The Water Dancer ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

** OK **

Magical Realism lacking magic
Nebulous storytelling

The Ten Thousand Doors Of January ~ Alex Harrow

** OK **

Pick a door, any door, and get out while you can
Overhyped, oversold, overblown, over it

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ~ Gail Honeyman

** OK **

It wasn't "novel" and it wasn't "fine"
Been done so much better before

Scrublands ~ Chris Hammer

**** RECOMMEND ****

Oppressive location, page turning read

Golden State ~ Ben H Winters

The Ruin ~ Dervla McTiernan

Olive, Again ~ Elizabeth Strout

Where The Crawdads Sing ~ Delia Owens

The Secret Commonwealth ~ Philip Pullman

Lost Children Archive ~ Valeria Luiselli

Fatal Inheritance ~ Rachel Rhys

The Testaments ~ Margaret Atwood

Flames ~ Robbie Arnott

Varina ~ Charles Frazier

Any Human Heart ~ William Boyd

The Border ~ Don Winslow

Like Water For Chocolate ~ Lara Esquivel

The Porpoise ~ Mark Haddon

A Book Of Bones ~ John Connolly

Normal People ~ Sally Rooney