reading list 2024
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
My Friends: a Novel by Hisham Matar
Termush by Sven Holm, trans. by Sylvia Clayton
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, trans. by Natasha Wimmer
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
More by Molly Roden Winter
Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
October Child by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Pentagon’s Brain by Annie Jacobsen
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*, trans. by Gregory Rabassa
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld, trans. by Michele Hutchinson
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, trans. by Polly Barton
*reread
reading list 2023
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
Septology VI-VII: A New Name by Jon Fosse
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides*
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni
We Are Too Many by Hannah Pittard
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
Kala by Colin Walsh
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
Florida by Lauren Groff
The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Wellness by Nathan Hill
The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
The Pole: a Novel by J.M. Coetzee
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
*reread
reading list 2022
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heiti
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Carnality by Lina Wolff
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon, et al.
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjoth
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Birth by Tina Cassidy
On Animals by Susan Orlean
Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction by Karen Radner
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Transit by Rachel Cusk
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Encircling by Carl Frode Tiller
Encircling 2: Origins by Carl Frode Tiller
Encircling 3: Aftermath by Carl Frode Tiller
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book by Naja Marie Aidt
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
Can Love Last?: the fate of romance over time by Stephen A. Mitchell
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Harrow by Joy Williams
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Scratched by Elizabeth Tallent
Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Money: the True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
I Was the President's Mistress!! by Miguel Syjucco
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak & Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai