Reading List

Required Reading, according to my opinion

  • There There, Tommy Orange
  • Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  • Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez
  • On Self Respect, Joan Didion

2025

  • Mink River, Brian Doyle
  • The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Kites, Romain Gary
  • Running Through Beijing, Xu Zechen
  • Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar
  • Mona at Sea, Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • Normal People, Sally Rooney
  • The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  • Standing Heavy, GauZ’
  • Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
  • The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter
  • The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Vegetarian, Han Kang
  • Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
  • Recitatif, Toni Morrison
  • The Future of Truth, Werner Herzog

2024

  • Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • There There, Tommy Orange
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
  • The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
  • In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange
  • Not a River, Selva Almada (Translated by Annie McDermott)
  • Whale, Cheon Myeong-kwan (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)
  • Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
  • The Break, Katherena Vermette
  • Crooked Plow, Itamar Viera Junior
  • The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
  • Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
  • Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller
  • Calling for a Blanket Dance, Oscar Hokeah
  • The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li
  • The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

2023

  • Paradise, Toni Morrison
  • God Help The Child, Toni Morrison
  • Gathering Moss, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Epiplectic Bicycle, Edward Gorey
  • A Primer for Forgetting, Lewis Hyde
  • High Tide in Tucson, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Craeft, Alex Langlands
  • Love, Toni Morrison
  • Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
  • Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart
  • Foster, Claire Keegan
  • Homeland and Other Stories, Barbara Kingsolver

2022

  • Watch With Me, Wendell Berry
  • A Mercy, Toni Morrison
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
  • Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
  • How To Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
  • When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
  • Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
  • The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid
  • An Atlas of the Difficult World, Adrienne Rich

2021

  • Home, Toni Morrison
  • Sula, Toni Morrison
  • Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
  • The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
  • The Ancient Child, N Scott Momaday
  • Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
  • The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende
  • Maps for a Fiesta, Otto Maduro
  • Yellow Bird, Sierra Crane Murdoch

2020

  • Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez
  • Maus I, Art Spiegelman
  • Maus II, Art Spiegelman
  • Gilgamesh, Unknown
  • The Honey Bus, Meredith May
  • All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
  • The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  • Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
  • The Sellout, Paul Beatty
  • White Noise, Don Delillo
  • Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  • Jazz, Toni Morrison

2019

  • On The Rez, Ian Frazier
  • The Other, David Guterson
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison
  • Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi
  • The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
  • Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt
  • In Search of Captain Zero, Alan Weisbecker
  • Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac
  • Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  • The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Han Shan
  • Dune, Frank Herebert