author · 2/10 picks in the top 100
"I have a terrible memory and when I reread novels they have always changed in our mutual absence (is that not one of the qualities of a really good novel?). I am also increasingly allergic to anything approaching the ideas of a canon. Reading for me is nearly always about looking forward in expectation as opposed to looking backwards in at attempt to catalogue and evaluate. So with two notable exceptions (because I reread both of them every so often) this is simply a list of novels which I have hugely enjoyed read recently."
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob's Room | Virginia Woolf | #90 | — |
| 2 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 3 | Tongues I | Anders Nilsen | — | |
| 4 | The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | — | |
| 5 | The Employees | Olga Ravn | — | |
| 6 | Septology | Jon Fosse | — | |
| 7 | Restoration | Rose Tremain | — | |
| 8 | Here | Richard McGuire | — | |
| 9 | Matrix | Lauren Groff | — | |
| 10 | The Maniac | Benjamín Labatut | — |
Voters with the most books in common.