Best Books of 2023 ...So Far! 📚🧡

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for watching! What are your favourite books of the year so far? x

[@sarahdugdale2764]

I absolutely recognise what you say about reading more not always being for the nicest reasons. This yea has been super hard and I've read way more than I have for years, but it's entirely because I've been needing the comfort. Love hearing your thoughts on these books as always 💜

[@jenvcampbell]

❤️

[@workingdogslog3442]

Same here. I’ve been experiencing some very traumatic events and I’m using reading as escapism.

[@mckait]

I have been exhausted by life for some time now. Most of my reads have been soft and or cozy. I have immersed myself in British mysteries.

[@CarolineAmstrup]

So surprised to see a Danish book on here! As a Danish person who only watches and shares reading with English speaking KZbinrs I feel so grateful. Last night I finished Celestine by Olga Ravn (In Danish) and it was the strangest experience but now I really want to read a translated book by her because I am so curious to how her writing reads in English🙏🏻 I have also noted down a whole lot of books from your list - hoping that a few of them are available at my library in Copenhagen🤞🏻

[@Mintee_rblx]

Jen, ‘please do not touch this exhibit’ is amazing! I’m usually not intrigued by poems but this book was beautifully written! I actually cried reading it!

[@nikitaj473]

I love your videos and your thoughts Jen! Thank you for sharing

[@cynthibook]

I added a lot of them on my wishlist ! Thank you for this video.

[@Xoximilco777]

Thank you!! Fantastic recommendations! 🎉❤

[@sylviashanabrough6515]

This is my first time watching one of your videos. I really enjoyed it. You say just enough to intrigue the viewer but not so much as to give anything away. Great job! This won't be my last time watching your videos.

[@doesitmatter13]

guessing books comment! (im really bad at remembering titles so this will be descriptions 😅) - the one about a theater in seoul where the cover is a girl with light in her face - the new claudia piñeiro you read this year - ms ice sandwich (can't actually remember if you liked it that much but I did so) - the one that reminded you of the tv show severence - that one thriller about the parent checking on the kid and thinking he's on his room when he isn't and that's as far as I can take it

[@jenvcampbell]

Excellent guessing! x

[@doesitmatter13]

@@jenvcampbell thanks I was procrastinating writing my thesis so I tried hard 🕵️‍♂️

[@keys2stone1984]

I gravitated right away to subscribe after watching your list and your review. Love it! I now find my own vibes for books!

[@rkb4238]

Omg i would love to play along with the guessing game 4:03 and i have def. watched all your videos this year, buuttt I cant remember any of the book titles right now - i feel like I am failing a test that I did not prepare for, hehe 😂😂😂

[@jenvcampbell]

Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't have been able to remember every one without scrolling through my Storygraph. x

[@laurayt3]

I love your recommendations. I’m so glad I found your channel ❤

[@camillagrunberger4059]

Lovely list and video as always ❤ Had to laugh when you said "pull up a seat", and I've literally just sat down for a 6 hour train ride, so.. 😂

[@clairvoyantpegasus]

Such a lovely, lovely list of books; I'm taking notes, as per usual. I also agreed with your point of how scarce the exploration of friendship, especially female friendship, is in literature/stories. A book I read recently that's really heavy on female friendship, but also motherhood/daughterhood/sisterhood is Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor. It's also a magical realism, so putting it out there for you or any of your subscribers/commenters to check it out as well! 💗🦋

[@jenvcampbell]

☺️❤️

[@MissEline1999]

I resonated so much with what you said about seeking refuge in fandom while struggling with disability. I never realized but I know now that that was exactly what teenage me was and young adult me still is doing ❤

[@jenvcampbell]

❤️

[@benreadsgood]

Fun video! Definitely want to read Diary of a Void, but waiting for the smaller (and slightly cheaper) format paperback to come out next month. My fave so far this year is Riambel by Priya Hein, although I’m sure at this point I have mentioned it so many times I’m starting to look like an industry plant 😂 Solider Sailor and I’m A Fan are also vying for the top spot too though.

