The Bibliophile's Compass

1955  The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (UK) The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time 2014 Red Dog by Willem Anker Red Dog is a brilliant, fiercely powerful novel - a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed. 2024 About Charlie  by J M Langan (UK) Emma is a lost soul, seeking solace with anything that will help her forget, drowning her pain to blur the edges of reality in the backdrop of 1990s London.

1937  The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (UK) The journey through Middle-earth begins here with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. 2021 The Trees by Percival Everett An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize Winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2021 Bewilderment by Richard Powers The novel is set in the near future amid the environmental degradation of the planet. It follows widowed astrobiologist Theo Byrne and his volatile nine-year-old son Robin, who is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction ...