Minisode - Top 5 Books of 2022, 2023 releases & would you leave me to die?

Happy belated new year bookends! We're back with a minisode, a real recommendation extravaganza.
We talk through our Top 5 books of last year, the 2023 releases we're excited about, the adaptations we're looking forward to, why we should have an adaptation series (all in favour say aye!) and much, much more.
We will be bringing lots more of these minisodes to you this year alongside lots more author interviews and debut author highlights! Email us apairofbookendspod@gmail.com if you have any recs or authors you'd like us to have on.
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Books spoken about:
Touching the void by Joe Simpson
Love and Virtue by Diana Reid
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Our Wives under the sea by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Making A Scene by Constance Wu
Misfits by Michaela Coel
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
You've Got A Friend In 10A by Maggie Shipstead
The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
Leave the world behind by Rumaan Alam
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
The Memory Of Animals by Claire Fuller (out April 2023)
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (out Feb 2023)
Yellowface by R.F Kuang (out May 2023)
Babel by R.F Kuang
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson (out May 2023)
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan (out June 2023)
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorised Gathering (out May 2023)
Weyward by Emilia Hart (out Feb 2023)
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey (out 17th of Jan)

Other recs:
Touching The Void (documentary) - Netflix
Michaela Coel - MacTaggart Lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg
I May Destroy You - BBC Iplayer
Schitt's Creek - Netflix
House of Books and Friends - Manchester bookshop

Episodes referred to:
To Paradise- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-to-paradise-by-hanya-yanagihara/id1616736675?i=1000555641262
Our Wives under the sea - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-our-wives-under-the-sea-by-julia-armfield/id1616736675?i=1000559068779
Interview with Maggie Shipstead - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/top-of-your-tbr-with-maggie-shipstead/id1616736675?i=1000574613704