Alissa Wilkinson: A Year in Reading

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alissawilkinson:

One of the finest sites for booknerds is The Millions, and every year they do a Year in Reading series. With apologies to those fine contributors:

I read not nearly as many books as I wanted to this year, but when I say that I immediately slap myself, because I did read a lot of books. It’s…

Fun Fact: so far Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins (named in Alissa Wilkinson’s post above) is tied for “most mentioned” in the entire YiR series. Can you guess the other book it’s tied with?

Other Fun Fact: we’ll almost never not reblog a shout out to John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead.