I was yearning for books at the beginning of last year, and I got ‘em. Here are the ones I can remember from a little forensics work I did around the house and in my notebooks. Some favorites in bold.
The Unsettlers by Mark Sundeen
Healthy Houseplants
Sprout Lands (unfinished)
Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister
Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House (reread)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky
Emergent Strategy (or was this 2018?) (unfinished)
Friday Black
100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write (unfinished)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Flaneuse (unfinished)
Hope in The Dark (reread?)
Magdalene (Poems) by Marie Howe
Betwixt and Between
The Places that Scare You (unfinished)
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Finding Your Voice: a practical and spiritual approach to singing and living
On Bullfighting, AL Kennedy
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
Changing My Mind, Zadie Smith
Hillbilly Elegy
The Body is not an Apology
You Have the Right to Remain Fat
The Finnish Way
Ugly: The Aesthetics of everything
So Sad Today: essays by Melissa Broder
The Little Book of Hygge
Mushroom Walks
The Great Gatsby (reread)
Seriously Sweet (A.L. Kennedy)
Among the Liberal Elite
Digital Minimalism
Catalina
The First Rule of Punk (YA)
Madonna in a Fur Coat
The Death of a Civil Servant