[@jenvcampbell]

I didn't think you were an industry plant before... but now perhaps I do 😂 x

[@benreadsgood]

@@jenvcampbell No comment 👀

[@SoniaBIndianCinema]

Agree with your take on Out. I loved most of it but can't quite grasp why it moved into that direction towards the end.

[@orsolyatoth7440]

I'm on my third M.W. Craven book since watching this video. I loved the Frieda Kline series and trusted your recommendation blindly. Really enjoying the Poe/Bradshaw books now. Thank you, Jen!

[@jenvcampbell]

☺️♥️

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

My best books of the year so far are ( nearly all via audio) Deluge by Stephen Markley Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton All That’s Left Unsaid Fellowship Point My Fourth Time ,We Drowned Kala by Colin Walsh The New Life by Tom Crewe Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin A Room With A View Crow Lake by Mary Lawson English Animals We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves The Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin A Tale For The Time Being I looked at your list and the only one I could have guessed was Bandit Queens. 🍀👋☘️📕📚☕️📖💐

[@bmaei5]

Deluge!

[@orladdin]

Thank you for the audio recommendations! I really want to get into audiobooks, I think they will help me get back into reading. Unfortunately the first few I've sampled have been rather robotic and difficult to pay attention to. So appreciate these recommendations!

[@jenvcampbell]

My favourite audiobooks this year have been: Death of a Bookseller, Briefly a Delicious Life, Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho.

[@AndreaMoonMusic]

just discovered your channel. Your book recommendations are totally different from any I've heard of (just read Yellowface). Thank you!

[@FictionalSarah]

Last year was my best reading year ever - I read 128 books. It was a bad year overall. So far this year I’ve already read 121 so! Life has still been rough, but books, as always, provide a reliable escape. Loved hearing your list - some of these I’ve also read and loved (like Wandering Souls), others I’ve been meaning to get to (Diary of a Void especially!) and others I’ve made notes of. My favourites so far have been The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Two very different books, but oh, so very good.

[@jenvcampbell]

I hope that the year improves for you and, if not, that books provide much solace. xx

[@FictionalSarah]

@@jenvcampbell hope it does for you too 💛 but yes, regardless of everything else, we will always have books x

[@ravinmcraig9793]

I’m catching up on videos! I just finished Children of Paradise and I feel like that might be in your top 20. I’m currently reading Briefly a delicious Life and I feel like it will be one of my favorites. I also loves Devil House.

[@ravinmcraig9793]

I was correct! The creepy cinema book made it in to your top 10. I was reminded of Cecile B. Demented when reading it, which is a John Waters film. Great list!!

[@abbiebryant8548]

Okay my guesses are: Children of Paradise, Yellowface, Diary of a Void, and that one with the black cover you read semi-recently (The Employees?) - It was the sci-fi one with the eggs and it talked about what it is to be human. Maybe also that new mystery series you started with the disgraced detective. I am clearly not the best at remembering titles.

[@abbiebryant8548]

Honestly, not bad! Pretty pleased with my guesses :)

[@jenvcampbell]

Very good! x

[@AnnaShuk]

Constantly pausing to add more books to my get-it list.😁 Where do you listen to your audiobooks?

[@jenvcampbell]

Some from the library, some from Audible, but now that Libro.fm has come to the UK I've got an account there.

[@AnnaShuk]

@@jenvcampbell thank you so much 🙏 I'll see if they're available here.

[@jenvcampbell]

@@AnnaShuk Here's a link :) libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm506416 x

[@pattypetals5980]

Love your reviews❗️❗️

[@campbellcampbell9059]

Jen Campbell. As a fellow Campbell. I’m loving Josh Haven. His book is a must for summer ‘23. 'The Siberia Job'. It masterfully combines historical context, heart-pounding adventure, and high-stakes suspense, all wrapped up in a well-written narrative. If you're in for a thrilling read, this is your pick

[@campbellcampbell9059]

Love the video

[@eringolive]

I just finished Yellowface today. Brilliant! I loved how inside publishing it was.

