Best Books of 2023 ...So Far! 📚🧡

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I've read 171 books so far this year. Here are my favourites! xx
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MY BOOKS:
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THIS EXHIBIT tinyurl.com/jndk3dpk
MARCELINE: DEFENDER OF THE SEA tinyurl.com/52za9cuj
THE SISTER WHO ATE HER BROTHERS tinyurl.com/7d266zxj
THE GIRL AQUARIUM: tinyurl.com/yc6tn9xs
THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT tinyurl.com/lnz5bb6
FRANKLIN’S FLYING BOOKSHOP: tinyurl.com/hlsgkjq
FRANKLIN AND LUNA GO TO THE MOON tinyurl.com/yb2xnuv2
FRANKLIN AND LUNA AND THE BOOK OF FAIRY TALES: tinyurl.com/y2g9wqv5
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Takeaway by Angela Hui
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff*
Head Above Water by Shahd Alshammari*
Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin*
Watching Women and Girls by Danielle Pender
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
All Yours by Claudia Pineiro
The Curfew by TM Logan
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel*
Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova*
Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe*
The Puppet Show by MW Craven
Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami*
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
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WHO I AM
Hello, I'm Jen Campbell. I'm an award-winning poet and bestselling author of twelve books, spanning short stories, poetry, picture books, and nonfiction.
My books for adults include The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The Girl Aquarium, The Bookshop Book, and The Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series. My picture book trilogy Franklin and Luna, and my middle-grade book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, are published by Thames & Hudson. I've won both an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and my books have been translated into twenty languages.
I've worked in the publishing industry for over fifteen years, initially as a bookseller, and now as a freelance editor, content creator and disability advocate. I review books online, in print and on the radio. I run a RU-vid channel where I talk about books, the history of fairy tales, and the representation of disability and disfigurement. I also offer online writing workshops and editorial services, give talks at schools, publishing companies, universities and book festivals on a variety of topics, and I run a book club for TOAST clothing.
If you would like to speak with me about the possibility of working together, please get in touch via email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com x
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@jenvcampbell Год назад

Thanks for watching! What are your favourite books of the year so far? x

@mckait 11 месяцев назад

I have been exhausted by life for some time now. Most of my reads have been soft and or cozy. I have immersed myself in British mysteries.

@sarahdugdale2764 Год назад

I absolutely recognise what you say about reading more not always being for the nicest reasons. This yea has been super hard and I've read way more than I have for years, but it's entirely because I've been needing the comfort. Love hearing your thoughts on these books as always 💜

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

❤️

@workingdogslog3442 10 месяцев назад

Same here. I’ve been experiencing some very traumatic events and I’m using reading as escapism.

@user-ct4hs1jy1k 11 месяцев назад

So surprised to see a Danish book on here! As a Danish person who only watches and shares reading with English speaking RU-vidrs I feel so grateful. Last night I finished Celestine by Olga Ravn (In Danish) and it was the strangest experience but now I really want to read a translated book by her because I am so curious to how her writing reads in English🙏🏻 I have also noted down a whole lot of books from your list - hoping that a few of them are available at my library in Copenhagen🤞🏻

@nikitaj473 11 месяцев назад

I love your videos and your thoughts Jen! Thank you for sharing

@cynthibook 11 месяцев назад

I added a lot of them on my wishlist ! Thank you for this video.

@Xoximilco777 11 месяцев назад

Thank you!! Fantastic recommendations! 🎉❤

@keys2stone1984 11 месяцев назад

I gravitated right away to subscribe after watching your list and your review. Love it! I now find my own vibes for books!

@MissEline1999 Год назад

I resonated so much with what you said about seeking refuge in fandom while struggling with disability. I never realized but I know now that that was exactly what teenage me was and young adult me still is doing ❤

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

❤️

@sylviashanabrough6515 10 месяцев назад

This is my first time watching one of your videos. I really enjoyed it. You say just enough to intrigue the viewer but not so much as to give anything away. Great job! This won't be my last time watching your videos.

@Mintee_rblx 6 месяцев назад

Jen, ‘please do not touch this exhibit’ is amazing! I’m usually not intrigued by poems but this book was beautifully written! I actually cried reading it!

