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• And Then There Were None reviewed by @commuterfiction

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Ten people are invited to an island off Devon. A recording accuses each of them of causing a death. They die in the order of a nursery rhyme. The explanation arrives in a document after the last chapter.

  And Then There Were None

• Night Angel reviewed by @commuterfiction

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Azoth is apprenticed to a wetboy called Durzo Blint and takes the name Kylar Stern. He works for the guild, then against it. Three books. The third one is mostly a war.

  Night Angel

• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Aiden Bishop wakes at Blackheath in a different body each day and has eight days to find out who kills Evelyn Hardcastle. A man in a plague doctor mask explains the rules. Two other guests are doing the same thing.

  The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

• Odd Thomas reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Odd Thomas works as a fry cook in Pico Mundo and sees dead people who cannot speak. He follows a man who is trailed by shapes he calls bodachs and tries to work out what is going to happen at the mall. Fine.

  Odd Thomas

• Station Eleven reviewed by @commuterfiction

  7/ 107 out of 10

  An actor dies on stage during King Lear and a flu arrives in the same week. Twenty years later a group of musicians and actors walk between settlements in Michigan performing Shakespeare. A comic book connects them.

  Station Eleven

• I Am Pilgrim reviewed by @commuterfiction

  5/ 105 out of 10

  An investigator comes out of retirement.

  I Am Pilgrim

• Atomic Habits reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  A man is hit with a baseball bat.

  Atomic Habits

• In the Woods reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Rob Ryan investigates the death of a girl in the wood where two of his friends disappeared when he was twelve. He works with Cassie Maddox. One of the two cases is closed by the end of the book.

  In the Woods

• A Game of Thrones reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Ned Stark leaves Winterfell to serve as Hand of the King and takes his daughters with him. Across the sea Daenerys Targaryen is married to a horse lord. The chapters rotate between eight or nine points of view.

  A Game of Thrones

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reviewed by @commuterfiction

  7/ 107 out of 10

  A retired officer looks for a mole.

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

• The Hunger Games reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  A girl volunteers in place of her sister.

  The Hunger Games

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• Say Nothing reviewed by @commuterfiction

  9/ 109 out of 10

  A woman is taken from a flat in Belfast in 1972.

  Say Nothing

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reviewed by @commuterfiction

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Arthur Dent's house is demolished on the same morning as the Earth. He travels with Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian. A computer gives an answer to a question nobody has.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Gone Girl (Special Edition) reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Amy Dunne goes missing in Missouri on her fifth wedding anniversary. Her husband Nick talks to the police and then to reporters. Her diary entries run alongside his account and the two do not agree.

  Gone Girl (Special Edition)

• Catch-22 reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Yossarian is a bombardier on an island near Italy and wants to stop flying missions. The number of missions required keeps going up. The chapters move between characters and repeat scenes from other sides.

  Catch-22

• Killing Floor reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  A man gets off a bus and is arrested.

  Killing Floor

• Project Hail Mary reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Ryland Grace wakes on a spacecraft with two dead crewmates and no memory of how he got there. He works out where he is, then meets a second ship crewed by one alien. They study a microbe that is eating the sun.

  Project Hail Mary

• The Shining reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Winter caretaker, hotel, family of three.

  The Shining

• The Talented Mr. Ripley reviewed by @commuterfiction

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to bring Dickie Greenleaf home to his father. He stays instead. Marge Sherwood notices things. Ripley moves between Rome, Naples and Venice using two names.

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

• The Road reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  A man and a boy walk south.

  The Road