Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video is too long; skip around!!! Here are my top 12 favorite fiction books and some honorable mentions. Do we have any favorites in common this year?

Honorable Mention:

Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore
We The Animals by Justin Torres
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

The Top Twelve:

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwarz
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
Long Island by Colm Toibin
Blackouts by Justin Torres
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
James by Percival Everett