January 21, 2021December 27, 2020 bookmunch

“Bleak but necessary” – What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen

January 20, 2021January 19, 2021 bookmunch

“Continues to twist and mutate as it goes” – Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (trans. by Megan McDowell)

January 19, 2021January 13, 2021 bookmunch

“Has a little bit of everything” – Memorial by Bryan Washington

January 18, 2021January 10, 2021 bookmunch

“There’s a lot going on here” – A River Called Time by Courttia Newland

January 17, 2021January 15, 2021 bookmunch

“A cracking crime novel” – Long Bright River by Liz Moore

January 16, 2021January 10, 2021 bookmunch

“Not a feel-good book” – Amnesty by Aravind Adiga

January 15, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“Come for the humour” – Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 bookmunch

“An exuberant, raucous book” – Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 bookmunch

“Will certainly tick your end of the world boxes” – My Name is Monster by Katie Hale

January 12, 2021December 21, 2020 bookmunch

“Invigorating opinions” – The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard (trans. Mark Polizzotti)

January 11, 2021January 9, 2021 bookmunch

“Tremendously likeable” – Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner

January 8, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“Audaciously confident” – The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball

January 7, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“Hybrid writing” – The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey

January 6, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“An outlandish, take-no-prisoners satire” – The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes

January 5, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“More Mallory Towers than Harry Potter” – Abigail by Magda Szabó

January 4, 2021January 2, 2021 bookmunch

“Ultimately lifeless” – Low by Jeet Thayil

January 1, 2021December 29, 2020 bookmunch

“An undemanding page-turner” – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid #booker2020

December 24, 2020 bookmunch

Bookmunch Books of the Year 2020

December 23, 2020December 26, 2020 bookmunch

“A much more mature and measured work” – Witch Bottle by Tom Fletcher

December 23, 2020December 22, 2020 bookmunch

“A work of love” – The Middle of a Sentence (ed. Brian Hamill)

December 23, 2020December 19, 2020 bookmunch

“A book of the year” – Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

December 22, 2020December 21, 2020 bookmunch

“Less would have been more” – Blackwood by Hannah Eaton

December 21, 2020 bookmunch

“You name it, this book has it” – Troy by Stephen Fry

December 20, 2020December 19, 2020 bookmunch

“Warrants space on the shelves” – The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs

December 19, 2020 bookmunch

“Perfect Christmas present material” – Murder in Midwinter ed. Cecily Gayford

December 18, 2020December 13, 2020 bookmunch

50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 5)

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 bookmunch

50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 4)

December 16, 2020December 13, 2020 bookmunch

50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 3)

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 bookmunch

50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 2)

December 14, 2020December 16, 2020 bookmunch

50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 1)