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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 Kalanithi)

• 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)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

• Wenjack (Joseph Boyden)

• Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)

• James (Percival Everett)

• If We Dream Too Long (Goh Poh Seng)

• Stay True (Hua Hsu)

• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

• Butcher's Crossing (John Williams)

• The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse (Vinh Nguyen)

• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa)

• To Each His Own (Leonardo Sciascia)

• Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)

• Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)

• Heart Lamp (Banu Mushtaq)

• Whistler (Ann Patchett)

• Nova Scotia House (Charlie Porter)

• The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)

• Yesteryear (Caro Claire Burke)

• Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)

• Trust (Hernán Díaz)

• Things in Nature Merely Grow (Yiyun Li)

• Cool Machine (Colson Whitehead)

• The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead)

• Madonna in a Fur Coat (Sabahattin Ali)

• The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)