In no particular order, here are my favorite reads of the last twelve months:
- The Library of the Unwritten, by A.J. Hackwith
- Five Wives, by Joan Thomas
- The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan
- Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
- 1491, by Charles Mann
- Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch
- The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue
- We Are All the Same in the Dark, by Julia Heaberlin
- Nobody’s Child, by Susan Nordin Vinocour
- The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Clune
- These Women, by Ivy Pochoda
- Mother Land, by Leah Franqui
- Unspeakable Acts, edited by Sarah Weinman
- Thin Girls, by Diana Clarke
- The Yield, by Tara June Winch
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