Here are links to my annual end of year summary of favourite books throughout the year, including:

One Outstanding Read of the Year + Top Reads Fiction & Non-fiction

Click on the Heading to see the Top Reads for the year, or on the cover image to purchase the outstanding book:

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

Part 2 – Top 10 Fiction

Part 3 – Top 10 Non Fiction

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