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Italicized books are in progress; bolded books represent the best of the year.
🎧 denotes audiobooks
🔮 denotes Advance Reader Copies
📚 denotes a read from my overstuffed shelf

(1) Twenty Four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds
(2) Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
(3) Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
(4) One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins-Reid
(5) Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
(6) Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon 📚
(7) Skate It Till You Make It by Rufaro Faith Mazarura 🎧🔮
(8) The Verifiers by Jane Pek
(9) The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee
(10) Tough Guy by Rachel Reid
(11) Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy 🎧🔮
(12) These Heathens by Mia McKenzie 🎧
(13) “Dutchman” and “The Slave” by Amiri Baraka
(14) The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu 🎧
(15) In Time With You by Kristin Dwyer 🎧🔮
(16) Oathbound by Tracy Deonn 🎧
(17) Model Home by Rivers Solomon
(18) My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron
(19) Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms by Geoff Bennett 🎧🔮
(20) Common Goal by Rachel Reid
(21) Evening the Score by Lexi LaFleur Brown 🔮
(22) Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit’rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 🎧🔮
(23) Break Room by Miye Lee 🎧🔮
(24) All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers 🎧
(25) Misfit by Gary Gulman 🎧
(26) How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up: Big Lessons from Little Kids by Julian Shapiro-Barnum 🔮
(27) Puck by Samantha Allen 🔮
(28) American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald 🔮
(29) Inspiration Porn: Essays by Ryan O’Connell 🔮
(30) A Plot to Die For by Ardal O’Hanlon 🎧
(31) Orbital by Samantha Harvey
(32) Double Fudge by Judy Blume
(33) Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor 🎧
(34) Thirty Love by Tom Vellner