The Best Books Y'all Read This Year

I asked, you answered

All of these got at least two recommendations, and I included the little blurb from Goodreads….

And in case you want more recs, here they are from last year!

MARTYR!

This was the top reco - I’m reading it now - here’s the blurb:

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

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