Books and Other Business
A blog by Rafaela Novelli
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Favourite Books of 2023
Looking back at my 2022 and 2023 reading lists, I now realise just how much I have been influenced by BookTok. I don’t even have TikTok, yet many popular titles championed by BookTok users have found their way into my life.
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Favourite Books of 2021
Perhaps it was because we were into the second year of the pandemic, or perhaps it was the personal events in my life, but this year I used books for pure escapism. When I read this year, I wanted to be whisked off to a different world.
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Favourite Books of 2020
At the beginning of the year, I challenged myself to read more widely. Reading is a large part of professional development as an editor. I have always enjoyed a range of genres but had found myself slipping into the comfortable pattern of reading the same type of books. I was not doing myself any favours by limiting my reading to one small niche, so 2020 was the year to shake this up.