Reading List
Like many people, I find myself pulled into browsing online, but I prefer spending my time inside the covers of a book. Here’s what I’ve been reading during the last few years.
2018
Improvement, Joan Silber (novel)
No Time to Spare, Ursula K. Le Guin (essays)
Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins (novel)
Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman (novel)
The Bright Hour, Nina Riggs (memoir)
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sachs, and Me, Bill Hayes (memoir)
Every Atom, Erin Coughlin Hollowell (poetry)
Catapult, Emily Fridlund (stories)
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli (essays)
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (novel)
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, Gish Jen (essays)
Troublesome Minds, Dave Galanter (novel)
Dear Cyborgs, Eugene Lim (novel)
Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke (novel)
My Education, Susan Choi (novel)
Voices from Another Place, ed. Susan Soon-Keum Cox (essays)
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler (novel)
Waking Up White, Debby Irving (memoir)
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (novel)
2017
Conversations with Octavia Butler, ed. Conseula Francis (interviews)
Negroland, Margo Jefferson (memoir)
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, Kathleen Collins (stories)
Cake Time, Siel Ju (stories)
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (stories)
Empathy, Sarah Schulman (novel)
I Curse the River of Time, Per Petterson (novel)
Fledgling, Octavia Butler (novel)
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Sarah Schulman (essays)
The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit (essays)
When Watched, Leopoldine Core (stories)
The Kite and the String, Alice Mattison (essays)
This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann (novel)
The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic, David Shenk (history)
Mislaid, Nell Zink (novel)
The Selfishness of Others, Kristin Dombek (essays)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast (cartoon memoir)
The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks (novel)
The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis (novel)
The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud (novel)
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Dani Shapiro (memoir)
‘night, Mother, Marsha Norman (play)
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (play)
The Person with Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathways to Understanding the Experience, ed. Phyllis Braudy Harris (essays)
The Evening of the Holiday, Shirley Hazzard (novel)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End, Atul Gawande (narrative non-fiction)
Cliffs of Fall, Shirley Hazzard (stories)
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett (novel)
Baby’s On Fire, Liz Prato (stories)
The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time, Jonathan Kozol (memoir)
Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid (novel)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (stories)
White Light, Vanessa Garcia (novel)
A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr (novel)
Yesterday’s Son, A. C. Crispin (novel)
The Misfit’s Manifesto, Lidia Yuknavitch (essays)
Mean, Myriam Gurba (memoir)
2016
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng (novel)
The Lowlands, Jhumpa Lahiri (novel)
Egg Heaven, Robin Parks (stories)
The Wizard of Oz, Salman Rushdie (history)
On Elizabeth Bishop, Colm Toibin (essays)
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novel)
El drama del niño dotado, Alice Miller (psychology)
Leonard, William Shatner (biography)
Look Who’s Morphing, Tom Cho (stories)
The Pleasing Hour, Lily King (novel)
When Are You Coming Home?, Bryn Chancellor (stories)
Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Charles Blow (memoir)
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland (essays)
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (essays)
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill (novel)
The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller (psychology)
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (psychology)
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (novel)
Station Eleven, Hilary St. John Mandel (novel)
The Fun Stuff, James Wood (essays)
Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett (novel)
John, Annie Baker (play)
Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler (play)
M Train, Patti Smith (memoir)
The Barbarian Nurseries, Hector Tobar (novel)
The Seven Stages of Anger, Wendy J. Fox (stories)
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar (play)
My Life as an Animal, Laurie Stone (stories)
Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli (novel)
Bloodchild, Octavia Butler (stories)
Now We Will Be Happy, Amina Gautier (stories)
Heartless, Sam Shepherd (play)
The God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza (play)
Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill (play)
Property, Valerie Martin (novel)
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood (novel)
Dawn, Octavia Butler (first novel in Xenogenesis trilogy)
Childhood Rites, Octavia Butler (second novel in trilogy)
Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler, Florian Bast (academic study)
Imago, Octavia Butler (third novel in trilogy)