Books Completed, 2025: I read 22 books this year. 14 were nonfiction, 11 were by women, and only 4 were by people of color. The ones that spoke to me in particular were How to Feed a Dictator, by Witold Szablowski; King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig; The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green; The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo; Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel; and Joyride, by Susan Orlean.

Books Completed, 2024: I read 19 books this year. 10 were fiction, 10 were by women, 7 were by people of color. My favorites were Martyr! and James (fiction) and Challenger (nonfiction). 

Books Completed, 2023: I read 15 books for pleasure this year. Nine were fiction, six non-fiction. Seven were by women. Six were by authors of color. My favorites were probably The Country of the Blind and The Wager in non-fiction, and The Vaster Wilds, The Eyes and the Impossible, and The Bee Sting in fiction.

Books Completed, 2022: I read 13 books for pleasure this year. Four of the books were by women, five were by non-white authors, and four were non-fiction. The oldest was The Things They Carried, which I didn't read for pleasure so much as to teach it to high school seniors. Three were published in 2022. 

I didn't love a lot of the books I finished; it was a weak reading year for me. My favorite four were Boom Town, by Sam Anderson; Dirtbag, Massachusetts, by Isaac Fitzgerald; The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz; and All That She Carried, by Tiya Miles. It's worth noting that three of the four non-fiction books I finished were in my top four.