Book List

A complete list of books read, by month

2022

(82 finished, 23 DNF)

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Note: This list includes unfinished books, as long as I read a substantial portion or they made a strong impression

January

• Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
• Bolla by Pajtim Statovci
• A Dream of A Woman by Casey Plett
• Weather by Jenny Offill
• Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
• Memorial by Bryan Washington
• The Beginners by Anne Serre (DNF)
• S.S. Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy (DNF)
• Foucault in Warsaw by Remguez Ryzinski (DNF)
• Heroine by Gail Scott (DNF)
• Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney (DNF)

February

• Harrow by Joy Williams (read 2x)
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• Clara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Invitation to the Bold of Heart by Dorothee Elmiger
• Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre
• Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug (DNF)
• Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol (DNF)
• A Brief History of Yes by Micheline Ahoronian Marcom (DNF)
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Lavery (DNF)

March

• Fra Keeler by Azaleen Van der Vliet Oloomi
• Fragments of An Infinite Memory by Mael Renouard (DNF)

April

• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
• The Earthquake Room by Davey Davis
• Brown Neon by Raquelle Gutierrez
• My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
• Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
• Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

May

• Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
• The White City by Karolina Ramqvist

June

• Hotel du Lac (second read)
• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (DNF)
• The Pisces by Melissa Broder (DNF)
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (DNF)
• Trust by Hernan Diaz (DNF)

July

• The Odyssey by Homer (tr. Emily Wilson)
• Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz
• Tithe by Holly Black
• Hugs and Cuddles by Joao Gilberto Noll
• Valiant by Holly Black
• Ironside by Holly Black
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
• Everybody’s Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
• Assembly by Natasha Brown
• Winter Love by Han Suyin
• The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
• The Wicked King by Holly Black
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
• The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
• How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
• The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

August

• A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich
• Book of Night by Holly Black
• They by Kay Dick
• White Cat by Holly Black
• Red Glove by Holly Black
• Black Heart by Holly Black
• The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly
• LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
• Transit by Anna Seghers
• Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki (DNF)
• We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets (DNF)

September

• Carnality by Lina Wolff
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (DNF)
• Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute (DNF)
• Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun (DNF)
• Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
• Salmon: A Red Herring by Cooking Sections
• Autumn by Ali Smith
• Winter by Ali Smith
• Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay
• Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon
• The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy (DNF this month; still reading)

October

• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• The Left Parenthesis by Muriel Villanueva
• Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (DNF this month; finished 12/22)
• No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
• All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (DNF)
• Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga (DNF this month; finished 12/22)
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (DNF this month; will pick up once library hold returns)

November

• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• Girls, Visions and Everything by Sarah Schulman
• The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio

December

• The Dream Life by Bo Huston
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambert
• White on White by Aysegül Savas
• Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
• Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
• The Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin
• In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
• The Strangers by Jon Bilbao
• The Second Substance by Anne Lardeux (DNF)
• The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata
• Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

2023

(98 finished, 19 DNF)

January

• Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
• Panpocalypse by Carley Moore
• Purple Perilla by Can Xue
• Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
• The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
• Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
• Grievers by adrienne maree brown
• Thieves by Lucie Bryon

February

• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

March

• Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini

April

• Twenty Fragments of A Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
• The Shadow-Boxing Woman by Inka Parei
• The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin
• Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (reread)
• Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (reread)
• The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (reread)

May

• American War by Omar El Akkad
• Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin
• Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
• The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
• Dissipatio H.G. By Guido Morselli
• Ravel by Jean Echenoz
• Maroons by adrienne maree brown
• The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• The Marvellous Equations of the Dread by Marcia Douglas
• Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyomada
• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (DNF this month; finished 6/23)

June

• The Paris Review, Summer 2023
• Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney
• Angel in the Forest by Marguerite Young
• Farewell, Ghosts by Nadia Terranova
• Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
• Diary of A Void by Emi Yagi (DNF)
• The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector (DNF)
• Swann’s Way by Proust
• Speedboat by Renata Adler (DNF)

July

• The Devil in the Hills by Cesare Pavese
• The Bridges by Tarjei Vesaas
• Greek Lessons by Han Kang (DNF)
• Little Fish by Casey Plett
• Kornél Esti by Dezsö Kosztolányi
• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
• A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (DNF)
• The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
• Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
• A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
• A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer
• Naked City edited by Ellen Datlow
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• The Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman (reread)
• My Candlelight Novel by Joanne Horniman
• Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov (DNF)

August

• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Scarlett by Marissa Meyer
• Cress by Marissa Meyer
• Stoner by John Williams
• Winter by Marissa Meyer
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
• Silver in the Woods by Emily Tesh
• Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
• The Green Man edited by Ellen Datlow (DNF yet)
• We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart (DNF)
• Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (DNF)
• The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (reread)
• Misalliance by Anita Brookner
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Spear by Nicola Griffith
• Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
• Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
• Bonjour, Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
• Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

September

• The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
• Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
• Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• The Night Country by Melissa Albert
• L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente
• Arkady by Patrick Langley
• With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst (DNF)
• You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman (DNF)
• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (DNF)

October

• Ice by Anna Kavan
• A Wreath for Udomo by Peter Abrahams
• In the Act by Rachel Ingalls
• Slow River by Nicola Griffith (reread)
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• Devil House by John Darnielle (DNF)
• The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (DNF)
• A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor (DNF)

November

• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
• Gilgamesh by Herbert Mason (reread)
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• The Applicant by Nazli Koca

December

• Blackheart Knights by Laure Eve
• Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz by Bryher
• Harmada by João Gilberto Noll
• Confidences/Majority by Ivan Cheng
• Silver Repetition by Lily Wang
• The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Yara by Tamara Faith Berger
• Under the Wings of the Valkyrie by Sjon
• Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc (DNF this month; finished 1/24)
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (DNF)
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter (DNF)
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (DNF)

2024

January

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
• Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc
• The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
• The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
• Going Alone by Sarah Welch
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

February

• The Details by Ia Genberg
• The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc by Ali Alizadeh (DNF this month)
• Bret Easton Ellis and Other Dogs by Lina Wolff (DNF)
• Persuasion by A.S. Byatt (DNF)

March

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
• The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black
• Ernesto by Umberto Saba
• The Agents by Gregoire Curtois (DNF this month)

April

• Fury by Clyo Mendoza
• Strega by Johanna Lykke Holm
• Short War by Lily Meyer
• The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (in progress)

• Strega by Johanna Lykke HolmApril 26, 2024
  I forgot to post about this one! I finished Strega in early April after a trip to my favorite local bookstore. I love this translator’s work (took the opportunity to… Read more: Strega by Johanna Lykke Holm
• April ReadsApril 25, 2024
  I haven’t been a very good reader this month. My New Year’s Resolution was to read less in 2024 — and instead spend more time out with friends, hiking, and… Read more: April Reads

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