Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenaye [Literary Fiction]

I had to recommend my favorite book of 2025. This short, less than a 100-page read, packs a punch and will leave you breathless by Ginzburg’s ability to showcase a woman’s infatuation with a plain man, their courtship and eventual marriage, and how it quickly sours into one of resentment. To be a woman is to perform for yourself, others, and especially men who claim to like you, only to have their interest extinguished the moment they lay claim to you. Tear it all down.

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