The List

Ola Olajide is a rising feminist journalist, celebrated for her fearless writing on gender and social justice, and a month away from marrying Michael, the man she loves. Then, on the morning of Michael's first day at a new job, a crowdsourced list appears online — an anonymous document naming men in the media industry accused of abuse and misconduct. Number 42 is Michael.

For Ola, who has publicly championed exactly this kind of reckoning, the allegations detonate her personal and professional life at once. Michael insists he is innocent. Ola isn't sure. And as the list spreads beyond anyone's control, both of them are swept into a spiral of doubt, exposure, and self-preservation.

Told in alternating perspectives, Yomi Adegoke's debut novel is a sharp, propulsive story about social media, cancel culture, and the impossibility of certainty. It asks how well we can ever really know the people we love — and what we owe the truth when our own lives are on the line.