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  “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead: Apart from being a social novel and a morality play about race and power Harlem Shuffle is also a...

  “Guapa” by Saleem Haddad: This is a is fluent, passionate and emotionally honest coming-of-age tale of a young gay Arab man named Rasa i...

  “Babysitter“  by Joyce Carol Oates: This novel is a tale of violence and abuse of the most vulnerable, children and women, committed by cr...

  “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”  by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Despite the hype and rave this book got in the past (2017) I was surprised ho...

  “Appliance“  by J. O. Morgan: J. O. Morgan has earned himself recognition as a poet, this is his first novel.  In this very compelling, hi...

  “The Melody” by Jim Crace: This is Jim Crace’s latest novel after his Booker Prize finalist Harvest . It is a a meditation on grief and ...

 “ You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty“ by Akwaeke Emezi: I did not like this book.  I liked Emezi’s last novel The Death of Vivek O...

  “The Death Of Vivek Oji“  by Akwaeke Emezi: “They burned down the market the day Vivek Oji died”, that’s how the book starts. It is very c...

  “In the Distance” by Hernan Diaz: Hernan Diaz’ masterful debut novel, a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, plays somewhere around the ...

  “Trust”  by Hernan Diaz: This book had me engaged and fascinated from start to end. It is Hernan Diaz’ second novel after his much acclaim...

 “ Loitering with Intent” by Muriel Spark: The novel was first published in 1981 and is Muriel Spark’s 16th novel.  It centers around Fleur...

  “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie“ by Muriel Spark: The novel, published first in 1960, centers on the downfall of the fascinating schoolmi...

  “Await Your Reply” by Dan Chaon: “We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves.” And what if that story is a lie?  Why ...

  “Glyph”  by Percival Everett: This is a book by Percival Everett which I hadn’t so much fun with as with his other books. It is a satire o...

“Erasure”  by Percival Everett: In this truly brilliant, deeply thought-provoking novel, first published in 2001, Everett created a cutting,...