1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2022
This is a tough one, but the one that made the biggest impression on me is Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go In The Dark.

2. New release you haven’t read yet, but want to
Love Marriage by Monica Ali

3. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, publishing in October this year.

5. Biggest disappointment
The It Girl by Ruth Ware.

6. Biggest surprise
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

7. Favourite new author (debut or new to you)
Sara Novic, author of True Biz.

8. Newest fictional crush
I’ll have to pass on this one this year!
9. Newest favourite character
Kate Burns, aka Lady Lane, in Diana Clarke’s The Hop.

10. Book that made you cry
Girl A by Abigail Dean

11. Book that made you happy
Fight Night by Miriam Toewes

12. Most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received)
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany

13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
- All the Things We Don’t Talk About by Amy Feltman
- My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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