The 25 Best Books I Read This Year

Poetry! SF! Who knows what else!

I am something of an obsessive list keeper, as you may have noticed, and this year I maybe somewhat maniacally kept track of everything I read (somewhere around 250 books?) These were my favorites, more or less (I left off some things I reread; just felt like it would be weird to put Jane Austen novels at the top of the list).

I got to review or write about some of these; there’s a link where that’s the case.

25. Isle McElroy
People Collide (link)

24. Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah

23. Victor Ray
On Critical Race Theory

22. Jeff Vandermeer
Veniss Underground (link)

21. Rachel Pollack
Godmother Night

20. Gertrude Stein
Stanzas in Meditation

19. Khyati Y. Joshi
White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality (link)

18. David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon (link)

17. Seyward Darby
Sisters in Hate (link)

16  Ferando Pessoa
Selected Poems

15. Tasha Suri
Empire of Sand

14. Tananarive Due
The Reformatory (link)

13. Richard Wright
Haiku (link)

12. A.K. Ramanujan, ed.
The Interior Landscape: Tamil Love Poetry

11. Luis Camnitzer
Conceptualism in Latin American Art (link)

10. Walter Mosley
Whispers in the Dark

9.   Adam L. Kern, ed.
The Penguin Book of Haiku

8.   Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell

7.   Christian Bök
Eunoia (link)

6.   Octavia Butler
The Parable of the Talents

5.   Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant

4.   Saidiya Hartman
Scenes of Subjection (link)

3.   Jason Heroux
Something or Other (link)

2.     Claudia Koonz
The Nazi Conscience (link)

1.     Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds.
Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (link)

Hope you found something you might want to read in the New Year!