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To put it lightly, 2025 has been . . . tumultuous. This madcap year marks the halfway point of the 2020s, a period that has brought instability and chaos like we've never seen before. What started with a pandemic has grown into a laundry list of collective traumas we've endured this past half-decade. (Of course, it hasn't all been bad — I adopted a cat, Rosalía started doing opera , we still have "The Great British Baking Show" on Netflix, and so on.)

As this year approaches its end, we not only have the opportunity to reflect on where we've been, but also where we're going. And if there's one tool that helps us envision those possibilities best, it's books. Our favorite books hold a mirror to our worlds — whether that's a funhouse mirror or one of those awful magnify

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