134 books, 44,385 pages.
Favorites:
1. Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen - In a dystopia that feels uncomfortably possible, the U.S. Government enacts a sweeping, brutal policy: in response to six violent attacks carried out by Vietnamese men, all Vietnamese Americans are forcibly relocated to internment camps. My Documents follows four "cousins"—half-siblings—navigating this horrifying new reality.
2. The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff - Family drama covering 65 years and alcohol addiction.
3. The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce - Children reckoning with the sudden death of their artist father.
4. What Hunger by Catherine Dang - Vietnamese teen coming of age cannibalism
5. The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig - There’s a staircase in the middle of the woods. That’s it.
6. The Best We Could Hope For by Nicola Kraus - Family trauma begets family trauma.
7. Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett - Seaside town steeped in lore.
8. The Antidote by Karen Russell - A Dust Bowl story about memory, human nature, racism, bodily autonomy, and the criminal justice system.
And here’s others that I enjoyed!
General Fiction
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
One Last Wild Day by Anna Bailey
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau
The Bookclub for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
Fun for the Whole Family by Jennifer E Smith
This Love by Lotte Jeffs
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
The Family Recipe by Carolyn Huynh
The California Dreamers by Amy Mason Doan
Real People
100 Rules for Living to 100 by Dick Van Dyke
Vagabond by Tim Curry
Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic by Phil Hanley
Thriller/Horror
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Sliver by Ira Levin
The Haunting of Payne's Hollow by Kelley Armstrong
The Belles by Lacey Dunham
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Nowhere by Allison Gunn
The Wild Things by London Clarke
Forget Me Not by Stacey Willingham
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Gothictown by Emily Carpenter