Readings

Mainly books here.
I also keep an incomplete inventory of things.

* recommended

2025, Jan—

Sister Snake, Amanda Lee Koe
A Sabbatical in Leipzig, Adrian Duncan
Knife, Salman Rushdie (nonfiction)*
Kairos, Jenny Erpenbeck
The World After Gaza, Pankaj Mishra (nonfiction)*
The South, Tash Aw
Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico*
Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Not a Novel, Jenny Erpenbeck (nonfiction)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk*
Audition, Katie Kitamura
Tremor, Teju Cole*
Coventry, Rachel Cusk (nonfiction)
Poor Ghost!, Gabriel Flynn
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad (nonfiction)*
The Anthropogists, Ayşegul Savaş*
Walking on the Ceiling, Ayşegul Savaş

2024

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham*
The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa
Drifts, Kate Zambreno
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital, Elisa Hu (nonfiction)
The Lives of Animals, J.M. Coetzee*
Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee*
The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pulman
The Great Reclamation, Rachel Heng*
How to Hunger, Grace Chia*
The Storm We Made, Vanessa Chan
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, in Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading, and Life, George Saunders (manual)*
Long Island, Colm Tóibín - sequel to Brooklyn
The List, Yomi Adegoke
No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-based Eating, Alicia Kennedy (nonfiction)*
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke*
The New Tourist: Waking up to the Power and Perils of Travel, Paige McClanahan (nonfiction)*
The Friend Zone Experiment, Zen Cho
Sidewalks, Valeria Luiselli (nonfiction)
All Fours, Miranda July
Intermezzo, Sally Rooney*
No Judgement, Lauren Oyler
Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell
Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, Katherine Rundell (nonfiction)*
Living Things, Munir Hachemi
The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke*
Intimacies, Katie Kitamura*
Malayland, Dina Zaman (nonfiction)
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

2023

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, Florentyna Leow (nonfiction)
What My Bones Know, Stephanie Foo (nonfiction)*
Matrix, Lauren Groff
Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin*
The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy (nonfiction) - last of the ‘Living Autobiography’ trilogy*
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola to Beyond, Sonia Shah (nonfiction)*
The Women of Troy, Pat Barker
Stay True, Hua Hsu (nonfiction)*
I Want to Die But I Want to eat Tteokpokki, Baek Se-hee (nonfiction)
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Raja Shehadeh (nonfiction)
Language of War, Language of Peace, Raja Shehadeh (nonfiction)*
Golden Apple of the Sun, Teju Cole (photobook)

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