What I’m Reading

CURRENTLY READING:

Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy

PREVIOUSLY:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

2025

The Outfit by Richard Stark
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Book of Dolores by William T. Vollmann
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Flesh by David Szalay
He Died with His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
Suder by Percival Everett
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
Again, Harder by Alice Stoehr
The Conversions by Harry Mathews
Theory of the Novel by György Lukács
Jack the Modernist by Robert Gluck
Motorman by David Ohle
The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
Climbers by M. John Harrison
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
All Girls Be Mine Alone by Sophie Strohmeier
Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair
The Atlas by William T. Vollmann
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (reread)
Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
The Rehearsals by Vladimir Sharov
Animal Stories by Kate Zambreno
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky
Picture by Lillian Ross
The Barbarous Coast by Ross MacDonald
Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo
Hollywood’s Censor by Thomas Doherty
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
The Queen’s Ball by Copi
Lucinella by Lore Segal
Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
City of Nets by Otto Friedrich
Make Your Own Job by Erik Baker
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
Woodworking by Emily St. James
The Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey
The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness by Michael Koresky
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Aggregated Discontent by Harron Walker
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
Hot Girls With Balls by Benedict Nguyễn
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
Herculine by Grace Byron
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno
Sick Houses by Leila Taylor
Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia
Uncanny Valley Girls by Zefyr Lisowski
Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager
Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Worsted by Garielle Lutz
Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
On Photography by Susan Sontag
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro
Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy
My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell
Company by Shannon Sanders
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ
The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya

2024

Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
Reading Chekhov by Janet Malcolm
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
An Honest Woman by Charlotte Shane
It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over by Anne De Marcken
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
The Hunter by Richard Stark
Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
Mysticism by Simon Critchley
Set My Heart On Fire by Izumi Suzuki
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
The Pure and the Impure by Colette
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Three Month Fever by Gary Indiana
The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel
Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Salvador by Joan Didion
Napkin by Carta Monir
An Image of My Name Enters America by Lucy Ives
A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold
Ripcord by Nate Lippens
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
Vivian’s Ghost by Hal Schrieve
Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. Clover
Run River by Joan Didion
More, Please by Emma Specter
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman
Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Girl in the World by Caroline Cash
Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich
Bad Houses by John Elizabeth Stintzi
The White Album by Joan Didion (reread)
Our Aesthetic Categories by Sianne Ngai
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
Deed by torrin a. greathouse
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
Light Years by James Salter
Hollywood’s Eve by Lili Anolik
PTSD Radio Vol. 2 by Masaaki Nakayama
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
Peepee Poopoo (all vols.) by Caroline Cash
Boy Island by Leo Fox
When Monsters Speak by Susan Stryker
All Fours by Miranda July
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief by Lindsay Brandon Hunter
Status and Culture by W. David Marx
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Corpses, Fools, and Monsters by Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Birds of America by Mary McCarthy
PTSD Radio Vol. 1 by Masaaki Nakayama
Europeana by Patrik Ouředník
Breaking the Curse by Alex DiFrancesco
About Looking by John Berger
LSBN by Emma Jayne
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (reread)
Sleepaway Camp by BJ & Harmony Colangelo
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
The Long Hallway by Richard Scott Larson
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Friendship by Emily Gould
Mrs. S by K. Patrick
The Weir by Conor McPherson
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
Mating by Norman Rush
All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld
Birds by Aristophanes
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Notice by Heather Lewis
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr
Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury
Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski
Savage Appetites by Rachel Munroe
L.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
W-3 by Bette Howland
The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
A Short History of Transmisogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
Paradise by Toni Morrison
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
Trouble on Triton by Samuel Delany
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Period by Dennis Cooper
In Universes by Emet North
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel
School by Isabel Pabán Freed (reread)
The Bell by Iris Murdoch

2023

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Oasis by Mary McCarthy
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
The Pervert by Remy Boydell & Michelle Perez
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Possession by Annie Ernaux
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
Gone Tomorrow by Gary Indiana
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner
Tremor by Teju Cole
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Guide by Dennis Cooper
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
School by Isabel Pabán Freed
Girlfriends by Emily Zhou
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
Working Girl by Sophia Giovannitti
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
The Incal by Jodorowsky & Moebius
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Negative Space by B.R. Yeager
Girl Juice by Benjy Nate
Hold Still by Sally Mann
Deviant by Harold Schechter
Penance by Eliza Clark
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
Fire Season by Gary Indiana
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits
Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy & Toshio Meronek
Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
People Collide by Isle McElroy
Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Try by Dennis Cooper
Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Neressian
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
Autoportrait by Jesse Ball
Loudermilk by Lucy Ives
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
The Girl from the Other Side, Book 1 by Nagabe
Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
Ghost Image by Hervé Guibert
Stemmy Things by Imogen Xtian Smith
Miami by Joan Didion
Ararat by Louise Gluck
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse

