Favorites in bold.
Updated October 2, 2022
2022
The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V Johnson
Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
So Many Olympic Exertions by Anelisa Chen
The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
The House of Vlad No Frills Sampler #1
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Rave by Jessica Campbell
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Girl at War by Sara Nović
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff
Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite
Open Me by Lisa Locascio
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
Guestbook: Stories by Leanne Shapton
All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
2021
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat
Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick (re-read)
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
O Beautiful by Jung Yun
Trust by Domenico Starnone
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Snowflake by Louise Nealon
A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan
Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
The Other Black Girl by Dalila Zakiya Harris
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Severance by Ling Ma
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Wayward by Dana Spiotta
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Justine by Forsyth Harmon
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Secret Talker by Geling Yan
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Magician King by Lev Grossman (re-read)
There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
Drifts by Kate Zambreno
The Dog of the Marriage: Stories by Amy Hempel
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello
Jillian by Halle Butler
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu
Want by Lynn Steger Strong
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F Saad
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Hold the Dark by William Giraldi
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Wynter K Miller 