Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 50 minutes ago

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If you're following along with the Read Good Challenge, you'll know June is Reading Shame Forgiveness Month. It's a chance to read those books that you've been ruminating about and agonising over -- maybe for years -- no questions asked.

To give you some inspiration, I thought I'd share my reading pile of shame, based on some different 'flavours' of shame that you might recognised in your own reading life.

*If you'd like to do this as a tag, there are questions in the pinned comment.* Fancy doing it? Consider yourself tagged!

(Shame about reading is, of course, very silly. This is just a bit of fun!)

See more about the Read Good Challenge here:
youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U

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Books mentioned:
📖 The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
📖 The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
📖 A Quiet Belief in Angels, by R J Ellory
📖 Impossible Creatures, by Katharine Rundell
📖 Wool, by Hugh Howey
📖 Shift, by Hugh Howey
📖 Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
📖 Authority, by Jeff Vandermeer
📖 Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
📖 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
📖 Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
📖 The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi
📖 You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, by Akwaeke Emezi

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🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA

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