4321 by Paul Auster — ‘absorbing and immersive’Following a single protagonist down four separate paths, this wide-angled panorama is the author’s greatest novelHistory of Wolves by Emily Fridlund — sparse beautyA coming-of-age story set in rural MinnesotaExit West by Mohsin Hamid — journey’s endA bold thought experiment imagines a world that accepts the inevitability of mass migrationElmet by Fiona Mozley — forest peopleProperty and land disputes darken a poetic tale of a family living in the Yorkshire woodsLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — unquiet soulsA wondrous portrait of a president haunted by griefAutumn by Ali Smith — ‘the first serious Brexit novel’A portrait of a country divided leaves Alex Preston marvelling that writing this good could have come so fast
4321 by Paul Auster — ‘absorbing and immersive’Following a single protagonist down four separate paths, this wide-angled panorama is the author’s greatest novelHistory of Wolves by Emily Fridlund — sparse beautyA coming-of-age story set in rural MinnesotaExit West by Mohsin Hamid — journey’s endA bold thought experiment imagines a world that accepts the inevitability of mass migrationElmet by Fiona Mozley — forest peopleProperty and land disputes darken a poetic tale of a family living in the Yorkshire woodsLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — unquiet soulsA wondrous portrait of a president haunted by griefAutumn by Ali Smith — ‘the first serious Brexit novel’A portrait of a country divided leaves Alex Preston marvelling that writing this good could have come so fast
