My 32 Other Favourite Reads of the Year, Ranked. (Honorable Mentions)

10 minutes 38 seconds is about this woman it's a little bit speculative feeling because she has died at the beginning of the book. it's just like that not what I expected it to be at all but it was so good and it was so interesting

it is such a strong piece of work and it's so memorable to me it's so long and I remember it vividly there are five different books within it and I was enamored from page one. it's just such a such an ambitious piece of work that was so good

a dangerous collaboration is the fourth book I think in the Veronica Speedwell series and it follows Veronica and stoker who both work in like I can't think of the word right now but like science nature or stuff. I loved it so much that I'm calling it an honorary five and I am going to move it on over an actual five blasphemy

all in her head was not a five and it's just because of like the same thing I said about the Dinosaur book it was just the writing wasn't anything special the book is good it was well organized it covered everything that I hoped it did

brat is about this guy Gabriel who is in this house and he has to get it ready for selling or whatever and he has sick or dead parents. they're very unlikable characters everyone in the book is very unlikable and it feels really pointless but for that it's definitely for me there's just a lot of like slurs and ableist kind of language

this is a non-fiction story Fran akamus it talks about residential schools it talks the horrific things that he experienced that his parents experienced and then also how that impacted him as like a parent in a good way and bad way as a hockey player in a good way and bad way. it was just so well written it was interesting having never heard of this person before

the center got five stars this is about a woman who's introduced to this strange isolated business that makes you learn a language like kind of instantly but you have to be alone and it costs a lot of money. it at the same time felt a lot like sad girl lit Fick but it also had this speculative angle so it was very interesting it was bold it was weird

the employee was a five when I read it's this very short strange sci-fi noela where I don't even know what's happening I don't know how to explain it to you. it's all interviews it's interviews from this kind of collective consciousness of all these employees but they are individuals

it was just so fun it was just a really fun time it's one of those direct to reader style mysteries that is a book that's very aware it's a book so it was it was so fun

finger Smith is a story of this girl who grew up orphaned and the family that takes her in there are some things that she has done to con people and that's what expectations are on her it's historical. this is the kind of thing that I recommend to people who don't love Thrillers and Mysteries but they want to still experience like twists and turns in their books it's very good

horror movie actually it's it's definitely a five. there's all of this lore around making of the movie and rumors and he's the only one who knows cuz he's the only surviving member and what's so fun about it is you're in a bunch of different like timelines

hous woman is about this woman from Nigeria who gets in an arranged marriage moves to America the United States and both of the people involved in this arranged marriage didn't really consent to it properly. it gets very dark and I liked it a lot

I who have never known men is such a fascinating concept about these women who just like appear in this underground bunker and they don't really know they don't have memories of how they got there. it's kind of an exhausting read but it's so fascinating the whole time

it's Elementary I gave a 4.5 and I loved it a very different tone this is a cozy mystery romance. it's all just like very well-rounded and has some like a couple different Mysteries kind of going on at the same time I had a good time with it

James is a retelling of The Adventures of hackleberry Finn from Jim or James's perspective giving him this whole actual character that he deserves and I thought it was very good. I loved the writing but it was only a 4.5

the lion women it's about these girls who grow up together in Iran and how they come together how they fall apart how their families are so different. it's very bleak but there's something just so it's the writing the writing is so good

Magnolia Parks was a [4].5 and it's about this really toxic relationship between Magnolia and BJ and their beautiful friendship that they've had for ever and them trying to make each other jealous. I'm moving it on to be known the way the Magnolia and BJ know each other it's just something else

Minor Detail was an extremely difficult read it's probably the most difficult thing that I got through this year. I think the book is really valuable in talking about the past and current day Noba and just giving an insight into what is happening for people who are living under occupation

parable of the SE imagines a world where like climate change has really devastated the planet and people have to survive and it's very difficult the world is a lot more dangerous people are really out for themselves more than ever. it's a Survival Story and there's a lot of horrific imagery that we witness

ripe is about this woman it's kind of like workplace satire where she just works this simple kind of job that shouldn't be taken as seriously as it is like everybody in the company everything is an emergency all the time. she has this physical embodiment it's a little surreal of her of her depression following her around

the god of the woods is also very good it's a literary mystery very like literary about the inner workings of like somebody's mentality it's not so much about the Mysteries but the Mysteries are what's what are driving the narrative. by the end I appreciated them so much for what they were and what they weren't

the hor is by David sodan and it's this story of an older woman who recently lost her husband and she's trying to keep her house and stay keep her life the way it's always been. it gets very gory and very intense and I think it's the closest to like splatter Punk that I've ever given a five star so I had a good time with it's very strange and there's some surprising elements that I really liked

I only give it a 4.5 because I hated the ending so much I thought it was so stupid not so much as like a reveal I loved all the reveals I loved all the reasoning behind things but the ending dragged a little bit with explanation and then it had like this epilog that was just bad

the memory police right is something that I would never reread it was exhausting to read I think it was a very good book and I would recommend it to people who are looking for that type of thing but it was they're both Bleak

the shadow of the wind is something that's been recommended to me for so long and when I finally read it I was like yeah you're all right it's five stars but it's not like a passionate five star for me it was like an objective one

the 13th tale is about this kind of biographer she's not super wellknown so she doesn't really understand when she gets the invitation one day to write this super famous author's Memoir. it was so beautifully written and descriptive and an enjoyable read

the trees which is this crime novel about these deaths that keep occurring and there is a dead body found at all of them and it's the same man that's how it's reported. it's very satirical it's dark it's funny it's about Collective anger it makes us sit in violence a lot I just loved everything that it did

the warmth of other Sons is about the America's Great Migration it talks about slavery and it interviews specific people. it reads like Fiction it's so well done I would definitely recommend it more than the rise of the dinosaurs and also I gave it a five

The Magician's assistant is this very Slice of Life small little intimate story this woman grew up working as a magician's assistant and then they eventually got married after decades and she now doesn't he dies and she doesn't feel like she has a lot of worth. I just thought it was really good it was really well written I really enjoyed it

the rise in the fall was so interesting the only reason it didn't get a full five is because it didn't do anything outside of what any other non-fiction has ever done. I learned a lot about the dinosaurs and I think that's so valuable

I really enjoyed Vera Wong it's a story of this woman who runs a tea shop and one day someone there's a dead body downstairs someone has like broken in killed somebody and left and she assumes that it's one of her like regular customers so she starts interrogating them all and she is a terrible sleuth

yearning is exactly what it says race gender and cultural politics this is a book that for the first half I didn't feel like was going to be a f star because it was too smart for me to understand. once I connected everything and got everything I loved it and gave it a five