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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.)

I gave two books this year ratings of 10:

• Mutual Interest, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith – fiction
• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill – fiction

And a rather longer list received ratings of 9:

• No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity, A. Kendra Greene – nonfiction
• To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage – fiction
• Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver, Sara Holly Ackerman, illus. by Naoko Stoop – nonfiction
• The Grace of Wild Things, Heather Fawcett – fiction
• Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk – fiction
• The Midnight Bargain, C. L. Polk – fiction
• Forty Acres Deep, Michael Perry – fiction
• A Marvellous Light, Freya Marska – fiction

And I reserve the right to a few honorable mentions:

• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders – fiction
• Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett – fiction
• The Case of the Missing Maid, Rob Osler – fiction
• Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe – fiction

I rarely do this any more, ha, but I did watch a couple of movies this year, and just in the last few days I really enjoyed Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. No review, but it deserves mention here in the mostly-defunct ‘other media’ category. I’ll be looking for more of those ‘Knives Out’ films.

What did you read (or otherwise take in) this year that you loved? What did I miss??

See you in a few days for the big stats crunch, and thanks as always for being here, friendly reader. Happy New Year.

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