@camillagrunberger4059 11 месяцев назад

Lovely list and video as always ❤ Had to laugh when you said "pull up a seat", and I've literally just sat down for a 6 hour train ride, so.. 😂

@Caroline-wb2kl Год назад

Unexpected Vanilla has been my favorite poetry read of the year so far as well! Such beautiful, inventive language and imagery. As always with your videos, my TBR has grown along with my excitement to start chipping away at it. Thanks for the great video, Jen!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

It's lovely, isn't it? Thanks for watching! x

@clairvoyantpegasus Год назад

Such a lovely, lovely list of books; I'm taking notes, as per usual. I also agreed with your point of how scarce the exploration of friendship, especially female friendship, is in literature/stories. A book I read recently that's really heavy on female friendship, but also motherhood/daughterhood/sisterhood is Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor. It's also a magical realism, so putting it out there for you or any of your subscribers/commenters to check it out as well! 💗🦋

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

☺️❤️

@Bookish_Lattes Год назад

I've added most of these books to my Tbr. Thank you so much for introducing them to me. ☺

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

You're so welcome! x

@laurayt3 3 месяца назад

I love your recommendations. I’m so glad I found your channel ❤

@benreadsgood Год назад

Fun video! Definitely want to read Diary of a Void, but waiting for the smaller (and slightly cheaper) format paperback to come out next month. My fave so far this year is Riambel by Priya Hein, although I’m sure at this point I have mentioned it so many times I’m starting to look like an industry plant 😂 Solider Sailor and I’m A Fan are also vying for the top spot too though.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I didn't think you were an industry plant before... but now perhaps I do 😂 x

@benreadsgood 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell No comment 👀

@DurgaMol Год назад

I'm so happy to see The Diary of the Void made it onto the 1st place! And the Washington Poe's series is just wonderful. I chose The Bandit Queens for the book club I moderate thanks to your recommendation. We're reading it in October 🤩

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Happy reading! x

@orsolyatoth7440 11 месяцев назад

I'm on my third M.W. Craven book since watching this video. I loved the Frieda Kline series and trusted your recommendation blindly. Really enjoying the Poe/Bradshaw books now. Thank you, Jen!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

☺️♥️

@elizabethmoloney6967 Год назад

Yeah, Children of Paradise in top 10 👏. Diary of a Void....you recommend, i will be buying . Another great video Jen. Informative and fun. Stay strong 😃🙏

@millie_s_ Год назад

Children of Paradise is at the top of my TBR list! Definitely looking forward to reading it.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I hope you like it x

@rkb4238 Год назад

Omg i would love to play along with the guessing game 4:03 and i have def. watched all your videos this year, buuttt I cant remember any of the book titles right now - i feel like I am failing a test that I did not prepare for, hehe 😂😂😂

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't have been able to remember every one without scrolling through my Storygraph. x

@eringolive Год назад

I just finished Yellowface today. Brilliant! I loved how inside publishing it was.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Compelling!

@doesitmatter13 Год назад

guessing books comment! (im really bad at remembering titles so this will be descriptions 😅) - the one about a theater in seoul where the cover is a girl with light in her face - the new claudia piñeiro you read this year - ms ice sandwich (can't actually remember if you liked it that much but I did so) - the one that reminded you of the tv show severence - that one thriller about the parent checking on the kid and thinking he's on his room when he isn't and that's as far as I can take it

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Excellent guessing! x

@doesitmatter13 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell thanks I was procrastinating writing my thesis so I tried hard 🕵️‍♂️

@JaybirdMelodies 11 месяцев назад

I’m not sure if I’ve read any books this year that were actually published this year… but my favorite so far has been How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. I’m still reading/rereading it, but it inspired me so much that I wrote a song for my university choir to sing based on a tree mentioned in the prologue. 💖

@pattypetals5980 13 дней назад

Love your reviews❗️❗️

@FictionalSarah Год назад

Last year was my best reading year ever - I read 128 books. It was a bad year overall. So far this year I’ve already read 121 so! Life has still been rough, but books, as always, provide a reliable escape. Loved hearing your list - some of these I’ve also read and loved (like Wandering Souls), others I’ve been meaning to get to (Diary of a Void especially!) and others I’ve made notes of. My favourites so far have been The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Two very different books, but oh, so very good.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I hope that the year improves for you and, if not, that books provide much solace. xx

