The Bibliophile's Compass

1854 | 📖 Walden by Henry David Thoreau | United States | 352 pages | 2011 | 📖 The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson | United States | 320 pages | 2016 | 📖 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood | United States | 368 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @bryngreenwood 2016 | 📖 Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson | United States | 192 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @jacqueline_woodson 2016 | 📖 When Watched by Leopoldine Core | United States | 240 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2018 | 📖 Where Shall We Run To? by Alan Garner | United Kingdom | 194 pages | 2021 | 📖 An Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije | Namibia / Rwanda | 384 pages | @remythequill 2022 | 📖 Stay Awake by Megan Goldin | United States | 340 pages | @authormegangoldin 2022 | 📖 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy | United States | 304 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @jennettemccurdy 2026 | 📖 Codename: 61 by Alex Shaw | United Kingdom | 278 pages | @alexshawthrillerwriter

Title : Artful Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2012 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 203 Source : book Genre : literary fiction, nonfiction Awards : Best Book of Ideas Prize (2013), Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2013) I take genre and classification very seriously. Perhaps too seriously. If a book is marketed as fiction and I open it expecting a novel, but suddenly find myself attending a lecture series, I feel not merely surprised — I feel personally betrayed by publishing. I usually don’t check too many details before reading a book, unless I get so confused within the first few pages that I have to investigate like a literary detective. Otherwise, there will be confusion, frustration, and a significant amount of cursing from the reading chair. Anyway, I picked up Artful thinking I was about to read a novel. How wrong could I be? Apparently: very. It started beautifully. The grief pulled me in immediately, and I was ready to be devastated in a controlled, literary way. But then, s...

1868 | 📖 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins | United Kingdom | 528 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2017 | 📖 The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian | United States / Iran | 288 pages | @abdaddy 2023 | 📖 A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power | United States | 304 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2023 | 📖 None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell | United Kingdom | 384 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | @lisajewelluk 2023 | 📖 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride | United States | 400 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @jamesmcbrideauthor 2023 | 📖 Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi | Nigeria | 320 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2024 | 📖 Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan | Ireland | 208 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2024 | 📖 There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak | Turkey / United Kingdom | 482 pages | 🏆 | @shafakelif

1606 | 📖 Macbeth by William Shakespeare | United Kingdom | 120 pages | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 2007 | 📖 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer | United States | 629 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2012 | 📖 Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | United States | 406 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2018 | 📖 Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine by Kevin Wilson | United States | 224 pages | 2018 | 📖 This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe | 284 pages | 🏆 |

1996 | 📖 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin | United States | 835 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @georgerrmartin 2019 | 📖 Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry | United States | 320 pages | @bricavallaro 2019 | 📖 The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell | United Kingdom | 384 pages | 🏆 | @lisajewelluk 2019 | 📖 The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang | United States | 672 pages | 🏆🏆 | @kuangrf 2019 | 📖 Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton | United States | 320 | 🏆 | @kirajanewrites 2020 | 📖 Summer by Ali Smith | United Kingdom | 384 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 |