books (2018-present)

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transcribed from my journals the past few years, incomplete, but mostly here. DM me for individual ratings and reviews.......
updated as of 10/22/24

2024

1. palimpsest / lisa wool-rim sjoblom

2. what can a body do: how we meet the built world / sara hendren

3. neotenica / joon oluchi lee

4. familiar face / michael deforge *

reread of girl town / casey nowak

5. asleep / banana yoshimoto *

6. trust exercise / susan choi *

7. my education / susan choi

8. how do we relationship? / tamifull (manga - finished early june)

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. adversary / blue delliquanti (read at silver sprocket 7/16)

13. she would feel the same / emma hunsinger * (bought from silver sprocket, read 7/16)

14. syllabus / lynda barry * (read 7/30)

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)

19. a wizard of earthsea / ursula le guin (finished 10/12)

20. little fish / casey plett (finished 10/14)

21. a dream of a woman / casey plett (currently reading) *

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. the sucker / elle shivers *

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. the secret to superhuman strength / alison bechdel

15. moms / yeong-shin ma

16. stone fruit / lee lai *

17. roaming / jillian tamaki *

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. magic fish / trung le nguyen

24. just ride / grant petersen (random instructional bike book)

25. skip to loafer / misaki takamatsu (read throughout the year with loves)

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. bread & wine: an erotic tale of ny / chip (samuel) delany & mia wolff

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. making comics / lynda barry (unfinished, still revisiting)

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. laura dean keeps breaking up with me / mariko tamaki & rosemary valero o'connell

17. boundless / jillian tamaki

18. alone in space / tillie walden

19. convenience store woman / sayaka murata

20. tokyo tarareba girls / akiko higashimura *

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. kimiko does cancer / kimiko tobimatsu

25. slip, a graphic novel / marika mccoola & aatmaja pandya

26. the secret history / donna tartt

27. are you listening? / tillie walden

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. blank canvas / akiko higashimura *

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. sex fantasy / sophia foster-dimino *

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. night bus / zuo ma

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.   homunculus / joe sparrow (gift from ken)

9.   fanlee and spatzle make something perfect (gift from ken)

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. this one summer / jillian tamaki + mariko tamaki

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. girl town / casey nowak

17. selfcarefully / gracy obuchowicz (i don’t remember reading this. but apparently i did at wendy's subway)

18. my lesbian experience with loneliness / nagata kabi *

19. my solo exchange diary pt 1 and 2 / nagata kabi

20. normal people / sally rooney

21. dirty river / leah piepzna-samarasinha *

22. how to do nothing / jenny odell

23. meal / blue delliquant and soleil ho

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. napkin / carta monir *

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. nimona / nd stevenson

12. big kids / michael deforge *

13. the untelling / tayari jones *

14. annie john / jamaica kincaid *

15. embroideries / marjane satrapi

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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