Our reviews
101 fiction books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
101 reviews match
Madeleine L'Engle
Best for: Readers aged 9 and up — and curious adults — who are drawn to ideas as much as adventure and want a young adult fantasy that treats cellular biology, classical theology, and cosmic ethics as equally serious narrative languages.
Graham McNeill
Best for: Warhammer 40,000 readers who have followed the Horus Heresy from the beginning and are drawn to stories of moral descent, corrupted idealism, and fraternal tragedy — particularly those invested in the fates of Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus.
Rick Riordan
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged 9 and up who are already invested in the Percy Jackson series and want a quest-driven adventure that deepens the mythology, expands the ensemble cast, and raises the emotional stakes in ways the earlier installments don't.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Best for: Conan Doyle enthusiasts, classic science fiction and adventure readers, and anyone who wants to experience The Lost World as its 1912 audience did — with all 50 of Harry Rountree's original Strand Magazine illustrations integrated into the text.
Richard Osman
Best for: Cozy mystery enthusiasts who enjoy an ensemble-driven whodunit with sharp wit, a cleverly varied cast of retirees, and brisk, puzzle-forward plotting in the tradition of Agatha Christie.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Best for: Readers who loved The Sympathizer and want to follow the Captain's fractured identity into postcolonial Paris, and who relish fiction that operates simultaneously as crime thriller, dark comedy, and philosophical essay on colonialism and belonging.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Best for: Readers new to Sherlock Holmes — or returning fans — who want the most celebrated Holmes novel in an affordable, portable mass-market edition with a professional critical afterword by Anne Perry to frame its place in the mystery tradition.
Matt Dinniman
Best for: Readers already invested in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series who are fluent in LitRPG conventions and want a serialised science-fantasy saga with satirical bite, propulsive dungeon-floor momentum, and the ongoing odd-couple chemistry of Carl and Princess Donut.
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Best for: Book clubs and readers of issue-driven contemporary fiction who want a fast, dual-narrator story about how a police shooting fractures a lifelong cross-racial friendship — and a novel designed to be argued about afterward.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Fantasy-curious newcomers who want a single, standalone door into Discworld — a fresh protagonist, no prior series knowledge required, and satire aimed at real targets like monopoly and privatisation.
Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Best for: Binge-readers of crime procedurals who want a new FBI agent to follow across a very long series and like their small-town thrillers fast, familiar, and delivered in volume.
BJ Bourg
Best for: Readers who enjoy character-driven procedural mysteries anchored by authentic grief, regional atmosphere, and a long-running series they can sink into — particularly those drawn to small-town Louisiana settings and protagonists shaped by genuine personal loss.
Diana Wynne Jones
Best for: Fans of Howl's Moving Castle and readers of comic fantasy who enjoy inventive plotting, unconventional heroes, and worlds that layer literary allusion — particularly those open to a fresh Arabian Nights register before returning to familiar Ingary.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers aged ten and up — whether newcomers to Discworld or returning fans — who want a fantasy adventure that pairs boisterous comic invention with genuine emotional and thematic depth, and who are happy to meet one of Pratchett's sharpest, most practically minded protagonists in the first chapter of her complete five-book arc.
Tui T. Sutherland
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged 8–11 who are already invested in the Wings of Fire saga and want to follow Tsunami's underwater royal adventure in visually immersive graphic novel form.
Adam Silvera
Best for: Readers aged 14 and up who loved They Both Die at the End and want more of Silvera's emotionally precise, bittersweet YA fiction — particularly those drawn to queer romance, speculative world-building, and stories that wrestle with mortality and the urgency of living fully.
Robert H. Lustig
Best for: Readers who want to understand the structural and biological mechanisms driving the chronic disease epidemic — not just what to eat, but how the food environment was shaped, who benefits, and what the science shows beneath layers of industry-influenced messaging.
Karen M. McManus
Best for: YA mystery-thriller fans aged 14 and up who loved the social dynamics of Bayview High in One of Us Is Lying and want a propulsive new story set in the same world with a fresh central trio.
Freida McFadden
Best for: Readers who are already fans of Freida McFadden's high-velocity domestic thrillers — or anyone who wants a fast, dark, morally compromised page-turner built around betrayal, suspected poisoning, and a triple unreliable-narrator structure that keeps suspicion in constant rotation.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Best for: Readers aged 12 and up who loved The Inheritance Games and want to dive straight back into Hawthorne Manor for more puzzle-driven intrigue, aspirational drama, and romance.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers already invested in the Discworld City Watch sub-series — especially those who have finished Guards! Guards! — who want to see the Watch ensemble deepen with the introduction of Angua and the franchise's sharpest blend of police-procedural plotting and political satire.
Elle Gray
Best for: Fans of character-driven FBI procedurals who want a fast-moving thriller anchored by a protagonist whose personal grief — a murdered family and a missing sister — is as compelling as the case itself.
Rick Riordan
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged nine and up — particularly those who have already enjoyed The Lightning Thief and want to follow Percy's continuing adventures through Greek mythology recast in contemporary America.
Holly Black
Best for: Older YA readers (15+) already invested in The Cruel Prince who want a densely plotted, politically sophisticated fantasy built around morally complex characters and an adversarial, high-tension central dynamic rather than a conventional romance.
