Today's prompt is "underrated"- so I went through my Goodreads, looking for books which I gave 5 stars, but which received an average of less than 4 stars over all. (Just so you know, I don't give 5 stars lightly - my Goodreads average rating is 3.7.)
I somewhat arbitrarily chose six titles:
- William Ryan's The Darkening Field, an excellent Soviet-era mystery. (I interviewed William Ryan here.)
- Bill Bryson's At Home, a great history of home life.
- Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a mystery set in an alternate universe where the US let the Jews into Alaska, thus avoiding most of the Holocaust.
- Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan's The Royal We, a Will-and-Kate type romance. (I gushed about how much I loved it here.)
- Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, a mesmerizing, cyclical novel about a woman who keeps living different iterations of the same life.
- Ariana Franklin's The Siege Winter, a thriller set during the succession war of Stephen and Matilda in 12th century England. (Find my full review here.)
What book(s) do you find underrated?
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