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Every book I read in 2024, with commentary

I started keeping these notes on my reading in 2015. That means this is my tenth list — ten years is a long time to do anything! In…

Dec 31, 2024

stack of books

Dec 31, 2024

Every book I read in 2023, with commentary

Here we are again, down another year. It’s been a wild one for us, with wild highs and lows and lots of change. John’s memoir came out. We…

Dec 31, 2023

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Dec 31, 2023

Every book I read in 2022, with commentary

I hesitate to say that it’s been a hard year for the third year in a row; surely after three years, that’s just how your life is? It was a…

Dec 31, 2022

Every book I read in 2022, with commentary

Dec 31, 2022

Every book I read in 2021, with commentary

This year has felt like at least three years — not length-wise, but mood-wise. The first part was bad (exhaustion; despair), the middle…

Dec 31, 2021

Every book I read in 2021, with commentary

Dec 31, 2021

Every book I read in 2020, with commentary

I dread trying to sum up this year in a paragraph. It sucked, you all know it sucked! My reading was weird, because everything was weird…

Dec 31, 2020

Every book I read in 2020, with commentary

Dec 31, 2020

Every book I read in 2019, with commentary

“It’s literally the only list I read. I hate all other lists.” — J. Robert Lennon

Dec 31, 2019

Every book I read in 2019, with commentary

Dec 31, 2019

Every book I read in 2018, with commentary

“It’s literally the only list I read. I hate all other lists.” — J. Robert Lennon

Dec 31, 2018

Every book I read in 2018, with commentary

Dec 31, 2018

Every Book I Read in 2017, with Commentary

A couple of years ago I started keeping track of every book I read in a document, annotating the list with little mini-reviews. I love this…

Dec 31, 2017

Every Book I Read in 2017, with Commentary

Dec 31, 2017

Every Book I Read in 2016, with Commentary

Last year I started keeping track of every book I read in a document, annotating the list with little mini-reviews. I’ve come to really…

Dec 31, 2016

Every Book I Read in 2016, with Commentary

Dec 31, 2016

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Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert

Poet and essayist. Author of Any Person Is the Only Self, The Unreality of Memory, The Word Pretty, and other books. More info at http://www.elisagabbert.com/

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