The best books I’ve read this year include a classic told from a revelatory new angle, a protagonist who leaves her everyday life to radically reconsider how to exist purposefully, a Caribbean novel about the desires and schemes of four women connected to a notorious gangster, the discovery of an artistic and quiet recluse with a mysterious past, the story of an actor whose been both an insider and outsider in English society, a sailor and pirate who reinvents herself many times, a man who walks across London reflecting on a life in exile from his homeland, the intertwined stories of Irish immigrants who witness a city changing around them over decades, an epic which spans many lives and periods of time focused through the perspective of a drop of water and a fascinating man who journeys between twin versions of our planet searching for a safe home.
