HoF

My Hall of Fame includes all my favourite books since starting this blog.

HALL of FAME

Fiction:

• Acevedo, Elizabeth – The Poet X (2018)
• Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
• Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove (2012)
• Backman, Fredrik – Beartown (2016)
• Backman, Fredrik – Us Against You (2017
• Balen, Katya – October, October (2020) middle grade
• Blake, Olivie – Alone with You in the Ether (2020)
• Butler, Octavia E – Kindred (1979)
• Casati, Costanza – Clytemnestra (2023)
• Clarke, Susanna – Piranesi (2020)
• Coleman, Rowan – We Are All Made of Stars (2015)
• Faye, Gaël – Small Country (2016)
• Frankl, Viktor E – Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
• Gibran, Kahlil – The Broken Wings (1912)
• Gibran, Kahlil – The Prophet (1923)
• Haig, Matt – How To Stop Time (2017)
• Hobb, Robin – The Mad Ship (1999)
• Horwood, William – Callanish (1984)
• Hyde, Alex – Violets (2022)
• Kamali, Marjan – The Stationery Shop (2019)
• Little Badger, Darcie – Elatsoe (2020)
• Melrose, Fiona – Midwinter (2016)
• Miller, Madeline – The Song of Achilles (2011)
• Nelson, Caleb Zumah – Small Worlds (2023)
• O’Farrell, Maggie – Hamnet (2020)
• O’Farrell, Maggie – The Marriage Portrait (2022)
• Ringland, Holly – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2018)
• Sanderson, Brandon – The Hero of Ages (2008)
• Sanderson, Jane – Mix Tape (2020)
• Shafak, Elif – The Forty Rules of Love (2009)
• Shafak, Elif – The Island of Missing Trees (2021)
• Thomas, Angie – The Hate U Give (2017)
• Wang, M L – The Sword of Kaigen (2018)
• Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• Woolf, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Non-Fiction:

• Abdurraqib, Hanif – A Little Devil in America (2021)
• Abdurraqib, Hanif – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017)
• Bailey, Elisabeth Tova – The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010)
• Darwish, Mahmoud – In The Presence of Absence (2006)
• Darwish, Mahmoud – Palestine As Metaphor (2019)
• Deakin, Roger – Wildwood (2007)
• Eger, Edith – The Choice (2017)
• Embry, Paige – Our Native Bees (2018)
• Grohl, Dave – The Storyteller (2021)
• Hillenbrand, Laura – Seabiscuit (1999)
• Murphy, Declan/Rao, Ami – Centaur (2017)
• Oliver, Mary – Upstream (2016)
• Raswan, Carl R – Drinkers of the Wind (1942)
• Smith, Patti – Just Kids (2010)
• Tanizaki, Junichiro – In Praise of Shadows (1934)
• Tree, Isabella – Wilding (2018)
• Yong, Ed – An Immense World (2022)

Poetry:

• Baudelaire, Charles – The Flowers of Evil (1857)
• Darwish, Mahmoud – A River Dies of Thirst (2008)
• Darwish, Mahmoud – Almond Blossoms and Beyond (2009)
• Eliot, T S – Four Quartets (1944)

Other:

• Mackesy, Charlie – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse