I read as widely as I can, my only criteria is a good story. By that I mean a satisfying narrative, characters who draw me in (I don’t have to like them but I do have to be interested in them) and a well-realised setting or world where events unfold. This latest selection includes contemporary and historical fiction as well as some crime novels. But, whatever the genre, in my opinion they’re all criminally good. See what you think.

• On Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
• Little Deaths by Emma Flint
• Before The Fall by Noah Hawley
• Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
• The Killing Tree by Rachel Keener
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
• Night Waking by Sarah Moss
• His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Hot Milk by Deborah Levy