would you believe it it's the end of the year. 2022 was a really good for our reading and we're going to talk about our fave books in this ep. it's a little bit of a party because we eat a load of sweets throughout the recording and do NOT stick to our top five picks-- hope it doesn't bother you xx

what was your favourite book of the year? let us know over on instagram @chattingbooks !

and, as ever, here's all the books we talk about:

kick the latch by kathryn scanlan

my cousin rachel by daphne du maurier

push by sapphire

priestdaddy by patricia lockwood

the idiot and either/or by elif batuman

cold enough for snow by jessica au

motherhood by sheila heti

pond and checkout 19 by claire-louise bennett

sorrow and bliss by meg mason

permafrost by eva balthasar

beautiful world were are you by sally rooney

childhood, youth, dependency (the copenhagan trilogy) by tove ditlevsen

a little life by hanya yanagihara

indelicacy by amina cain

isaac and the egg by bobby palmer

wolf hall and bring up the bodies by hilary mantel

the secret history by donna tartt

betty by tiffany mcdaniel

conversations on love by natasha lunn

lapvona by ottessa moshfegh

the island of missing trees by elif shafak

american psycho by bret easton ellis

detransition, baby by torrey peters

maps of our spectacular bodies by maddie mortimer

essays in love by alain de botton

kitchen by banana yashimoto

these precious days by ann patchett

the wall by maelen haushofer

i am, i am, i am by maggie o'farrell

our wives under the sea by julia armfield

lots of love and new year wishes,

amy & mia xxxxxxxxxx

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