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A Year in Reading: Kukuwa Ashun

My current home library is one that I’ve dreamed of building since my childhood days at the Brooklyn Public Library; there are books everywhere. Each year the stories on my shelves blossom into dangerously high stacks as my tastes evolve, and this year I found myself in the comfort of backlist, debut, and forthcoming titles alike. So despite the fact that Goodreads berates me for being “X books behind”, I read extraordinary books outside of my nine-to-five and devoured these stories in the way I would consume french onion soup on a chilly day. Below is a non-exhaustive list of books that are still

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