A year given to constant googling. A year of reading more posts on Baby Center, The Bump, What to Expect and some anxiety-inducing site called KellyMom.com, far more newsletters from Ovia and Babylist, than I did literary things for my own edification and pleasure. Somewhere in there, I started trusting myself more on the parenting front, started realizing my kid (whom What to Expect would call “my chubby cherub” 🤢) is adaptable, and managed to read some actual books.
Disappearing Earth by Julia Philliips
The Undying by Anne Boyer
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
We Do This ’Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lisa Wells
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
Started in 2021, may finish in 2022? Time will tell…
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett