My reading goal this year was to challenge myself to read longer books (I averaged 355 pages!) I read some incredible novels this year, including Geoff Rickly’s absolutely mind-blowing debut novel, Someone Who Isn’t Me. I read several novels by Latinx writers and a few by Jewish writers. Several were kinda weird and mind-bendy with magical realism (Chlorine, Rouge, Gods Of Jade And Shadow, Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue, This Thing Between Us). Several were book club reads (The Book Of Form And Emptiness, The Sentence, Chlorine, Sea Of Tranquility, Old Babes In The Wood, Rouge — hi book club babes! Love you!)

Reading is a tenet of my life that’s a non-negotiable. I do it every day. If I have free time, I’m on my kindle. It makes me a better writer, opens my mind to different ways of thinking, and gives me something else to think about besides my own dumb anxiety. There were also a lot of books I didn’t finish this year that I didn’t count on this list (I couldn’t get through The Bell Jar) and I struggled to read nonfiction, which used to be my favorite genre.

My Year In Books

1. The Book Of Form And Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir*
3. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel*
4. Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro*
5. Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus*
6. The Sentence by Louise Edrich
7. Chlorine by Jade Song
8. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer
9. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Levin*
10. Fake by Erica Katz
11. Old Babes In The Wood by Margaret Atwood
12. Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly**
13. Play As It Lays by Joan Dideon
14. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
15. Gods Of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Garcia Moreno
16. Rouge by Mona Awad
17. The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab*
18. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch*
19. Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
20. This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
21. Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel

Books read: 21

Pages read: 7,459

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