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These were my only five star reads that were not re-reads:

Novel-length:

1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
2. Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver
3. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
4. Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
5. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Dame Judy Dench

Poetry:

• "Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shahib Nye
• "What rage or madness drives you?" by Jay Hulme
• "If Night You Were a City" by Adam Wiedewitch
• "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
• "Obligations 2" by Layli Lang Solidier
• "Eurydice" by Linda Gregg
• "Nostos" by Louis Gluck
• "The Sick Wife" by Jane Kenyon
• "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich
• "One Letter" Liu Xiaobo
• "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry