I am a big believer that “you are what you read.” It’s always illuminating for me to learn what other people are reading, and to look back on my own reading over time. Here’s what I’m reading these days.    *2023 Update:  Will get back tracking this soon!           

 

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Recently Read:

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Breasts & Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke

The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Normal People by Sally Rooney

My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen

Open City by Teju Cole

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall

American Bloomsbury, by Susan Cheever

Seeing the Body by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

The Fisher King by Paule Marshall

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair

Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry

Remembering by Wendell Berry

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

The Widow’s Children by Paula Fox

That Distant Land by Wendell Berry

Faith Fox by Jane Gardam

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall

I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

All About Love by bell hooks

Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Human Acts by Han Kang

The White Book by Han Kang

Break of Day by Colette

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

St. Francis of Assisi by GK Chesterton

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson

Lost Empress by Sergio de la Pava

Retreat from Love by Colette

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer

An Ant Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by Adam Phillips

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman

Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan

White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach

The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola

Noonday by Pat Barker

Life Class by Pat Barker

A Stranger’s Pose by Immanuel Iduma

The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch

At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell

The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

On Photography by Susan Sontag

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Old in Art School by Nell Irvin Painter

Walks With Men by Ann Beattie

Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown

The Man Who Walked Away by Maud Casey

Lucky Us by Joan Silber

There There by Tommy Orange

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

 The Art of Mystery by Maud Casey

The Size of the World by Joan Silber

Fools by Joan Silber

Waylaid by Ed Lin

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

What is the What by Dave Eggers

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Sula by Toni Morrison

Improvement Joan Silber

The Wilderness by Sandra Lim

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence by Judith Herman

Redeployment by Phil Klay

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Destructors and Other Stories by Graham Greene

Emily L. by Marguerite Duras

New England White by Stephen L. Carter

Art on My Mind by bell hooks

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection, read by Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, Alfre Woodard, Shirley Booth

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Quartet, by Jean Rhys

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

Communion by bell hooks

You Have the Wrong Man by Maria Flook

Divorce, Dog Style by Maria Flook

The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton , selected and introduced by Anita Brookner

The Reef by Edith Wharton

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall

Hunger: A Memoir by Roxane Gay

The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit

Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow by Peg Alford Pursell

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein

The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

It Occurs to Me That I Am America, editor Jonathan Santlofer

The Accomplished Guest by Ann Beattie

Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Waiting for God by Simone Weil

A Separation by Katie Kitamura

No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Megham Daum

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Revenge: Seven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa

The Pure and the Impure by Colette

NW by Zadie Smith

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

The Association of Small Bombs  by Karan Maharajan

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips

Thérèse et Isabelle by Violette LeDuc

Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang

The Diaries of Anaïs Nin: Vol One

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