Here are links to my annual end of year summary of favourite books throughout the year, including:
Outstanding Read of the Year Top Fiction, Non-Fiction, Translations
Top Reads of 2025
Part 1: One Outstanding Read, Runner Up + Top 9 Fiction
Part 2: Top Reads 2025 Non-Fiction
Part 3: Top Reads 2025 in Translation
Top Reads of 2023
Part 1, Top 7 Fiction + One Outstanding Read
Part 2, Top 5 Nonfiction of 2023
Top Reads of 2022 – Top 5 Fiction + Top 5 NonFiction
Outstanding Read of 2022 – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Top Reads of 2021
Part 1 – The Stats + One Outstanding Read of the Year – Beyond Black There is No Colour by Maryam Diener
Top Reads of 2020
Outstanding Read of 2020 – A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Top Reads of 2018
Outstanding Read of 2018 – Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Top Reads of 2017
Outstanding Read of 2017 – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Top Reads of 2016
Outstanding Read of 2016 – The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwartz-Bart tr. Barbara Bray
Top Reads of 2015
Outstanding Read of 2015 – the autobiography of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Top Reads of 2014
Outstanding Read of 2014 – Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
Top Reads of 2013
Outstanding Read of 2013 – The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes
Top Reads of 2012
Outstanding Read of 2012 – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
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