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A Year in Reading: Jennifer Croft

For decades, I’ve been set in my reading ways. I like literary fiction; I like it to be playful and experimental, though I’m as easily seduced by a great traditional narrative as the next guy; I like reading about characters whose life experiences both differ from and overlap with my own, which means I like reading women from a broad swathe of cultures, whether in book or audiobook form.

2023 has been a different kind of year for me, however, and although I have read (and listened to!) some brilliant works of literary fiction, like ’s (mesmerizingly narrated on audio by ), ’s , ’s , ’s , and ’s , what I have read the most, and over and

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