books I didn't expect to love

• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Ripe by Sara Rose Etter
• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
• All's Well by Mona Awad
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Empress of Salt and Fortune