Bookwarm: let’s choose the book!

No, no, it’s not a typo, just typical of a community of the word lovers to believe they could actually play the role of the heater!

So, will you help us choose the missing piece of that cliché image - a hot cuppa, blanket, candles and:

a) “Peaces” by Helen Oyeyemi, whom Guardian describes as a bamboozler, a discombobulator, a peddler of perplexity. She crushes fables and fairytales down to a powder and then laces her fiction with it like some kind of literary hallucinogen. A novel that seems
impossible to describe and therefore impossibly curious and attractive?

b) “Held” by Anne Michaels, just shortlisted for the Booker prize. Should we choose this novel written by a poet we might even forgo that candle, with the theme like how goodness and love can be held across the generations.

c)”The Book Censor’s Library” by Bothayna Al-Essa, not reviewed by the Guardian but on the list of finalists for the National Book Award. The dystopian one about the censor loosing his censorship powers to the literary magic, will that be this year’s Bookwarm?