Tag Archives: #Topbooks

Gift the hottest books this Christmas: How We Love

November 3, 20212021, Christmas, Gifts, Recommended#cleverchristmas, #giftideas, #imclever, #onlineshopping, #TopbooksTeam Booko

How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate – and essential reading. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Vanishing Half

August 27, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Looking beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Happiest Man on Earth

August 26, 20212021, Goals, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. Filled with insights on friendship, family, health and ethics The Happiest Man on Earth offers timeless lessons for readers of all ages.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Night Watchman

August 25, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

The Night Watchman is a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress, grappling with the worst and best impulses of human nature.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Such a Fun Age

August 24, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her employer, and a connection that threatens to undo them both.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

August 23, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing explores the confusion of having expectations upturned, and the awkwardness and pain of being human in our increasingly dislocated world.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Yield

August 20, 20212021, All Time Favourites, Awards, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award The Yield is a beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Rain Heron

August 19, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Robbie Arnott’s stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Labyrinth

August 18, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt, denial, the fraught relationship between parents and children, and how art can both be ruthlessly destructive and restore sanity.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Testaments

August 17, 20212021, Author, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

This 2019 Booker Prize Winner is a goodie. The Testaments picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.