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

It’s been an interesting year. I had an unusual number of duds. But also, happily, some excellent reading as well!

I gave 3 books this year ratings of 10:

• The Magician’s Daughter, H. G. Parry – fiction
• The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H. G. Parry – fiction
• No Names, Greg Hewett – fiction (review forthcoming)

How about H. G. Parry with two perfect ratings!!

These books received ratings of 9:

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer – nonfiction
• Frighten the Horses, Oliver Radclyffe – nonfiction
• The Wheel of the Year: An Illustrated Guide to Nature’s Rhyths, Fiona Cook, illus. by Jessica Roux – nonfiction
• The Twilight Garden, Sara Nisha Adams – fiction
• The Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations, Amy Leach – nonfiction
• Lines, Sung J. Woo – fiction
• No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity, A. Kendra Greene – nonfiction (review forthcoming)
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune – fiction

Honorable mentions:

• the trilogy beginning with Witchmark, C. L. Polk – fiction
• Sipsworth, Simon Van Booy – fiction
• Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River, Zak Podmore – nonfiction
• I Leave It Up to You, Jinwoo Chong – fiction (review forthcoming)
• The Crescent Moon Tearoom, Stacy Sivinski – fiction

Whatever else happens, these are the kinds of books that can save the day – for me, at least. How was your reading year? What books save the day?

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