The Bibliophile's Compass

1833 MS Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe ( My Review )  ⭐⭐ 1847  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (UK)  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. 2021 Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. Booker Prize Finalist 2025 The Surgeon by John Nicholl When an eminent surgeon is arrested for murder, he knows he didn’t do it. He knows what it’s like to feel a person die on his operating table, but he didn’t inflict the wounds that ended the life of the girl they say he killed.

1847  Charlotte Brontë sends the manuscript of her novel "Jane Eyre" to publisher Smith, Elder and Co., in London under her pen name "Currer Bell" (UK) It is a bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. 2021 The Women of Troy by Pat Barker published (UK) Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge. 2021 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civi...