2025
Fiction
Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather #
Exhalation: Stories, by Ted Chiang
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
Fortune Smiles, by Adam Johnson
dem, by William Melvin Kelley
Dengue Boy, by Michael Nieva
Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan
Knockemstiff, by Donald Ray Pollock
Normal People, by Sally Rooney #
Teenager, by Bud Smith
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong #
Non-Fiction
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, by Mircea Eliade
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, by Neil Theise
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong
Other
The Iliad, by Homer (trans. by Robert Fagles)
The River Twice: Poems, by Kathleen Graber
The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems, by Yusef Komunyakaa
Sixty Poems, by Charles Simic
# = re-read
2024
Fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar
Room Temperature, by Nicholson Baker
A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
Big Swiss, by Jen Beagin
Molloy, by Samuel Beckett
Amulet, by Roberto Bolaño
By Night in Chile, by Roberto Bolaño #
The Material, by Camille Bordas
The New Me, by Halle Butler
Cecilia, by K-Ming Chang
My Education, by Susan Choi
The Bradshaw Variations, by Rachel Cusk
Early Sobrieties, by Michael Deagler
Running Dog, by Don Delillo
Some Trick, by Helen DeWitt
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, by Mathias Énard
Getting Lost, by Annie Ernaux
Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Space Invaders, by Nona Fernández
Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert
Cosmos, by Witold Gombrowicz
Mysteries, by Knut Hamsun
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer
Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiskadoro, by Denis Johnson
Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson #
Vladimir, by Julia May Jonas
All Fours, by Miranda July
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka
Foster, Claire Keegan
Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang
Red Pill, by Hari Kunzru *
The Maniac, by Benjamin Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut #
Us Fools, by Nora Lange
Luster, by Raven Leilani
Changing Places, by David Lodge
The Group, by Mary McCarthy
Evening, by Susan Minot
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
The Bell, by Iris Murdoch
Ada, or Ardor, by Vladimir Nabokov
Acts of Desperation, by Megan Nolan
Weather, by Jenny Offill
Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara
The Freedom Artist, by Ben Okri
Alien Stories, by E.C. Osondu
The Moon and the Bonfires, by Cesare Pavese
The Garbage Times/White Ibis, by Sam Pink
Normal People, by Sally Rooney #
Glaxo, by Hernán Ronsino
Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater, by Philip Roth
The Dominant Animal: Stories by Kathryn Scanlan
Other Minds and Other Stories, by Bennett Sims
Adele, by Leila Slimani
The Blizzard, by Vladimir Sorokin
All Days Are Night, by Peter Stamm
It's Getting Dark, by Peter Stamm
Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout
The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk
Rejection, by Tony Tulathimutte
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, by Isabel Waidner
Apartment, by Teddy Wayne
Loner, by Teddy Wayne
The Great Man Theory, by Teddy Wayne
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf #
Chilean Poet, by Alejandro Zambra
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
Non-Fiction
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, by David Abram
The Wisdom Of The Spanish Mystics, by Stephen Clissold
Mysticism, by Simon Critchley
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison
Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom, by Pam Houston
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, by Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity, by Daniel Mendelsohn
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, by Daniel Mendelsohn
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, by D.W. Pasulka #
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences, by D.W. Pasulka
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
Waves in the Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean, by Matt Strassler
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief, by James Wood
Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion, by Benjamin E. Zeller
Other
Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
# = re-read