Magic books for May, many of them miserable @scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Magic books for May, many of them miserable  @scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Books mentioned:
Ghost Mountain by Ronan Hession
Managing and Other Lies by Willow Heath @WillowTalksBooks
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica Lee
Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia translated by Clara and Richard Winston
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem translated by Sinan Antoom
River East River West by Aube Rey Lescure
The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada translated by Chris Andrews
Dream Hotel by Leila Lalami
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi

Thank you to the various reading event hosts including @GunpowderFictionPlot and @GemofBooks (Misery May), @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH and @MarilynMayaMendoza (Mental Health May), @PageTurnersWithKatja (Reading the Globe), @CriminOllyBlog (Horror Mayhem), @RaynorReadsStuff (Historathon), @royreadsanything and @hardbooks770 (Finnegans Wake group), @lindysmagpiereads (Praiseworthy group}
Other channels mentioned:
@shawnbreathesbooks
@EveningReader
@sarah-roadworthy
Magic books for May, many of them miserableI love Marchs multiple reading events so which to pick?Oscar Wildes plays: the famous, the infamous and the forgotten #victoberToo close for comfort? But I loved The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalamis new novelVictober 2025 announcement and its Victobers tenth birthdayLets get excited about Victober 2026 #victoberPeople April: Tilly and Ros sharing our highlights2024: my best poetry and plays read in the year and the last and most obscure of my 2024 favouritesCall Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo is historical fiction with a twist #readhistoricalfiction2025Februarys feast of booksEverything I read in July: new fiction, classics, even a special novel from GuatemalaThe Wood in Midwinter by Susanna Clarke - a mini-review of a mini-book
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Magic books for May, many of them miserable

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