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A Fine Balance was at the top of my list this year too!! The Wilderness sounds really good and I’ll probably pick it up soon. Some of the memoirs you mentioned I’ll also check out. I really appreciate your highlighting amatonormativity in some of your reviews. I didn’t know there was a word/construct for it, and knowing that there is makes me feel more at peace as I get to an age where many of my friends are starting to get engaged and long-term, exclusive, monogamous relationships are increasingly valorized. I’ve just never been that interested in all of that, lol, and it’s nice see myself in your reviews and not feel so “deviant.” Anywho happy new year!

A Fine Balance is one of my all time favorites! Adding Denison Avenue to my "To-Read" list too - Thanks! Hope 2026 brings you more great reads!

A Fine Balance is one of my favorite books! I have read it in 2024, but I still think about it at times. I will definitely check out your 3 favorite books of the 2025.

I don't know how I ended up following you... I think I just kept seeing your name and reviews on almost every book I read! :) Thank you for this list, just added a bunch to my TBR!!

I’m excited to read Things in Nature Merely Grow in 2026, in large part due to your review! Thank you for always posting such insightful, honest reviews that brighten all of our days. Here’s to more books in ‘26!

This is why I love stumbling across lists like this: I'd somehow never heard of The Fantasies of Future Things, and it looks fantastic.

Eden wrote: "A Fine Balance was at the top of my list this year too!! The Wilderness sounds really good and I’ll probably pick it up soon. Some of the memoirs you mentioned I’ll also check out. I really appreci..."

Yes so glad to hear that you will pick up The Wilderness! And thanks so much for this thoughtful message - so thankful for folks who critique amatonormativity too and glad bringing light to this construct resonates with your life as it does with mine.

Corinne wrote: "A Fine Balance is one of my all time favorites! Adding Denison Avenue to my "To-Read" list too - Thanks! Hope 2026 brings you more great reads!"

Hope 2026 brings you more great reads too, and hope you enjoy Denison Avenue if/when you read it! :)

Olya wrote: "A Fine Balance is one of my favorite books! I have read it in 2024, but I still think about it at times. I will definitely check out your 3 favorite books of the 2025."

Yay for A Fine Balance! Hope your 2026 reading goes amazing :)

Savannah wrote: "I don't know how I ended up following you... I think I just kept seeing your name and reviews on almost every book I read! :) Thank you for this list, just added a bunch to my TBR!!"

Regardless of how it happened, I'm honored you follow me! Thanks for making the time to check out the list.

Jonathan wrote: "I’m excited to read Things in Nature Merely Grow in 2026, in large part due to your review! Thank you for always posting such insightful, honest reviews that brighten all of our days. Here’s to mor..."

Yay for Things in Nature Merely Grow! And awww omg thanks so much for your sweet words about my reviews. That means a lot to me.

Peter wrote: "This is why I love stumbling across lists like this: I'd somehow never heard of The Fantasies of Future Things, and it looks fantastic."

The book is fantastic! Hope you enjoy it if/when you read it and thanks for taking the time to check out my list. :)

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I loved Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li. Hard not to weep when I think about the themes she covered with so much honesty and courage.