There's so much out there already about The Goldfinch (and a lot of it much more smartly written than I can hope to achieve) that I am actually a little intimidated to voice my opinion. However, I've just spent something like 4 or 5 weeks listening only to this novel so there's really nothing else I can

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is by far one of the BEST books I have read recently. Granted I am a HUGE Faber fan. Under the Skin is one of my favorite books of all time despite the self-important, very confusing recent film version. He is also the author of The Crimson and