50 Favourite Books from the Past Five Years 📚📚📚

To celebrate being on booktube for 5 years I discuss my 50 favourite books from this period of time. From all these I choose my 10 favourites in an EPIC SHOWDOWN. 😄📚 Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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Books discussed & purchase links:

2016
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
https://tidd.ly/3ip4mPj
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
https://tidd.ly/2UZjuv2
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
https://tidd.ly/3rkRUnL
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
https://tidd.ly/36KOz88
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
https://tidd.ly/3wSH6yu
Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin
https://tidd.ly/2Ufc8DD
Autumn by Ali Smith
https://tidd.ly/3igGKwo
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
https://tidd.ly/3zb5sFj
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
https://tidd.ly/2UVMX8O

2017
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write To You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
https://tidd.ly/3xQtS6z
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
https://tidd.ly/3wu4LFa
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
https://tidd.ly/3eyD8oy
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
https://tidd.ly/2USmA3J
Such Small Hands by Andres Barba
https://tidd.ly/3rjNKgf
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
https://tidd.ly/2UToXn5
Winter by Ali Smith
https://tidd.ly/2VWIfbC
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
https://tidd.ly/3hLm9B9
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
https://tidd.ly/3zeloq7
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
https://tidd.ly/2VUH3We

2018
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
https://tidd.ly/2UgVN1i
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
https://tidd.ly/3imSpK5
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
https://tidd.ly/3zelz4L
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
https://tidd.ly/3itBi9I
Problems by Jade Sharma
https://tidd.ly/3evLCNg
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
https://tidd.ly/3tMh12V
Circe by Madeline Miller
https://tidd.ly/3wRosHc
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
https://tidd.ly/36IzNyC
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
https://tidd.ly/2VXgH5V
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
https://tidd.ly/3rpWGk3

2019
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
https://tidd.ly/3cWykrr
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
https://tidd.ly/36GMgTL
My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
https://tidd.ly/3z7zaen
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
https://tidd.ly/3gvcSvs
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
https://tidd.ly/3z9pboP
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
https://tidd.ly/3etfcD2
The Years by Annie Ernaux
https://tidd.ly/36QMeIJ
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
https://tidd.ly/36Ms7eO
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
https://tidd.ly/2UTpEgb
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
https://tidd.ly/3BhfztZ

2020:
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates
https://tidd.ly/34Q8Vfz
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
https://tidd.ly/2JiQGIh
XX by Rian Hughes
https://tidd.ly/34SJH0l
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
https://tidd.ly/37Uz4Ma
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
https://tidd.ly/37gxIde
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
https://tidd.ly/3loiuYx
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
https://tidd.ly/2MbrQep
Summer by Ali Smith
https://tidd.ly/3hoMseM
A Saint From Texas by Edmund White
https://tidd.ly/3rAvBdG
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
https://tidd.ly/3hnpWmB


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