Here’s what I’ve been reading recently.
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fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2023
Bunny — Mona Awad2019
If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin1974
On the Calculation of Volume I — Solvej Balle2022
Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino1972
The Stranger — Albert Camus1942
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — Raymond Carver1981
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — Michael Chabon2000
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union — Michael Chabon2007
The Netanyahus — Joshua Cohen2021
Trust — Hernan Diaz2022
Play It As It Lays — Joan Didion1970
The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoevsky1867
Less Than Zero — Bret Easton Ellis1985
A Simple Passion — Annie Ernaux1991
The Years — Annie Ernaux2008
James — Percival Everett2024
My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante2011
Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff2015
Matrix — Lauren Groff2021
The Vaster Wilds — Lauren Groff2023
The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson1962
All Fours — Miranda July2024
Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan2021
So Late in the Day — Claire Keegan2023
I Love Dick — Chris Kraus1997
The Möbius Book — Catherine Lacey2024
Death in Venice — Thomas Mann1912
The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann1924
North Woods — Daniel Mason2023
Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy1985
Ninety-Two in the Shade — Thomas McGuane1973
The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller2011
Paradise Lost — John Milton1667
The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen2015
White Is for Witching — Helen Oyeyemi2009
Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters2021
Stag Dance — Torrey Peters2024
Phaedrus — Platoc. 370 BCE
Republic — Platoc. 380 BCE
Gravity’s Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon1973
Ant Farm — Simon Rich2007
Free Range Chickens — Simon Rich2008
Gilead — Marilynne Robinson2004
Mating — Norman Rush1991
Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger1953
Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev1862
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain1885
Rabbit, Run — John Updike1960
Miss Lonelyhearts — Nathanael West1933
The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton1920
House of Mirth — Edith Wharton1905
Harlem Shuffle — Colson Whitehead2021
Crook Manifesto — Colson Whitehead2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde1890
Orlando — Virginia Woolf1928
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin2022
sci-fi / fantasy / mystery
Beware the Woman — Megan Abbott2023
Patricia Wants to Cuddle — Samantha Allen2022
Ninth House — Leigh Bardugo2019
Hell Bent — Leigh Bardugo2023
The Cruel Prince (books 1–3) — Holly Black2018–20
The Vorkosigan Saga — Lois McMaster Bujold1986–96
The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M. Cain1934
Story of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang2002
Exhalation — Ted Chiang2019
Hercule Poirot (books 1–10) — Agatha Christie1920–35
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke2020
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco1980
This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone2019
The Black Dahlia — James Ellroy1987
Alphabet Series (A–K) — Sue Grafton1982–2001
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett1930
The Thin Man — Dashiell Hammett1934
Titanium Noir — Nick Harkaway2023
The Broken Earth (books 1–3) — N.K. Jemisin2015–17
The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin1971
ACOTAR & ACOMAF — Sarah J. Maas2015–16
Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel2014
Sea of Tranquility — Emily St. John Mandel2022
A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine2019
The City & The City — China Miéville2009
The Locked Tomb (books 1–3) — Tamsyn Muir2019–22
Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett1987
Sourcery — Terry Pratchett1988
Pyramids — Terry Pratchett1989
Maskerade — Terry Pratchett1995
The Fifth Elephant — Terry Pratchett1999
Going Postal — Terry Pratchett2004
Making Money — Terry Pratchett2007
The Employees — Olga Ravn2018
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley1818
Hyperion — Dan Simmons1989
The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons1990
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson1992
The Raven Cycle (books 1–4) — Maggie Stiefvater2012–16
City of Saints and Madmen — Jeff VanderMeer2001
Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer2014
Murderbot Diaries (books 1–3) — Martha Wells2017–18
poetry
Judas Goat — Gabrielle Bates2023
Crossing the Carpathians — Carmen Bugan2004
Autobiography of Red — Anne Carson1998
If Not, Winter — Anne Carson & Sappho2002
Vita Nova — Louise Glück1999
Faithful and Virtuous Night — Louise Glück2014
Death of a Naturalist — Seamus Heaney1966
Meditations in an Emergency — Frank O’Hara1957
Why I Am Not a Painter — Frank O’Hara1956
Sonnets to Orpheus — Rainer Maria Rilke1923