Tag: what to read
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Review: Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
After losing her mother the night the magic disappears, Zélie has one chance to bring it and save the maji that wield it. Believe the hype this book got, it’s one of my favourite reads this year.
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Review: Time Tub Travellers: Roman Rescue – Claire Linney
When Aunt Abina mysteriously disappears, it’s time for Zula and Milo to step up and rescue her with the help of their time travelling bathtub. I adore this middle grade series and more people absolutely need to know about it.
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Review: Smallie – Eden McKenzie-Goddard
When immigration starts inquiring into Lucinda’s legitimacy in the UK, her children get a lawyer involved to support her case but much more is uncovered. A stunning recount of what so many of the Windrush generation will face, I can’t recommend this one enough.
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Review: Female Life on Planet Earth – Laleh Khadivi
A story of motherhood and identity that asks the question, did you really know your mother? A delicate and beautiful short novel that is well worth your time.
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Review: Big Man – Dean Atta
The past never stays put and old connections bring up trauma that Big was quite happy leaving hidden. This was an utter delight, Atta has done it again.
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Review: Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
Dana and Rufus’s lives are intertwined, but they’re living in different worlds and different timelines. A very necessary read and one you’ll want to, but can’t, look away from.
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Review: Uprising – Tahmima Anam
A stunning tale of revolt and revolution. Such a brilliant and short read, so many of you will love this.
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Review – Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Pancinko is a long and sprawling literary historical novel focusing on just one family and the generations that follow. An utterly beautiful book, spanning generations, for fans of Homegoing and more historical fiction.
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Review: Small Joys – Elvin James Mensah
I don’t know what else I can add and say about this book that hasn’t already been said, but it’s easily one of my favourite books of the year. This is literary fiction at its best and is a modern day classic, implore you to read this.
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Review: Punching the Air – Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
Amal should have been somewhere else that night, but he was there and he’s now living with that decision. I devoured this and I already can’t wait this YA novel in verse read it again.
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Review: White Spaces – Elvin James Mensah
“A hymn to brotherly love and its transcendent power to heal”. Mensah has done it again, White Spaces is a masterpiece.
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Review: Sister of Mine – Marie-Claire Amuah
Family secrets are uncovered on a trip to Ghana and Sika will never be the same again. I fell in love with Amuah’s writing in her debut, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, and it was a pleasure to return to that heartfelt style in Sister of Mine.
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Review: Half Lives – Krystle Zara Appiah
Krystle Zara Appiah is back with another beautifully told novel, which this time centres sisterhood and all its nuances. A slightly different pace than Rootless but a brilliant read nonetheless.
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Review: Not With a Bang – Temi Oh
An end of the world drama with beautiful family dynamics. I’m not actively drawn to end of the world media but I really enjoyed this one, Temi Oh’s writing is beautiful.
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Review: Rootless – Krystle Zara Appiah
Efe and Sam were meant to be together, they just were never there at the right time. A book that has truly broken me but I couldn’t recommend more, just stunning.
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Review: James – Percival Everett
James retells the Mark Twain’s The Tales of Huckleberry Finn from his untold perspective. Thoroughly enjoyable and I can’t recommend on audio enough.
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Review: Celestial Lights – Cecile Pin
Celestial Lights follows Ollie as he’s going where no man has gone before, to Jupiter’s moon to search for life. More exquisite writing from Pin that starts gentle but leaves a heavy hole after finishing.
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Review: Kin – Tayari Jones
Two motherless girls, raised side by side until their lives take them in different directions. An unforgettable tale of sisterhood.
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Review: Havisham – Elle Machray
You’ll know of Miss Havisham through Dickens’ Great Expectations but get ready to find out who she was and could be when women write their own stories. One of my favourite reads of the year, a stunning reworking of one of literacy’s most ignored women.
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Review: Strangerland – Monika Radojevic
Strangerland proves that love can transcend language, borders and whole oceans. Radojevic’s debut is a roaring success, readers will be incredibly moved by this one.
