Reading List
When I started grad school, I began to keep a public list of books that I’ve read for fun. The below lists are a work-in-progress, and likely out of date.
What I’ve been reading:
(favourites marked with a ✿)
2022
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor
- I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
- Chemistry, Weike Wang ✿
- Acceptance, Emi Nietfeld
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney
- People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, Lucia Berlin ✿
- Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
- Know My Name, Chanel Miller
- Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh ✿
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
2021
- The Last Thing He Ever Told Me, Laura Dave
- The Idiot, Elif Batuman
- Wish You Were Here, Jodi Picoult
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
- It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover ✿
- Devotions, Mary Oliver
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
- Misfits, Michaela Coel
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner ✿
- All About Love, bell hooks ✿
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
Book Club
I love to read with friends! Below are some discussion questions that I wrote for select works (spoiler warning):
- A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, Lucia Berlin
- Brotopia, Emily Chang
Favourites
Books:
- Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shosana Zuboff
Essays & Short Stories:
- Always Be Optimizing, Jia Tolentino