some of the books I read and loved last year (to be updated because I know I’ll remember more)in no particular order:
The Undying by Anne Boyer
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion By Jia Tolentino
Mouthful of Birds By Samanta Schweblin
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
The Priory of the Orange Grove by Samantha Shannon
The Incendiaries R.O. Kwon
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Air Logic by Laurie Marks
Spring by Ali Smith
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Large Animals by Jess Arndt
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ambiguity Machines by Vandana Singh
Algorithmic Shapeshifting: Poems by Bogi Takács
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Jane, Unlimited by Kirsten Cashore
Patsy by Dennis-Benn, Nicole
The Merry Spinster by Daniel Ortberg
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by Kira T. Madden
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Thick and Other Essays by Cottom, Tressie McMillan
The Collected Schizophrenias by Wang, Esmé Weijun
Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang
Those Who Knew by Idra Novey
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Soft Science by Franny Choi
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
The Mars Room
What It Means When A Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison