• 77 books so far (5 down from this time last year)
• 58 women, 15 POC, 13 queer and 5 trans authors
• Best memoir of an addict recovering on the island of Orkney: Amy Liptrot’s gorgeous The Outrun
• Best lightly fictionalized memoir of an addict living between Oakland and Mexico City: Lucia Berlin’s stunning A Manual for Cleaning Women
• Thirteen more that I truly loved:
  • A Queer and Pleasant Danger
  • Artificial Condition
  • At the Dark End of the Street
  • Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
  • Farewell to the Horse
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
  • Saga
  • The Bear and the Nightingale
  • The Cloud Roads
  • The Flowers of Vashnoi
  • The Henchmen of Zenda
  • Weave A Circle Round
  • When They Call You a Terrorist

…so yeah. Lots of escapism, some memoir, a little unflinching political realism. And Michelle McNamara’s extraordinary book, unbearably unfinished, filled with righteous anger, and an instrument, in the end, of justice.

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