In no particular order…. drumroll please…

Fiction

When We Cease to Understand the World- Benjamín Labatut

Hum- Helen Phillips

Rejection- Tony Tulthimutte

The Wall- Marlen Haushofer

The Book of Form and Emptiness- Ruth Ozeki

The Memory Police- Yōko Ogawa

Monstrilio- Gerardo Sámano Córdova

The Maniac- Benjamín Labatut

The Overstory- Richard Powers

Skyward series- Brandon Sanderson

Poetry

Nature Poem- Tommy Pico

I Have More Souls Than One- Fernando Pessoa

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension- Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension- Hanif Abdurraqib (this is not a typo, it belongs on both lists)

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World- Vivek H. Murthy

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life- Regina G. Kunzel

The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience- Matthew Cobb

Who’s Afraid of Gender?- Judith Butler

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland- Jonathan M. Metzl

Felix Deiss