• Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
• Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
• The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
• Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
• Bodies of Water by V.H. Leslie
• The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
• The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
• The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar
• All the Dirty Secrets by Aggie Blum Thompson
• I Don't Forgive You by Aggie Blum Thompson
• The Trunk by Kim Ryeo-ryeong
• The Crone of Midnight Embers by Iris Beaglehole
• No Angel Penny Vincenzi
• Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
• An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers
• Gulf by Mo Ogrodnik
• Girls with Long Shadows by Tennessee Hill
• Senseless by Ronald Malfi
• To Have and Have More by Sanibel
• Mending Bodies by Hon Lai-chu

named for Gordon Ramsay and Ramesses II

• Ram
• Rams
• Ramby
• Rammy
• Chicken
• Mr. Cat
• Kitten
• Tuna Face
• Ramazon Prime
• Ramzan

2021

• alcoholic drink: negroni or milk punch
• ancient civilization: Minoan
• animal: black cat
• artist: Sandro Botticelli
• beach: Achlia-Galini
• cheese: blue
• chocolate: dark
• classical song: Moonlight Sonata
• coffee: iced salted honey latte
• color: emerald
• dish to make: short rib ragu
• dessert: chocolate pot de crème
• element: water
• flower: peony
• food: fatteh
• fruit: pear
• gemstone: emerald or ruby
• gelato: stracciatella
• Greek food: tiropita
• holiday: Christmas Eve

• Kazuo Ishiguro, 4
• Lucy Foley, 4
• T. Kingfisher, 3
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 3
• Sarah Perry, 3
• Richard Osman, 2
• Kiley Reid, 2
• Ali Smith, 2
• Lisa See, 2
• Alix E. Harrow, 2
• Elif Shafak, 2
• Benjamin Stevenson, 2
• Jeneva Rose, 2
• Lisa Jewell, 2
• Sayaka Murata, 2
• Anna Dorn, 2
• Amor Towles, 2
• Coco Mellors, 2
• Maggie O’Farrell, 2
• Sloane Crosley, 2
• Alex Michaelides, 2

poetry

• Ulayya bint al-Mahdi
• Nizami Ganjavi
• Fernando Pessoa
• he who saw the deep
• ruins poetry
• Blue Sonata by John Ashbury
• Al Khansa
• Korinna
• My Two Lives by Ernest Sandeen

shopping

• Susan Alexandra
• Joshua Kyan Aalampour, composer
• I have sensory issues shirt
• Satin Kajal Liner
• Merit the Minimalist complexion stick
• Bisou Balm in rose latte
• Bobbi Brown eyeshadow stick
• good furniture at Room&Board
• Cacao and Cardamom chocolatier

i can't put it into words or fully understand why, but i find my mind returning to them and i find myself feeling them

• Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
• Pulaski at Night by Andrew Bird
• babbling brook sounds
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The New Pope season 1
• Bratislava, Hungary
• cacio e pepe and riesling in Brno
• Late Spring by Yasujirō Ozu
• being underwater
• Fleabag
• mountains

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
• We Spread by Ian Reid
• Gliff by Ali Smith
• James by Percival Everett
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Boy by Nicole Galland
• Wordslut by Amanda Montell
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peter
• Cheddar Luck Next Time by Beth Cato

books that, when I finished them, I thought... wtf did I just read

• Brat by Gabriel Smith
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Pizza Girl by Jean Kyuong Frazier
• Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber
• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• St. Sebastien's Abyss by Mark Haber
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

• ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• ✔ The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• ✔ Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• ✔ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• ✔ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• ✔ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Lavinia by Ursula K LeGuin
• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan
• ✔ Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara