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