My favourite reads of 2022!

A medium reading year, but still some amazing highlights. Up next: a video about the Grishaverse to celebrate the release of Season 2!

► Big videos of the year (in my book at least):

► Time stamps
0:00 My reading stats
3:20 I read an entire series
4:30 A wild ride
6:08 A favourite author
8:20 Creepy but beautiful
9:30 Two historical twists
11:24 The one that made me cry

► The Books
* = Review copies I received for free from publishers, with no specific requirement to feature them.

Sea of Tranquility* by Emily St John Mandel

Our Wives Under the Sea* by Julia Armfield

Nightbitch* by Rachel Yoder

Infamous* by Lex Croucher

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

The Anthropocene Reviewed* by John Green

Also mentioned:

Gwen and Art are Not in Love* by Lex Croucher

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

Methods of Dyeing* by B. Mure

► My Book Club Journal
I created this beautiful journal for anyone who is in a book club or wants to track their reading.
Featuring:
- luxurious finish, including thick paper and bookmark ribbon
- 50 book journal templates to fill in
- 200 book recommendations in 20 themed reading lists
- chapters with tips and advice for running your book club
- reading log
- book wish list
- books lent/borrowed page

► Find me here!

► About Me
Hoi! I'm Sanne. Ten years ago I moved from the Netherlands to London, where I'm currently working as a freelance social media producer in the publishing industry, event host and content creator. I've been making videos for 13 years and on my channel I talk about books, translation, the publishing industry, London, travel, plus career and creativity advice. If you're looking for your next book to read, need a confidence boost before starting your internship/new job or want to follow my journey trying to reach new creative and freelance goals, you're in the right place!

► Frequently asked questions
◦ Where is your accent from?
I was born and raised in the Netherlands, studied English Lit at Leiden University (also in the Netherlands), studied in the US for 3 months and have lots of American friends. Now that I live in London, I still mostly have my American accent, but with lots of British vocab mixed in.

◦ Where do you live?
I currently live in St Albans, just North of London.

◦ Where do you work?
I’m a Freelance Social Media Producer, public speaker and YouTuber/blogger. Before that I was an Audience Manager at Penguin Random House UK.

◦ How did you get your job in the publishing industry?
I did publishing work experience on 3 different occasions, did a lot of networking and learned everything I know about social media from creating and running my YouTube channel for 8 years. P.s. you don't necessarily have to study Publishing or English to get a job in publishing.

► Some of my favourite videos I’ve made

[booksandquills]

Always the most fun video of the year to film! Can't wait to see what books 2023 will bring. And would love to hear if any of my faves were on your list too! ❤ Later this week a video to celebrate the release of Shadow and Bone Season 2 will be coming your way (and then I'll shut up about the series for a while, I promise 😅). - Sanne

[AdrianasWonderland]

I just realized I haven't watched you for a long time and I missed you so much

[natashamarie]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the Grisha-verse. This may be the sign I need to finally read King of Scars and Rule of Wolves because I LOVE Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom but then I never continued! I agree Shadow and Bone is fine… looking forward to your video about the whole experience!

[BambuProductions]

How happy I am when a new video of yours shows up on my TL!
Myself I read 100 books in 2022 my highest reading volume ever.

[tracylevy-ztnu]

I love my Kobo! I also avoid Amazon so I was so happy to find a great alternative

[Applepopess]

Yeeesss, I also loved Lex's books and the Anthropocene Reviewed (do NOT read that on public transport because you WILL cry!). I'll suggest the Wives under the Sea for my book club cause you made it sound so great. And I also want to read more Emily St John Mandel because I loved station eleven.

Very exciting for GWART this year! ^^

[barbaradora]

I read Sea of Tranquility as a stand alone and had no idea it was connected to her other books. Will def read Station Eleven now that I know! Thanks 🙏Oh and my favorite book that I read in 2022 was Educated, by Tara Westover. So powerful…

[kmaiazz]

This made me want to dive back into the Grishaverse. I stopped after the Shadow and Bones trilogy, but now I want to pick up Six of Crows... I'm also a huge Station Eleven fan so I'll make sure to check out the author's other books, along with that John Green's collection of essays! So many good recs! Thank you ✨️

[AbiofPellinor]

I've really wanted to try John Green's non fiction!

[caz]

I'm interested to hear more about linking your Kobo with your library account - sounds like a dream! Can you borrow books via Libby and send them to your Kobo? (I think in the US you can connect your library account to your Kindle, but no such luck in the UK...)

[opodobed]

I hate Kobo, my Kindle is just so much better.
My son got a Kobo for present and he doesn't read in English. I can buy nothing for him!