Reading Log
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2024
1. Long Bright River, Liz Moore
2. The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
3. Here After, Amy Lin
4. Some of Us Just Fall, Polly Atkin
5. The Storm We Made, Vanessa Chan
6. Rabbit Heart, Kristine Ervin
7. Mother Doll, Katya Apekina
8. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
10. Personal Score, Ellen van Neerven
11. Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
12. The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty
13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
14. Freshwater, Akwaeke Ezemi
15.The Great Reclamation, Rachel Heng
16. Nonfiction, Julie Myerson
17. Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
18. Come and Get It, Kiley Reid
19. Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino
20. My Husband, Maud Ventura
21. Stay True, Hua Hsu
22. In Memoriam, Alice Winn
23. Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Xochitl Gonzalez
24. Memorial Drive, Natasha Tretheway
25. My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
26. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi
27. Hurricane Girl, Marcy Dermansky
28. We Were the Universe, Kimberly King Parsons
29. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
30. James, Percival Everett
31. Real Americans, Rachel Khong
32. Housemates, Emma Copley Eisenberg
33. The Other Olympians, Michael Waters
34. Unraveling Faculty Burnout, Rebecca Pope-Ruark
35. Henry and June, Anais Nin
36. Loot, Tania James
37. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, Richard Mirabella
38. Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
39. The Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
40. Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter
41. Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
42. College Success for Students on the Autism Spectrum, S. Jay Kuder, Amy Accardo, and John Woodruff
43. God of the Woods, Liz Moore
44. Biography of X, Catherine Lacey
45. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
46. Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
47. The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister
48. True Biz, Sara Novic
49. The House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Laughter, Sonora Jha
51. Liars, Sarah Manguso
52. The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard
53. Madwoman, Chelsea Bieker
54. Opacities, Sofia Samatar
55. Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan
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2023
1. Beyond The Door of No Return, David Diop
2. Black Chalk, Christopher J. Yates
3. Unbearable Lightness, Portia de Rossi
4. Ninth House, Leah Bardugo
5. The Girls, Emma Cline
6. Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor
7. The Men Cannot Be Saved, Ben Purkert
8. What You Become in Flight, Ellen O'Connell Whittet
9. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
10. Chrysalis, Anna Metcalfe
11. The Guest, Emma Cline
12. Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang
13. Good for a Girl, Lauren Fleshman
14. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
15. Fleishman Is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
16. I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
17. Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit
18. I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
19. Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee
20. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman
21. Up To Speed, Christine Yu
22. Everything All At Once, Stephanie Catudal
23. The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor
24. Sift, Alissa Hattman
25. Burn it Down, Maureen Ryan
26. Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
27. Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
29. Running: A Practice, Lauren A. Freeman
30. The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg
31. Worry, Alexandra Tanner
32. All-Night Pharmacy, Ruth Madievsky
33. Idlewild, James Frankie Thomas
34. The Future, Naomi Alderman
35. The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
36. Wellness, Nathan Hill
37. Prodigals, Sarah Beth Childers
38. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
39. Bright Young Women, Jessica Knoll
40. Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
41. The Other Side, Lacy Johnson
42. Bandit, Molly Brodak
43. Molly, Blake Butler
44. Koresh, Stephan Talty
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2022
1. Read Dangerously, Azar Nafisi
2. Shameful Bodies, Michelle Mary Lelwica
3. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
4. Mercy Street, Jennifer Haigh
5. Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
6. The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
7. Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
8. Raising Lazarus, Beth Macy
9. The Raptures, Jan Carson
10. Human Blues, Elisa Albert
11. The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
12. Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
13. Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
14. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
15. Tacky, Rax King
16. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
17. Thank You For Your Service, David Finkel
18. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
19. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
20. Liar, Dreamer, Thief, Maria Dong
21. Pop Song, Larissa Pham
22. The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn R. Saks
2021
1. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, Sonya Huber
2. High Heel, Summer Brennan
3. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
4. Bird, Erik Anderson
5. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes
6. Milk Fed, Melissa Broder
7. The Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan
8. The Guild of the Infant Saviour, Meghan Culhane Galbraith
9. Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
10. Animal, Lisa Taddeo
11. The Life of the Mind, Christine Smallwood
12. Leaving the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
13. Certain and Impossible Events, Candace Opper
14. Places I've Taken My Body, Molly McCully Brown
15. Cultish, Amanda Montell
16. Red, White, & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
17. I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, Claire Vaye Watkins
18. We Keep the Dead Close, Becky Cooper
19. Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
