Reading

2024

• Making Books: A Guide to Creating Handcrafted Books – London Centre for Book Arts
• People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present – Dara Horn
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century – Kirk Wallace Johnson
• Paradise Rot – Jenny Hval
• The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
• The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Peter Wohlleben
• Capitalism and the Death Drive – Byung-Chul Han
• Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – Cat Bohannon
• Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living – Anne Dufourmantelle
• Douglas Fir: The Story of the West’s Most Remarkable Tree – Stephen F. Arno
• Lapvona – Ottessa Moshfegh

2023

• Fruiting Bodies: Stories – Kathryn Harlan
• The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape – Katie Holten
• Wallenberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Saved the Jews of Budapest – Kati Marton
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann
• Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff – Anthony McCann
• Enchantment: Awaking Wonder in an Anxious Age – Katherine May
• Bi: The Hidden Culture, History of Bisexuality – Julia Shaw
• Hilter’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields – Wendy Lower
• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much – Jen Winston
• Babel: An Arcane History – R.F. Kuang
• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures – Sabrina Imbler
• Women Talking – Miriam Toews
• Block Printing: Techniques for Linoleum and Wood – Sandy Allison
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe
• Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs – Jamie Loftus
• May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future – Chris Martin
• Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother – Peggy O’Donnell Herrington
• Miss Burma – Charmaine Craig
• Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir – Jill Bialosky
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology – David Graeber
• The Shining – Stephen King
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
• Butts: A Backstory – Heather Radke
• Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love – Emily Witt
• A Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power – Katherine Morgan Schafler
• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century – Amia Srinivasan
• The Price of Salt – Patricia Highsmith
• Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll (audiobook)
• I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
• Three Women – Lisa Taddeo
• Severance – Ling Ma

2022

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
• Dracula vs. Hitler – Patrick Sheane Duncan
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town – Jon Krakauer
• The Little Book of Witchcraft – Astrid Carvel
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler – Rebecca Donner
• Inseparable – Simone de Beauvoir
• The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s – Maggie Doherty
• The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory, and Letting Go – Lola Phoenix
• Happy-Go-Lucky – David Sedaris
• Blind Owl – Sedegh Hedayat
• Crooked Hallelujah – Kelli Jo Ford
• Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism – Seyward Darby
• In The Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing – Elena Ferrante
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe
• Play It as It Lays – Joan Didion
• Rainbow Milk – Paul Mendez
• The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• I Was Anastasia – Ariel Lawhon
• The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State – Nadia Murad
• The Lost Daughter – Elena Ferrante

2021

• Mammother – Zachary Schomburg
• Breasts and Eggs – Mike’s Kawasaki
• The Library Book – Susan Orlean
• Luster – Raven Leilani
• The Lost Village – Camilla Sten
• A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam
• Saga: Book Three – Brian K. Vaughan
• Saga: Book Two – Brian K. Vaughan
• Saga: Book One – Brian K. Vaughan
• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy – Jessica Fern
• Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
• The Writing Life – Annie Dillard
• The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson
• Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent – Katherine Angel
• The Great Offshore Grounds – Vanessa Veselka
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
• The Prophets – Robert Jones Jr.
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Watchmen – Alan Moore
• Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer

2020

• Lost Girls – Alan Moore
• Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last – Wright Thompson
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• The Overstory – Richard Powers
• Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson
• The Winter of the Witch – Katherine Arden
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
• The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
• The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• rough house: a memoir – Tina Ontiveros
• Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
• The Girl with the Louding Voice – Abi Daré
• Ariel: The Restored Edition – Sylvia Plath
• Red Clocks – Leni Zumas
• The Girl in the Tower – Katherine Arden
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
• The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante
• Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon – Chuck Palahniuk
• Things I Don’t Want to Know – Deborah Levy
• Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
• Educated – Tara Westover
• The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
• Girl at War – Sara Nović
• The Witches are Coming – Lindy West
• A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin
• Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante
• Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls – T Kira Madden
• A Feast for Crows – George R.R. Martin
• Evan Luna – Isabel Allende
• The Days of Abandonment – Elena Ferrante
• A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
• Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women – Sharon Blackie
• Barrel Fever – David Sedaris
• Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo

2019

• Calypso – David Sedaris
• Drawing Blood – Molly Crabapple
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts – Gary Chapman
• Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind – Annaka Harris
• What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence – Michele Filgate (editor)
• Erosion: Essays of Undoing – Terry Tempest Williams
• Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment – Robert Wright
• A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
• A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
• Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life – Amber Scorah
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide from the My Favorite Murder Podcast – Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark
• True North – Jim Harrison
• V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
• The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit – John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
• Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play – James C. Scott
• The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain
• A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy – Sue Klebold
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls – David Sedaris
• Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 – David Sedaris
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante
• The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante
• My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
• My Squirrel Days – Ellie Kemper
• All About Love – bell hooks
• Cherry – Mary Karr
• The Woman Destroyed – Simone de Beauvoir
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
• Kill All Normies – Angela Nagle
• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruis Zafón
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing