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Please note, I’m only including books or 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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2024 READS
Lesser American Boys by Zach VandeZande
Needful Things by Stephen King
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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
Culture Study (by Anne Helen Peterson)
Craft Talk (by Jami Attenberg)
Electric Literature (including Recommended Reading and The Commuter)
Gotham Writers (including The Razor)
Necessary Salt (by Joy Sullivan)
Thread Litmag (Yes, I’m on Threads!)