As promised, here are my top 5s for the year so far. Please note, these are top 5 books that I have read in each category, rather than a selection of books published this year. The list of books within the 5s are in no particular order.

Let’s go!

Fiction:

1. Invible Man – Ralph Ellison
2. If We Were Villains –  M. L Rio
3. Mullumbimby – Melissa Lucashenko 
4. Stay With Me – Ayobami Adebayo
5. Swing Time – Zadie Smith

Non Fiction:

1. Awkward: The Science of Why we are Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome – Ty Tashiro
2. I Contain Multitudes – Ed Yong 
3. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue – John McWhorter
4. Kierkegaard: A Single Life – Stephen Backhouse
5. The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer

Science Fiction and Fantasy:

1. The Broken Earth series – N. K. Jemisin
2. Lotus Blue – Cat Sparks
3. Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway
4. Binti and Binti: Home – Nnedi Okorafor 
5. Fledgling – Octavia Butler

Memoirs:

1. The Hate Race – Maxine Beneba Clarke
2. Reckoning – Magda Szubanski
3. Revolution for Dummies – Bassem Youssef
4. In the Darkroom – Susan Faludi
5. Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan

YA:

1. Queens of Geek – Jen Wilde
2. Dreadnought – April Daniels
3. The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
4. Star Touched Queen/Crown of Wishes – Roshani Chokshi
5. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng

It turns out I’ve read a heap more memoirs and fiction than usual and a lot less YA and Sci fi/Fantasy. I’m definitely a mood reader.

Have you read any of these? Is there anything totally awesome that should be on my lists?