The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Books in bold were my favorites.įuck Off Squad by Nicole Goux and Dave BakerĮleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman So on to the list, with books listed in chronological order of when I finished them. But both Smith and Vuong blew me away, page after page. I read a few poetry books a year, and I usually fine a couple poems stand out and the others are just OK. I’d love for at least half of the authors I read in 2020 to be BIPoC.Īll that said, the most surprising thing for me is that my two favorite books were poetry collections, one by a Black non-binary queer author and another by a Vietnamese male queer author. This seems like a good thing, but it actually went from 38% down to 22%. However, whereas last year I read 21 authors of color, this year I only read 22. This year it’s 71%, which is definitely an improvement. So last year, 65% of the books I read were by women or non-binary authors. The goal for 2018 was to read more women and read more People of Color. After steadily increasing my goal over the years, 2019 was the year I decided on 100 books, because it was a goal I wanted to reach but also one I knew would not be easy.
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