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Favorite books of 2024

Fiction: Simon Jimenez’s A Spear Cuts Through Water. For an author who already had a well-reviewed novel (The Vanished Birds), this book is imo drastically under-reported on. I like books that a) have innovative and interesting POVs b) story-within-a-story narratives c) interact with the history and meaning of storytelling. This has all three and is beautifully written with a plot that keeps you coming back.

(Runner up: the Scholomance trilogy. Fun and I loved the characters but I didn't think back to it as much as Spear)

Nonfiction: None that blew me away, but I enjoyed Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I also finally read Driven to Distraction, the original ADHD nonfiction manifesto, and felt so very (uncomfortably?) seen

Graphic Novel: Kate Beaton’s Ducks by a long shot. It broke my heart.

Poetry: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi. “Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe./Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in/I want an excuse to change my life.” A collection about what the modern ‘end of the world’ through violence and climate change means to communities who have already gone through an apocalypse.