(Not including the hockey books, as they're already listed) (also linking longform articles and short stories)

January

• ✔ Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• ✔ Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
• ✔ Masks by Enchi Fumiko

Feb-Apr

• See hockey books

May

• The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen (DNF)
  • For some reason I didn't read the subtitle, so I thought it was going to be about notebooks more generally, and not the history of how notebooks came to be what they are today.
• ✔ Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi
• ✔ Loving the Timberwolves When They're Good (or Bad) by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Being a fan of a good, even great team can be fun. But being a fan of an awful team is incredibly romantic. The patina of failure accumulates to a sheen gorgeous enough to brag about.
• ✔ If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you by Sam Kriss

June

• See hockey books. I was traveling, so I only read the book about the Chill...

July

• ✔ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
• ✔ The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene
  • So insanely good
• ✔ The Swimmer by John Cheever
• ✔ Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov
• ✔ Reunion by John Cheever
  • Didn't love it but it really sticks in my head.
• ✔ On Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
• ✔ Yours by Mary A. Robison
• ✔ Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
  • Heaven really stuck out to me (tbh probably because it's the last story lol. But it's very different from the rest)
  • A Romantic Weekend is good too
• ✔ Blowfly Girl: The Patron Saint of Doomed Fetishes by Blue Cenobite
  • Harrowing read esp while reading Gaitskill on the side
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill