Category: 2024 Top Reads

• Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton

  

  A review of the book Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton.

  jhodik

  January 30, 2025

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• In Memoriam by Alice Winn

  

  A review of the book In Memoriam by Alice Winn.

  jhodik

  December 1, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

  

  A review of the book Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi.

  jhodik

  November 19, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth

  

  A review of the book Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth, one of my favourite reads of 2024 so far.

  jhodik

  November 12, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Babel by Rebecca F Kuang

  A review of Babel by R.F.Kuang, one of my favourite reads of 2024.

  jhodik

  August 13, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Strangers by Taichi Yamada

  

  I have been reading quite a lot recently. It is my children’s summer holidays, and they are still fairly young which means that I have less time to do my other work, but it does give me more time to sit down and read when I am not doing things with the children. I don’t…

  jhodik

  August 2, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

  

  A review of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang.

  jhodik

  May 21, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page

  

  A review of the book The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page.

  jhodik

  May 9, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction

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• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  

  A review of the book Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

  jhodik

  March 26, 2024

  2024 Top Reads, Contemporary Fiction, Uncategorized

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