Hello! I’m looking for my next 5 star read as nothing has been hitting the spot recently. As you might be able to tell, I quite like books about unhinged women, but this is in no way essential. Thank you!
LOVED:
* Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
* I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
* Circe by Madeline Miller
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
* Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
* The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
LIKED:
* Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
* My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
* Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
* Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
* Yellowface by R F Kuang
* The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
* Normal People by Sally Rooney
DISLIKED:
* A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
* We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson
* Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
* Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
* Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
* Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
* Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
by Prize-Crumpet7031
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Our tastes seem to be very similar so here are some of my 5 stars.
A Song of Achiles by Madeline Miller
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
James by Percival Everett
This is How You Lose The Time War
Annihilation and the rest of Southern Reach series by Jeff Vandermeer
Atonement
Pachinko