March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch, Saba Sams’s Gunk, and Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month.

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1. Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
(Scribner)

7 Rave • 5 Positive • 1 Mixed

“A formidable achievement, a popcorny delight of a novel – and those who agree will be pleased by an ending that hints we’ve plenty more to come from Spufford’s fantasy multiverse.”
–AK Blakemore (The Guardian)

2. Gunk by Saba Sams
(Knopf)

7 Rave • 5 Positive
Read an excerpt of Gunk here

“Gunk is an elusive, idiosyncratic book that I would not want to have been written any differently. It deals in relationships that literary conventions were not built to hold.”
–Naoise Dolan (The Irish Times)

3. Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg
(One World)

8 Rave • 2 Positive
Read an excerpt of Night Night Fawn here

“Exultantly brazen, a zinger of a novel: equal parts reckoning and memorial and pained, bitter laugh.”
–Megan Milks (4Columns)

4. The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self
(Grove Press)

8 Rave • 1 Positive

“It is deliriously poignant. It is heartbreakingly antic. It is sincere and wry at the same time … My copy has so many turned down pages it is practically uncloseable.”
–Stuart Kelly (The Scotsman)