Books that garner a rating of 6 out of 5 – the very best of the best – are gathered here.  You can click on their title to go directly to the review.

• Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
• Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
• You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Annihilation
  • Authority
  • Acceptance
• City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
• Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
• The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
  • Never Mind
  • Bad News
  • Some Hope
  • Mother’s Milk
  • At Last
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  • Justine
  • Balthazar
  • Mountolive
  • Clea
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman