2023

• Self Help // Lorrie Moore
• The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World // Max Fisher
• Enchanted April // Elizabeth von Arnim
• William Blake vs. the World // John Higgs
• Hark! A Vagrant // Kate Beaton
• Step Aside, Pops // Kate Beaton
• Stay True // Hua Hsu
• Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life // Luke Burgis
• Lonesome Dove // Larry McMurtry
• The Line of Beauty // Alan Hollinghurst
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock // Jenny Odell
• The Savage Detectives // Roberto Bolaño
• A Way of Life, Like Any Other // Darcy O'Brien
• The Land of Short Sentences // Stine Pilgaard
• The Talk // Darrin Bell
• Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black // Cookie Mueller
• Tonight I'm Someone Else // Chelsea Hodson
• Cassandra at the Wedding // Dorothy Baker

2022

• Let Me Tell You What I Mean // Joan Didion
• Stone Fruit // Lee Lan
• We Had a Little Real Estate Problem:The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy // Kliph Nesteroff
• Everybody: A Book About Freedom // Olivia Laing
• On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Restraint // Maggie Nelson
• Harrow // Joy Williams
• Nobody is Talking About This // Patricia Lockwood
• Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden // Mannie Murphy
• Woman Running in the Mountains // Yūko Tsushima
• Alay-Oop // William Gropper
• The End of Forgetting: Growing Up With Social Media // Kate Eichhorn
• Index Cards // Moyra Davey
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy
• Crying in H Mart // Michelle Zauner
• Sleepless Nights // Elizabeth Hardwick
• Exit West // Mohsin Hamid
• Chilean Poet // Alejandro Zama
• Colours // Sheila Heti
• Life After Life // Kate Atkinson
• Half Broke Horses // Jeannette Walls (mom book)
• Interior Chinatown: A Novel // Charles Yu
• Queen of the Ring // Jaime Hernandez
• Life After Life // Kate Atkinson
• Fidelity // Susan Glaspell
• A Visit From the Goon Squad // Jennifer Egan
• Anna Karenina // Tolstoy
• Memed, My Hawk // Yaşar Kema

2021

• How to Think // Alan Jacobs
• The Library Book // Susan Orlean
• The Magic Mountain // Thomas Mann
• Dancing After Ten // Vivian Chong
• Wild Minds // Reid Mitenbuler
• Minor Feelings // Cathy Park Hong
• Mexican Gothic // Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain // George Saunders
• Birds of America: Stories // Lorrie Moore
• The Lying Life of Adults // Elena Ferrante
• Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life // Yiyun Li
• Parable of the Sower // Octavia Butler
• Two Serious Ladies // Jane Bowles
• The Arab of the Future // Riad Sattouf
• Portrait of a Drunk // Ruppert & Mulot
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye // Sonny Liew
• When Watched // Leopoldine Core
• Ducks, Newburyport // Lucy Ellman
• Eight Lane Runaways // Henry McCausland
• The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination // Sarah Schulman
• The Seas // Samantha Hunt
• Madame Bovary // Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis translation
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength // Alison Bechdel
• The Story of a New Name // Elena Ferrante (reread)
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay // Elena Ferrante
• The Story of the Lost Child // Elena Ferrante

GUH another tough year for reading booooooooo

2020

• Trust Exercise // Susan Choi
• The Diver's Game // Jesse Ball
• Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo
• The Hard Tomorrow // Eleanor Davis
• Bttm Fdrs // Ezra Claytah + Ben Passmore
• Open Borders: The Science & Ethics of Immigration // Bryan Caplan + Zack Weinersmith
• The Season: A Social History of the Debutante // Kristen Richardson
• Inside Out: A Memoir // Demi Moore (audiobook)
• Miss Jane // Brad Watson

HOOOOOOO 2020 IS A TOUGH YEAR FOR ME BOOK-WISE WTF ATTENTION SPAN SHOT AND I JUST DON'T READ LIKE I USED TO

• A Moveable Feast // Ernest Hemingway
• The Summer Book // Tove Jansson
• The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks // Toni Tipton-Martin
• Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa // Marilyn Chase
• A Confederacy of Dunces // John Kennedy Toole
• Wuthering Heights // Emily Bronte
• Jane Eyre // Charlotte Bronte
• Rusty Brown // Chris Ware
• Sense & Sensibility // Jane Austen
• American Bloomsbury // Susan Cheever
• Breaking Bread With the Dead // Alan Jacobs

2019

• Listen to the Marriage // John Jay Osborn, Jr
• 20th Century Boy // Duncan Hannah
• Amateur // Thomas Page McBee
• Barracoon // Zora Neale Hurston
• The Jungle // Upton Sinclair
• Digital Minimalism // Cal Newport
• Patch // John McPhee
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 // P. Djéli Clark
• Hotdog Taste Test // Lisa Hanawalt
• If On a Winter's Night a Traveler // Italo Calvino
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays // Esmé Weijun Wang
• Normal People // Sally Rooney
• The Incendiaries // R.O. Kwon
• On a Sunbeam // Tillie Walden
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy // Jenny Odell
• Exhalation // Ted Chiang
• French Exit // Patrick deWitt
• The Castle on Sunset // Shawn Levy
• The Last Boat Out of Shanghai // Helen Zia
• Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem // Dapper Dan
• Life Will Be the Death of Me (audiobook) // Chelsea Handler
• My Sister the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Educated // Tara Westover
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest // Hanif Abdurraqib
• Essays After Eighty // Donald Hall
• Gone Dead // Chanelle Benz
• East of Eden // John Steinbeck
• Mr. Know-It-All (audiobook) // John Waters
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Ocean Vuong
• This Woman's Work // Julie Delporte
• Dominicana // Angie Cruz
• The Structure is Rotten, Comrade // Viken Berberian & Yann Kebbi
• Heating and Cooling // Beth Ann Fennelly
• The Dutch House // Ann Patchett
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead // Olga Tokarczuk
• Reasons to Be Cheerful // Nina Stibbe
• Hot Comb // Ebony Flowers

2018

• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness // Neil Postman
• The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes // Neil Gaiman
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up // Marie Kondo
• The Sandman: The Doll's House // Neil Gaiman
• A Confederacy of Dunces // John Kennedy Toole
• The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes // Various
• Rosalie Lightning // Tom Hart
• Why We Sleep // Matthew Walker, PhD
• No Time to Spare // Ursula Le Guin
• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels // Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik
• Freshwater // Akwaeke Emezi
• Lightning Rods // Helen DeWitt
• Pastoralia // George Saunders
• Watch Me // Angelica Houston (audiobook)
• You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women // Carina Chocano
• Never Let Me Go // Kazuo Ishiguro
• Coach Wooden and Me // Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (audiobook)
• The Fifth Season // N.K. Jemisin
• Just the Funny Parts // Nell Scovell
• Manhattan Beach // Jennifer Egan
• Less // Andrew Sean Greer
• The Cows // Dawn O'Porter
• The Overstory // Richard Powers
• Circe // Madeline Miller
• Motherhood // Sheila Heti
• Trampoline // Robert Gipe
• The Line Becomes a River // Francisco Cantú
• Fresh Off the Boat // Eddie Huang (audiobook)
• Planet Funny // Ken Jennings
• As I Lay Dying // William Faulkner
• Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl // Carrie Brownstein (audiobook)
• Calypso // David Sedaris
• Grand Forks // Marilyn Hagerty
• How Should a Person Be // Sheila Heti
• An Object of Beauty // Steve Martin
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation // Ottessa Moshfegh (reading this and Object back-to-back felt like a ‘double feature’)
• Tell the Machine Goodnight // Katie Williams
• It's Always Something // Gilda Radner (audiobook)
• Mirror, Shoulder, Signal // Dorthe Nors
• All the Answers // Michael Kupperman
• Giovanni's Room // James Baldwin
• The Lonely City // Olivia Laing
• Convenience Store Woman // Sayaka Murata
• Never Too Late // John Holt
• The Friend // Sigred Nunez
• Passing For Human // Liana Flick
• Edie: American Girl // George Plimpton, Jean Stein
• Crudo // Olivia Laing
• The Distance Home // Paula Saunders
• Will Not Attend // Adam Resnick
• You're on an Airplane // Parker Posey
• Sabrina // Nick Drnaso
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger // Rebecca Traister
• Little // Edward Carey
• There There // Tommy Orange
• Feminasty // Erin Gibson
• You & a Bike & a Road // Eleanor Davis
• Priestdaddy // Patricia Lockwood
• Largesse of the Sea Maiden // Denis Johnson
• Winter // Ali Smith

2017

• Born to Run // Bruce Springsteen (audiobook)
• To the Lighthouse // Virginia Woolf
• Zama // Anthonio Di Benedetto
• Up in the Old Hotel // Joseph Mitchell
• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife // Meg Elison
• Strangers in Their Own Land // Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Chicken with Plums // Marjane Satrapi
• The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur // Jean-Claude Ellena
• Commonwealth // Ann Patchett
• Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Mini-comics // Mark Todd & Esther Pearl Watson
• My Mother Was Nuts // Penny Marshall (audiobook)
• 11/22/63 // Stephen King
• A Gentleman in Moscow // Amor Towles
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters // Emil Ferris
• Designing Your Life // Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
• Lincoln at the Bardo // George Saunders
• The Vegetarian // Han Kang
• Sorry to Disrupt the Peace // Patty Yumi Cottrell
• The Handmaid's Tale // Margaret Atwood
• Abstract Comics: The Anthology // Andrei Molotiu
• Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman // Lindy West
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life // William Finnegan
• Something Fresh // P.G. Wodehouse
• Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2001 // David Sedaris
• Art out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries // Dan Nadel
• What It Is // Lynda Barry
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America // Michael Eric Dyson
• Cathedral // Raymond Carver
• Feast of Sorrow // Crystal King
• Over Easy // Mimi Pond
• Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, Fuckups, and Failures // Jennifer Romolini
• Ego is the Enemy // Ryan Holiday
• Homesick for Another World // Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Rules Do Not Apply // Ariel Levy
• Killing and Dying // Adrian Tomine
• 300 Arguments // Sarah Manguso
• Einstein's Dreams // Alan Lightman
• Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens // Eddie Izzard (audiobook)
• Arbitrary Stupid Goal // Tamara Shopsin
• Gilead // Marilynne Robinson
• Chemistry // Weike Wang
• The New Analog // Damon Krukowski
• The Sellout // Paul Beatty
• What We Lose // Zinzi Clemmons
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life // Samantha Irby
• Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls // David Sedaris

2016

• Speedboat // Renata Adler
• Motherless Brooklyn // Jonathan Lethem
• A Manual for Cleaning Women // Lucia Berlin
• Rain: A Natural and Cultural History // Cynthia Barnett
• Religion for Atheists // Alain de Botton
• Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink // Elvis Costello (audiobook)
• Superbetter // Jane McGonigal
• Le Freak // Nile Rodgers
• Citizen // Claudia Rankine
• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? // Roz Chast
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time // Mark Haddon (audiobook)
• The Battle of Versailles // Robin Givhan
• Burning Bright // John Steinbeck
• I Like You Just The Way I Am // Jenny Mollen
• After the Quake // Haruki Murakami
• Eve's Hollywood // Eve Babitz
• I Was a Child // Bruce Eric Kaplan
• Cannery Row // John Steinbeck
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City // Matthew Desmond
• Patience // Daniel Clowes
• My Father, the Pornagrapher: A Memoir // Chris Offutt
• A Wrinkle in Time // Madeline L'Engle (audiobook)
• The Arrival // Shaun Tan
• Devil in the White City // Erik Larson
• The Red Parts // Maggie Nelson
• The Testament of Mary (AUDIOBOOK READ BY MERYL FUCKIN' STREEP) // Colm Tóibín
• Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. // Rob Delaney (audiobook)
• My Brilliant Friend // Elena Ferrante
• Story of a New Name // Elena Ferrante
• Imagine Me Gone // Adam Haslett
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work // Mason Currey
• The Invention of Morel // Adolfo Bioy Casares
• This One Summer // Jillian and Mariko Tamaki
• Tenth of December // George Saunders
• M Train // Patti Smith
• Girl in Dior // Annie Goetzinger
• Shoplifting From American Apparel // Tao Lin
• Watership Down // Richard Adams (audiobook)
• I Triggered My Bully // Cindy Caponera
• You'll Grow Out of It // Jessi Klein
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs // Sara Benicasa

2015

• Station Eleven // Emily St. John Mandel
• The Corrections // Johnathan Franzen
• Hyperbole and a Half // Allie Brosh
• Love's Executioner // Irvin D. Malcom
• Bad Feminist // Roxane Gay
• Getting Things Done // David Allen
• Youth in Revolt // C.D. Payne
• The Stranger // Albert Camus
• God, I Don't Even Know Your Name // Andrea McGinty
• Do the Work // Steven Pressfield
• Dancer of the Dance // Andrew Holleran
• The Little Prince // Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Men Explain Things to Me // Rebecca Solnit
• Green River Killer // Jeff Jensen
• Steal Like An Artist // Austin Kleon
• Gracie: A Love Story // George Burns
• Plainsong // Kent Haruf
• H is for Hawk // Helen Macdonald
• Department of Speculation // Jenny Offill
• The Stench of Honolulu // Jack Handey
• Dune // Frank Herbert
• Our Souls at Night // Kent Haruf
• Born Standing Up // Steve Martin
• Beautiful Ruins // Jess Walter
• Yes Please // Amy Poehler
• Perverse Optimist // Tibor Kalman
• Garlic and Sapphires // Ruth Reichl
• The Executioner's Song // Norman Mailer
• Fun Home // Allison Bechdel
• The Sympathizer // Viet Thanh Nguyen
• My Struggle // Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Argonauts // Maggie Nelson
• Negroland // Margo Jefferson
• Life // Keith Richards
• Ongoingness: The End of a Diary // Sarah Manguson
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed // Jon Ronson
• The Folded Clock: A Diary // Heidi Julavits
• Between the World and Me // Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. // Viv Albertine
• Hold Still // Sally Mann