books i read last year (mostly) and recommend
(i did not proofread 😌)
A Children’s Bible (Lydia Millet)Â
Paper Girls (Brian K Vaughan)
Do you dream of Terra-Two (Temi Oh)
Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me (Mariko Tamaki)
The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead
Sweet Lamb of Heaven (Lydia Millet)
When you reach me (Rebecca Stead)
Pills and Starships (Lydia Millet)
The Anatomy of Dreams (Chloe Benjamin)
The Glitch (Elisabeth Cohen)
Red at the Bone (Jacqueline Woodson)
Oligarchy (Scarlett Thomas)
Lakewood (Megan Giddings)
The God Child (Nana Oforiatta Ayim)
Writes & Lovers (Lily King)
All Our Wrong Todays (Elan Mastai)
BTTM FDRS (Ezra Claytan Daniels)
If I Had Your Face (Frances Cha)
American Spy (Lauren Wilkinson)
Tell the Machine Goodnight (Katie Williams)
The Lesson (Cadwell Turnbull)
Queenie (Candice Carty-Williams)
Neverworld Wake (Marisha Pessl)
Little Eyes (Samantha Schweblin)
Such a Fun Age (Kiley Reid)
Heads of the Colored People (Nafissa Thompson-Spires)
The Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin)
A Complicated Kindness (Mirian Toews)
Women Talking (Mirian Toews)
The Margot Affair (Sanaë Lemoine)
The Office of Historical Corrections (Danielle Evans)
The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
Parable of the Sower + Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler)
Want (Lynn Steger Strong)
True Story (Kate Reed Petty)
The Body in Question (Jill Ciment)
Luster (Raven Leilani)
The Ditch (Herman Koch)
Trust Exercise (Susan Choi)
Family Trust (Kathy Wang)
The Seep (Chana Porter)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
You + Hidden Bodies (Caroline Kepnes)
Sex and the City (Candace Bushnell)
The Expatriates (Janice Y.K. Lee)
You Should have Known (Jean Hanff Korelitz)
Days of Distraction (Alexandra Chang)
How Should a Person Be? (Sheila Heti)
We Ride Upon Sticks (Quan Barry)
Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam)
The People in the Trees (Hanya Yanagihara)