Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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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