Books I Read in 2022

A 2022 list in mid-March, why not?

Another year (and a couple months), another Goodreads goal attained. I read 101 books in 2022, and in 2023, I've given up reading goals. Not entirely -- there are books I want to read, but I'm not aiming for a number.

A book-related goal achieved: visiting the George Peabody Library in Baltimore.

Getting to 100 last year was all fun and games until about November, when I started worrying about reaching the goal.

"You could always quit," I told myself. "You're the only one who cares."

"Yes, but I care a lot and if I accomplish nothing else this year, at least I'll accomplish this goal."

Around that time, I also reviewed the list of books I'd read, and spotted at least one title I had no recollection of reading. A quick search brought back the plot, but this year, I want to be more intentional with my choices. Being "more intentional" has so far meant abandoning five books. Maybe removing this numerical goal will push me back to the final (for now) LBJ Robert Caro book.

Reading 101 books did help me get a clearer picture of my reading wheelhouse, as the Reading Glasses podcast hosts call it. What gets me to pick up a book? Birds, nature, a woman on a journey, multigenerational stories, a protagonist excelling at an unexpected skill -- and maybe that skill is magic -- and books prominently featuring food, especially a connection between food and family.

Books I read in 2022 that fell into these categories:

Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl - personal essays with lots of nature

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders - birds, two characters excelling, one in engineering, one in magic. Also there's an AI. And a love story.

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar - birds, magical realism, multigenerational story told by a Syrian American trans protagonist. This was one of my favorite books last year.

Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin - cooking essays written by a woman whose voice reminded me of my grandmother's dry wit.

Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline - woman on a journey to reclaim her husband from some supernatural evil.

The entire A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas - women on journeys, some excelling at magic or fighting, also they're faeries. Sexy faeries.

This year, I’ve fully moved my book tracking from Goodreads to StoryGraph. Search and filtering work so much better than Goodreads, and my lists transferred easily from Goodreads to this new platform. I pop into Goodreads to see what folks are reading, because I have one contact on StoryGraph at the moment.

Anyway, here's the full 2022 list, the dates I finished them, and an asterisk for the ones I most enjoyed (there's a spoiler for Red, White, and Royal Blue, which was book #33):

1 The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel, 1/1/22

2 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, 1/2/22

3 Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, Tara Brach, 1/8

4 Beach Read, Emily Henry, 1/11

5 Late Migrations: A Natural History of Loss, Margaret Renkl, 1/13*

6 Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline, 1/17*

7 Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, Rivka Galchen, 1/23

8 The Flat Share, Beth O’Leary, 1/26

9 Three Girls from Bronzeville, Dawn Turner, 1/28

10 Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, 2/5

11 Mad Men Unbuttoned, Natasha Vargas Cooper, 2/6

12 Feral Creatures, Kira Jane Buxton, 2/14 - another book about birds. This book follows ST, the foul-mouthed crow from Hollow Kingdom, which I might reread this year because I want more time with Ghengis Cat and Winnie the Poodle.

13 ¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons, John Paul Brammer, 2/16

14 People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry, 2/19

15 Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes, 2/22

16 Hop! Joshua Barkman, 2/26 - a little graphic novel about two crows.

17 A Song Below Water, Bethany C Morrow, 2/28

18 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert, 3/5

19 Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong, 3/11

20 Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue, 3/19

21 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender, 3/27

22 Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, Laura Shapiro, 4/2

23 A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah Maas, 4/5

24 Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price, 4/9*  - I often think of about Price writing, "The Duolingo owl will not kill you in your sleep," as I do one Duolingo lesson right before bed to maintain my streak.

25 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, 4/14

26 A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah Maas, 4/17

27 A Court of Wings and Fury, Sarah Maas, 4/22

28 A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah Maas, 4/24

29 Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, 4/27

30 A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah Maas, 5/1

31 The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris, 5/7

32 How Our Lives Become Stories, Paul John Eakin, 5/12

33 Red, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston, 5/15* - Casey McQuiston gives me a blue Texas I'll probably never see and that win made me cry.

