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 The below lists are a work-in-progress, and likely out of date.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