The Homemade God

By Rachel Joyce

From The Guardian review of the book (the full review can be found by clicking here)

The Homemade God moves between being a page-turning mystery and an astute study of family dynamics.

Joyce is exceptionally good at blending the big stuff of life with the small.

Crow Lake

By Mary Larson

Crow Lake is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in the same year and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003.

A Room with a View

By E.M. Forster

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Humans

By Matt Haig

The Secret Shore

By Liz Fenwick

Olive Kitteridge

By Elizabeth Strout

Go Went Gone

By Jenny ErpenBeck

Still Life

By Sarah Winman

The Bell in the Lake

By Lars Matting

The Grass is Singing

By Doris Lessing

The Grass Is Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa, during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country (which was then a British Colony). It follows an emotionally immature woman's hasty marriage to an unsuccessful farmer, and her ensuing mental deterioration, her murder, and the colonial British society's reactions to it. The novel created a sensation when it was first published and became an instant success in Europe and the United States.