34 Touching the Rock, John Hull, 5/15

35 The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

36 The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, 5/29*

37 My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass, 5/29

38 The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali, 6/4

39 Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, 6/4

40 Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer, 6/6

41 Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 6/12

42 Whip Smart, Melissa Febos, 6/15

43 Authority, Jeff VanderMeer, 6/15

44 Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg, 6/18

45 Writers and Lovers, Lily King, 6/20

46 The Yellow House, Sarah M Broom, 7/1

47 Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, Jennifer De Leon, 7/3

48 The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl, 7/4

49 When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey, 7/8

50 Bird Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife, Rodney Stotts & Katie Pipkin, 7/16*

51 Catfish and Mandala, Andrew X. Pham, 7/16

52 Acceptance, Jeff vandermeer, 7/19

53 The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, 7/25

54 The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, 7/30

55 Real Life, Brandon Taylor, 8/1

56 The Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joukhadar, 8/8*

57 Paper Girls, vol 1, Brian k Vaughan , 8/12

58 Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C Ford, 8/13

59 The Future of Another Timeline, Annalise Newitz, 8/15

60 Paper Girls, vol 2, Brian k Vaughan, 8/19

61 Paper Girls, vol 3 Brian k Vaughan, 8/27

62 Paper Girls, vol 4 Brian k Vaughan, 8/27

63 Paper Girls, vol 5 Brian k Vaughan, 8/28

64 Paper Girls, vol 6 Brian k Vaughan, 8/28

65 LaRose, Louise Erdrich, 9/4*

66 Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, Brian Cox, 9/5

67 Give Me Your Hand, Megan Abott, 9/6

68 Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris, 9/9

69 Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik, 9/12*

70 Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, 9/18

71 The Witch Elm, Tana French 9/25

72 The Field Guide to the North American Teenager, Ben Philippe, 9/27

73 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, Alexis Coe, 10/1

74 Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, 10/8

75 The Sympathizer, Viet Than Nguyen, 10/9

76 Eat, And Love Yourself, Sweeney Boo, 10/10

77 Homicide and Halo-Halo, Mia P. Manansala

78 Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, Laurie Colwin, 10/17*

79 Pet Sematary, Stephen King, 10/23

80 Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings, 10/24

81 Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, Bill Buford, 10/30

82 Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, 11/3* - I understand about half of what's going on in these books and I'm still entirely enthralled by them. Who's dead? Who's alive? Who's who? What happened? When do we get the final book?

83 Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson, 11/7*

84 The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley, 11/12

85 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King, 11/16

86 Book Lovers, Emily Henry, 11/17

87 Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams, 11/20

88 The Guncle, Stephen Rowley, 11/25

89 Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple, 11/27

90 Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking, Bill Buford

91 A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger

92 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, 12/9

93 Home (Binti 2), Nnedi Okorafor, 12/10

94 The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, 12/15

95 I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Casey McQuiston, 12/15

96 Hide, Kiersten White, 12/17

97 Circe, Madeline Miller, 12/21

98 All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Andrews, 12/25

99 The Night Masquerade (Binti #3), Nnedi Okorafor, 12/26

100 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah, 12/28

101 The Most Natural Thing, David Keplinger, 12/31

Books I Read in 2018

Hello, and welcome to the only blog post I write anymore, the annual list of books I read.

My Goodreads goal was 25, which seemed realistic last January, and forty-three books later seems low. 2018 was a Robert Caro off-year, so no LBJ tome, which always helps the total count.

This year, I added Reading Glasses to my weekly podcast diet. I’d heard their ads, and as with every new podcast recommendation, my reaction was, “I already don’t listen to all the ones I subscribe to, I don’t have time for a new one.” Once I started listening this summer, I regretted waiting so long. The hosts are hilarious (one of them read 157 books in 2018!), their recommendations have exploded my Goodreads To Be Read (TBR) list, and it’s making me a wider reader. They have a 2019 Reading Glasses Reader Challenge, and it’s only ten reading categories and activities, which feels achievable while also doing a part-time graduate degree.

