I used to maintain a running list of the books I read on Twitter (now X). But the whole book-a-week drill started to feel a bit performative. So last year I stopped live-tweeting my reading. But then I wrote a book of my own and acquired a fresh appreciation of just how much of a difference the honest recommendations of a genuine reader makes to a newly published author. So I decided to create a list after all.
Of the many books I read this year, these were the ones that stood out: