The Death Defying Adventures of a Hermit!

I recently hit 50 first time read books for the year so far, so here is a recap...

5 Star Books:

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman (5⭐)

The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson (5⭐)

Circe - Madeline Miller (5⭐)

Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov (5⭐)

A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck (5⭐)

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (5⭐)

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino (5⭐)

Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman (5⭐)

Everything Else:

The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly (4.5⭐)

Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner (4⭐)

The House of Rust - Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (4.25⭐)

The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris (4⭐)

The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen (3.75⭐)

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (4⭐)

Cold Hand in Mine - Robert Aickman (4⭐)

Sunbirth - An Yu (4.5⭐)

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub - Stanisław Lem (4.5⭐)

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone - Sequoia Nagamatsu (4⭐)

Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (3.75⭐)

The Cosmic Puppets - Philip K. Dick (4.5⭐)

Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin (4.75⭐)

Tales from Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin (4⭐)

Perchance to Dream - Charles Beaumont (4⭐)

Babel - R. F. Kuang (3.5⭐)

The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry (3.25⭐)

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa (4⭐)

The City & The City - China Miéville (4.5⭐)

The Sheriff of Yrnameer - Michael Rubens (3⭐)

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez (3.75⭐)

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman (4⭐)

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu (4.5⭐)

The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard (4.25⭐)

Eye In The Sky - Philip K. Dick (4.25⭐)

Ghost Music - An Yu (4⭐)

The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada (3.75⭐)

Nothing but the Rain - Naomi Salman (4⭐)

The Road Through the Wall - Shirley Jackson (4.75⭐)

A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle (4.5⭐)

Slade House - David Mitchell (4⭐)

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (3.75⭐)

Inverted World - Christopher Priest (4.5⭐)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett (4⭐)

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (4.5⭐)

Valis - Philip K. Dick (4⭐)

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (4.25⭐)

The Bird's Nest - Shirley Jackson (4.25⭐)

Colorful - Eto Mori (2.25⭐)

Greenteeth - Molly O'Neill (4⭐)

Mort - Terry Pratchett (4.25⭐)

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace (4⭐)

I also re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (5⭐), one of my all-time favorites.

Anyone out there have any recommendations for books you think I might enjoy? Any help is appreciated 😊

Here are some examples of more stuff I love in no particular order:

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Night on the Galactic Railroad & Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa

The Emissary by Yōko Tawada

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

The Our Ancestors series by Italo Calvino

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington