OUR FAVOURITE FICTION from the books we read in 2021 (click through to read our reviews):

STELLA:
1. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison
2. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
3. At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
4. Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder
5. Great Works by Oscar Mardell

THOMAS:
1. The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken)

2. Three by Ann Quin

3. Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai (translated by John Batki), with paintings by Max Neumann and music by Szilveszter Miklós 

4. Veilchenfeld by Gert Hofmann (translated by Eric Mace-Tessler)

5. The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter