With the last day of the year, what’s better than a quick post of my favorite posts from this year because they were often about amazing moments or reads from this past year.

• The “best” lists from this year
  • Titles for adults
  • Titles for young adults
  • Titles for middle grade
  • Titles for young readers
• My forty-book reread to celebrate turning forty
  • Over this last year
• Meeting authors and celebrating books
  • Riddle me this
  • It’s Delicate(s)!
  • Cheers near & far
• The best new comic series this year

And it wouldn’t be the end of one year and the start of another without having my last book of the year and first book of the new year lined up. Several hours ago I finished the National Book Award winner Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi. It’s clear why it’s a winner.

And as if Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan made a wish come true that I whispered into the ether or not, my first read of 2025 will be Saga #71.

There’s no doubt this will be the perfect way to usher in a new year of reading. If you haven’t hitched your wagon to Saga yet, make this your year.