Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso | US | 208 | 🏆 🔴 2022 Nightshift by Kiare Ladner | South Africa | 256 | 🔴 2022 The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman | US | 384 | 🏆 🔴 2022 Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors | UK | 384 | 🏆 🔴 2024 Mongrel by Hanako Footman | UK | 352 | 🏆 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🔴 1836 Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens | UK | 688 | 🔴 2023 Victory City by Salman Rushdie | UK | 352 | 🔴 2023 Western Lane by Chetna Maroo | UK/India | 160 | 🏆🏆 🔴 2023 A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ | Nigeria | 352 | 🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2023 A Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier | FR | 454 | 🏆 🔴 2023 Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones | US | 457 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2023 My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig | US | 208 | 🔴 2023 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin | US | 336 | 🎥 🔴 2023 Stealing by Margaret Verble | US | 256 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🔴 2014 Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile | US | 384 p | 🎥 🔴 2018 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah | US | 440 p | 🎥 🔴 2018 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez | US | 224 p | 🏆 | 🎥 🔴 2020 Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jędrowski | GR | 229 p 🔴 2020 Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward | UK | 256 p 🔴 2024 The Women by Kristin Hannah | US | 480 p | 🎥 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | MY REVIEW 🔴 2024 Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott | US | 272 p 🔴 2024 The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Pérez | Puerto Rico | 320 p | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🔴 2024 The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C. L. Miller | UK | 304 p | ⭐⭐⭐ 🔴 2024 Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti | CAN | 224 p 🔴 2024 Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker | US | 384 p 🔴 2024 Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux | US | 400 p 🔴 2024 Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan | Ireland | 224 p | 🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2024 Set for Life by Andrew Ewell | US | 256 p | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🔴 2024 The Teacher by Freida McFadd...

Title : I Cheerfully Refuse Author : Leif Enger Publication Year : 2024 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 336 Source : eBook Genre : Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian Fiction Disclaimer : This review is more a confession than a critique. I am certain that, under different circumstances, I Cheerfully Refuse could have been a five-star read for me, but I Sadly Refuse to rate it that way now. Circumstances matter! Right now, everything I read is filtered through rage and grief. I Cheerfully Refuse (a title-within-the-title, fittingly meta) is a story rooted in love, grief, and the desperate search for the lost one: an Orpheus-type myth. The love between Lark and Rainy is so genuine and unique, so beautifully created, that for a few fleeting pages, you long for that kind of warmth and hope. It is poetic, and th author uses words to paint the beauty on the page. It’s also a book for book lovers, packed with literary references, a gift for anyone who seeks refuge in stories. I wanted ...

🔴 1986 A Bag of Moonshine by Alan Garner | UK | 144 p 🔴 2008 Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah | US | 479 p | 🎥 🔴 2009 The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey | UK | 336 p | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | MY REVIEW 🔴 2019 Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li | China | 192 p | 🏆🏆 🔴 2019 Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis | US/Mexico | 224 p | 🏆 🔴 2026 Second Chances by Roisin Meaney | Ireland | 352 p 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share

🙋🏻‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? 🔴 1922 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand | 🔴 1943 The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht | GR | 112 P 🔴 1944 Antigone by Jean Anouilh | FR | 85 P 🔴 2009 True Colors by Kristin Hannah | US | 400 [ 🔴 2020 Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham | Nigeria | 277 P 🔴 2020 Weather by Jenny Offill | US | 208 🔴 2020 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland | US | 266 P | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2020 Survival Is a Style: Poems by Christian Wiman | US | 112 P 🔴 2020 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey | US | 176 P | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2020 The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler | US | 224 p 🔴 2020 Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick | US | 176 p 🔴 2020 A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary | 240 p ...

🙋🏻‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? 🔴 1951 The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams | US | 352 p 🔴 2022 The Colony by Audrey Magee | Ireland | 384 p | 🏆 (THE BOOKER PRIZE) 🔴 2022 Love Marriage by Monica Ali | UK | 432 p 🔴 2026 To Kill a Cook by W. M. Akers | US | 346 p 🔴 2026 Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald | UK | 128 p 🔴 2026 And The Ancestors Sing by Radha Lin Chaddah | UK | 432 p 🔴 2026 This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page | UK | 411 p 🔴 2026 The Lions' Run by Sara Pennypacker | US | 288 p 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for February: https://fable.co/list/f73cffbf-6464-4093-892c-51078e459b48/share #OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #february3

🙋🏻‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? 🔴 1602 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare | UK | 232 p 🔴 1913 Trees by Joyce Kilmer | US 🔴 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce | Ireland | 732 p 🔴 1972 Jumpers by Tom Stoppard | UK | 96 🔴 2010 Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah | US | 448 p 🔴 2020 On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle | DEN | 176 p | 🏆🏆 🔴 2021 The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah | US | 464 p 🔴 2021 Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz | US | 208 p | 🏆🏆 🔴 2021 How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones | Barbadian | 278 p | 🏆 🔴 2021 My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee | US/Korea | 496 p 🔴 2021 Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler | US | 272 p | 🏆 🔴 2021 Land Of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen | US | 256 p 🔴 2021 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell | US | 192 p | 🏆🏆🏆 🔴 2021 Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors | DEN | 128 p 🔴 2021 Milk Fed by Melissa Broder | US | 304 p 🔴 2021 The Lost Soul ...

🙋🏻‍♀️ Have you read any of these books, or do you plan to add any to your TBR list? 🔴 1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued by William Dampier after being marooned alone on an island in the South Pacific for 4 years, inspiring Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" 🔴 1814 Corsair by Lord Byron | UK | 64 p 🔴 1923 The Young Idea by Noël Coward | UK | 64 p 🔴 1948 Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton | South Africa | 316 p 🔴 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | US | 320 p 🔴 1987 Fine Things by Danielle Steel | US | 433 p 🔴 1991 The Firm by John Grisham | US | 432 p 🔴 2005 The Flood by Maggie Gee | UK | 240 p 🔴 2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan | UK | 308 p | 🏆🏆 🔴 2011 The Adults by Alison Espach | US | 336 p 🔴 2017 Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas | Spain | 214 🔴 2022 Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne | Ireland | 196 p 🔴 2022 Vladimir by Julia May Jonas | US | 256 p 🔴...