Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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[Some of] my favorite books of the year! I definitely have a couple of types...

Fiction & poetry:
1. The Latinist by Mark Prins (2022)
2. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (1975)
3. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
4. The Door by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987)
5. Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (trans. Elizabeth Harris) (2022)
6. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (trans. Daisy Rockwell) (2021)
7. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (1981)
8. Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
9. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
10. A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)
11. Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery (2022)

Nonfiction:
1. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
2. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez (2011)
3. Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey (2006)
4. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing (2020)
5. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
6. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (2020)
7. Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
8. Limbo by Dan Fox (2018)
9. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner (2021)
10. Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
11. How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (2022)

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