--non-fic--

biographies + memoirs

• Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee
• Modern Nature, Derek Jarman
• Heavy, Kiese Laymon
• The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
• Into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
• The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
• London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Books)
• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
• Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas, Donna M. Lucey
• By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair
• Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
• The Autobiography of Malcom X
• My Wars Are Laid Away in Book: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
• Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
• Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
• Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles

race

• Whorled by Ed Bok Lee
• The History of White People, Nell Irvin
• How the Irish Became White, Noel Ignatiav
• Frantz Fanon
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

gender/sexuality

• Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, Paul Monette
• Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
• Sarah Schulman
  • Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York

war

• The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell
• London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Books)
• Dispatches by Michael Herr

history (general)

• Russian recs: https://www.janetfitchwrites.com/books/marinam/mm-research
• The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James
• Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts by Elise Lemire
• The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by Sarah Moss

art, literature, culture

• Ways of Seeing, John Berger
• Among the Thugs, Bill Buford
• The Summer Game, Roger Angell
• Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum
• Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace by Jeff Gundy

geography

• The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

politics

• A People's History of the Supreme Court, Peter H. Irons
• The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal

--poetry--

• Denise Levertov
• Robert Lowell
• Patricia Lockwood
• Rabbit by Sophie Robinson
• Mary Jean Chan - Fleche
• The Dream of Reason by Jenny George
• Tenderness by Derrick Austin
• Touched by Luther Hughes
• Chessy Normile
• Our World by MARY OLIVER

--fiction--

• A Time to Be Born, Dawn Powell
• At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill
• The Snow Garden, Christopher Rice
• Last Seen Leaving, Caleb Roehrig
• Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente
• Circe, Madeline Miller
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Leonard and Hungry Paul, Ronan Hession
• Lie With Me, Philippe Besson
• The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer
• When Watched, Leopoldine Core
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden
• Knockout, John Jodzio
• As Meat Loves Salt, Maria McCann
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
• Flights, Olga Tokarczuk
• Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch
• Bowlaway, Elizabeth McCracken
• Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• Margery Kemp, Robert Gluck
• Heatstroke, Hazel Barkworth
• If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
• Rules For Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane
• Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
• The Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
• Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
• Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• High Dive by Jonathan Lee
• End Zone by Don Delillo
• My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel
• Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
• Homesick by Jennifer Croft
• The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
• The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
• The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh
• Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
• Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A. S. Byatt
• The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
• French Exit by Patrick deWitt
• Roberto Bolaño
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
• The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
• An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Permafrost by Eva Baltasar
• Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
• Beowulf translated by Meghan Purvis
• Black Wave by Michelle Tea
• All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen
• The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
• Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
• Ornament and Silence by Kennedy Fraser
• West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein
• Martha Gellhorn
• Rebecca West
• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Small G: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
• Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
• The Master by Colm Toibin
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• And Their Children After Them By NICOLAS MATHIEU
• Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
• the life & letters of peter ilich tchaikovsky
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu and edited by Carmen Maria Machado
• Kin by Miljenko Jergović
• Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair
• Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
• The Gimmicks by Chris McCormick
• The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault
• Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary by Sasha Geffen
• Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
• Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters To Susan Huntington Dickinson
• The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
• Tarot for Change: USING THE CARDS FOR SELF-CARE, ACCEPTANCE, AND GROWTH By JESSICA DORE
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY BY LUDWIG FEUERBACH
• Parallel Hells by Leon Craig
• Lucky Us By AMY BLOOM
• These Days by Lucy Caldwell
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
• Recipes for Sad Women by Hector Abad
• The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
• Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
• The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
• The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
• Domestic Violence by Eavan Boland
• Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
• Les oiselles sauvages par Pauline Gonthier
• Jawbone (Mâchoires) (Mandíbula) by Monica Ojeda
• Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu
• Mariana Enriquez
• PERSONAL ATTENTION ROLEPLAY by Helen Chau Bradley
• Là où je me terre par Caroline Dawson
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
• The Wild Good : Lesbian Photographs and Writings on Love by Beatrix Gates
• Solenoid by By Mircea Cărtărescu
• AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK by Vasily Grossman
• COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW by Jessica Au
• GREY BEES by Andrey Kurkov
• Embers by Sandor Marai
• Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
• EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK COMMUNE, 2052–2072 by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
• Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
• Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
• Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan
• A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
• FORTUNES OF WAR: THE BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning
• Snowflake by Louise Nealon
• Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
• Septology by Jon Fosse
• Chekhov short stories
• Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel
• The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
• Patrizia Cavalli poems
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman
• Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver
• Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season by Forough Farrokhzad
• Aethereal Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya
• On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union by Daisy Pitkin
• White on White by Aysegül Savas
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
• Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
• The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
• Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
• The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
• CONCERNING MY DAUGHTER BY KIM HYE-JIN
• The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
• Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
• Marina Tsvetaeva: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/321164/selected-poems-by-marina-tsvetaeva/
• Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
• The Love Parade by Sergio Pitol
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• Migraciones 1976-2020 by Gloria gervitz
• Louise Bogan
• Dancer by Colum McCann
• Loving by Henry Green
• Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
• On the Wandering Paths by Sylvain Tesson
• The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
• Cheri by Colette
• Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
• The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
• Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
• A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
• Cook as You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook by Ruby Tandoh
• Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper
• A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau
• Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee
• Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles
• Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
• The Swimmer by John Cheever
• Of Cities & Women by Etel Adnan
• Love's Work by Gillian Rose
• Hannah Arendt
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
• Suffering as Identity: The Jewish Paradigm by Esther Benbassa
• Caroline Blackwood
• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
• The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
• Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
• Diary of a Lonely Girl by Miriam Karpilove
• In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
• Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara by Joe LeSueur
• Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai
• The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
• A Fatal Inversion by Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine
• Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
• Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
• Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox
• Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
• J. F. Powers (Morte d'Urban and Wheat That Springeth Green)
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation by Fanny Howe
• Don't Look At Me Like That by Diana Athill
• The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
• Edmund White (Proust bio + Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris)
• The New Life by Tom Crewe
• The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
• A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical by Stacy Wolf
• Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City by Elizabeth Wollen
• Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
• Evelyn Waugh
• The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Uranians: Stories by Theodore McCombs
• What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
• Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940 by Wendy Smith
• Farewell, Ghosts by Nadia Terranova
• Zoo, or Letters Not about Love by Viktor Shklovsky
• Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
• Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
• I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko
• Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
• Happiness As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
• Practice by Rosalind Brown
• Corregidora by Gayl Jones
• Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
• Background for Love by Helen Wolff
• How to Kill A City by P. E. Moskowitz
• René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
• Restoration by Rose Tremain
• Gaywyck by Vincent Virga
• David Graeber - Debt
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• The Fall of the House of Dixie: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION THAT TRANSFORMED THE SOUTH by Bruce Levine
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Larry Brown stories
• Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
• Greasepaint by Hannah Levene
• Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare
• The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
• The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
• John Brown, Abolitionist: THE MAN WHO KILLED SLAVERY, SPARKED THE CIVIL WAR, AND SEEDED CIVIL RIGHTS by David S. Reynolds
• The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha
• I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
• Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago
• The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
• All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
• When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990 by John Ganz
• Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
• You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
• Alice Notely, Bernadette Mayer, Diane DiPrima
• Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster