Ellie and her five friends are terrified. Months have passed since their homeland was invaded and without traditional comforts or their family and friends, they have been struggling to survive in the mountains. Fighting back is all they can do to regain ownership of what had been taken from them …
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
A group of strangers are taken hostage when a failed bank robber stumbles in during an apartment open house. Those at the hostage’s mercy are: an elderly couple, a wealthy banker, one mysterious man, a couple with a baby on the way, the real-estate agent, and one individual who could care less …
Recursion by Blake Crouch
False Memory Syndrome is driving victims mad. Memories planted into their brain of lives they never lived. NYC Cop Barry Sutton is investigating the phenomenon with the hope of discovering answers. Helen Smith, neuroscientist, and the most informed individual on the disease has dedicated her life to creating technology that …
The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann
The Degenerates is a historical young adult novel about women who are institutionalised because they do not fit societal norms. The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded accepts women who society has deemed imbeciles, idiots, and morons. It is not a nice place. Women who arrive, young or old, are stuck …
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden | Tomorrow Series #1
Published in 1993, Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first installment in the Tomorrow Series and is a YA novel that you absolutely must read. It has been one of my favourite novels since I first read it over 10 years ago (I refuse to believe its been that …
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman is the story of a young woman and her daughter. It’s the 1950s and Maggie has fallen in love with her next door neighbour, Gabriel. Her Father has bigger ambitions for her than marrying a Frenchman except when she falls pregnant those …
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Linus Baker is an employee of the Department in Charge of Magical Youth tasked with determining if government run orphanages are safe. He lives a quiet life. He owns a cat. Linus is easily looked over. He does not have much to claim his own. Linus is alone and is …
Big Lies In A Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
It’s 2018 and Morgan Christopher is locked up in a Women’s Correctional Center having taken the blame for a crime she did not commit. Her dreams of the future, of becoming a famous artist, are dashed until a mysterious visitor with a famous benefactor comes to visit with an offer …
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
Mira’s flight is cancelled and she needs to be home for Christmas. Terrified that without her presence, her mother will slip back into grief as the holiday brings memories of family and death with it. Determined to return home, Mira hitches a ride with a group of flight mates back …
The Other People by CJ Tudor
The Other People is CJ Tudor’s gripping 2020 novel about a man and his missing child. Stuck in traffic, Gabe catches eye of a rusty car driving by with his daughter in the back who mouthes one word – ‘Daddy.’ Moments later Gabe receives a call demanding he return home, something horrendous …
Why The Midnight Library Is The Best Novel of 2020
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is the best novel of 2020, well it’s the best novel I’ve read in 2020. It is a literary journey that makes you contemplate regrets and the lives you never lived. It is a gorgeous fiction novel bound to open your eyes on life …
The Loop by Ben Oliver | Loop #1
The Loop is a maximum security prison hat holds the world’s most dangerous juveniles. Luka Kane has been rotting away inside his futuristic cellblock for two years, pushing back his execution date bi-annually by participating in scientific and medical experiments, “Delays,” as they are know. Delays are the only way …