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Please note, I’m only including novels, novellas, and longer creative nonfiction works I got all the way through or briefly read but picked up some really good insight from. I won’t include “DNF” or works I didn’t enjoy here. At the end of each year, I’ll highlight my 5 favorite reads.

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2025 READS

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

FAVORITE READS IN 2024

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Green Mile (complete serial novel) by Stephen King

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan

Needful Things by Stephen King

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings

FAVORITE READS IN 2023

Here in the Night by Rebecca Turkewitz

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko (middle grade)

FAVORITE READS IN 2022

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Age of the Child by Krisen Tsetsi

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

FAVORITE LITERARY MAGAZINES & ONLINE READS

The Atlantic

Cleaver Magazine

Culture Study (by Anne Helen Peterson)

CRAFT

Electric Literature (including Recommended Reading and The Commuter)

Fractured Lit

Gotham Writers (including The Razor)

Necessary Salt (by Joy Sullivan)

Split Lip Magazine

Wallstrait

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

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