THE FICTIONFOX

For this all-time-favourite series, I’ve made an attempt to narrow each genre-list down to a top 10, and have managed to do so for the majority of them. Literary fiction proved one where that was a hopeless endeavor from the start. Not is it my most-read genre by a hefty length, the sheer variety of books within it (and all my unique reasons for loving them), meant I settled for a top 20-ish and a bunch of honourable mentions instead. As with the other lists, these are subjec

Genre: Literary fiction Published: HarperNorth, January 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "Breathing in enough to be given life, softening the...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber & Faber, January 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “The smell of rain moves through the house. There’s...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Epoque Press, May 2021 My Rating: 3/5 stars “We live and walk upon these stories. She, least least,...

Genre: Contemporary Published: St. Martins Press, May 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “Grief is just love looking for a place to settle.” The...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Jonathan Cape & RB Media, December 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis: A snapshot of one day in the...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction Published: FriesenPress (independently published), July 2023 My Rating: 4.5 stars R.F....

Genre: literary fiction, Published: World Editions Publishing, December 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars On The Isle of Antioch is an ambitious...

Genre: Gothic horror Published: Mulholland Books, October 3rd 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Do you know why certain houses make people...

Genre: Short stories, Literary horror Published: Atlantic Grove Press, October 24t 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars With a seasoned name like...

Genre: Magical Realism Published: Harper Collins, August 2023 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "When you lose someone close, you travel to the...

Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...

Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Voyager 2023, originally published by Эксмо in 2021 in the original Russian. My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “How...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Published: Melville House, August 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars Have you ever read a book that’s so...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction Published: Dundurn Press, August 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars Nathan Whitlocks latest novel is blurbed as “a...

Genre: Literary Fiction, thriller Published: Gillian Flynn Books, July 2023 Rating: 4/5 stars As the dark-academia-craze of the 2020’s...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Quercus Books, June 2023 Rating: 4.5/5 stars “I come from a tribe of women who are ravaged and...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, June 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "He didn’t understand why these bittersweet...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Climate Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, January 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars "I put in earbuds and listened to...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber&Faber, May 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one...