A Year in Reading: Steph Opitz

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I put down a lot of books that didn’t do it for me, and shuffled and reshuffled my to-be-read pile to my heart’s content. It’s been liberating.
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A Year in Reading: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

I was proud of the literature published and celebrated this year. These are just a few of the many books that filled me with hope.

A Year in Reading: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

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The magical something is what I think I’m looking for every time I open up a book.
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A Year in Reading: Jacqueline Krass

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Absence, presence, women—those are the words that set things off in my brain. Right away I ordered the book at my local bookstore.
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A Year in Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price

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As a fairly slow reader, the podcast has benefited—dictated, really—my reading list, I think to the benefit of my writing.
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A Year in Reading: Lydia Kiesling

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This reading assignment was the corner office in the women’s work of thinking about men who are not thinking about you.
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung

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Without a doubt, when it comes to adventures in gorgeous and transformative literature, better (much better) late than never.
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A Year in Reading: Thomas Beckwith

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I found myself overwhelmed by the need to stop talking, by my sense that everything is now terribly, terribly loud.
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A Year in Reading: Carolyn Quimby

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Stacks of books have taken up residence on our headboard, next to my desk, on the floor next to the bed, on any flat surface we can find.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg

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That I'm no longer immortal raises questions about the pursuit I've more or less given my life to—reading: If you can't take it with you, what's the point?
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A Year in Reading: Lisa Brennan-Jobs

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I wanted books that would nourish me, so I read books I already knew. The good thing about familiar books is that they continue to change.
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A Year in Reading: Lucy Tan

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This summer, something wonderful happened. What seems like a decade’s worth of fiction by Asian-American women was published all at once.
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A Year in Reading: Etaf Rum

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Here are 10 of my favorite books this year along with quotes I had underlined—hopefully you'll feel the same sense of belonging when you read them as I did.
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A Year in Reading: Casey Gerald

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These books were important because they helped me better situate myself in certain lineages—or rather, know which lineages I would like to belong to.
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A Year in Reading: May-lee Chai

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I needed artistry to give me beauty, social consciousness to give me fire, and the innovations in craft and storytelling to inspire my own writing.
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A Year in Reading: Daniel Torday

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it’s been a uniquely good 12 months of reading for me. I’ve read for one reason: fun. Now when I say fun, I’m a book nerd. So I take on “reading projects.”
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A Year in Reading: Chelsey Johnson

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When the contemporary world is falling apart, it helps me to turn to geological time and indigenous knowledge about the ground beneath my feet.
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A Year in Reading: Namwali Serpell

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Why do we dismiss our engagement with genre works as “love-hate,” “hate-watching,” and “guilty pleasure” when we spend so much time doing it?
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