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
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Sociopath by Patric Gagne, Ph.D.
Outlive by Peter Attia MD
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, trans. by Sarah Timmer Harvey
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, trans. by Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae
Mating by Norman Rush
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Melanie Mauthner
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, trans. by Michael F. Moore
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfield
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Improvement by Joan Silber
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth, trans. by Charlotte Barslund
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, trans. by Megan McDowell
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
The Most by Jessica Anthony
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Evening by Susan Minot
Fortune Smiles* by Adam Johnson
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, trans. by Deborah Smith
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
*reread
