Hello, and welcome back to The Wonderlost Reader. Today I’m talking about the books that I’ve read over the last five years that have had …
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Top 10 Books of 2021
Hello, and welcome back to The Wonderlost Reader. In today’s video I’m talking about my top 10 books of 2021. It’s been an interesting year …
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Blurb Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst waves of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. When …
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Blurb In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies …
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Blurb Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public …
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Book Review
Blurb A lifetime holding it together. One party will bring it crashing down. Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party …
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb Book Review
Blurb Assassin’s Apprentice is a fantasy book and the first in Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy. The story follows a child named Fitz, the bastard son …
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Blurb Margaret Prior has decided to become a ‘lady visitor’ to the female inmates in Milbank Prison. She is supposed to be an example of …
The Unbroken by CL Clark
Blurb Every empire demands revolution. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty …
Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb
Blurb A small and sadly untried coterie – the old assassin Chade, the serving-boy Thick, Prince Dutiful, and his reluctant Skillmaster, Fitz – sail towards …
