Our Year in Books (2022)
Are you late with your Christmas shopping schedule? Are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your special someone? Missing the perfect stocking filler?
We got you!
The team at Serpent’s Tail has compiled the Ultimate Christmas Shopping List to satisfy all your festive and bookish needs. From books to expand your mind to books that warm your heart, passing through powerful stories about identity and resilience, we have made sure that there is something for everyone to enjoy and share under the Christmas tree. Our carefully curated list of historical fiction will sweep you into a new world like the Ghost of Christmas Past, and our chilling thrillers will keep you company as you curl up with a steaming cup of tea.
And for those who enjoy listening to stories, our books are available as audiobooks as well.
Which one of these books will you be unwrapping this winter? Let us know by tweeting us @SerpentsTail and @ViperBooks.
BOOTH
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Seven Cats I Have Loved
Yardenne Greenspan
I wished that in my next lifetime I would be born a cat – on the condition that I would live in a home like mine
Alison
Lizzy Stewart
A visually stunning and beautifully written debut graphic novel of love, life and art
Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
Aravind Jayan
A scandalous video.A humiliated family.And a brother stuck in the middle.
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
Paul Dalla Rosa
A story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age
Essex Girls
Sarah Perry
A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent
Mona
Pola Oloixarac
The brilliant and provocative UK debut of a Latin American star of world literature
Out of The Sun
Esi Edugyan
Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
All of You Every Single One
Beatrice Hitchman
An exhilarating queer love story set in early twentieth-century Vienna
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means – and wh…