We haven’t lost all of our ancient texts 🙏🏻

I could go on and on about a of the books I read but really there was SO much good and I’m excited to start the year with Rebecca Roanhorse and Mirrored Heavens!

The Pairing and The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year left me warm and happy inside and last, but not least, I read Ice Planet Barbarians for the bit and I will never, ever do that again.

Celestial Monsters was an incredible end to the Sunbearer Duology and A Sunny Place for Shady People reminded me that I can really love horror (in small doses), The Volcano Daughters is a book everyone should read.

How to End a Love Story, This Could Be Us, A Novel Love Story, and A Love Song for Ricki Wilde were books that made me weep, You Dreamed of Empires was far and away my favorite book in translation.

There was a new All Souls book, so Deborah Harkness was my most read but Silvia Moreno-Garcia would be my most read author outside of a series. My favorite new full-length book was Faebound but This Is How You Lose the Time War was my favorite novella!

As always, I tried to challenge myself to read new authors, authors from cultures or races outside of my own, queer authors, and genres outside of my comfort zone to make sure I’m not reading in an echo chamber or to get repetitive.