Adieu, 2021, the most stressful year of my adult life. That said, I somehow managed to read a respectable number of books this year, and I'm awfully proud of this weird mixture of the ancient world, sci-fi/horror, cute animals, and the avant garde: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021/123572459 My favorites: Novels: Negative Space by B.R. Yeager (2020, Apocalypse Party) Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (2019, Picador) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (2000, Vintage Books) Poetry (sort of): ReRites: Raw Output + Responses by David (Jhave) Johnston (2019, Anteism Books) Masterworks of Miyazawa Kenji (2002, International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Culture) Yi Sang Selected Works (2020, Wave Books) H of H Playbook by Anne Carson (2021, New Directions) Unclassifiable: Prelude to Transgression by M. Kitchell (2020, Inside the Castle) Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede by Mike Corrao (2021, 11:11 Press) Philosophy of the Sky by Evan