transcribed from my journals the past few years, incomplete, but mostly here. DM me for individual ratings and reviews.......
updated as of 9/9/24
2024
1.
2. what can a body do: how we meet the built world / sara hendren
3. neotenica / joon oluchi lee
4. familiar face / michael deforge *
5. asleep / banana yoshimoto *
6. trust exercise / susan choi *
7. my education / susan choi
8.
9. fan fiction: a satire / tavi gevinson (zine - finished june 13)
10. concerning my daughter / kim hye-jin * (finished july 4)
11. fish in exile / vi khi nao * (finished july 15)
12.
13.
14.
15. the changeling / joy williams * (finished 8/10)
16. alien daughters walk into the sun / jackie wang * (finished 8/14)
17. fang si-chi's first love paradise / lin yi-han (finished 8/31)
18. hit parade of tears / izumi suzuki (finished 9/9)
2023
1. how to get over the end of the world / hal schrieve ~*
2. all this could be different / sarah thankam mathews ~*
3. matigari / ngugi wa thiong'o
4. activities of daily living / lisa hsiao chen *
5. blockchain chicken farm / xiaowei wang (unfinished)
6. backyard adventurer / beau miles (lol)
7. goodbye things / fumiko sasaki (random minimalist book)
8. what it is / lynda barry * (unfinished, still revisiting)
9.
10. the ex-girlfriend of my ex-girlfriend is my girlfriend / maddy court
11. boys weekend / mattie lubchansky
12. america is not the heart / elaine castillo *
13. the man without talent / yoshitaru tsuge
14.
15.
16.
17.
18. idlewild / james frankie thomas ~*
19. after accountability / pinko
20. make the golf course a public sex forest (unfinished)
21. left hand of darkness / ursula k. le guin *
22. polysecure / jessica fern
23.
24. just ride / grant petersen (random instructional bike book)
25.
2022
1. [redacted] manuscript for work
2. long live the tribe of fatherless girls / t kira madden
3. the graphic design idea book (random library speed-read)
4.
5. skim / jillian & mariko tamaki
6. the call-out / cat fitzgerald %
7. detransition baby / torrey peters
8. black ball / theresa runstedtler %
9. search history / eugene lim *
10. the days of afrekete / asali solomon
11.
12. of forests and of farms / adjua gargi nzinga greaves (unfinished)
13. super mutant magic academy / jillian tamaki *
14. outline / rachel cusk
15. the deep / rivers solomon
16.
17.
18.
19. convenience store woman / sayaka murata
20.
21. transit / rachel cusk
22. lesser known monsters of the 21st century / kim fu *
23. chinatown pretty / andria lo & valerie luu (picture book read in kinokuniya)
24.
25.
26. the secret history / donna tartt
27.
28. the dispossessed / ursula k. le guin *
29. kudos / rachel cusk
30. through the arc of the rainforest / karen tei yamashita *
31. bliss montage / ling ma
32. at the wrong end of the telescope / rabih alameddine *
33.
2021
1. calamities / renee gladman
2. overcoming harm ocd / jon hirshfield
3. wow, no thank you / samantha irby
4. trans girl suicide museum / hannah baer
5. braiding sweetgrass / robin wall kimmerer (unfinished)
6. prisoners' inventions / angelo
7. women's house of detention / hugh ryan %
8.
9. sorrowland / rivers solomon *
10. pamela, a novel / pamela lu
11. everyone on the moon is essential personnel / julian k. jarboe *
12. several people are typing / calvin kasulke
children's book intermission: corduroy, stellaluna, and verdi with ty (10/1/24)
13.
14. so long a letter / mariama ba (unfinished)
15. darryl / jackie ess *
17. nevada / imogen binnie
17. cassandra at the wedding / dorothy baker *
2020
my record of this year is particularly incomplete....who knows what was read this year
1. wayward lives, beautiful experiments / saidiya hartman (not sure if i finished)
2. pet / akwaeke emezi *
3. dirty river (again?)
4. sexual citizens / shamus khan and jennifer hirsch
5. we are never meeting in real life / sam irby
6. meaty / sam irby
7. luster / raven leilani
8.
9.
10. an unkindness of ghosts / rivers solomon *
11. leave the world behind / rumaan alam #
2019
1. the story of the lost child / elena ferrante (not sure if i finished)
2. the lake / banana yoshimoto *
3. the friend / sigrid nunez
4.
5. trumpet / jackie kay (unfinished)
6. snotgirl / brian lee o’malley and leslie hung
7. kindred / octavia butler
8. department of speculation / jenny offill
9. loving in the war years / cherrie moraga %
10. thomas and beulah / rita dove %
11. silver sparrow / tayari jones
12. bread out of stone / dionne brand * (started in 2018, finished in 2019)
13. freshwater / akwaeke emezi (started in 2018, mostly read / finished in 2019)
14. patsy / nicole dennis-benn
15. revolutionary mothering / ed. alexis pauline gumbs
16.
17. selfcarefully / gracy obuchowicz (i don’t remember reading this. but apparently i did at wendy's subway)
18.
19.
20. normal people / sally rooney
21. dirty river / leah piepzna-samarasinha *
22. how to do nothing / jenny odell
23.
24. you too can have a body like mine / alexandra kleeman (couldn’t finish..)
25. no family history / kristen mccormick %
26. love enough / dionne brand (not sure if i finished)
27.
2018
1. what we lose / zinzi clemmons
2. what about the rest of your life / sung yim *
3. the mothers / brit bennett
4. here comes the sun / nicole dennis benn *
5. my brilliant friend / elena ferrante *
6. parable of the sower / octavia butler *
7. parable of the talents / octavia butler
8. the story of a new name / elena ferrante *
9. those who leave and those who stay / elena ferrante
10. sula / toni morrison (unfinished)
11.
12.
13. the untelling / tayari jones *
14. annie john / jamaica kincaid *
15.
16. an american marriage / tayari jones
17. cereus blooms at night / shani mootoo *
18. heads of the colored people / nafissa thompson-spires
19. kitchen / banana yoshimoto *
20. the incendiaries / r.o. kwon
21. what it means when a man falls from the sky / lesley nneka arimah
* really liked
% read for a class, or for work
# actively disliked
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