Yes, that is still happening. Happily, one of the classes I took this year was a book-a-week class. That kind of syllabus is stressful but does wonders for book consumption. The assigned books took me on journeys to Japanese forests, Zimbabwean wildlife ranches, and the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. This class and the reading made me more excited about anthropology than any of the others I have taken over the last few years, probably because the theory included in most of these books felt accessible.

One of my reading goals for next year is to quit reading books I’m not feeling (not including required class reading). Logically, I get that everyone has different tastes, life is too short to spend time reading uninteresting books, and that just because I’ve started something, I don’t have to finish it. I find those ideas difficult to put into practice, but I forced myself to quit one book this summer. More of that in 2019!

Anyway, here is the list, with stars for recommendations and some notes about which books made me cry, among other things. Rather than a photo of a stack of books, I’m including photos taken around the time I was reading certain books.

1. Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, Peter Bagge

It took about three months to read Why Buddhism is True, and we went to Harper’s Ferry during one of those months

2. Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places, ed. by Richard Will and Livia Barbosa

3. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi**

4. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright

5. Baby’s First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects, Lisa M. Mitchell

6. Stay with Me, Ayobami Adebayo**

7. After a While, You Just Get Used to It, Gwendolyn Knapp

8. À la recherche du temps perdu: à l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Marcel Proust/Stanislas Brézet

9. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders** - weird, sad, and lovely. It briefly made me worry about heaven and hell.

10. Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norris

11. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas** — While changing from work clothes to bike clothes in a public bathroom at my place of employment, I grabbed this book from my bike bag to finish a chapter. At least 20 minutes later, I remembered I was half-dressed, reading in a bathroom stall at my place of employment, when I could have been at home.

12. À la recherche du temps perdu: à l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, vol  2, Marcel Proust/Stanislas Brézet

13. How to Say Anything to Anyone, Shari Harley

14. God Save Texas, Lawrence Wright** - This is a good book for homesick Texans. Wright includes a post-Harvey letter from New Orleans to Texas that ran in the Houston Chronicle. I read this letter in a doctor's waiting room and shed a couple of tears. Then I bought it for my dad.

15. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng**

Picked lots of berries in early July between books 21 & 22.

16. Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins - yes, I reread all three of these books again.

17. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

18. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

19. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward**

20. The Museum of Us, Tara Wilson Redd** - a former library colleague wrote and published this book! It takes place in Webster Groves, Missouri, where I went to college, and features St. Louis sites like the City Museum.

21. Mount Pleasant (Images of America: D.C.), Mara Cherkasky

22. Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging, Brent Luvaas

23. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn - I impulse-bought this at the airport on our way to Switzerland. I do not feel like I need to watch the HBO series, because the world is dark and terrible enough without me giving myself additional nightmares. That said, if you like dark and terrible things, this one’s for you.

24. Buttermilk Graffiti, Edward Lee**

While reading about Edward Lee’s food adventures, I saw my first glacier.

25. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

26. Make Your Home Among Strangers, Jennine Capó Crucet** - Before we went on vacation, I did a frantic search for available e-books from the library and downloaded this. Crucet does a beautiful job depicting the first-generation student experience.

27. La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust vol. 1, Philip Pullman** - I read the His Dark Materials trilogy three years ago and was excited to return to this world.

28. Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir, Domingo Martinez

In early August, I finished Kitchen Confidential and caught a laughable amount of blue crab in Norfolk.

29. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

30. Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress American, Setha Low

31. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, Joshua Hammer**

32. Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan** - I have a library hold on the next book.

33. Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa, Roderick P. Neumann

34. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing** - Recommended if you want to think about the possibility of life in capitalist ruins! Not at all a light read, but man, I am still thinking about it months later.

35. The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe, Yuka Suzuki** This is another one that stayed with me, maybe because I used it in my final research paper.

36. Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins

37. Nature in Translation, Shiho Satsuka

38. The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay - This book falls into the category of “I recommend it if you like dark and terrible things.” Reading Glasses recommended it and interviewed the author, and I wanted something scary to get into the Halloween mood. This was a tense and graphically violent read unlike anything else I’ve ever read.

39. Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier, Tania Li

40. Conservation is our Government Now, Paige West

41. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - this is the spooky book I should have read to get into the Halloween spirit.

42. A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mizra*************** - Read this book. This one drove me to social media more than anything else I read this year. I received it randomly; a friend handed it to me after she finished it at Logan airport. “Did you grow up with much religion?” The dust jacket wasn’t on it, so I didn’t really know what it was about. Y’all. I cried at least four times reading this book and then two more times after I finished it, thinking about it. It is about siblings and parents and husbands and wives and first love and death and religion, and it struck some very deep chords.

43. Insectopedia, Hugh Raffles

What books did you enjoy this year? Did anything make you cry? Send your recommendations my way, and happy 2019 reading!

Books I Read in 2017

Happy New Year! 

I got through 28 books this year. My Goodreads goal was 20, and I achieved that with the help of several graphic novels. I got into the public anthropology program mentioned in last year’s post and spent lots of time reading journal articles. There was another art book, whose essays took me months to get through. New this year was an audio book, Ann Helen Petersen’s Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud. Petersen is the one reading her book to you. We listened to chapters as we drove between D.C. and St. Louis for the eclipse, a trip inspired by Annie Dillard’s The Abundance, one of my 2016 books. 

Unread books piled up around the apartment and my cubicle throughout the year. Ones I have yet to tackle include Yaa Gyaasi’s Homegoing, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter by Gwendolyn Knapp, and Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places, edited by Richard Wilk and Lívia Barbosa. I want to read the last one because it represents a large part of my weekly diet. Maybe this will be the year I get to Arthur Kleinman’s What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger. 

My only reading goal this year was to finish the third LBJ book, Master of the Senate. I’ve listed it here prematurely, because I still have about 20 pages to go. But there are four hours left to the year, and I believe in myself. 

What books did you love in 2017? What are you looking forward to next year? Any favorite graphic novels I should check out? 

Here’s my 2017 list, with stars for the books I recommend. 

1. Black & Blue: The Origin and Consequences of Medical Racism, John Hoberman

2. The Kindness of Children, Vivian Gussin Paley 

3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi**

4. Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi** - I've wanted to read these books for years. I walked by them repeatedly in the library and finally checked them out and tore through them. This panel made me laugh out loud. 

5.  My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante** - Two women I admire loved and recommended this series. After I finished My Brilliant Friend, I was ambivalent. “Well… if they both like them, there must be some reason,” I thought and picked up the next book. 

6. The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante** - I devoured the second book, while despising the two main characters and their awful decisions. I really needed to know what happened to them, though, but as the semester was beginning, I put the series aside to focus on reading about Marx.  

7. Karl Marx, Anthropologist, Thomas Patterson

8. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Michael Taussig

9. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery  - Reread and cried again. 

10. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connections, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

11. The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, Julia Wertz 

12. Difficult Women, Roxane Gay**

13. Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, Didier Fassin** 

14. Eating the Ocean, Elspeth Probyn 

15. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante** - The semester ended, and I was back to the Neapolitan novels. 

16. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante** - By the time I finished this book, I’d convinced at least two other people to start the series. Names and relationships were confusing, and, as mentioned, I really hated the two main characters at times, but overall, I’m glad I stuck with it.

