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1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin.
2. The Siberian Dilemma - Martin Cruz Smith.
3. Trust - Hernan Diaz.
4. Orphan X - Gregg Hurwitz.
5. Eversion - Alastair Reynolds.
6. Orbital - Samantha Harvey.
7. Satoshi Yogisawa - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.
8. Linwood Barclay - The Lie Maker.
9. Summer Knight - Jim Butcher.
10. Ghosts - Dolly Alderton.
11. Milkman - Anna Burns.
12. Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré.
13. The Looking Glass War - John le Carré.
14. Kennedy 35 - Charles Cumming.
15. Luck of the Draw - Charles Murphy.
16. Marc Cameron - Tom Clancy's Code of Honour (Jack Ryan)
17. Raynor Winn - Landlines.
18. Mick Herron - Spook Street.
19. Rachel Joyce - The Music Shop.
20. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant.
21. Alexander Mccall Smith - From a Far and Lovely Country.
22. James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes.
23. Naomi Novik - Black Powder War.
24. Sam McBride - Burned: Cash for Ashes.
25. Mark Greaney - The Gray Man.
26. Mark Greaney - Ballistic.
27. Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora.
28. Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth, Book of Dust 2.
29. Antti Tuomainen - The Rabbit Factor.
30. M.R. Carey - The Book of Koli.
31. Cheryl Strayed - Wild.
32. Blaine Harden - Escape from Camp 14.
Ben Judah - This is London. A series of essays, loosely interconnected, looking at London from a variety of perspectives, meeting immigrants and the rich. Absolutely fascinating, and eye-opening.
John le Carré - Silverview. A man sets up a bookshop and is befriended by an older local. The latter is a bit mysterious, and eventually revealed to be a man of many parts. This is Le Carré's last book, only 200 pages or so, and maybe finished in a bit of a rush - it feels less fleshed out, and less satisfying than others.
John le Carré - The Mission House. First person retelling from a multi-national, multi-lingual protagonist who finds himself with more information than he knows what to do with. Hard to pull off first person, but this pretty much succeeds.
Ann Patchett - Tom Lake. A mother tells her daughters about her early love life, while her husband floats in and out of the story until becoming more important. The way she writes makes it look so simple that I believed I could do it, though the fact that one of the early sentences made me tear up because it was so beautiful suggests she actually writes and overwrites until it's perfect. Brilliant, along with everything else she's ever written.
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Command. From the 2020s, a little bit on auto-pilot - like Rowlling in the later Potter books, he's probably too big to be edited now, but that leads to some very obvious repetition. The artillery man who has been peripheral finally gets the chance to blow things up towards the end, and invokes Barbara (Patron Saint of artilley) every sentence. And then again in the next sentence (Barbara's the Patron Saint of artillery, you know). But still, rollicking and all that.
Adrian Tchaikovsky - City of Last Chances. Dumps you right into the action, jumps from perspective to perspective with brief introductions to each one, but succeeds in building a word of an oppressed population, some magic, mysterious woods, post-apocalypic feel and more. First of a trilogy.
Ben Macintyre - SAS Rogue Heroes. The book that launched the TV series. Just as good as that, a good way to revisit the characters. And then more, because the TV series so far has only covered the early years. It all seemed much more bitty as they get out of the desert - once it's established that the SAS aren't going to be disbanded, which we all know, then they attempt to fight all over the place, sometimes more successfully than others. Great account of an awful lot of material, turning it into something readable and consistent.