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Books of the Decade

The Wishing Shelf Book Award has now been running for TEN YEARS. To celebrate this, we have announced SIX Best Books of the Decade from our PAST Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Winners. You will find the books listed below. The readers in our Reading Groups think they are WONDERFUL!

Best Book from the Last Ten Years

Category 1

The Snark, Justin Davis, ill. by Stephanie Jayne

Category 2


Baby Worries, Frances Mackay, ill by Dotti Colvin

Category 3


Shadow Jumper, J M Forster

Category 4


Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall, Rae Knightly

Category 5


The Poison Keeper, Deborah Swift

Category 6


Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America, Katrina Shawver

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“Hatch Chile Willie”
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Out of the Darkness...
A memoir of animal
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The Pathology of Graphology
Two citizens of the lower
depths kill an aging DJ.
by David Milnes


Tally and the Angel
Unstoppable middle-grade
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by Eleanor Dixon





WAYS TO BE EQUALLY HUMAN
A deep dive into being non-
binary,climate activism & love
by Leslie Tate


The Gates of Dark Death
The story of the last woman
to escape the Tower of London
by Alan Reynolds


Beyond a World Apart
Story Nazis attempted to burn
based on historical events
Amazon


The Word Gobblers
A handbook for parents with
children struggling to read
by Catherine Matthias