Best of the 100 Books I Read in 2022

Telling the truth about our parents, talking galaxies, and tulle

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This past summer I assigned the high-achieving high school students I counsel the task of choosing and reading three books — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and/or plays. Most struggled to pick titles they genuinely felt compelled towards; and even after I pelted them with umpteen suggestions and we settled on their lists, most did not…