#tbf albert camus and maria casarès correspondance is over 1000 pages so ! it has been with me half of the year

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round up of you’re best reads this year??

I have read way less books this year compared to previous years (like half of what I usually read and very few novels) but here you go

poetry: collected poems by james schuyler, seeing the body by rachel eliza griffiths, a dangerous place by chelsea desautels, burn lake by carrie fountain, another last call: poems on addiction and deliverance edited by kaveh akbar and paige lewis, how to maintain eye contact by robert wood lynn, winter stranger by jackson holbert, you can be the last leaf by maya abu al-hayyat, please make me pretty, I don’t want to die by tawanda mulalu, enemy of the sun: poetry of palestinian resistance edited by naseer haruri and edmund ghareeb, revolutionary letters by diane di prima (50th anniversary edition)

fiction: her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (short stories), the raptures and the fire starters by jan carson, les choses humaines by karine tuil, le pays des autres by leila slimani, the idiot by elif batuman

non-fiction: in the dream house by carmen maria machado, faith, hope and carnage by nick cave, the correspondance of antoine de saint exupéry and consuelo de saint exupéry, lit by mary karr, the correspondance of albert camus and maria casarès

#tbf albert camus and maria casarès correspondance is over 1000 pages so ! it has been with me half of the year #but still. need 2 go back to how I used to read