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Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

The Unquiet Dead

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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, the complete list

Every book longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction since it was founded in 1996, under its current title and previous sponsored titles of 'Orange' and 'Baileys' Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!

The Magician's Assistant

Fall on Your Knees

The Magician's Assistant

Mermaids, Selkies & Seafolk

Delve into the deep sea with these sensational salt-wave reads…

The Little Mermaid

The Mermaid of Black Conch

The Surface Breaks

The Little Mermaid

Water and Creatures and Grief

Books with themes of water, the sea, sea creatures, otherworldly creatures, grief, longing, loss.

Our Wives Under the Sea

The Shape of Water

Our Wives Under the Sea

The Shape of Water

Katie McGrath

Katie McGrath recommendations

Rivers of London

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