17. Becoming Unbecoming, Una - I didn’t know what this book was going to be and picked it because I liked the cover image. It was a about a British woman growing up when the Yorkshire Ripper was in the news. It’s about surviving rape and abuse, slut-shaming, misogyny, and the struggle of becoming a woman in a society that hates women. It was heartbreaking, enraging, inspiring, and way more than I expected from a graphic a novel. 

18. The Black Penguin, Andrew Evans**

19. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of Unruly Women, Ann Helen Petersen**

20. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder - I reread this for class, then told my professor I was thinking of leaving the program to become a nurse. I did not carry through. 

21. The Land of Open Graves, Jason De León

22. Anthropology: A Student’s Guide to Theory and Method, Stanley R. Barrett

23. Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter** - this was one I stayed in bed to finish on a Sunday morning.

24. Niki de Saint Phaille and the Tarot Garden - Jill Johnston, Marella Caracciolo Chia, Giulio Pietromarchi - This was the art book whose text took me months to read. Niki de Saint Phaille was married to Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, and she created this wonderful sculpture garden in Italy that we will get to one day.  

25. Lumberjanes vol 3: A Terrible Plan - Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen

26. Lumberjanes vol 4: Out of Time - Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen

27. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts

28. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro** 

Books I Read in 2016

Happy 2017! 

2016 was generally a rough year, and the 27 books I read this year are unimpressive compared to last year’s 48. I only reached 27 thanks to four comic books. Then again, I took two graduate classes and had a job the whole year, versus 2015’s five months of fellowship and four months of employment. So in between pleasure reading, there were hours of chapters on archival document management and capitalism. I’ve applied to a graduate program, and if that goes well, there will be many more hours of reading capitalism in 2017.

Looking back at last year’s post, I did accomplish my goals of reading The Education of Henry Adams and Sula. There was a stark lack of LBJ in 2016, so my only reading goal for next year is to finish book three in the Years of Lyndon Johnson series, Master of the Senate. I’ve also got both Persepolis books on my night stand and an ever-growing list of books to read on Goodreads.

What were some of your favorite books this year? What’s on your list for 2017? 

Here are the 27 books I read in 2016, with stars for the ones I really loved and recommend: 

1. White Teeth, Zadie Smith**
2. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams - this one is interesting for the history. I started reading it in 2015 for Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography and Memoir class. She pointed out that Adams writes his life story without once mentioning his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams, who committed suicide by drinking photo chemicals. He makes one allusion to her death when he mentions going to the Washington cemetery "known as Rock Creek, to see the bronze figure which St. Gaudens had made for him in his absence." One reference in 505 pages. 
3. The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
4. Kehinde Wiley: New Republic, various authors
5. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell ** - I recommend this so much I wrote a blog post about it. It pairs especially well with lots of Hamilton soundtrack. 
6. On My Own, Diane Rehm** - definitely recommended for Diane Rehm fans. Maybe not recommended if you’ve lost someone recently and might cry on the bus on your way to work as you read it. Or perhaps it’s just what you  need? 
7. Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American, Peter Jamero
8. Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage, Michael R. Veach
9. Sula, Toni Morrison**
10. H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald** - there were times I had to stop reading this because it was so heartbreakingly sad.
11. Au revoir, les enfants, Louis Malle - read to get ready for France! 
12. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, Ruth Reichl 
13. Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay**
14. The Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee
15. The Abundance, Annie Dillard** - this, like H is for Hawk, made me think, “I will never write this well.” Beautiful. 
16. Driving Hungry, Layne Mosler
17. East Along the Equator, Helen Winternitz
18. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne
19. Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
20. Black Panther, Ta-Nehesi Coates
21. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie** - I loved this book. It might be my favorite of the ones I read last year. 
22. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf**  
23. The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72, Molly Peacock**
24. Lumberjanes vol 1: Beware the Kitten Holy, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen
25. Lumberjanes vol 2: Friendship to the Max, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen
26. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: 16 Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, ed Meghan Daum
27. French Milk, Lucy Knisley