Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I've got three best of the year videos lined up: new fiction, fiction in translation and this one which is the mixed bag. These are my favourites although dozens of other good books just missed the cut. Tough choices were made!

0:00 intro
1:49 Nonfiction
None of the Above, Travis Alabanza
2:40 War Boy, Michael Foreman
3:35 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
4:23 Unquiet Landscape, Christopher Neve
5: 23 13 Colours of the Honduran Resistance, Melissa Cardoza trans Matt Ginsberg Jaeckle
7:04 An Immense World, Ed Yong (thank you @BookTubePrize )
8:23 Poetry
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshalese Daughter, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner
Shakespeare's Sonnets with @TootightLautrec
11:09 Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12:04 Bright Fear, Mary Jane Chan
13:06 A Blood Condition, Kayo Chingonyi
14:30 Home Is Not a Place, Roger Robinson and Johny Pitts
15:23 C+nto & Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor
17:11 Classic and backlist fiction in English
17:57 The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
19:02 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
20:37 The Professor's House, Willa Cather (thank you @HannahsBooks )
21:40 Maurice, EM Forster (thanks @JentheLibrarianreads and @SupposedlyFun )
23:24 Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys