Category: Adventure

The End of Everything – M John Harrison

Posted on October 25, 2026 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The End of Everything is a speculative novel set in a future where an unexplained crisis has transformed the world, and strange new life forms coexist with humans. Phillip Tennent makes his living collecting artefacts washed ashore from the English Channel,… Continue Reading “The End of Everything – M John Harrison”

Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Dystopian, Existentialist, Experimental fiction, Faith & Religion, Humour, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, UK authorTags: ,

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

Posted on March 4, 2026 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by BridgetPhysics professor Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his own life and must find his way back to his own reality. Sci-fi thriller that explores choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the… Continue Reading “Dark Matter – Blake Crouch”

Category: Adventure, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, US fictionTags:

Love is Blind – William Boyd

Posted on February 4, 2026 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Sally Brodie Moncur is a young Scottish piano tuner who moves to Paris for a job and to escape his tyrannical father. There, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist changes his future and sparks an obsessive love affair with… Continue Reading “Love is Blind – William Boyd”

Category: Adventure, Art, Faith & Religion, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Romance, UK authorTags:

Endling – Maria Reva

Posted on August 21, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Three women – a maverick biologist and two sisters embroiled in the Russian bride industry and searching for their missing mother – kidnap 13 hopeful bachelors and race across Ukraine trying to find a mate for a last-of-its-kind Lefty… Continue Reading “Endling – Maria Reva”

Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Climate Fiction Prize, Environmental fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Political, Postmodern Literature, Satire, War storyTags: ,

James – Percival Everett

Posted on October 19, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but told from the point of view of the slave, Jim, or James as he prefers to be called in this book. James escapes his owner when he hears he is to be… Continue Reading “James – Percival Everett”

Category: Adventure, Booker Prize, Cultural, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Pulitzer Prize, Satire, US fictionTags: ,

Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah

Posted on January 25, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Gladiators fight to the death to win their freedom In America’s private prisons. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised, profit-making programme. This book is an exploration of the American prison… Continue Reading “Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah”

Category: Adventure, Allegory, Dystopian, Female Experience, Literary fiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, US fiction

Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant – Cristina Sanders

Posted on April 20, 2023 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS In 1866 a ship bound for London from Melbourne crashed into the Auckland Islands and sunk, taking with it many lives and an undetermined amount of gold, direct from the goldfields of Australia. Fourteen men and one woman made… Continue Reading “Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant – Cristina Sanders”

Category: Adventure, Female Experience, Kiwi lit, NZ Book Awards

The Halfmen of O – Maurice Gee

Posted on August 15, 2022 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy New Zealand Children’s Fiction. Nick Quinn goes to spend a couple of weeks on his uncle’s farm at Lodestone Creek. However his cousin Susan is spirited off down a disused mineshaft into the world of O and taken prisoner… Continue Reading “The Halfmen of O – Maurice Gee”

Category: Adventure, Children's fiction, Kiwi lit

Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead

Posted on October 30, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The story of daredevil female aviator Marian Graves and her plans to circumnavigate the globe. Marian and Jamie Graves are rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, then raised by their uncle in Montana. After encountering a pair… Continue Reading “Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead”

Category: Adventure, Booker Prize, Female Experience, US fiction

Where The Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Posted on November 25, 2019 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Jodie A marshland recluse becomes tied up in a 1960s murder mystery, set in North Carolina  ⚑ “In the isolated marshlands of North Carolina, a young orphan named Kya lives alone, with only the local flora and fauna from… Continue Reading “Where The Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens”

Category: Adventure, Family drama, Mystery/Crime, US fiction

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