A Year in Reading: Francesco Pacifico
It's been a wonderful year for visions and dreams—while most requirements from society faded in the background, it became easier to decipher subtler voices.
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The Millions Top 10
The House on Vesper Sands
The Great Mistake: A novel
Bewilderment: A Novel
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
The Magician: A Novel
Crossroads: A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, 1)
Subdivision: A Novel
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
A Year in Reading: Hermione Hoby
How many did I read? Not counting plays, not counting books started and not quite finished—forty five. Next year, I’ll fail better. Even if the number’s higher, the number will be the same: not enough.
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A Year in Reading: Jessamine Chan
In early summer, I discovered a special category I’ll call “books that sustain you while packing and moving to another city during a pandemic while parenting a small child.”
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A Year in Reading: Ella Baxter
The lowest standard I hold for a book is that I want it to be so psychedelic, so completely discombobulating, that I am torn asunder. I want to read words that turn my bones to dust.
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A Year in Reading: Chet’la Sebree
And so, I’m giving myself a little grace, as we all should. We are all doing our best; I keep reminding myself of this.
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A Year in Reading: Morgan Talty
My mother’s death really impacted my ability to read. To stay focused. I didn’t read as much as I normally do in a year. But I did read—I did find occasional solace in literature as a means to heal.
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A Year in Reading: Ed Simon
Each of these books taxonomizes the passing of anything that even remotely looked like it could be described naively as the "American Dream."
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A Year In Reading: Kate Gavino
Here's what's in the running for my 2021 Golden Breast Pump Awards: books that managed to break through my sleep deprivation and haze of postpartum fog.
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A Year in Reading: Nick Ripatrazone
I can see that coyote when I close my eyes. Its tail thin, its fur bunched. The worst nightmares are the ones that happen when we’re awake.
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A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki
Life in 2020 felt scary and small; this year it feels liminal, perhaps irrelevant. As in 2020, I'm still scared: less by Covid and more by...everything else.
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