Category: Top Reads
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Top Reads of 2025
I’ve been doing these best reads of the year lists since 2017 and it’s become one of my favourite traditions. This year, I thought I’d recognize the top 25 of ‘25, fifteen fiction and ten fiction. Fiction 15. Life, and Death, and Giants, by Ron Rindo (2025) If I wanted to be nitpicky, there were…
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Top 15 Reads of 2024
Where 2023 was an absolute banner year for my reading life — by the second week of January, I’d already read two books I knew were not just going to be best-of-the-year picks, but new all-time favourites — 2024 was a slower burn, and didn’t quite hit the same heights. But not every year can…
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Top 15 Reads of 2023
An annual ‘best of’ my reading year post has become a tradition for me since 2017. (Last year’s list can be found here.) I read some unbelievably great books in 2023, so without further ado. let’s get to the books! 15. Talking at Night, by Claire Daverley (2023) Two teenagers with nothing in common bond…
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Top 10 Reads of 2022
I’ve read a lot of truly wonderful books this year, and in an effort to spread the love to as many of them as possible, I’ve greatly expanded my ‘best of’ efforts this year: Top Reads, January – June 2022 Top Reads, July – December 2022 Bookish Superlatives, Part I Bookish Superlatives, Part II But…
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Bookish Superlatives, 2022 – Part II: Genres and Communities
See yesterday’s post for Part I of my 2022 Bookish Superlatives, focusing on readerly expectations, media, and style. And now for Part II. Genres Best Romance Good Boy, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (2017) My favorite romance of 2022 came down between this one and Emily Henry’s Book Lovers — and let’s be honest, Henry…
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Bookish Superlatives, 2022 – Part I: Readerly Expectations and Style
2022 was another great year in my reading life and not even doubling my ‘best of’ posts to reflect my favorite reads of the first and second halves of the year seemed ‘enough’ to truly honour all the wonderful books I’ve read this year. So, I thought I’d take a page from high school yearbooks…
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Top Reads, July through December 2022
Calling for a Blanket Dance, Dead-End Memories, First Time for Everything, Hunting by Stars, Husband Material, The Incandescent Threads, The Kaiju Preservation Society, The King of Infinite Space, Medicine Walk, My Government Means to Kill Me, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Sea of Tranquility, Small Angels, We Are the Light
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Top Reads, January through June 2022
Top Reads, January – June 2022: Book Lovers, Don’t Cry for Me, Good Boy, Hench, Home, Joyland, Mary Jane, Marrying the Ketchups, Oh William!, Pony, The River of Silver, The Thursday Murder Club, A Town Called Solace
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