@FictionalSarah 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell hope it does for you too 💛 but yes, regardless of everything else, we will always have books x

@jessicah95 Год назад

Both Children of Paradise and Is Mother Dead are mid year favourites of mine aswell! I also loved The Employees, but I read that last year. I feel I’d love Idol Burning but also worry it might hit to close to home on the relatability scale, so think I’ll have to choose my moment wisely to pick up that one 😅 Have you read Only Human by Kristine Næss? Or any Linda Boström Knausgård? I know you love The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, as do I, and think you might enjoy these authors! ☺️

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I haven't; I'll give them a Google, thanks! x

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 Год назад

My best books of the year so far are ( nearly all via audio) Deluge by Stephen Markley Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton All That’s Left Unsaid Fellowship Point My Fourth Time ,We Drowned Kala by Colin Walsh The New Life by Tom Crewe Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin A Room With A View Crow Lake by Mary Lawson English Animals We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves The Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin A Tale For The Time Being I looked at your list and the only one I could have guessed was Bandit Queens. 🍀👋☘️📕📚☕️📖💐

@bmaei5 Год назад

Deluge!

@orladdin Год назад

Thank you for the audio recommendations! I really want to get into audiobooks, I think they will help me get back into reading. Unfortunately the first few I've sampled have been rather robotic and difficult to pay attention to. So appreciate these recommendations!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

My favourite audiobooks this year have been: Death of a Bookseller, Briefly a Delicious Life, Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho.

@katiejlumsden Год назад

What a great list. I loved Ms Ice Sandwich and Diary of a Void too.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

☺️❤️

@KyWill-ji8sg Год назад

Did quite well definitely got the subtweet and idol burning thought one of them might have been your number one haha

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I did umm and ahh about whether they should be; the books changed places several times! x

@ravinmcraig9793 10 месяцев назад

I’m catching up on videos! I just finished Children of Paradise and I feel like that might be in your top 20. I’m currently reading Briefly a delicious Life and I feel like it will be one of my favorites. I also loves Devil House.

@ravinmcraig9793 10 месяцев назад

I was correct! The creepy cinema book made it in to your top 10. I was reminded of Cecile B. Demented when reading it, which is a John Waters film. Great list!!

@Nico5890 Год назад

Jen!! Early congratulations on a solid reading year. How did you figure out the home countries of alllll those books? Is that a feature of Storygraph premium?

@jenvcampbell Год назад

No, I keep a separate spreadsheet where I record my own book data x

@campbellcampbell9059 11 месяцев назад

Jen Campbell. As a fellow Campbell. I’m loving Josh Haven. His book is a must for summer ‘23. 'The Siberia Job'. It masterfully combines historical context, heart-pounding adventure, and high-stakes suspense, all wrapped up in a well-written narrative. If you're in for a thrilling read, this is your pick

@campbellcampbell9059 11 месяцев назад

Love the video

@KierTheScrivener Год назад

I am very excited for Diary of A Void!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

It's a good'un :) x

@bobosboger Год назад

I loved the employees and "mit Arbejde" (danish title of Ravn's motherhood book), they are VERY different though. My favorites of the year are Elena Knows by Piniero and Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. For middel-grad it was The Girl Who Ate her Brothers... and for graphic novels 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman takes the cake. No YA titles have stood out. (for full disclosure I read mostly adult general fiction and have read 57 book this year to date). My book recommendation for you wold be Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto and Aura by Carlos Fuentes. Both are magical realism and a little weird; I really liked them and think you might too.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the recs! x

@SoniaBIndianCinema 11 месяцев назад

Agree with your take on Out. I loved most of it but can't quite grasp why it moved into that direction towards the end.

@whatsthetemma1308 Год назад

That's an amazing amount , I also find I reach for books good times and bad. They are amazing tonic when things are difficult. Is your reading exam different when it's a work or self chosen book. Im pushing through a club chosen book that I'm trying to finish but would have dnf. It's only fair I guess.

@jenvcampbell Год назад

If I have to finish a specific book for work, I will, though DNFs for work-related things are sometimes part of it, too; it depends on the assignment.

