36 books in 2025! I’m excited to share both the best books I read this year and the ones I seriously could not get through. Drop your own favorite reads in the comments as I build my list for 2026. Real Americans by Rachel Khong 5 stars. A sweeping, multigenerational story about identity, ambition, and belonging. The novel opens in 1996 with Lily, a Chinese American woman working in biotech in New York City. When …
Caitlin Kenney Smith 