Reading Log
Books only.
2022
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, Maggie Nelson
Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
Island in the City, Micah McCrary
Devotion, Dani Shapiro
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, Rivka Galchen
Pop Song, Larissa Pham
The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretal Ehlrich
Taipei, Tao Lin (after reading Trip and Leave Society in 2021)
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
A Body, Undone, Christina Crosby
My Body, Emily Ratajkowski
The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym
The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project, David A. Jolliffe, et al.
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, Robert Wuthnow
Jacket Weather, Mike DeCapite
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of the World, Daniel Sherrell (did not finish but may return to)
Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart
Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
Vladimir, Julia May Jonas
A Life’s Work, Rachel Cusk
Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz
The Unreality of Memory, Elisa Gabbert
The Truth About Stories, Thomas King
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, Brad Listi
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, José Esteban Muñoz
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon (for the second time)
Winter in the Blood, James Welch
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (did not finish but may return to)
Heartbroke, Chelsea Bieker
Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, Tara McPherson
Reward System, Jem Calder
Post-traumatic, Chantal V. Johnson
The Novelist, Jordan Castro
Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
Cowboys and East Indians, Nina McConigley
Bad Thoughts, Nada Alic
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Checkout 19, Claire-Louise Bennett
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Wilder, Claire Wahmanholm
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn’t Build for us, Alison Mariella Désir
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, Angela Garbes
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
The Fifth Vital Sign, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
She Is Haunted, Paige Clark
Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
Playing Indian, Philip J. Deloria
2023
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
Popular Longing, Natalie Shapero
Dog Flowers, Danielle Geller
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté (did not finish but may return to)
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin
Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature, Jennifer K. Ladino
Hill Women, Cassie Chambers
White Magic, Elissa Washuta (did not finish but may return to)
The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage
Heaven is a Place On Earth, Adrian Shirk
Transformed by Birth, Britta Bushnell
Human Abstract, Karl Parker
Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (slowly, returning to some essays for second, third, or fourth time)
The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy
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