@kellymcfarlane6120 Год назад

The only ones I guessed were I’m A Fan and The Curfew… I’m slacking haha. I loved I’m A Fan and have the audiobook of The Curfew waiting for me to get to it. I really have to pick up Diary of a Void now since both you and Willow (Books and Bao) have recommended it!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I hope you enjoy it, too. x

@AndreaMoonMusic 2 месяца назад

just discovered your channel. Your book recommendations are totally different from any I've heard of (just read Yellowface). Thank you!

@bookishsabrina Год назад

Loved Diary of a Void when I read it last year. My favorite books of this year are Girlhood by Melissa Febos and Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing. x

@azu_rikka Год назад

I guessed that I Am a Fan and Is Mother Dead will be in your top 10😊 My top 10 ( in no particular order) are: Titus Groan by Mervin Peake The Neapoletan Novels #1 & 2 by Elena Ferrante Still Life by Sarah Winman The bone people by Keri Hulme How we disappeared by Jing Jing Lee Invisible cities by Italo Calvino The snow child by Eowyn Ivey Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson An unnecessary woman by Rabih Alameddine

@bmaei5 Год назад

Love Peake

@cynthiamurphy2610 Год назад

My guess: The Employees, because you really sold me on it (loved that whole video and will probably pick up most of those books.) I recently loved reading Hugh Howey’s book Shift, the second in the Silo series, and the Apple series Severance seems to have taken and further developed some core ideas of that book. Especially since Silo and Severance are both Apple series, I’m highly invested in speculating how they will handle the second season of Silo without being groaningly familiar to Severance fans. Naturally any book advertised as “like Severance” will pique my interest and be added to my prognostications. I love thinking about the origins of ideas, and how those ideas may then evolve.

@cynthiamurphy2610 Год назад

Post watching, I will most likely pick up Children of Paradise, Chrysalis, and the Puppet Show. I think that “Twisted Delight” should be an official literary term and/or category. It would be so much easier to identify books I want to read!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Yes, I didn't enjoy Wool but I really enjoyed watching the TV adaptation. x

@kreskova1 Год назад

I just finished Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and it was such a beautiful and moving stand alone fantasy book.

@chantellebehrens Год назад

Currently re-reading this and it is such a good one!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it ☺️

@elizabethmoloney6967 Год назад

Yeah ......Wandering Soul is in 👏👏

@bmaei5 Год назад

Favorite reads, 3 women 1 Nox by Anne Carson Pleated pages, a scrapbook, tucked in a box. An elegy to Carson’s brother. An examination on how we remember a person’s life, how will it be recorded. 2 The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand A clerk collects the source material for a poet’s next work. A conversation on the role of the poet and the function of art. 3 Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith How the automated jacquard loom lead to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage work on the Analytic Engine to eventually the conception of the binary code used by current day computers. The thread in needlework and the thread in computing.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing ☺️

@gamewrit0058 Год назад

I started Once Upon a Biofuture: Takes for a new millennium and I'm enjoying the short stories so far. "Synthetic Biology" is not how I've heard it described before, and I'm impressed by this collaboration to make science and science communication more understandable. Wondering which stories in it were your favorites. My favorite reads of 2023 continue to be the graphic novel Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen, and Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherrinda J. Brown. I'd forgotten about Diary of a Void, but I'm not surprised that it, The Employees, and the other books on this list are your current faves. 💖👍

@gamewrit0058 Год назад

I want to read How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart and Chrysalis.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I haven't read BioFutures yet, so can't comment on which stories were my favourite. ☺️

@rebeccaostergaard7091 Год назад

I expect to see "I'm A Fan" on this list. It was one of my favorites from the Women's Prize this year and I think you loved it too!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I did ☺️

@abbiebryant8548 Год назад

Okay my guesses are: Children of Paradise, Yellowface, Diary of a Void, and that one with the black cover you read semi-recently (The Employees?) - It was the sci-fi one with the eggs and it talked about what it is to be human. Maybe also that new mystery series you started with the disgraced detective. I am clearly not the best at remembering titles.

@abbiebryant8548 Год назад

Honestly, not bad! Pretty pleased with my guesses :)

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Very good! x

@nymeria941 Год назад

Have you read "The Callout" by Cat Fitzpatrick? It's a novel in verse that seems very much in line with your current reading interests, and it was one of my very favorites. I also LOVED "Yellowface" and couldn't put it down.

@jenvcampbell Год назад

I haven't; you know, it's weird, I've never found a novel in verse that I've really liked. Which is odd, given I love poetry. Make it make sense 😂 Perhaps I just like the forms to be quite separate. The premise does sound really great, though! x

@rymkervic123456 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, l use Audible (Aust) and couldn't think of what next to select - due to your recommendation lve gone for the The Curfew. Fingers Crossed lol.

@jenvcampbell 10 месяцев назад

Hope you like it!

@mradcaqbdb Год назад

I just read the first book in a series that I think you might enjoy, A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone from indie Orenda Books. Gloriously set in Edinburgh, it follows three women in the Skelf family, grandmother, mother, and daughter. The family business is funeral directors… and private investigators. It works so well. I sat on this one for a long time, but I’m so glad I finally read it. I’ve got the next three in the series in hand already and the fifth is coming out in September. I haven’t really done any ranking this year beyond Clytemnestra at number one. A Dark Matter is way up there, as is Yellowface. SA Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed was incredibly good, particularly on audio. Riambel by Priya Hein was excellent. From the Women’s Prize list, I adored Black Butterflies, Trespasses, and Wandering Souls. Grave Expectations by Alice Bell was a fantastic surprise, literally laugh out loud funny. I loved it.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the recommendation ☺️ x

@mradcaqbdb 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell I started listening to the Washington Poe series this weekend thanks to you. I’m almost finished with the second book and I’m loving them! Thank you!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

@@mradcaqbdb Hurray!

@priscillacosta1307 Год назад

I think you will include Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe, which btw will be my next read following your recommendation!

@priscillacosta1307 Год назад

I WAS RIGHT 😊

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Indeed you were :D x

@sparshhardik 11 месяцев назад

well summarised

@AnnaShuk 11 месяцев назад

Constantly pausing to add more books to my get-it list.😁 Where do you listen to your audiobooks?

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Some from the library, some from Audible, but now that Libro.fm has come to the UK I've got an account there.

@AnnaShuk 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell thank you so much 🙏 I'll see if they're available here.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

@@AnnaShuk Here's a link :) libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm506416 x

@kimswhims8435 Год назад

My best books, so far, Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton The Bandit Queens Babel and Yellowface All that's left unsaid by Tracey Lien Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandan I think I'm a fan might be on your list.

@kimswhims8435 Год назад

I listened to The Curfew on your recommendation and loved it for what it was, love Richard Armitage's work. Listened to him do David Copperfield earlier in the year and it was brilliant.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Even Richard couldn't make me love Dickens - I tried that audiobook, too. Was gutted because it would have been nice to listen to him for 20+ hours, ha. x

@RelaxedBookworm 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I get not being able to rank them, as that is quite the challenge for me personally. I was expecting to see 'All the Light We Cannot See'. What are your thoughts on that one if I may ask? Couple of the ones I want to read from your list are The Curfew & The Employees. After watching your review, I think I'm going to get them now as a Christmas present to myself! One more question: Do you like reading any history or journalism? I know you are pretty well read and was wondering if you have any favorites from those genres. I recently made a video ranking my favorites of the year and can be seen at this link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i2xa6NHo7D0.html It's cool to see how far you've come Jen and you've been one of the sources of inspiration for me to come out with my own year in review list. Keep posting!

@jenvcampbell 7 месяцев назад

I don’t have any interest in reading All The Light We Cannot See; it’s been heavily criticised by disabled readers for using blindness as a metaphor and presenting disability as a narrative prop. To answer your other question, my favourite book by a journalist is probably Gary Younge’s Another Day in the Death of America x

@MarketYourMarketing Год назад

If you liked Bandit Queens you might like Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen, it's like Bandit Queens meets Promising Young Women and Killing Eve.

@Sara-gx9ie Год назад

Expecting to see Idol Burning here, and a few from the Jhalak prize!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Yup! :D x

@carolinederwael4414 Год назад

I expect to see Chrysalis. (I've put it on my own tbr)

@jenvcampbell Год назад

👀

@anneroy4560 10 месяцев назад

Do you donate your 'did not read' books? Here there is shelf by the front door where volumes on their way to the charity shop sit ...

@jenvcampbell 10 месяцев назад

Do you mean my ‘did not finish’? Yes. I also donate any book I didn’t enjoy or don’t think I’ll revisit for work. Every month I put a box of books outside our house and message our street’s WhatsApp group to let them know it’s there. Anything that isn’t claimed by the neighbours goes to a charity shop. (Proofs can’t be donated, so they have to go to neighbours/friends etc) x

@carolewatson2113 Год назад

I loved the Bandit Queens but also Demon Copperhead

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

☺️

@indubitablyzara Год назад

Off the top of my head, I think your favorites will probably include Ms. Ice Sandwich, All Yours (I think that's the right title? by Claudia Piñeiro), Yellowface (though perhaps not in the top ten), and I'm a Fan.

@jenvcampbell Год назад

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@indubitablyzara Год назад

So many of these, as soon as you said it I was like oh yeah, I forgot about that one! 😆 Including The Bandit Queens, which I also read this year...oh well, that's why I keep lists.

@jenvcampbell Год назад

This year I decided to write down everything we watch (TVs, films etc) because I always forget that, ha. x

@juliette3423 9 месяцев назад

I loved Ms Ice Sandwich !

@gamewrit0058 Год назад

My most recent read is a good graphic novel, First Year Out: A Transition Story by Sabrina Symington.

@karenmoore4430 Год назад

I think Fire Rush will be on your list

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Afraid not. x

@janicemacintosh5804 7 месяцев назад

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

@eddiepalmer5740 Год назад

Non-fiction: Losing Eden, by Lucy Jones. A vital resource that we are losing. The natural world. 🌼🌹🌻🌴

@dunkbiscuit Год назад

You should try Silent Earth by Dave Goulson. Short listed for the wainwright prize. The topic of insects absolutely fascinating and a real call to action regarding what's happening in nature.

@gail1249 Год назад

Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

@rossetarwen Год назад

I think your one of your favorite books will be "The Employees" by Olga Ravn

@rossetarwen Год назад

very happy I was correct. I started second-guessing myself when you got to #6 and hadn't mentioned it yet! Books I've read this year that have stuck with me were: "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan (I listened to the audiobook) and Catherine Lacey's "The Biography of X"

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing! x

@janedraycott5919 Год назад

My favourites have been Nightbitch, The Marriage Portrait, and Demon Copperhead. But I have blitzed Emily Henry's four adult romance books as well, and enjoyed the coziness of them and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches as a counterpoint to the bleaker literary fiction.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Got to get that balance! x

@Chocolatetart88 Год назад

I’m expecting I’m a Fan, The Subtweet, Children of Paradise and Idol, Burning. Some of my favs this year have been: Notes on an Execution, Wandering Souls, I’m a Fan and Pod (which was very unexpected).

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing ☺️❤️

@daysleeper1989 Год назад

Is mother dead might be on your list. Guessing also maybe Take Away, the memoir.

@daysleeper1989 Год назад

One was right , one not on your top 10 😂 I can't believe I forgot about Children of Paradiso which I read and loved because of you.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Too many good books to remember! x

@billnye8143 8 месяцев назад

Liked, commented, subscribed :D

@lauracorsi3309 Год назад

My Predictions of your faves: The Bandit Queens and Children of Paradise.

@lauracorsi3309 Год назад

Oh yeah and Boulder and Still Born from the International Booker. I think these are just the prizes that I followed most closely and that's why those stick out to me in regards to books you talked about glowingly.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

No to the second two, but yes to the first two :) x

@lennydellarocca4992 10 месяцев назад

A System So Magnificent it is Brilliant?

