Where did this excruciating, soul-sucking, mind-bending, reality-defying year go? As per tradition, here’s my “best of” list which, as you’ll note, mainly consists of distractions and fantasy and anything to give my battered brain a break.
Note*: these are not necessarily in order and not necessarily published this year, just read this year. By me. And possibly you. This is always a difficult task but my usual means of deciding which ones make the cut is asking myself “would I actually purchase a second copy and/or re-read this book and/or foist this book on others?” The winners among many fine entries are:
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Assassin’s Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3) by Robin Hobb
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party by Brendan Francis Newnam, Rico Gagliano
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
- Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar
- Canada by Mike Myers
- An Age of License: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
*Other note: the year isn’t over! I still have a few more books on my reading shelf so this may be updated so watch this space!
Bajira! 
Six Of Crows is so amazing! There are no words.
Yes! The sequel was excellent too!