Volume 4, No. 27: My Favorite Books of the Year So Far

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Greetings, book and treat people! Look, here’s the deal. I don’t have a lot of capacity this week. I don’t have the capacity to write about the world, or my life, or any of the wonder and grief and love and heartache and anger and despair and curiosity and joy that’s swirling around inside me.

So I’m just gonna talk about books, and I’m gonna be brief, as brief as I can be, which means I picked 35 books I’ve read and loved this year and I’m not going to write long paragraphs about each of them, I’m just going to tell you what I loved about them in one sentence or less. I’m also not going to sort them into thematic categories like I usually do. If you wish I would just sort books into basic categories, like poetry and memoir, today’s your lucky day.

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We’re halfway through the year, so it’s time for my annual Best of the Year So Far List. I don’t believe in ranking and picking favorites; it stresses me out. To make this, I went through my 2024 reading spreadsheet from beginning to end. I wrote down all the titles that excited me A LOT. There were 41. I cut it down to 35 by gut instinct, and here we are.