[@jenvcampbell]

Compelling!

[@bobosboger]

I loved the employees and "mit Arbejde" (danish title of Ravn's motherhood book), they are VERY different though. My favorites of the year are Elena Knows by Piniero and Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. For middel-grad it was The Girl Who Ate her Brothers... and for graphic novels 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman takes the cake. No YA titles have stood out. (for full disclosure I read mostly adult general fiction and have read 57 book this year to date). My book recommendation for you wold be Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto and Aura by Carlos Fuentes. Both are magical realism and a little weird; I really liked them and think you might too.

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for the recs! x

[@DurgaMol]

I'm so happy to see The Diary of the Void made it onto the 1st place! And the Washington Poe's series is just wonderful. I chose The Bandit Queens for the book club I moderate thanks to your recommendation. We're reading it in October 🤩

[@jenvcampbell]

Happy reading! x

[@Bookish_Lattes]

I've added most of these books to my Tbr. Thank you so much for introducing them to me. ☺

[@jenvcampbell]

You're so welcome! x

[@whatsthetemma1308]

That's an amazing amount , I also find I reach for books good times and bad. They are amazing tonic when things are difficult. Is your reading exam different when it's a work or self chosen book. Im pushing through a club chosen book that I'm trying to finish but would have dnf. It's only fair I guess.

[@jenvcampbell]

If I have to finish a specific book for work, I will, though DNFs for work-related things are sometimes part of it, too; it depends on the assignment.

[@Caroline-wb2kl]

Unexpected Vanilla has been my favorite poetry read of the year so far as well! Such beautiful, inventive language and imagery. As always with your videos, my TBR has grown along with my excitement to start chipping away at it. Thanks for the great video, Jen!

[@jenvcampbell]

It's lovely, isn't it? Thanks for watching! x

[@katiejlumsden]

What a great list. I loved Ms Ice Sandwich and Diary of a Void too.

[@jenvcampbell]

☺️❤️

[@millie_s_]

Children of Paradise is at the top of my TBR list! Definitely looking forward to reading it.

[@jenvcampbell]

I hope you like it x

[@priscillacosta1307]

I think you will include Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe, which btw will be my next read following your recommendation!

[@priscillacosta1307]

I WAS RIGHT 😊

[@jenvcampbell]

Indeed you were :D x

[@jessicah95]

Both Children of Paradise and Is Mother Dead are mid year favourites of mine aswell! I also loved The Employees, but I read that last year. I feel I’d love Idol Burning but also worry it might hit to close to home on the relatability scale, so think I’ll have to choose my moment wisely to pick up that one 😅 Have you read Only Human by Kristine Næss? Or any Linda Boström Knausgård? I know you love The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, as do I, and think you might enjoy these authors! ☺️

[@jenvcampbell]

I haven't; I'll give them a Google, thanks! x

[@nymeria941]

Have you read "The Callout" by Cat Fitzpatrick? It's a novel in verse that seems very much in line with your current reading interests, and it was one of my very favorites. I also LOVED "Yellowface" and couldn't put it down.

[@jenvcampbell]

I haven't; you know, it's weird, I've never found a novel in verse that I've really liked. Which is odd, given I love poetry. Make it make sense 😂 Perhaps I just like the forms to be quite separate. The premise does sound really great, though! x

[@Nico5890]

Jen!! Early congratulations on a solid reading year. How did you figure out the home countries of alllll those books? Is that a feature of Storygraph premium?

[@jenvcampbell]

No, I keep a separate spreadsheet where I record my own book data x

[@anneroy4560]

Do you donate your 'did not read' books? Here there is shelf by the front door where volumes on their way to the charity shop sit ...

[@jenvcampbell]

Do you mean my ‘did not finish’? Yes. I also donate any book I didn’t enjoy or don’t think I’ll revisit for work. Every month I put a box of books outside our house and message our street’s WhatsApp group to let them know it’s there. Anything that isn’t claimed by the neighbours goes to a charity shop. (Proofs can’t be donated, so they have to go to neighbours/friends etc) x

[@kreskova1]

I just finished Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and it was such a beautiful and moving stand alone fantasy book.

[@chantellebehrens]

Currently re-reading this and it is such a good one!

[@jenvcampbell]

Glad you enjoyed it ☺️

[@elizabethmoloney6967]

Yeah, Children of Paradise in top 10 👏. Diary of a Void....you recommend, i will be buying . Another great video Jen. Informative and fun. Stay strong 😃🙏

[@JaybirdMelodies]

I’m not sure if I’ve read any books this year that were actually published this year… but my favorite so far has been How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. I’m still reading/rereading it, but it inspired me so much that I wrote a song for my university choir to sing based on a tree mentioned in the prologue. 💖

[@rymkervic123456]

Thanks, l use Audible (Aust) and couldn't think of what next to select - due to your recommendation lve gone for the The Curfew. Fingers Crossed lol.

[@jenvcampbell]

Hope you like it!

[@cynthiamurphy2610]

My guess: The Employees, because you really sold me on it (loved that whole video and will probably pick up most of those books.) I recently loved reading Hugh Howey’s book Shift, the second in the Silo series, and the Apple series Severance seems to have taken and further developed some core ideas of that book. Especially since Silo and Severance are both Apple series, I’m highly invested in speculating how they will handle the second season of Silo without being groaningly familiar to Severance fans. Naturally any book advertised as “like Severance” will pique my interest and be added to my prognostications. I love thinking about the origins of ideas, and how those ideas may then evolve.

[@cynthiamurphy2610]

Post watching, I will most likely pick up Children of Paradise, Chrysalis, and the Puppet Show. I think that “Twisted Delight” should be an official literary term and/or category. It would be so much easier to identify books I want to read!

[@jenvcampbell]

Yes, I didn't enjoy Wool but I really enjoyed watching the TV adaptation. x

[@azu_rikka]

I guessed that I Am a Fan and Is Mother Dead will be in your top 10😊 My top 10 ( in no particular order) are: Titus Groan by Mervin Peake The Neapoletan Novels #1 & 2 by Elena Ferrante Still Life by Sarah Winman The bone people by Keri Hulme How we disappeared by Jing Jing Lee Invisible cities by Italo Calvino The snow child by Eowyn Ivey Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson An unnecessary woman by Rabih Alameddine

[@bmaei5]

Love Peake

[@bookishsabrina]

Loved Diary of a Void when I read it last year. My favorite books of this year are Girlhood by Melissa Febos and Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo.

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for sharing. x

[@kellymcfarlane6120]

The only ones I guessed were I’m A Fan and The Curfew… I’m slacking haha. I loved I’m A Fan and have the audiobook of The Curfew waiting for me to get to it. I really have to pick up Diary of a Void now since both you and Willow (Books and Bao) have recommended it!

[@jenvcampbell]

I hope you enjoy it, too. x

[@gamewrit0058]

I started Once Upon a Biofuture: Takes for a new millennium and I'm enjoying the short stories so far. "Synthetic Biology" is not how I've heard it described before, and I'm impressed by this collaboration to make science and science communication more understandable. Wondering which stories in it were your favorites. My favorite reads of 2023 continue to be the graphic novel Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen, and Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherrinda J. Brown. I'd forgotten about Diary of a Void, but I'm not surprised that it, The Employees, and the other books on this list are your current faves. 💖👍

[@gamewrit0058]

I want to read How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart and Chrysalis.

