best of the year

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ★★★★
• Every Day by David Levithan ★★
• The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 2-6 by Kousuke Oono ★★★½
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
• Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony de Mello ★★★
• Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco ★★
• Pink by Kyoko Okazaki ★★★★½
• The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim ★★★
• Dracula by Bram Stoker ★★★
• The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton ★★★
• A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet ★★★★
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ★★★★
• Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers ★
• Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi ★★★
• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ★★★
• The Future of Another Timeline by Analee Newitz ★★
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichi Tanizaki ★★★½
• The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang ★★★★
• Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss ★★★★
• A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano ★★★★½
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault ★★★★
• The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon ★★½
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano ★★
• Sappho translated by Mary Barnard ★★★★
• The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed ★★★★
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (re-read) ★★★★½
• Night by Elie Wiesel ★★★★★
• What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel ★
• Audition by Ryu Murakami ★★★
• The Flowers of Evil, Complete Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi ★★★
• In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt ★★★★
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez ★★★★
• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy ★★
• Sarahland by Sam Cohen ★★★★½
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami ★★★★
• Revolutionary Girl Utena, Vol. 1: To Till by Chiho Saito ★★★
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer ★★
• Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (this is one of the worst books I've ever read) ½
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ★★★★★
• The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang ★★★★
• All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie ★★★★
• The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg ★★★★
• We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets ★★★
• Blood Feast: The Complete Stories of Malika Moustradaf by Malika Moustradaf ★★★½
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ★★★★½
• Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour ★★★
• Abarat by Clive Barker ★★½
• Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 7 by Eiji Ohtsuka & Housui Yamazaki ★★★★
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty ★★★
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger ★★★½
• The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James ★★
• The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar ★★★★★