The Bibliophile's Compass

2015 Six of Crows  by  Leigh Bardugo Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction―if they don't kill each other first. 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction (nominated) 2016 Dragon Awards: Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel (nominated) 2016 El Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas (won) 2017 Missouri Gateway Readers Award (nominated) 2017 Hea Noorteraamat: Best Youth Books (won) 2018 German Fantasy Awards: Best International Novel (won) 2018 Evergreen Teen Book Award (nominated) 2018 Rhode Island Teen Book Award (nominated) 2020 Snow by John Banville (Ireland) The story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Shortlisted for The CWA Historical Dagger Award 2025 A Place for People Like Us  by  Danila Botha When Hannah meets Jillian, their connection is instant and addictive...

   Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh ℹ️  Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. (Goodreads) 🏆 Awards 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (longlisted) 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards (finalist) 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist) 2016 Man Booker Prize (shortlisted) 2016 Crime Writers' Association Awards (shortlisted) 2016 Gordon Burn Prize (shortlisted) 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (won) 2017 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize (longlisted) The Green Road by Anne Enright ℹ️ The novel concerns the lives of the Madigan family - four children and their moth...