[@jenvcampbell]

I haven't read BioFutures yet, so can't comment on which stories were my favourite. ☺️

[@mradcaqbdb]

I just read the first book in a series that I think you might enjoy, A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone from indie Orenda Books. Gloriously set in Edinburgh, it follows three women in the Skelf family, grandmother, mother, and daughter. The family business is funeral directors… and private investigators. It works so well. I sat on this one for a long time, but I’m so glad I finally read it. I’ve got the next three in the series in hand already and the fifth is coming out in September. I haven’t really done any ranking this year beyond Clytemnestra at number one. A Dark Matter is way up there, as is Yellowface. SA Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed was incredibly good, particularly on audio. Riambel by Priya Hein was excellent. From the Women’s Prize list, I adored Black Butterflies, Trespasses, and Wandering Souls. Grave Expectations by Alice Bell was a fantastic surprise, literally laugh out loud funny. I loved it.

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for the recommendation ☺️ x

[@mradcaqbdb]

@@jenvcampbell I started listening to the Washington Poe series this weekend thanks to you. I’m almost finished with the second book and I’m loving them! Thank you!

[@jenvcampbell]

@@mradcaqbdb Hurray!

[@KierTheScrivener]

I am very excited for Diary of A Void!

[@jenvcampbell]

It's a good'un :) x

[@KyWill-ji8sg]

Did quite well definitely got the subtweet and idol burning thought one of them might have been your number one haha

[@jenvcampbell]

I did umm and ahh about whether they should be; the books changed places several times! x

[@RelaxedBookworm]

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I get not being able to rank them, as that is quite the challenge for me personally. I was expecting to see 'All the Light We Cannot See'. What are your thoughts on that one if I may ask? Couple of the ones I want to read from your list are The Curfew & The Employees. After watching your review, I think I'm going to get them now as a Christmas present to myself! One more question: Do you like reading any history or journalism? I know you are pretty well read and was wondering if you have any favorites from those genres. I recently made a video ranking my favorites of the year and can be seen at this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2PbkmmEfdRqepI It's cool to see how far you've come Jen and you've been one of the sources of inspiration for me to come out with my own year in review list. Keep posting!

[@jenvcampbell]

I don’t have any interest in reading All The Light We Cannot See; it’s been heavily criticised by disabled readers for using blindness as a metaphor and presenting disability as a narrative prop. To answer your other question, my favourite book by a journalist is probably Gary Younge’s Another Day in the Death of America x

[@daysleeper1989]

Is mother dead might be on your list. Guessing also maybe Take Away, the memoir.

[@daysleeper1989]

One was right , one not on your top 10 😂 I can't believe I forgot about Children of Paradiso which I read and loved because of you.

[@jenvcampbell]

Too many good books to remember! x

[@carolinederwael4414]

I expect to see Chrysalis. (I've put it on my own tbr)

[@jenvcampbell]

👀

[@rebeccaostergaard7091]

I expect to see "I'm A Fan" on this list. It was one of my favorites from the Women's Prize this year and I think you loved it too!

[@jenvcampbell]

I did ☺️

[@kimswhims8435]

My best books, so far, Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton The Bandit Queens Babel and Yellowface All that's left unsaid by Tracey Lien Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandan I think I'm a fan might be on your list.

[@kimswhims8435]

I listened to The Curfew on your recommendation and loved it for what it was, love Richard Armitage's work. Listened to him do David Copperfield earlier in the year and it was brilliant.

[@jenvcampbell]

Even Richard couldn't make me love Dickens - I tried that audiobook, too. Was gutted because it would have been nice to listen to him for 20+ hours, ha. x

[@elizabethmoloney6967]

Yeah ......Wandering Soul is in 👏👏

[@Sara-gx9ie]

Expecting to see Idol Burning here, and a few from the Jhalak prize!

[@jenvcampbell]

Yup! :D x

[@indubitablyzara]

Off the top of my head, I think your favorites will probably include Ms. Ice Sandwich, All Yours (I think that's the right title? by Claudia Piñeiro), Yellowface (though perhaps not in the top ten), and I'm a Fan.

