So it’s that wonderful time of the year again when my bookclub meets and votes on what books to read over the next 10 months. We all come with a plethora of suggestions, all of them so wonderful we often have to go for a second round of voting just to narrow it down to 10. Here they are:
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guin
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Joan by Katherine J Chen
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Honourable Mentions
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Magpie by Elizabeth Day
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
Unreconciled by Jesse Wente
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
Foundling Ann Leary
Akin by Emma Donoghue
Daphne by Josh Malerman
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Five Wives by Joan Thomas
The Reading List by Sara Nish Adams
The Beekeeper of Alleppo by Christy Lefteri
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Ink And Spine 
Looking forward to reading many of your suggestions!