november

• 09: annihilation (jeff vandermeer)

october

• 06: return of the thief (megan whalen turner) ♡
• 10: station eleven (emily st. john mandel)
• 18: the butterfly lampshade (aimee bender)
  • I can't say I understand why she wanted that. But it was an honor to release her.

august

• 05: in the woods (tana french)
  • I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.
• 09: the likeness (tana french)
  • Time works so hard for us, Daniel told me once. I hope those last few minutes worked like hell for her. I hope in that half hour she lived all her million lives.
• 10: faithful place (tana french)
• 17: broken harbor (tana french)

july

• 26: son of a trickster (eden robinson)

june

• 16: lord of the flies (william golding)

may

• 12: her body and other parties (carmen maria machado) ♡
  • I say: Don't leave the faucet on. You'll flood the house, don't do it, you promised it would never happen again. Don't flood the house, the bills, don't flood the house, the rugs, don't flood the house, my loves, or we could lose you both. We've been bad mothers and have not taught you how to swim.
• 24: 4.48 psychosis (sarah kane)
• 27: jane, unlimited (kristin cashore) ♡

april

• 02: minor feelings (cathy park hong)
  • I felt happy. I felt flooded with relief. This is all that matters in writing, I thought, to move someone like this. To move Helen. I was real again. We were real. I was here sitting on the grass with Helen.
• 03: trust exercise (susan choi)

march

• 03: in the dream house (carmen maria machado)
• 19: novelty act (maureen thorson)
• 27: deathless (catherynne m. valente) ↺
• 30: how to write an autobiographical novel (alexander chee)
• 31: someone who will love you in all your damaged glory (raphael bob-waksberg)

january

• 02: little fires everywhere (celeste ng)
• 09: trick mirror (jia tolentino)
  • I wish I had learned to read them in this way years ago—with the same complicated, ambivalent, essential freedom that a daughter feels when she looks at her mother, understanding her as a figure that she simultaneously resists and depends on; a figure that she uses, cruelly and lovingly and gratefully, as the base from which to become something more.
• 10: the carrying (ada limón)
• 18: this is how you lose the time war (amal el-mohtar & max gladstone)
• 20: where reasons end (yiyun li)
  • One never makes up things in fiction, I said. One has to live there as one has to live here.
• 21: on earth we're briefly gorgeous (ocean vuong)
  • You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty. Opening the front door to the first snowfall of my life, you whispered, "Look."
• 23: the memory police (yoko ogawa) ♡
  • But now it was far too strange and beautiful to call it simply a river.
• 27: the collected schizophrenias (esmé weijun wang)
  • It stands apart from loss, injury, or perhaps even grief, all of which are terrible, and yet are still beautiful to the dead woman, who sees them as remarkably human, and alive.