A Year in Reading: Krithika Varagur

: On the tail end of a months-long bender, I embarked on ’s where she calmly, authoritatively, and hypnotically lays out . I finished it in exhilarated tears. I reread , a seminal personal text, and realized the male love interest was way more annoying than I perceived on my momentous first read. Growth and change? For a long time I used to ask people about the best entry point into , and got suggestions like (That’s not it!!!!!) May I humbly propose, instead, which turns the birth of socialism and the intellectual labors of Marx and into a page-turning thriller? Everyone by (criminally under-read since his death in 2005), a brilliant postmodern novel set in Victorian England, with a generous bibliography that led me to revise almost every page of my own (nonfiction) book proposal about a family in Victorian England. I love most out-of-print books that must be ordered from Ebay, but I especially enjoyed a 1926 book called