It's definitely all-caps-worthy: We did it! Let's dive into the whole reading year, and damn, what a journey it was! We talk about the books that have moved us the most, surprising reads as well as huge disappointments, talk about whether some books motivated us to learn new skills, and so much more...

You may want to have pen and paper ready: A ton of recommendations is coming your way!

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Books (in order of appearance):

Series:

Stormlight archives by Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn Saga by Brandon Sanderson

The Rebus books by Ian Rankin

DS Cross series by Ian Rankin

Perfect remains series by Helen fields

Standalones:

Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker

Dreams of the future by Siri Hustvedt?

The emperor of gladness by Ocean Vuong

Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie

Small things like these by Claire Keegan

Wellness by Nathan Hill

Dueling with O-sensei by Ellis Amdur

A bookshop of one‘s own by Jane Cholmeley

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

I am glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy

Love letters by Virginia Woolf and Vita Slackville-West

Five days in memorial by Sheri Fink

The way home, life without technology by Mark Boyle

So late in the day by Claire Keegan

Sunrise on the reaping by Suzanne Collins

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

Convenience store woman by Sayaka Murata

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

The ministry of time by Kaliane Bradley

The fortune man by Nadifa Mohamed

Anna O by Matthew Blake Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Notes of an execution by Danya Kukafka

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Ripeness by Sarah Moss

The Body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk

Ask the dusk by John Fante

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Red and hope by Kelley Skovron

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Gideon the ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Book of lives by Margaret Atwood