[@jenvcampbell]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@indubitablyzara]

So many of these, as soon as you said it I was like oh yeah, I forgot about that one! 😆 Including The Bandit Queens, which I also read this year...oh well, that's why I keep lists.

[@jenvcampbell]

This year I decided to write down everything we watch (TVs, films etc) because I always forget that, ha. x

[@MarketYourMarketing]

If you liked Bandit Queens you might like Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen, it's like Bandit Queens meets Promising Young Women and Killing Eve.

[@bmaei5]

Favorite reads, 3 women 1 Nox by Anne Carson Pleated pages, a scrapbook, tucked in a box. An elegy to Carson’s brother. An examination on how we remember a person’s life, how will it be recorded. 2 The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand A clerk collects the source material for a poet’s next work. A conversation on the role of the poet and the function of art. 3 Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith How the automated jacquard loom lead to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage work on the Analytic Engine to eventually the conception of the binary code used by current day computers. The thread in needlework and the thread in computing.

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for sharing ☺️

[@rossetarwen]

I think your one of your favorite books will be "The Employees" by Olga Ravn

[@rossetarwen]

very happy I was correct. I started second-guessing myself when you got to #6 and hadn't mentioned it yet! Books I've read this year that have stuck with me were: "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan (I listened to the audiobook) and Catherine Lacey's "The Biography of X"

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for sharing! x

[@gamewrit0058]

My most recent read is a good graphic novel, First Year Out: A Transition Story by Sabrina Symington.

[@Chocolatetart88]

I’m expecting I’m a Fan, The Subtweet, Children of Paradise and Idol, Burning. Some of my favs this year have been: Notes on an Execution, Wandering Souls, I’m a Fan and Pod (which was very unexpected).

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks for sharing ☺️❤️

[@anna6878]

The ones i can think of that feel like will be on your list: i am a fan, idol burning, is mother dead, the claudia pinerio book you read, boulder and children of paradise. Lets see if i'm right 🤞

[@anna6878]

Ok, was only wrong about bolder 😅 I think i might be interested in reading all of the literary/ contemporary books you mentioned because our tastes really align in the lit fic category. My favorite book of this year so far was gods of want by k-ming chang, which i think you also might enjoy. Great list, great video as usual ❤

[@jenvcampbell]

I really need to read Gods of Want. It's been sitting on my shelf for a while. x

[@juliette3423]

I loved Ms Ice Sandwich !

[@lauracorsi3309]

My Predictions of your faves: The Bandit Queens and Children of Paradise.

[@lauracorsi3309]

Oh yeah and Boulder and Still Born from the International Booker. I think these are just the prizes that I followed most closely and that's why those stick out to me in regards to books you talked about glowingly.

[@jenvcampbell]

No to the second two, but yes to the first two :) x

[@sparshhardik]

well summarised

[@lennydellarocca4992]

A System So Magnificent it is Brilliant?

[@janedraycott5919]

My favourites have been Nightbitch, The Marriage Portrait, and Demon Copperhead. But I have blitzed Emily Henry's four adult romance books as well, and enjoyed the coziness of them and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches as a counterpoint to the bleaker literary fiction.

[@jenvcampbell]

Got to get that balance! x

[@carolewatson2113]

I loved the Bandit Queens but also Demon Copperhead

[@jenvcampbell]

☺️

[@melissajordan4325]

My guess - with no real authority- In Memoriam by Alice Winn

[@jenvcampbell]

I haven’t read that one x

[@tine272]

omg a book by Vigdis Hjorth! 😮❤

[@elizabethmoloney6967]

Video stopped........m'thinks that Children of Paradise & Wandering Souls will both be in there .....

[@jenvcampbell]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@annapajmel5843]

Claire Keegan ?

[@annapajmel5843]

I didn't guess correctly

[@jenvcampbell]

@@annapajmel5843 I haven't read any books by her this year. x

[@eddiepalmer5740]

Non-fiction: Losing Eden, by Lucy Jones. A vital resource that we are losing. The natural world. 🌼🌹🌻🌴

[@dunkbiscuit]

You should try Silent Earth by Dave Goulson. Short listed for the wainwright prize. The topic of insects absolutely fascinating and a real call to action regarding what's happening in nature.

[@janicemacintosh5804]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

[@chimneydriptray2439]

Best book I’ve read in the last two years was a book called….. Don’t Play Games With The Builder..it’s a Christmas ghost story with a happy ending. But be warned it’s no mills and boon. Lol

[@loxee4769]

From the top of my head... I expect to see The Employees. Also maybe I'm a Fan? :)

[@loxee4769]

Finally got around to finishing this video! Very happy that my guesses were correct. I found that I didnt recognise some of the books you talked about here, probably because I mostly watch your vlogs. Maybe it's time to change that ;)

[@jenvcampbell]

❤️☺️

[@lian8785]

Every time you mention translated books in your videos, I think how most of what I read is translated. This year so far, I read only 13 out of 35 books that are not teanslted.

[@jenvcampbell]

Which have been your favourites?

[@lian8785]

@@jenvcampbell Three by D. A. Mishani was one of my favorites this year.

[@karenmoore4430]

I think Fire Rush will be on your list

[@jenvcampbell]

Afraid not. x

[@billnye8143]

Liked, commented, subscribed :D

[@hannahwooster1706]

Well that’s my TBR for the rest of the year sorted! Favourites this year so far have been The Bass Rock and Crying in H-mart. Can’t wait to pick up Bandit Queens, having heard nothing but amazing things!

[@jenvcampbell]

The Bass Rock is SO GOOD. x

[@abbypage4722]

I loooooved The Subtweet because I felt like it SAW me.

[@jenvcampbell]

Ha!

[@gail1249]

Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

[@cherylwright9408]

Fourth Wing

[@flyleafdiaries1819]

a few guesses: I’m a Fan, Yellowface, and Memphis

[@jenvcampbell]

2/3 ☺️

[@ghanshyamsingh3653]

Probably...Yellowface and Chrysalis ...are my guesses!

[@jenvcampbell]

Good guesswork!

[@ghanshyamsingh3653]

@@jenvcampbell Aawww! Thanks Jen, you hella awesome! I love love love your videos and your vibe a 100%...💙🤗💙👍👍

[@andrewrussell2845]

Expecting to see Demon Copperhead

[@cherylwright9408]

Housemaid

[@jillybeanh67]

My guesses are : ms ice-cream sandwich, subtweet and the other I can't remember the name, it's black with and orange square on the cover and about office work/black mirror-esque.

[@jenvcampbell]

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[@jillybeanh67]

I realised as soon as you mentioned the women's prize I'd forgot about the children of paradise 🤦

[@jenvcampbell]

It feels like such a long time ago!

[@jillybeanh67]

Clearly got employees and office work mixed up 🤦, I was.expectinf it to be 1. I also forgot about 'diary of a void', which has been on my list to read for ages, since your previous review, as are several others.

[@jillybeanh67]

My favourites of the year so far: a pale view of hills by Kazui Ishiguro, strong female character by Fern Brady, know my name, Chanel miller, virgin suicides by Jeffery Eugenides, this time tomorrow by Emma straub, violets by Alex Hyde and Kim Ji-Young, born 1982 by Cho Nam-jao

[@LoptrL]

I'm hoping to see Mother is Dead and Stillborn 🤞

[@jenvcampbell]

Stillborn definitely not a favourite but Hjorth was so so good! x

[@Chalo_Taste_Karen]

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[@mariliasilva4130]

I bet the employes will be on this list..lets see...

[@mariliasilva4130]

Yeah. I was right. I want to read it since i watch your review. My favorite so far was "forbidden notebook", by an italian writer, Alba de Cespedes. It is really good, would recommend. 🧡

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks ☺️