--non-fic--

biographies + memoirs

• Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee
• Modern Nature, Derek Jarman
• Heavy, Kiese Laymon
• The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
• Into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
• The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
• London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Books)
• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
• Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas, Donna M. Lucey
• By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair
• Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
• The Autobiography of Malcom X
• My Wars Are Laid Away in Book: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
• Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordst...

• Public Library by Ali Smith
• All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
• Ultramarine by Raymond Carver
• The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith
• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
• Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist by mónica teresa ortiz
• Chimes of a Lost Cathedral by Janet Fitch
• Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
• The Girl from the Metropol Hotel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. Anna Summers
• The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Children of the Land by Marcelo Castillo ...

States

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman (reread)
• Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré
• The Journey by Sergio Pitol, trans. by George Henson
• Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 by Marina Tsvetaeva, ed. & trans. by Jamey Gambrell
• Conversations with Joseph Brodsky by Solomon Volkov, trans. by Marian Schwartz
• LOTE by Shola von Reinhold*
• Normal People by Sally Rooney*
• France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb*
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
• Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh*

• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
• The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
• The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
• The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Years by Annie Ernaux, trans. Alison L. Strayer
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, trans. Chris Andrews
• My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman, trans. Corina Copp
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Mean, Myriam Gurba
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
• Beyond the Pale, Elana Dykewomon
• The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
• The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
• Orlando, Virginia Woolf
• Wise Children, Angela Carter
• Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
• Marlena, Julie Buntin
• Don't Call Us Dead, Danez Smith
• Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg
• The Parasites, Daphne Du Maurier
• Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
• Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• Marian, Ella Lyons
• Upstream, Mary Oliver
• Inventing the Truth: the Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinser

• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (reread)
• Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
• Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
• Inferno, Eileen Myles
• If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, Jaye Robin Brown
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
• On Beauty, Zadie Smith
• Wild Swans, Jessica Spotswood
• The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson
• Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Alice Walker

• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
• Cherry, Mary Karr
• Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
• The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
• Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
• Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion
• The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
• This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
• Lit, Mary Karr
• Just Kids, Patti Smith
• Wildlife, Fiona Wood
• The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit

• Silence by Shūsaku Endō, trans. by William Johnston
• A Fortune For Your Disaster: Poems by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Country Music: Poems by Chelsea Harlan
• The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
• Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson
• Companions by Christina Hesselholdt, trans. by Paul Russell Garrett
• Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
• Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (reread)
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer
• Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard*
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages ...

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (reread)
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich
• My Ántonia, Willa Cather
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan
• The Penderwicks At Last, Jeanne Birdsall
• An Atlas of the Difficult World, Adrienne Rich
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
• Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl & Max Ritvo
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro
• Florida, Lauren Groff
• The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Passing, Nella Larsen

• The Liars' Club, Mary Karr
• We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
• Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, Dorothy Allison
• Bark, Lorrie Moore
• Isla and the Happily Ever After, Stephanie Perkins
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling (reread)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling (reread)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
• The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater
• Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle
• The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
• Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
• Music for Wartime, Rebecca Makkai
• Gossip of the Starlings, Nina de Gramont
• Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories, Garrison Keillor