I totally loved A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. It has a fantastic tangly plot, intensely lovable characters, and a top-notch ending.

The Nickel Boys is not an easy read. But it is worth all the hype, and it absolutely deserved the Pulitzer it won.

Hood Feminism is a wake-up call that should be required reading for all white and/or mainstream feminists.

Everywhere You Don’t Belong was a moving, fast-paced, poignant coming-of-age story about a young Black man from Chicago.

Ordinary Hazards was a beautiful, heartbreaking novel about community and tragedy and hope and love and found family.

Intimations can be read in a single sitting, but it is packed with so much. These essays are the simultaneous balm and wake-up call we need right now.

A slightly mathy but surprisingly useful book about how to think critically about the information and research we read about in the news.

What Happens at Night is a dream-like and weird but very atmospheric and moving novel. I really liked it, but it won’t be for everyone.

This is a raw, gutting, absolutely beautiful book about a young Nigerian person navigating gender dysphoria. It’s incredible.

Luster is a searing, unflinching novel about art and sex and racism and womanhood that looks its characters right in the face. It was so good.

An Orchestra of Minorities is a stunningly beautiful, terribly sad novel written from the most unique narration I’ve ever read.

Stamped From the Beginning taught me so much more than any other book I’ve ever read about antiracism. It’s long, but very worth the process of working through it slowly.

On Beauty is a literary family drama that feels simultaneously like comfort food and watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Fairest is an expertly written memoir that has so much to give its readers. I definitely recommend it.

A Thousand Ships is just so good. It’s easy to read and to love, but it also packs a big punch of metaphor and meaning.

Lanny was exactly my kind of literary magical realism — visceral, full-bodied, whimsical, a little weird, and deeply resonant.

The Empire of Gold is the incredible conclusion to the Daevabad Trilogy that we’ve been waiting years for!

Bel Canto is beautiful and devastating, and as you’d expect from the title, it flows like music. This might be my favorite Ann Patchett so far.

I don’t have much to say about this beyond what’s been said before: If you are white, read it.