best of the year

• Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self by Sallie Foley, Sally A. Kope, & Dennis P. Sugrue [no rating, but I will say it's very helpful! fair warning for use of gendered language as this is from the early 2000s - though it's inclusive of sapphic relationships]
• Fathom by Cherie Priest ★★★★
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson ★
• Joyland by Stephen King ★★½
• True Blood: All Together Now by Alan Ball ★★
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ★★
• True Blood, Vol. 3: The French Quarter by Claudia Balboni, Mariah Huehner, & David Messina ★★★
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill ★★
• Soul Eater, Vol. 5 by Atsushi Ohkubo ★★★
• The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Omnibus 2 by Eiji Ohtsuka ★★★★
• Legend by Marie Lu ½
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris ★★★★★
• Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor ★★★
• Sadie by Courtney Summers ★★★★½
• Butterfly's Dream: In Search of the Roots of Zen by Albert Low ★★★★
• Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix ★★½
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ★★★★
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson ★★
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★★
• The Girl From the Other Side, Vol. 1 by Nagabe ★★★★
• Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath ★★★★
• The Mothers by Brit Bennett ★★★
• Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton ½
• Pandora Hearts, Vol. 11-12 by Jun Mochizuki ★★★★
• Tao Te Ching by Laotzu ★★★★★
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix ★★
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind ★★★★
• Princess Jellyfish, Vol. 1-4 by Akiko Higashimura ★★★★★
• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima ★★★★½
• A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin ★★★★
• What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis ★★(I heavily dis-recommend this - it's so vapid that it kinda feels like an insult to Kahlo's legacy).