Lezen

The Atlantic’s editors and writers share their favorite titles—new, classic, or somewhere in between—from a year of reading.

Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around, are read and re-read, are taught and discussed

In her moving new memoir, the writer explores desire, denial, and life in an “unruly body.”