@anna6878 Год назад

The ones i can think of that feel like will be on your list: i am a fan, idol burning, is mother dead, the claudia pinerio book you read, boulder and children of paradise. Lets see if i'm right 🤞

@anna6878 Год назад

Ok, was only wrong about bolder 😅 I think i might be interested in reading all of the literary/ contemporary books you mentioned because our tastes really align in the lit fic category. My favorite book of this year so far was gods of want by k-ming chang, which i think you also might enjoy. Great list, great video as usual ❤

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

I really need to read Gods of Want. It's been sitting on my shelf for a while. x

@cherylwright9408 11 месяцев назад

Fourth Wing

@tine272 10 месяцев назад

omg a book by Vigdis Hjorth! 😮❤

@loxee4769 Год назад

From the top of my head... I expect to see The Employees. Also maybe I'm a Fan? :)

@loxee4769 11 месяцев назад

Finally got around to finishing this video! Very happy that my guesses were correct. I found that I didnt recognise some of the books you talked about here, probably because I mostly watch your vlogs. Maybe it's time to change that ;)

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

❤️☺️

@melissajordan4325 Год назад

My guess - with no real authority- In Memoriam by Alice Winn

@jenvcampbell Год назад

I haven’t read that one x

@abbypage4722 Год назад

I loooooved The Subtweet because I felt like it SAW me.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Ha!

@chimneydriptray2439 9 месяцев назад

Best book I’ve read in the last two years was a book called….. Don’t Play Games With The Builder..it’s a Christmas ghost story with a happy ending. But be warned it’s no mills and boon. Lol

@cherylwright9408 11 месяцев назад

Housemaid

@annapajmel5843 10 месяцев назад

Claire Keegan ?

@annapajmel5843 10 месяцев назад

I didn't guess correctly

@jenvcampbell 10 месяцев назад

@@annapajmel5843 I haven't read any books by her this year. x

@Chalo_Taste_Karen 4 месяца назад

@lian8785 Год назад

Every time you mention translated books in your videos, I think how most of what I read is translated. This year so far, I read only 13 out of 35 books that are not teanslted.

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Which have been your favourites?

@lian8785 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell Three by D. A. Mishani was one of my favorites this year.

@hannahwooster1706 Год назад

Well that’s my TBR for the rest of the year sorted! Favourites this year so far have been The Bass Rock and Crying in H-mart. Can’t wait to pick up Bandit Queens, having heard nothing but amazing things!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

The Bass Rock is SO GOOD. x

@elizabethmoloney6967 Год назад

Video stopped........m'thinks that Children of Paradise & Wandering Souls will both be in there .....

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

👏🏻👏🏻

@andrewrussell2845 11 месяцев назад

Expecting to see Demon Copperhead

@flyleafdiaries1819 Год назад

a few guesses: I’m a Fan, Yellowface, and Memphis

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

2/3 ☺️

@ghanshyamsingh3653 Год назад

Probably...Yellowface and Chrysalis ...are my guesses!

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Good guesswork!

@ghanshyamsingh3653 11 месяцев назад

@@jenvcampbell Aawww! Thanks Jen, you hella awesome! I love love love your videos and your vibe a 100%...💙🤗💙👍👍

@LoptrL Год назад

I'm hoping to see Mother is Dead and Stillborn 🤞

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Stillborn definitely not a favourite but Hjorth was so so good! x

@jillybeanh67 Год назад

My guesses are : ms ice-cream sandwich, subtweet and the other I can't remember the name, it's black with and orange square on the cover and about office work/black mirror-esque.

@jenvcampbell Год назад

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@jillybeanh67 Год назад

I realised as soon as you mentioned the women's prize I'd forgot about the children of paradise 🤦

@jenvcampbell Год назад

It feels like such a long time ago!

@jillybeanh67 Год назад

Clearly got employees and office work mixed up 🤦, I was.expectinf it to be 1. I also forgot about 'diary of a void', which has been on my list to read for ages, since your previous review, as are several others.

@jillybeanh67 Год назад

My favourites of the year so far: a pale view of hills by Kazui Ishiguro, strong female character by Fern Brady, know my name, Chanel miller, virgin suicides by Jeffery Eugenides, this time tomorrow by Emma straub, violets by Alex Hyde and Kim Ji-Young, born 1982 by Cho Nam-jao

@mariliasilva4130 Год назад

I bet the employes will be on this list..lets see...

@mariliasilva4130 Год назад

Yeah. I was right. I want to read it since i watch your review. My favorite so far was "forbidden notebook", by an italian writer, Alba de Cespedes. It is really good, would recommend. 🧡

@jenvcampbell 11 месяцев назад

Thanks ☺️