Sophie Islington

I did really like this one an awful lot I think it's very approachable if it's not a topic that you're familiar with it all feels like there's quite a lot going on in that space.

I read this and pain and prejudice and I do think this one took the cake by a little bit.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is something I know very little about and I really loved reading this first person account.

this is feminism and medicine or wrapped up in a bundle if you're interested in any of those things I think you'd enjoy this one it also it's a bigger book but it reads very quickly it's very compelling.

I loved this book so much if you haven't read this one again this is one of my like absolute top picks for 2021 I would just put it in everyone's hands.

it's just this it's so relatable and so crippling the way that she describes the relationship she has with things how things control the way that she lives her life and I just I just think more people need to read this one.

this is probably the best book this year I’ve read that helped me understand COVID better so if that's something you want to do I would really push you towards this one.

I really enjoyed this one I’d happily read it again and I don't often reread nonfiction so that's an interesting one.

it's just brilliant and it's terrifying so this is a really scary book. I’ve gifted this to three people this year because I can't get it out of my head I just absolutely adored it.

if you enjoyed the Overstory you'll really like Bewilderment

I just think it's gorgeous nature writing and gorgeous emotional character work and I think I’m really glad I enjoyed this Richard Powers because I’ve read two of his other books and didn't enjoy them and wanted something to bring me back and this definitely brought me back another five star book.

I absolutely ate this one up and it meant I enjoyed it so much it meant I read all of Sarah Moss's back catalogue in 2021 as well.

I just think it was fascinating beautifully written and if even if you're not like a sciencey person it really doesn't matter I just think it's so clever and I kind of want more of this but for different things but I don't feel like that's what the direction they'll go in but yes I loved it.

I just think it's brilliant I don't think it's overblown or dramatized I think it's just as it is and that just felt very precious to me so Inferno is one I’m definitely going to remember and keep in my heart for the years to come.

this is so full of like Sapphic desire and feminism and strength and grit it feels really gritty I just absolutely adored it.

This is a strange book, it's marvellous. I want more from her like now.

I think it is very vulnerable and very I want to say sharp edged it almost feels a bit like if you were grieving it's that feeling of if you've broken glass on the floor and you almost can't go near it to clean it up because you're so frightened you might stand on a piece but I do think it's just gorgeous and clear and well worth the read but I would say as it is fairly kind of raw.

this looks at a young person who turns up one day in the pew of a church and the community that's very close-knit takes them in and sees themselves as kind of looking after this person in god's name etc. but they lose interest in their well-being the less questions and the less conforming that Pew is to that community. It's brilliant.

I think that it is this amazing mix of like sci-fi, capitalism, workplace drama, human connection, playfulness as well as in the style and it's just fabulous I think this is such a brilliant little book.

I really loved it I can see why it's divisive but I think it's brilliant.

It is so well written and so striking and very different I couldn't not have this one on my best books of the year.

I love her writing I loved her bullies and other parties but I did prefer in the dream house

no visible bruises may well have been there but I just finished reading it and I don't quite trust myself to say like a hundred percent I was but my last book of twenty of 2019 and so I absolutely loved it

my three honorable mentions for 2019 are the Lost Children archive by valerian it was Sealy coventry by Rachel cask and no visible bruises by rachel louise snyder and loved all three of these books