Here is a list of everything I’ve been reading the last few years. Books that are bolded, I highly recommend. RR stands for re-read
2019
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler by Mary Gabriel
I Hate My Neck: and other essays by Nora Ephron
Before by Carmen Boullose
The Buisness of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America: by Joe Berg
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Poor George by Paula Fox
Modern Love by Constance de Jong
The Widow’s Children by Paula Fo
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellB
Bad Blood by John Carreyyou
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Wang
Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
Becoming by MichelleObama
The Altruists by Andrew Ridker
Circe by Madeline Miller
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Ginger Bread by Helen Oyeyemi
A people’s history of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
The Changeling by Joy Wiliams
So Much Longing So Little Space by Karl Ove Knaussgaard
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
State of Grace by Joy Williams
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Jillian by Halle Butler
The New Me by Halle Butler
Naamah by Sarah Blake
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens
The Voice At the Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer
Fox 8 by George Saunders
Love by Hanna Orstavik
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon.
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
The Body Where I was Born by Guadalupe Nettel
The stone Collector by A Kendra Greene
Anatomy of a Museum: everything you ever wanted to know about the icelandic phallological museum but where afraid to ask by Kendra Greene
Republic of Lies by Anna Merlan
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Once More We Saw Stars by Jason Greene
The Condor Passes by Shirley Anne Grau
Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie
A short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
On Earth We were Briefly Gorgeous by ocean Vuong
A Cruelty Special to our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon
Orange World by Karen Russell
The Hard Blue Sky by Shirley Ann Grau
Let Me Play by Blumenthal
Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women’s Sports Revolution by Janet Brae
Burn Lake by Carrie Fountain
(RR) To the Light House by Virginia Woolf
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Kefe
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Next Year For Sure by Zoey Leigh Petersen
Kids These Days: the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris
Oculus by Sally Wen Mao
Inland by Teo Obreht
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellman
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy
Taking Care by Joy Williams
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
No More Boats by Felicity Castagna
Against Creativity by Oli Mould
All This Could be Yours by Jami Attenburg
Super Pumped by Mike Issac
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
This list was last updated 18 November
2018
The Half That Was Never Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Modern Library: Writer’s Workshop by Stephen Koch
Daybook by Anne Truitt
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Melville by Jean Giorno
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
The Potlicker Papers by John T. Edge
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Love Affairs of an Old Maid by Lilian Lida Bell
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
Ties by Dominico Starnone
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle Eileen McNamara
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard
God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
The First Time by Kate Monro
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Zoo: or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Shklovsky
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Les Femme des Giles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
Trick by Domenico Starnone
Counting by Jayne Anne Phillips
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Back to Texas by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
(RR) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Giant by Edna Ferber
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
People in Glass Houses by Tanya Levin
Open Up the Doors: Music in the Modern Church by Mark Evans
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Sky Burial by Xinran
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball by Jennifer Ring
Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History by Gai Ingham Berlage
A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball by Jennifer Ring
Bloomer Girls:Women Baseball Pioneers by Debra A. Shattuck
Girls of Summer by Lois Browne
When Women played Hardball by Billie Jean King
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Sleepless Nights by Elisabeth Hardwick
Less by Andrew Sean Green
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Autumn by Ali Smith
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Educated by Tara Westover
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
Heartburn by Norah Ephron
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression by Nell Casey
Thistle Hill: The Cattle Baron’s legacy by Rose McCoy Porter
The Sea Change Elisabeth Jane Howard
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemison
Cowboy Up: The History of Bull riding by Gail Hughbanks Woerner
Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies & Bull Rider by Josh Peter
The Good Women Of China by Xinran
Penguin Japanese Short Stories reader
Florida by Lauren Groff
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Assymmetry by Lisa Halliday
The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
2017
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
The Time of Man by Elizabeth Maddox Roberts
What it Means When A Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Top 40 Democracy by Eric Weisbard
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
So Much for That Winter by Dorothe Nors
The Fundamentals of Extremism edited by Kimberly Blaker
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
I was Wrong by Jim Bakker
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
What is not yours is not yours by Helen Oyeyemi
With God On Our Side by William Martin
More Than I Could Ever Ask by Lori Graham Bakker
Literally show me a Healthy Person by Darcie Wilder
The Balloonists by Eula Bliss
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Startup by Doree Shafir
Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginsberg
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
One Day We’ll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
Too Much and Not in the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
Valley of the Dolls by Jaqueline Susann
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
(RR) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
(RR) All the Living by C. E. Morgan
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Hill by Jean Giono
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
The Blue Fox by Sjon
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
My Struggle Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard
New People by Danzy Senna
My Struggle Book Three by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robinson
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
My Struggle Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgaard
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
My Absolute Darling but Gabriel Talent
My Struggle Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado.
My Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Olive Kitteridge by Elisabeth Strout
Interourse by Andrea Dworkin
A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn
Reckless Daughter by David Yaffe
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
2016
The Narrow Door, by Paul Lisicky
Under the Udula Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta
Baltimore Blues, by Laura Lippman
The Silent Woman, by Slyvia Plath
The Song Machine, by John Seabrook
Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Gilded Razor, by Sam Lansky
Milk & Honey, by Rupi Kaur
Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
After Birth by Elisa Albert
Problems by Jade Sharma
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
The Beauty of the Husband: a fictional essay in 29 tangos by Anne Carson
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
the Way Forward is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Mothers by Britt Bennett
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Girls by Emma Cline
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennet
Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
American Sweethearts by Ilana Nash
I Must Be living Twice by Eileen Myles
The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Citizen by Claudia Rankin
Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Abba Gold by Elisabeth Vincentelli (33 1/3)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Love Story by Erich Segal
Stasiland by Anna Funder
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman