The List Of My Heart: Excellent Reads That You'll Hate Me For Suggesting Because You'll Inevitably Add Them To Your Already Out Of Control TBR
In what is currently masquerading as my day job, I was asked to list my top 5 books for the year. For various reasons, I wasn’t able to list the books that I had read and REALLY loved, so here is the list of my heart: books I read (that were not necessarily published) last year, and would bore anyone about at a dinner party/bus stop/ queue for overpriced pastries in some hipster laneway, as long as they were stupid enough to ask me about what I’d been reading: The Answers - Catherine Lacey I love this woman’s work so much I would read a toilet roll if she wrote on it. Just amazing, amazing, amazing; here is another review if you want to know more. Swing Time - Zadie Smith I’ve never read any other Zadie Smith, but this book got completely under my skin. It's one of those books that tackles big, broad themes yet also delves into a really captivating small, character-based story, and I adored it. The Green Road - Anne Enright Enright won the Booker a few years ...