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My year-in-review post will be up on Monday, with reading stats. But first, as usual, I want to share the list of my favorite things I read this year. (You can see past years’ best-of lists at this tag.)

Best of the year:

• Gone to the Woods, Gary Paulsen
• The Changeling, Victor LaValle
• Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez (also one of the best author interviews I’ve ever done)

Honorable mentions:

• Rabbit Cake, Annie Hartnett
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Honeycomb, Joanne M. Harris
• We Are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
• The Mothers, Brit Bennett
• The Everybody Ensemble, Amy Leach
• Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
• Into the Heartless Wood, Joanna Ruth Meyer
• The Sun Is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon
• The Memory Collectors, Kim Neville
• The People We Keep, Allison Larkin
• Yolk, Mary H. K. Choi
• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
• The Turner House, Angela Flournoy
• A Sense of the Whole, Siamak Vossoughi
• Pandora’s Jar, Natalie Haynes
• Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (review forthcoming)

Other special mentions outside the world of books:

• S-Town
• Summer of Soul

This post is always an inspiration. Happy New Year, friends.

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