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mysymmetry · 7 years ago

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What I’ve read so far this year… Update: April 15th MAY 8th June 2 AUGUST 2 AUGUST 22

READ SO FAR:

Desire, Haruki Murakami

Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

The Six Pack: Winning Writing from New Zealand

The Six Pack Two

Night Fishing, Brian Turner

Beautiful Scars, Tom Wilson

*I Hear She’s a Real Bitch, Jen Agg

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso

The Best American Essays 2017, ed. Leslie Jamison

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby

Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang

Neon in Daylight, Hermione Hoby

The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed

The Best American Essays 2009, ed. Mary Oliver

The Best American Poetry 2016, ed. Edward Hirsch

Meaty, Samantha Irby

Women, Chloe Caldwell

Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday

Not That Bad, ed. Roxane Gay

You are a Badass, Jen Sincero

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

The Festival of Insignificance, Milan Kundera

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh

Under the Keel, Michael Crummey

HAVE ON THE SHELF:

Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee

M Train, Patti Smith

Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson

Decreation, Anne Carson

Eye Level, Jenny Xie

Certain American States, Catherine Lacey

Motherhood, Sheila Heti

Bright Dead Things, Ada Limon

Hard Light, Michael Crummey

Starvation Mode, Elissa Washuta

Women Talking, Miriam Toews

STILL TO READ:

Inadvertent, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Wade in the Water, Tracy K Smith

Insane, Rainald Goetz

Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison

Through Clenched Teeth (Triangle House incl. Sarah Manguso)

Educated, Tara Westover

Call Me Zebra, Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi

Let’s No One Get Hurt, Jon Pineda

Spring Garden, Tomoka Shibasaki

On Suicide, David Hume

The Beautiful and Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald

Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, ed. Haruki Murakami

Hard Child, Natalie Shapero

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir, Marina Abramovic

Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, Elizabeth McCracken

The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide

The Accidental Memoir, Eve Makis and Anthony Cropper

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mysymmetry · 7 years ago

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What I’ve read so far this year…

Update: April 15th MAY 8th June 2 AUGUST 2 AUGUST 22 October 22 Nov 12 Nov 27 Dec 8 Dec 29

READ SO FAR:

Desire, Haruki Murakami

Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

The Six Pack: Winning Writing from New Zealand

The Six Pack Two

Night Fishing, Brian Turner

Beautiful Scars, Tom Wilson

*I Hear She’s a Real Bitch, Jen Agg (because Jen Agg is an inspiration)

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

*I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso

The Best American Essays 2017, ed. Leslie Jamison

*We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby (because it’s hilarious)

Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang

Neon in Daylight, Hermione Hoby

The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed

The Best American Essays 2009, ed. Mary Oliver

The Best American Poetry 2016, ed. Edward Hirsch

Meaty, Samantha Irby

Women, Chloe Caldwell

Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday

*Not That Bad, ed. Roxane Gay (because this book has the most diverse set of voices, all of which I (and I believe we need to) connect to)

You are a Badass, Jen Sincero

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

The Festival of Insignificance, Milan Kundera

*My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh (because the sublime, and the black spaces of our minds are fascinating)

Under the Keel, Michael Crummey

*Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (because Northern Italy and romance)

Red Notice, Bill Browder

Boundless, Kathleen Winter

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Sarah Wilson

Naked, David Sedaris

Starvation Mode, Elissa Washuta

Sabrina, Nick Drnaso

*When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi (because it asks the question: given different lengths of your life, what would you do with it, yourself?)

Griffin Poetry Prize 2018 Anthology, ed. Ian Williams

(re-read) The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits

The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick

Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom (39)

Educated, Tara Westover

She Wants It, Jill Soloway

Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick

I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron

HAVE ON THE SHELF:

The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide

Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson

Setting the Table, Danny Meyer

Theory, Dionne Brand

Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck

Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee