Every year, my criteria for my favourite books of the year changes. In 2024, after coming out of a long writing drought, I’ve realized that the books that left a long-lasting impression on me were the ones that made say, “Wow! I want to write like that!” or “Wow! I want to live that way!”
5 Autofiction Novels I Want to Read Next
If you’ve never come across the term ‘autofiction’ before or if you don’t quite know what it means, I have a previous post on What is Autofiction? You can read it here.
In summary, autofiction combines autobiography with fiction. Autofiction is a fictionalized version of the author’s life, or memoir.
7 Non-Fiction Books For Troubling Times
This year, I’ve read many fantastic, thought-provoking non-fiction books. Here are 7 of my new favorite non-fiction books. I’ve excluded the subgenres of business, productivity, and self-help for this list. Don’t worry, they will feature on an upcoming list. These books have inspired change in myself and hope for our world.
The 10 Best Fictional Books on Loneliness
Since a young age, when I felt alone and found myself without friends and companionship, I turned to fictional books. They were my constant solace as they depicted feelings of loneliness, alienation, and isolation.
It was cathartic for me to be represented in these books although they made me sad, cry, and heart broken!
I have read many fictional books on loneliness and I’ve decided to compile a list of the 10 best fictional books on loneliness for you to read and feel seen too. 💕
Top 12 Poetry Collections I Want to Read in 2021
In this post, I go through my list of the Top 12 Poetry Collections I Want to Read in 2021.
These collections are quite modern and from many diverse voices touching on common themes such as love, life, death, and nature but also specific sociopolitical issues concerning race, identity, immigration, and history.
Top 20 Books I Read in 2020
Every year, I read about 75 to 100 books (including poetry and short story collections) and I share my thoughts on my favorite and my top books I read that year.
I broke this list up into categories: autobiography, black authors, personal finance, dark academia, classics, thriller, as well as popular young adult series.
Top 10 Modern Poetry Books I Read in 2020
Every year, I read a lot of poetry collections – both modern and traditional poetry. As it goes, poetry is not dead. And that fact is a solace to me an avid poetry lover, reader, and writer.
In this instance, I am using the term modern poetry very loosely as most of these collections have been published in the last year up to the last decade.
Best Books to Gift – 25 Books to Gift
As an avid reader myself, I absolutely love receiving and gifting books for every and any occasion. Often times, I have been asked what are some of the best books to gift or that I have received in the past as gifts. I have compiled a list of 25 books to gift. These books range from very many genres and formats to hopefully suit everyone on your list.
Top 5 Classical Gothic Fiction You Need to Read
Gothic fiction combines horror and fiction.
This genre touches on themes of the sublime, death, and sometimes even romance. Gothic fiction is stereotypically set in an old manor, abbey, castle, or any gothic German-like architectural building, etc., but it is not limited to these places.
Often times, gothic fiction alludes or allows for the horrific imaginary to become reality. Gothic fiction is often described as a pleasurable, subtle admiration and excitement, for horror.
10 Books for Your Fall Reading List – 2020 New Releases Edition
I compiled a fall reading list of ten books from various genres released in 2020 that would fit perfectly for the fall atmosphere.