2022

Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Float by Anne Carson
Some Animal by Ely Shipley
Crush by Richard Siken
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc
A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (reread)
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Participation by Anna Moschovakis
Narrow Rooms by James Purdy
The Terrible We by Cameron Awkward-Rich
The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Life is Everywhere by Lucy Ives
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Stay True by Hua Hsu
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Divorcing by Susan Taubes
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
The Vagabond by Colette
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
Happening by Annie Ernaux
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
Sex Is As Sex Does by Paisley Currah
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
Gossip Girl Fan Novella by Charlie Markbreiter
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Journal by Katherine Mansfield
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (reread)
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
Suite Vénitienne by Sophie Calle
The Arena of the Unwell by Liam Konemann
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose
Little Rabbit By Alyssa Songsiridej
Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
Democracy by Joan Didion
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (reread)
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
Berlin’s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Memorial by Alice Oswald
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Panpocalypse by Carley Moore
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
John by Annie Baker (reread)
X by Davey Davis
Body Awareness by Annie Baker
Skyland by Andrew Durbin
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Normal People by Sally Rooney (reread)
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
Fire Island by Jack Parlett
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Carrie by Stephen King (reread)
Nevada by Imogen Binnie (reread)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Refuse to be Done by Matt Bell
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm
Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Side Affects by Hil Malatino
The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
Weight of the Earth by David Wojnarowicz
The Men by Sandra Newman
The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Cinema Stories by Alexander Kluge
The Power by Naomi Alderman (reread)
N.B. by Charlotte Shane
Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
They by Kay Dick
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (reread)
A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
Address Book by Sophie Calle
Devil House by John Darnielle
MacArthur Park by Andrew Durbin
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Swamp Thing Vol. 2 by Alan Moore
Trans Girl Suicide Museum by Hannah Baer
Bee Reaved by Dodie Bellamy
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
The Black Emerald by Jeanne Thornton
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Lust by Susan Minot
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Trash by Dorothy Allison
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (reread)
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

2021

Bear by Marian Engel
Suicide by Édouard Levé
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (reread)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Group by Mary McCarthy
A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric Larocca
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Family & Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Trees by Percival Everett
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Plague by Albert Camus
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (reread)
Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Telephone by Percival Everett
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
Awake by Harald Voetmann
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
The Things We’ve Seen by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
The Literary Conference by César Aira
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
G. by John Berger
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
The Drunkard by Liu Yichang
Dissipatio H.G. by Guido Morselli
Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán
Natural History by Carlos Fonseca
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
Nervous System by Lina Meruane
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (reread)
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Years by Annie Ernaux
10:04 by Ben Lerner (reread)
After Delores by Sarah Schulman
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Tiny Pieces of Skull by Roz Kaveney
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård
Marshlands by André Gide
The Pastel City by M. John Harrison
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (reread)
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Surrender by Veronica Esposito
A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa
The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy
A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa
An Archive of Feelings by Ann Cvetkovich
From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Children of Men by P.D. James
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Index Cards by Moyra Davey
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Darryl by Jackie Ess
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
Luster by Raven Leilani
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alex Nemerov
Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Crash by J.G. Ballard
This is Not a Novel by David Markson
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (reread)
That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
Libra by Don Delillo
The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck
Like by Ali Smith
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck
The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis
Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
How to be a Good Girl by Jamie Hood
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
You Only Live Twice by Mike Hoolboom & Chase Joynt
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

PLAYS:

Herakles by Euripides
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
John by Annie Baker
The Flick by Annie Baker
Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
The Aliens by Annie Baker
Nocturama by Annie Baker
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
The Small by Anne Washburn
Rock ‘n Roll by Tom Stoppard
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
The Antipodes by Annie Baker
Red by John Logan
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner

2020

Zama by Antonio di Benedetto
The Book of Unconformities by Hugh Raffles
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
W, or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
Syzygy, Beauty by T Fleischmann
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Tomb Song by Julian Herbert
Blue Light of the Screen by Claire Cronin
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert
Sorting Facts, Or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker by Susan Howe
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez
The Leftovers by Shaelyn Smith
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (reread)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
The House on the Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Soul by Andrei Platonov
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado & Dani & Tamra Bonvillain
Fra Keeler by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
The Silence by Don Delillo
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Little Blue Encylcopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
My Education by Susan Choi
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Exposition by Nathalie Léger
My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Summer by Ali Smith
Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez
Four by Four by Sara Mesa
The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross
Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
I Hold a Wolf By the Ears by Laura Van Den Berg
The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The Need by Helen Phillips
Clear by Nicola Barker
The Appendix Project by Kate Zambreno
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
Cool for America by Andrew Martin
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Hotel World by Ali Smith
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf by Kathryn Davis
Early Work by Andrew Martin
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Melancholy by Jon Fosse
Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
Welcome to America by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
Eros, The Bittersweet by Anne Carson
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (reread)
Drifts by Kate Zambreno
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov (reread)
Will & Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad
Recitation by Bae Suah
Ice by Anna Kavan
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
The Companions by Katie M. Flynn
Machine by Susan Steinberg
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
Last Things by Jenny Offill
Hurrican Season by Fernanda Melchor
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
Junebat by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
A Primer for Forgetting by Lewis Hyde
b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa
The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Transit by Rachel Cusk
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel Delany
Outline by Rachel Cusk (reread)
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Nocilla Experience by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Nocilla Dream by Agustín Fernández Mallo
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (reread)
Blockade Diary by Lidiya Ginzburg
Weather by Jenny Offill
Open City by Teju Cole
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (reread)
Orpheus by Jean Cocteau
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (reread)
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić
Calamities by Renee Gladman
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Uzumaki by Juni Ito