I use the Goodreads rating system: five stars = “it was amazing” and four stars = “really liked it:”
Five Stars
- Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O’Toole
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
Four Stars
- Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
- The Ex by Alafair Burke
- Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
- Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The Nine Lives of Pakistan by Declan Walsh
- Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
- Carolina Moon by Jill McCorkle
- Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
- City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
- The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris
- Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
- Homeland Elegies by Ahktar Ayad