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maudiestokes.bsky.social
My favourites from a great year of reading #booksoftheyear
December 31, 2024 at 12:03 PM
profgsheffield.bsky.social
#BooksOfTheYear no.7 Genuinely pathbreaking. Overturns much received wisdom. Published in 2020 but I read it this year.
December 26, 2024 at 10:30 AM
claremulley.bsky.social
My chosen #BooksOfTheYear 2025…
- @annesebba.bsky.social #TheWomensOrchestraOfAuschwitz
- #YaelVanDerWouden #TheSafekeep
- @rachelclarke.bsky.social #TheStoryOfAHeart
Read them all; they’re absolutely brilliant!
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ashcroftethics.bsky.social
By (not extremely) popular demand, books I have particularly enjoyed this year. #booksoftheyear
November 26, 2023 at 11:04 AM
liljawriter.bsky.social
So happy that ⱯLFA has been named ‘Crime Novel of the Year’ by Morgunblaðið — the biggest newspaper in Iceland. Feeling grateful, proud, and a little bit stunned.
#booksoftheyear #icelandbooks
@orendabooks.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
profgsheffield.bsky.social
#BooksOfTheYear no. 5. Published 2022, read this year. I read it for the section on the May-June 1940 campaign but the whole book is fascinating. I've bought Vol. 2 but haven't read it yet.
December 18, 2024 at 5:35 PM
whatsfsaid.bsky.social
My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025!
#BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway
Cover of Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan, showing two children running through the Paris night, over the roof of a moque
December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
portybelle.bsky.social
Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025!! #ReviewOfTheYear #BooksOfTheYear from @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social jillsbookcafe.blog/2025/01/04/g...
Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025!! #ReviewOfTheYear #BooksOfTheYear
Lets start by saying that in my real life 2024 was set to be a cracker. I was 66 in April and finally entitled to my state pension, so that meant I could afford to put down my pen, step away from t…
jillsbookcafe.blog
January 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
profgsheffield.bsky.social
#BooksOfTheYear No.6 Published in 2004, I wish I had read this years ago. The brilliant Harry Sidebottom is very good on the so-called 'Western Way of War'.
December 22, 2024 at 9:06 AM
profgsheffield.bsky.social
#BooksOfTheYear 1. Istanbul is one of my favourite cities, I've been fascinated by Byzantium since I was a postgrad, and @bettanyhughes.bsky.social is a wonderful historian. What's not to like?
December 11, 2024 at 7:59 AM
bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
December news & events: shorturl.at/9t3ML

Winners of #JamesBerryPoetryPrize announced; #BooksOfTheYear incl @dzifabenson.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social & many more; Poets at @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social incl @aoifelyall.bsky.social & @courtneyconrad.bsky.social; reviews, radio & much more!
December 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
booksoftheyear.bsky.social
*GUEST CO-HOST KLAXON ALERT!*

Join Marianna Spring for a very special #booksoftheyear when she’ll be interviewing the one and only Simon Mayo (yes!) about his brilliant new novel, Black Tag.

Available from Wednesday!

#blacktag #simonmayo @simonmayo.bsky.social @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
whatsfsaid.bsky.social
My favourite non-fiction book of the year: STEERING THE CRAFT by Ursula K Le Guin, revised & updated & published in the UK for the first time by @silver-press.bsky.social, with introductions from Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler & Theo Downes-Le Guin!
www.silverpress.org/products/ste...

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Book cover for Steering The Craft by Ursula K Le Guin
December 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
sugarappleprincess.bsky.social
My top 12 books of 2025 📚

#booksky #reading #books #fantasy #newbooks #booksof2025 #booksoftheyear #favoritebooks
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
lindasbookbag.bsky.social
Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025!! #ReviewOfTheYear #BooksOfTheYear jillsbookcafe.blog/2025/01/04/g... via @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social
Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025!! #ReviewOfTheYear #BooksOfTheYear
Lets start by saying that in my real life 2024 was set to be a cracker. I was 66 in April and finally entitled to my state pension, so that meant I could afford to put down my pen, step away from t…
jillsbookcafe.blog
January 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
deniseeb.bsky.social
#Booksoftheyear 12
The Voyage Home
Pat Barker
*****
💙 📚
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
booksoftheyear.bsky.social
Jennifer Niven joins us this week for a chat about her brilliant new novel ‘Meet The Newmans’

Available now wherever you get your pods! 🎧

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January 29, 2026 at 9:51 AM
booksoftheyear.bsky.social
On this week’s #booksoftheyear we welcome back international superstar author Michael Connelly!

He discusses his new novel, basements in LA - and how he feels about #bosch getting older!

Available now from wherever you get your podcasts!

@michaelconnelly.bsky.social @simonmayo.bsky.social
This is a photo of international bestselling author Michael Connelly. He’s sat starring at the camera, wearing a loose grey shirt, looking serious - but cool. He wears glasses, has a white bushy goatie beard and grey hair slicked back.
December 11, 2024 at 3:27 PM
sineadgleeson.bsky.social
Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear
Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
New on the blog today, part one of MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2024 - new books and treasures from the TBR.

Featuring books by Isabella Hammad, Laura Cumming, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brooker and more! #BookSky #Books #BooksOfTheYear 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/m...
My Books of the Year, 2024 – Part 1
Some favourites from a year of reading I seem to say this every year, but 2024 has sent some wonderful books my way from new releases to treasures from the TBR to captivating reissues and rediscove…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:17 AM
whatsfsaid.bsky.social
This was the year I discovered @annleckie.com. First I was blown away by THE RAVEN TOWER (2019); then by LAKE OF SOULS (2024), a new collection of short stories. Some are set in the Raven Tower universe, but the newest story, Lake Of Souls, might be my favourite thing of hers so far.
#BooksOfTheYear
Cover of Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie Cover of The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
December 20, 2024 at 9:25 PM
booksoftheyear.bsky.social
New episode klaxon!! 🎺📣

On our latest #booksoftheyear we welcome journalist and author Bryony Gordon to the studio to discuss her new novel ‘People Pleaser’

Available now wherever you get your pods!

@simonmayo.bsky.social
May 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
New on the blog today, Part 2 of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading.

Featuring books by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Comyns, Anita Brookner, Leonora Carrington, John McGahern & more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/m...
A large pile of books featuring titles by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Comyns, Anita Brookner, Leonora Carrington, John McGahern, Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick & more.
December 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
booksoftheyear.bsky.social
Need a book for Christmas? “The Traitor’s Circle” by Jonathan Freedland is bloomin’ brilliant!

Twisty, suspenseful, unbelievable - and a total page turner!

Hear Jonathan natter about it on the latest #booksoftheyear ep (available everywhere)

@simonmayo.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
joielesin.bsky.social
THE PASSENGER is a N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Best Books of ‘24 Bookish Event pick.

Read an excerpt and find out more about this book of my heart at:

www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/the-pas...

#booksoftheyear #nnlbh #ghoststory #historicalfantasy #booksky #books @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 7:53 PM