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
- City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
- Night Film by Marisha Pessl
- Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
- The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman