The books below took her through a tumultuous year. Books are listed in the order in which she read them:
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino
- Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
- Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory, by Rafael Bob-Waksberg
- The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
- I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
- The Run of His Life: The People vs OJ Simpson, by Jeffrey Toobin
- TheChildren of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
- Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
- Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
- Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us, by Frans de Waal
- Caliban’s War, by James S. A. Corey
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker
- Abaddon’s Gate, by James S. A. Corey
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells
- Cibola Burn, by James S. A. Corey
- Her Protector’s Pleasure, by Grace Calloway
- The Snakes, by Sadie Jones
- The Shadow King, by Maaza Mengiste
- First: Sandra Day O’Connor, by Evan Thomas
- Colonel Chabert, by Honorée de Balzac
- The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
- In West Mills, by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
- Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, by Larry Tye
- Your House Will Pay, by Stephanie Cha
- Heaven, My Home, by Attica Locke
- Bread and Salt: Stories, by Valerie Miner
- The Prince of Mournful Thoughts, by Caroline Kim (Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize)
- Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, by Edward Ball