20. Pedro's Theory, Marcos Gonsalez
21. Hades, Argentina, Daniel Loedel
22. Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz
23. The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
24. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
25. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
26. Beartown, Frederick Backman
27. Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings
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2020
1. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli
2. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
3. The Future of Another Timeline, Analee Newitz
4. Too Much, Rachel Vorona Cote
5. Enter the Aardvark, Jessica Anthony
6. The Vegetarian, Han Kang
7. How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee
8. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
9. The Chosen, Chaim Potok
10. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
11. The Whale Caller, Zakes Mda
13. Severance, Ling Ma
14. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
15. Story of My Life, Arnold Ehret
16. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
17. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh
18. Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz
19. Citizen, Claudia Rankine
20. The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
21. Afterland, Lauren Beukes
22. Watching You Without Me, Lynn Coady
23. A Burning, Megha Majumdar
24. Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala
25. Godshot, Chelsea Bieker
26. The Country Under My Skin, Giocanda Belli
27. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, Harriet A. Washington
28. Trace, Lauret Savoy
29. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
30. A Thousand Lives, Julia Scheeres
31. Nature Poem, Tommy Pico
32. Hysteria, Jessica Gross
33. A Woman, A Man, An Outline of a Plan, Sarah Kasbeer
34. Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres
35. Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
36. Big Friendship, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
37. Snake, Erica Wright
38. Temporary, Hilary Leichter
39. The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
40. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Marukami
41. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
42. Spirit Run, Noé Álvarez
43. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults, Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr
44. Real Life, Brandon Taylor
45. Abandon Me, Melissa Febos
46. How Much of These Hills is Gold, C Pam Zhang
47. The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison
48. Like A Bird, Fariha Róisín
2019
1. Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo
2. Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Terry Tempest Williams
3. Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor
4. An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams
5. Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction, ed. B.J. Hollars
6. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward, Mark Lukach
7. Voice Lessons, Nancy Mairs
8. Pieces of White Shell, Terry Tempest Williams
9. Keep It Real, ed. Lee Gutkind
10. The Art of Time in Memoir, Sven Birkets
11. Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Terry Tempest Williams
12. Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot
13. Heavy, Kiese Laymon
14. The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward
15. Leaving the Witness, Amber Scorah
16. The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang
17. Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
18. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
19. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
20. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
21. Far Flung, Cassandra Kircher
22. The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel
23. Everything Happens for a Reason, Kate Bowler
24. Educated, Tara Westover
25. The Body Papers, Grace Talusan
26. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden
27. RX, Rachel Lindsay
28. Epilogue, Will Boast
29. The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin
30. The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma C. Eisenberg
31. The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
32. Once More We Saw Stars, Jayson Greene
33. Notes to Self, Emilie Pine
34. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco
35. The Incendiaries, R.O. Kwon
36. All The Fierce Tethers, Lia Purpura
37. I'm Lying But I'm Telling The Truth, Bassey Ipki
38. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
39. The Magical Language of Others, E.J. Koh
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2018
1. Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood
2. Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
3. Composition and Sustainability, Derek Owens
4. Call Me Zebra, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
5. Rhetoric of Respect: Recognizing Change at a Community Writing Center, Tiffany Rousculp
6. Composition and Sustainability, Derek Owens
7. Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, Weisser & Dobrin (editors)
8. The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young
9. Autobiography, Linda Anderson
10. The Child Who Never Grew, Pearl S. Buck
11. Invisible: A Memoir, Hugues De Montalembert
12. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
13. Carnal Acts, Nancy Mairs
14. The World I Live In, Helen Keller
15. Reading Autobiography, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
16. The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore
17. Where is the Mango Princess?, Cathy Crimmins
18. Blue Nights, Joan Didion
19. Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative, Paul John Eakin
20. Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation, Leigh Gilmore
21. Stitches: A Memoir, David Small
22. Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, Leigh Gilmore
23. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, Nancy Mairs
24. Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing, G. Thomas Couser
25. Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
26. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
27. Too Late To Die Young, Harriet McBryde Johnson
28. Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir, Terry Galloway
29. The Gospel of Trees, Apricot Irving
30. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, Rosemarie Garland Thomson
31. Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography, Susanna Egan
32. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Arthur W. Frank
33. Epileptic, David B.
34. Body, Remember, Kenny Fries
35. The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde
36. A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
37. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole, Mary Seacole
38. The Cry of the Gull, Emmanuelle Laborit
39. The War, Marguerite Duras
40. The History of Mary Prince, Mary Prince
41. Memoir: An Introduction, G. Thomas Couser
42. Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, Susannah B. Mintz
43. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
44. Poverty Creek Journal, Thomas Gardner
45. Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
46. The Me, Without, Jacqueline Raposo
47. The Promised Land, Mary Antin
48. The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability, Susan Wendell
49. Late Air, Jaclyn Gilbert
50. The Answer to the Riddle is Me, David Stuart MacLean
51. Jane, Maggie Nelson
52. The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson
53. Manic: A Memoir, Terri Cheney
54. Let it Bang, RJ Young
55. Lucky, Alice Sebold
56. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay
57. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
58. When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
59. The Hour of Land, Terry Tempest Williams
60. Season of the Body, Brenda Miller
61. What Made Maddy Run, Kate Fagan
62. It's Not Yet Dark, Simon Fitzmaurice
63. Blurring the Boundaries edited by B.J. Hollars
64. Voice Lessons by Nancy Mairs
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2017
1. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
2. Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys
3. The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
4. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
5. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems, Molly McCully Brown
6. Dubliners, James Joyce
7. Blue Front, Martha Collins
8. Bastards of the Reagan Era, Reginald Dwayne Betts
9. The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
10. Look, Solmaz Sharif
11. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka
12. The Dead Wrestler Elegies, W. Todd Kaneko
13. Dance Dance Revolution, Cathy Park Hong
14. The Black Maria, Aracelis Girmay
15. Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
16. Swimming Studies, Leanne Shapton
17. Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
18. Euphoria, Lily King
19. Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins
20. Rock Springs, Richard Ford
21. The Bright Hour, Nina Riggs
22. The Fact of a Body, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
23. The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
24. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
25. All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wild
26. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
27. A Terrible, Beautiful Thing, Jen Waite
28. Beloved, Toni Morrison
29. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
30. Talk Thai, Ira Sukrungruang
31. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
32. Dessa Rose, Shirley Anne Williams
33. Kindred, Octavia Butler
34. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
35. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
36. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
37. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
38. The Unbroken Country, Paisley Rekdal
39. The Glass Eye, Jeannie Vanasco
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2016
1. On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee
2. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
4. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
5. Ghostbread, Sonja Livingston
6. The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
7. A Body, Undone, Christina Crosby
8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
9. Dear Sound of Footstep, Ashley Butler
10. Class A : Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, Lucas Mann
11. Missoula, Jon Krakauer
12. Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
13. Bridge, Robert Thomas
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
15. Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
16. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
17. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
18. Bluets, Maggie Nelson
19. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
20. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
21. Fast Girl, Suzy Favor Hamilton
22. What I Talk About when I Talk About Running, Haruki Marukami
23. The Vacationers, Emma Straub
24. Shake Terribly the Earth, Sarah Beth Childers
25. Running with the Buffaloes, Christopher Lear
26. Black Aperture, Matt Rasmussen
27. When My Brother Was an Aztec, Natalie Diaz
28. Lighthead, Terrance Hayes
29. The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
30. Pretty Good for a Girl, Leslie Heywood
31. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
32. Good Kings Bad Kings, Susan Nussbaum
33. Safekeeping, Abigail Thomas
34. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
35. In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park
36. Good Morning, Midnight, Lily Brooks-Dalton
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2015
1. A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
2. On Immunity: An Inoculation, Eula Biss
3. Pilgrim's Wilderness, Tom Kizzia
4. Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee
5. Born Under an Assumed Name, Sara Taber
6. Motorcycles I've Loved, Lily Brooks-Dalton
7. Held at a Distance, Rebecca Hale
8. Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama
9. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
10. The Residue Years, Mitchell S. Jackson
11. The Night of the Gun, David Carr
12. Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
13. Duel with the Devil, Paul Collins
14. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
15. Revertigo, Floyd Skloot
16. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
17. The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty
18. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
19. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
20. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
21. Without You, There is No Us, Suki Kim
22. Tracks, Robyn Davidson
23. Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
24. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
25. The Listeners, Leni Zumas
26. Graceland, Chris Abani
27. Wedlocked, Jay Ponteri
28. The Other Side, Lacy M. Johnson
29. Wondering Who You Are, Sonya Lea
30. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
31. The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick
32. Bird by Bird, Anne Lammot
33. Among the Thugs, Bill Buford
34. The McDougall Plan, John and Mary McDougall
35. The Meat Racket, Christopher Leonard
36. The Flight of the Iguana, David Quamman
37. I Live on Fruit, Essie Honiball
38. The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
39. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
40. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
41. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
42. Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
43. The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
44. The Lifespan of A Fact, John D'Agata