Books was released on 1 February 2022. Writing for Gazeta Wyborcza, PrzemysławCzapliński [pl] wrote that the novel "revolutionizes the image of religious
representative of the prose of young women. The novel was also reviewed by PrzemysławCzapliński [pl] and Kinga Dunin. Tokarczuk was awarded the 1996 Paszport Polityki
Culture Since 1918, ed. by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, and PrzemysławCzapliński, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, ISBN 9781442650183