Book Lists Make Me Depressed
While the reader in me jumps for joy
3 min readNov 30, 2022
As a writer, the only thing that depresses me more than the ubiquitous rejection letter, are lists like Books We Love by NPR or The 10 Best Books of the Year by the New York Times. As a reader, I relish these lists, like an adoring fan I take screen shot after screen shot and add to my Christmas list and future reads for the next year. But a long scroll…