READS
RED BOOKS EDITOR Sarra Manning PICKS HER FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld writes a romcom?Be still, my heart! Romantic Comedy was sexy, funny, thought-provoking and ever ything I hoped it would be. Her best novel since American Wife.
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The follow-up to Exciting Times was darkly funny – a clever look at modern relationships centred around a wedding that seems doomed to ever yone involved.
Preloved by Lauren Bravo (Simon & Schuster)
My debut novel of the year, I loved this tender-hearted story and its heroine, Gwen, who volunteers in a charit y shop after being made redundant and is as lost as the shop’s unwanted items.
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck (Penguin)
I loved this New York-set, snarky but sexy modern take on When Harry Met Sally, and have recommended it to so many people – all of whom loved it.
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (Penguin)
A tale of two best friends, one of them in a hospice, the other tr ying to navigate her grief. This was heartbreaking but also utterly joyous and life-affirming.
The Future by Naomi Alderman (4th Estate)
A gripping dystopian thriller about the end of the world as sponsored by three tech giants and the unlikely gang that comes together to stop them. One of those books that I still can’t stop thinking about.
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang (Borough Press)
When literar y sensation Athena Liu dies in a freak accident
