Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Happy New Year, everybody! Here are 12+1 standout reads from my reading year 2021, with links to the reviews, recommendations or wrap-up videos in which I talk about them.

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley (youtu.be/cSFwyqhbhDo)
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura (youtu.be/k7_NRXyyNPY?t=439)
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (youtu.be/k7_NRXyyNPY?t=704)
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (youtu.be/T66do1pu9oM?t=401)
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (youtu.be/miOZEDKWKNs)
Vor dem Fest (Before the Feast) by Saša Stanišić (youtu.be/4gbp6JMh7ZI?t=879)
The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia A. McKillip
By the Currawong’s Call by Welton Marsland (youtu.be/5Tq2kl5zdiU?t=436)
Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter by R. Cooper (youtu.be/5Tq2kl5zdiU?t=27)
Tengo miedo torero by Pedro Lemebel (youtu.be/mIMc5WjZi0o?t=497)
The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy (youtu.be/T66do1pu9oM?t=927)



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