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Bookshop Day 2023
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Books discussed:
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
Last Night at The Lobster by Stewart O Nan
Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
The Grief Nurse by Angie Spoto
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Now What? by Carol Vorderman
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
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#booktube #readerreview #bestbooks #books #bookrecommendations #bookreview #readingwrapup #fiction
Books discussed:
Laura by Vera Caspary
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
The Victorian Chaise- Longue by Marghanita Laski
#bookerprize #booker #booktube #fiction #fictionbooks #literature #bestbooks
Books discussed:
James - Percival Everett (US)
Orbital - Samantha Harvey (UK)
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner (US)
Held - Anne Michaels (Canada)
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Netherlands)
Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood (Australia)
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Book discussed:
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
#booktube #dystopianfiction #readerreview #bestbooks #bookreview #bookrecommendations
Books discussed:
The Parable of the Sower by Olivia E Butler
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Anna by Niccolo Ammaniti
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
#booktube #bestbooks #bookreview #autumnreads #bookrecommendations #favouritebooks #reader
Books discussed:
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
#booktube #readerreview #bookreview #bestbooks #bookrecommendations #bookstube #readingwrapup
Books discussed:
SPQR by Mary Beard
The Kiss by Joan Lingard
Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Jerry Toner
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Kala by Colin Walsh
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O Brien
#booktube #bestbooks #booktok #books #readerreview #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookofthemonth #favouritebooks #readingrecommendations
Book discussed:
The Kiss by Joan Lingard
#booktube #bookviewer #books #bookrecommendations #bookhaul #bookhoarder #bookhauls
Books discussed:
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Khan by Saima Mia
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Sky Burial by Xinran
The Son by Philipp Meyer
Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Black Snow by Paul Lynch
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
The Making of the Modern Middle East by Jeremy Bowen
#bestbooks #booktok #bookwormsunite #booktube #bookworm #bookreview #bookrecommendations
Books discussed:
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy
Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell
The Emperor’s Babe by Bernadine Evaristo
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
#bestbooks #booktok #bookwormsunite #booktube #bookreview #bookrecommendations #readingwrapup #fiction
Books discussed:
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
A Load of Old Balls by Jo Brand
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
Clear by Carys Davies
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
#bestbooks #womensfiction #heroine #booktube #bookworm #bookreview #bookrecommendations
Books discussed:
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan
Boudica by Manda Scott
Anna by Niccolo Ammaniti
Circe by Madeline Miller
Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
#bestbooks #booktok #bookwormsunite #booktube #bookreview #bookofthemonth
Book discussed:
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
#bestbooks #favouritebooks #favouritereads #bookwormsunite #bookworm #booktube #reading #readingrecommendations
Books discussed:
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
House of Names by Colm Tóibín
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
#booktube #reading #readingwrapup #bestbooks #books #bookreview #readerscommunity #bookworm #bookwormsunite
Books discussed:
Some Other Ambush by Carys Davies
The Hearing Trumpet by Laura Carrington
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
How We Look by Mary Beard
#booktube #bestbooks #bookworm #bookish #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookreviews #bookofthemonth #favouritebooks
Book discussed:
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
#booktube #bookhaul #bookhoarder #bookish #bookhauls #bookstagram #bookshop #womenempowerment n
Books discussed:
Sweat by Emma Healey
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
Felicity by Mary Oliver
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
#readingwomen #booktube #nonfiction #bookstagram #bestbooks #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist
Readings from:
Thunderclap by Laura Cummings
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
#booktok #books #goodreads #fiction #bookworm #bookreview #readerscommunity #bestbooks #womenempowerment #women_issues #womensfiction
Books discussed:
Thunderclap by Laura Cummings
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia
How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
#booklover #booktube #reading #bookreview #bestbooks #readingrecommendations #readingchallenge
Books discussed:
January: a book with a snake on the cover.
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
Rapture’s Road by Sean Hewitt
The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent
February: a retelling of a myth/fairytale/historical event
House of Names by Colm Toibin
March: a book that has been long or short listed for a prize you have never read from before.
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
April: a book recommended by a booktuber.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Brother Do You Love Me by Manni and Reuben Coe
May: a book with your name on it.
Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green
#booklover #booktube #fiction #reading #bookreview #bestbooks #readingrecommendations #book #bookcase
Book discussed:
Sovereign by CJ Sansom
#booklover #booktube #reading #fiction #bestbooks #bookhaul #bookhoarder #book
Books discussed:
Laura by Vera Caspar
The Faces by Tove Ditlevson
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor
Dr No by Percival Everett
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
Ours by Philip B Williams
#booklover #booktube #fiction #reading #bookreview #bestbooks #readingrecommendations
Book discussed:
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Apologies for the sound quality. It was a windy day! 🍋
#goodreads #goodbooktoread #booklover #booktube #bookreview #fiction #holidayreads #holidays #italytravel
Books discussed:
The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Razor Blade Tears by S A Cosby
The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
The Tower by Flora Carr
#booklover #booktube #reading #readingrecommendations #bookreview #fiction #holidayreads #travelitaly #travelitalia #travelvlog
Books discussed:
Devotion by Hannah Kent
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
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Books selected:
Sovereign by CJ Sansom
Devotion by Hannah Kent
The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Books discussed:
The Purveyor of Enchantment by Marika Cobbold
The Good Women of China by Xinran
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
All the Wide Border by Mike Parker
House of Names by Colm Toibin
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
#booklover #booktube #reading #readingrecommendations #bookreview #bestbooks #fiction #myths #bookofthemonth
Book discussed:
The House of Names by Colm Toibin
#womensprize #nonfiction #booklover #booktube #readingrecommendations #women_issues #feminism
Books discussed:
Thunderclap by Laura Cummings
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
#womensprize #womenempowerment #reading #booklover #booktube #bestbooks #nonfiction
#womensprize #booklover #booktube #reading #readingrecommendations #bookreview #nonfiction #bookreview #womenempowerment
Books discussed:
Britannias by Alice Albinia
Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
#booktube #reading #readingrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #bestbooks #womenempowerment #feminism
Books discussed:
Wifedom by Anna Funder
The Things She Carried by Tiya Miles
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
Eve by Cat Bohannon
The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie
#womensprize #booktube #readingrecommendations #booklover ##bookreview #reading #bestbooks #nonfiction #womenempowerment #bookpreview
Books discussed:
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming
#booktube #womensprize
#readingrecommendations #booklover #reading #bestbooks #fiction #novel #womenempowerment #bestwriting
The longlist:
Hangman by Maya Binyam
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
The Maiden by Kate Foster
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams
#booktube #readingrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #reading #bestbooks #fiction #incarnation
#booktube #readingrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #reading #bestbooks #nonfiction #womenempowerment #motherhood #doppelgangers
Books discussed:
Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
#booktube #womenempowerment #nonfiction #booklover #readingrecommendations #reading #bestbooks
Books discussed:
The Britannias by Alice Albinia
Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
Eve by Cat Bohannon
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Wifedom by Anna Funder
Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia
The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie
How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
#booktube #readingrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #reading #readingwrapup
Books discussed:
Cells by Gavin McCrae
The Ice Children by M G Leonard
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
Thin Ice by Michelle Paver
Vergil by Sarah Ruden
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
#ghoststory #novel #greatbooks #booktube #readingrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #reading #fiction
#booktube #readingrecommendations #bookreview #readingchallenge #reading #classical #ancienthistory
#booktube #reading #readingrecommendations #shortstories #shortstory
Books and stories discussed:
The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies
Here I Stand from Amnesty International
The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
Hey You Down There by Harold Roseth
A Night At A Cottage by Richard Hughes
The Flowers by Alice Walker
#topnovels #bestbooks #bestnovel #bestnovels #favouritebooks #fiction #booklover #booktube #bookreview #novel
Books discussed:
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
This Book Will Save Your Life by A M Holmes
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Lanny by Max Porter
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
#booklover #booktube #readingrecommendations #prompts #readingplans #bookreview
Books discussed:
January
Simon: The New Life by Tim Crewe
Louise: Lanny by Max Porter
February
Simon: The Strays by Emily Bitto
Louise: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
March
Simon: Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Louise: Violets by Alex Hyde
April
Simon: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Louise: Two Women in Rome by Elizabeth Buchan
May
Simon: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Louise: Affinity by Sarah Waters
June
Simon: The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Louise: The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
July
Simon: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Louise: Pet by Catherine Chidgey
August
Simon and Louise: Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
September
Simon: So Late in the Day by Clare Keegan
Louise: The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
October
Simon: Ginger Bread by Helen Oyeyemi
Louise: The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
November
Simon: The Story of Persephone by Farmer and McCullum
Louise: The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
December
Simon: The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Louise: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
Bonus Prompt
Simon: Mother Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
Louise: Cells by Gavin McCrae
#readingwrapup #fiction #bookrecommendations #readingrecommendations
Books discussed:
This Book Will Save Your Life by A M Holmes
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
#booklover #booktube #bookhaul #bookshopping #booksbooksbooks #bookshop #bookstagram #booktok #booktuber
Books discussed:
The Winter Spirits - An Anthology
And Do This Is Christmas by Brian Bilston
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
The Ice Children by M G Leonard
Eurydice Street by Sofka Zinovieff
YiaYia by Anastasia Miari
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Please note that this video was recorded in Kate’s wonderful bookshop and is punctuated by the happy sounds of the shop doorbell, cash register and merry book shoppers. If you listen carefully you can even catch the sound of @SavidgeReads chortling in the background 😁
#booksaremybag #booktube #readingrecommendations #femalewriter #bestsellingbook #bestsellerbooks
#booklover
#suffolk #bookshop #bookshopping
Books discussed:
The Great Deceiver by Ely Griffiths
Julia by Sandra Newman
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
#readingwrapup #booklover #readingrecommendations #booktube #bookreview #reading #bookreview
Books discussed:
A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
Ada’s Dream by Sharon Dodua Otoo
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Burning Bright by Helen Dunmore
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
#booklover #booktube #readingrecommendations #winterbooks #fiction #reading
Books discussed:
Stories from Hans Christian Andersen edited by Philippa Pearce
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Under A Pole Star by Stef Penney
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Eckback
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
#booklover #booktube #reading #readingwrapup #bookshopping #booksbooksbooks
Books discussed:
Cecily by Annie Garthwaite
Femina by Janina Ramirez
The Good Women of China by Xinran
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Untelling by Tayari Jones
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay
Remembering by Sinead O’Connor
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph