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1. Kintu - MAKUMBI 1/4

2. Seveneves - STEPHENSON 1/14

3. the House of Impossible Beauties - CASSARA 1/18

4. Eat the Document - SPIOTTA 1/23

5. Netsuke - DUCORNET 1/25

6. Authority - VANDERMEER 1/31

7. A Brief History of Seven Killings - JAMES 2/11

8. Salvage the Bones - WARD 2/15

9. To Throw Away Unopened - ALBERTINE 2/21

10. Black Mamba Boy - MOHAMED 2/27

11. the Women - ALS 3/3

12. This Bridge Called My Back - MORAGA 3/9

13. the Warmth of Other Suns - WILKERSON 3/20

14. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - FERRANTE 3/27

15. Sabrina - DRNASO 4/2

16. the End of Men - ROSIN 4/3

17. Arcadia - GROFF 4/9

18. War By Candlelight - ALARCON 4/12

19. Bobcat - LEE 4/16

20. the Enchanted - DENFELD 4/19

21. Tomboy - PRINCE 4/21

22. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - ABDURRAQIB 4/28

23. the Red Parts - NELSON 4/29

24. Touching the Rock - HULL 5/5

25. Transoceanic Lights - LI 5/12

26. the Buddha of Suburbia - KUREISHI 5/20

27. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - GUO 5/24

28. Blue Lights in the Sky - XUE 5/30

29. On Such a Full Sea - LEE 6/6

30. Since I Laid My Burden Down - PURNELL 6/8

10.) the Heaven’s Gate podcast

9.) Afrofuturism film series

8.) Killing Eve

7.) Lake Washington

6.) Drag Race Thailand w/Nikki (and sometimes McLean) shout out to Little Marcus!

5.) Female Friendship film series

4.) Scarecrow Video

3.) Living in proximity to the Honeycutts

2.) Having my own apartment

1.) Friends all over the country who care enough to visit, write, text, chat, check-in, and generally keep in touch and continually remind me that I am loved

(presented alphabetically)

1.) Vineland - PYNCHON 7/6

2.) Samuel Johnson is Indignant - DAVIS 7/9

3.) House of Prayer No. 2 - RICHARD 7/12

4.) White Teeth - SMITH 7/20

5.) the City and the City - MIEVILLE 7/25

6.) No House to Call My Home - BERG 7/27

7.) Master of Reality - DARNIELLE 7/28

8.) Hunger - GAY 8/2

9.) Jagannath - TIDBECK 8/4

10.) We Were Eight Years in Power - COATES 8/11

11.) the Hundred Brothers - ANTRIM 8/14

12.) Mortals - RUSH 8/30

13.) Tenth of December - SAUNDERS 9/5

14.) Ways of Going Home - ZAMBRA 9/7

15.) Night at the Fiestas - QUADE 9/12

16.) Loteria - ZAMBRANO 9/14

17.) Things We Lost in the Fire - ENRIQUEZ 9/21

18.) We the Animals - TORRES 9/22

19.) the Round House - ERDICH 9/28

20.) How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - STANISIC 10/5

21.) the Lottery - JACKSON 10/11

22.) Slow Days, Fast Company - BABITZ 10/14

23.) Complete Stories of Leonora CARRINGTON 10/17

24.) Mean - GURBA 10/22

25.) the Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - MENGESTU 10/27

26.) Evicted - DESMOND 11/3

27.) the Marriage Plot - EUGENIDES 11/8

28.) San Miguel - BOYLE 11/17

29.) Stand on Zanzibar - BRUNNER 12/1

30.) There There - ORANGE 12/6

31.) Jerusalem - TAVARES 12/9

32.) Levels of Life - BARNES 12/11

33.) Human Acts - KANG 12/15

34.) Night Moves - HOPPER 12/17

35.) Crystal Eaters - JONES 12/20

1.) Thieves I’ve Known - KEALEY 1/4

2.) When the Sick Rule the World - BELLAMY 1/9

3.) Salvation Army - TAIA 1/13

4.) Annihilation - VANDERMEER 1/16

5.) the Hypothetical Girl - COHEN 1/19

6.) the Way Through the Doors - BALL 1/23

7.) Counternarratives - KEENE 1/29

8.) Claire of the Sea Light - DANTICAT 2/1

9.) Negroland - JEFFERSON 2/6

10.) I Never Liked You - BROWN 2/6

11.) We Need New Names - BULAWAYO 2/11

12.) Long Division - LAYMON 2/16

13.) Blues City: A Walk in Oakland - REED 2/19

14.) Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black - hooks 2/24

15.) Liars and Saints - MELOY 2/27

16.) the Power - ALDERMAN 3/5

17.) If I Told You Once - BUDNITZ 3/11

18.) the Story of a New Name - FERRANTE 3/19

19.) Feminist Film Theory - THORNHAM 3/26

20.) the Ice Museum - KAVENNA 4/1

21.) Why Love Hurts - ILLOUZ 4/6

22.) Stillness - BRKIC 4/9

23.) the Pagan Rabbi - OZICK 4/14

24.) the Bug - ULLMAN 4/18

25.) Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life - DANIELS 4/25

26.) Train to Lo Wu - ROW 4/27

27.) Travesty - HAWKES 4/29

28.) Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute - ANDERSON 5/3

29.) After Dark - MURAKAMI 5/7

30.) the Vegetarian - HAN 5/9

31.) Island of a Thousand Mirrors - MUNAWEERA 5/13

32.) Kinder Than Solitude - LI 5/21

33.) Dragonfish - TRAN 5/27

34.) Buffalo Lockjaw - AMES 5/29

35.) the Truth About Celia - BROCKMEIER 6/2

36.) the Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America - TEA 6/3

37.) Cool For You - MYLES 6/7

38.) Why I Killed My Best Friend - MICHALOPOULOU 6/12

39.) Inside the Dream Palace - TIPPINS 6/19

Celebrate Black History Month with these titles

10.) Dolphins!

9.) Great British Bake Off

8.) Joan vs. Bette Film Series

7.) Uji Time Taiyaki 

6.) Museum of Jurassic Technology

5.) Ordinaire Bistro

4.) Securing a sublet for Seattle

3.) Black Aesthetic

2.) Lassen Camping

1.) TOKYO!

(presented alphabetically)

1.) the Velvet Rage - DOWNS 7/1

2.) When Mystical Creatures Attack! - FOUNDS 7/3

3.) I Love Dick - KRAUS 7/5

4.) Everything You Need - KENNEDY 7/15

5.) Long For This World - WEINER 7/19

6.) the Ice Storm - MOODY 7/25

7.) Gilead - ROBINSON 8/1

8.) the Dancer Upstairs - SHAKESPEARE 8/6

9.) In Bluebeard’s Castle - STEINER 8/9

10.) Why We Came to the City - JANSMA 8/13

11.) Near to the Wild Heart - LISPECTOR 8/17

12.) Open Veins of Latin America - GALEANO 8/24

13.) the Barbarian Nurseries - TOBAR 8/29

14.) Faces in the Crowd - LUISELLI 8/31

15.) Three Trapped Tigers - INFANTE 9/8

16.) Colonize This! - HERNANDEZ 9/12

17.) the Book of Unknown Americans - HENRIQUEZ 9/17

18.) By Night in Chile - BOLANO 9/19

19.) the Transmigration of Bodies - HERRERA 9/21

20.) Savage Night - THOMPSON 9/26

21.) A Good Fall - JIN 9/30

22.) the Guardians - MANGUSO 10/2

23.) the Listeners - ZUMAS 10/6

24.) Promising Young Women - SCANLON 10/16

25.) Fra Keeler - OLOOMI 10/22

26.) Cold Mountain - FRAZIER 10/31

27.) Among the Missing - CHAON 11/5

28.) the Unwinding - PACKER 11/15

29.) Afrofuturism - WOMACK 11/18

30.) Television - TOUSSAINT 11/21

31.) Netherland - O’NEILL 11/26

32.) Filmish - ROSS 11/26

33.) Mystics & Messiahs - JENKINS 11/30

34.) Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God - KERET 12/3

35.) the Age of Wire and String - MARCUS 12/4

36.) Love Dog - TUPITSYN 12/10

37.) the Irresponsible Magician - RUTKOFF 12/11

38.) This Close - KANE 12/15

39.) Baba Yaga Laid an Egg - UGRESIC 12/23