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The books I've read (or am currently reading) this year:

• Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)

• Stoner (John Williams)

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Susan Cain)

• When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanathi)

• The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

• Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

• M Train (Patti Smith)

• Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)

• North Woods (Daniel Mason)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

• Wenjack (Joseph Boydon)

• Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)

• James (Percival Everett)

• If We Dream Too Long (Go Poh Seng)