Sarah Laing is a Wellington-based cartoonist, illustrator and fiction writer. The author of two novels, a story collection and a book-length comic, Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir, she is also a voracious reader. Ahead of the Listener’s 100 Best Books and 50 Best Kids’ Books of 2023, we asked her to create a visual diary of the books she has read this year.

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Illustration / Sarah Laing

Illustration / Sarah Laing