currently reading

• the trial; franz kafka
• grotesque; natsuo kirino

to read

• the old man and the sea; ernest hemingway
• life of pi; yann martel
• a tree grows in brooklyn; betty smith
• for whom the bell tolls; ernest hemingway
• frankenstein; mary shelly
• haunted; chuck palahnuik
• the vacationers; emma straub
• gravity; ela orellana
• a portrait of the artist as a young man; james joyce
• little life; hanya yanagihara
• brave story; miyuki maiyabe
• beatrice & virgil; yann martel
• shatter me; tahereh mafi
• room; emma donoghue
• bliss; ted gilley
• the physics of imaginary objects; tina may hall
• you are not a stranger here; adam haslett
• shadow tag; louise erdrich
• the hours; michael cunningham
• flesh and blood; michael cunningham
• the bloody chamber; angela carter
• after you’d gone; maggie o’farrell
• the world of a few minutes ago; jack driscoll
• teach me; r.a. nelson
• behind the beautiful forevers; katherine boo
• sula; toni morrison
• the blood of the lamb; peter de vries
• the art of fielding; chad harbach
• a prayer for owen meany; john irving
• to the lighthouse; virginia woolf
• the reader; bernhard schlink
• between shades of grey; ruta sepetys
• the book of lost things; john connelly
• code name verity; elizabeth wein
• stay where you are and then leave; john boyne
• the shadow of the wind; carlos ruiz zafon
• extremely loud and incredibly close; jonathan safran foer
• ritual; david pinner
• the road; cormac mccarthy
• my sister lives on the mantelpiece; annabel pitcher
• tell the wolves i'm home; carol rifka brunt
• self-help; lorrie moore
• freedom; jonathan franzen
• billy lynn's long halftime walk; ben fountain
• a visit from the goon squad; jennifer egan
• let the great world spin; colum mccann
• salvage the bones; jesmyn ward
• on such a full sea; chang-rae lee
• a hologram for the king; dave eggers
• a wild sheep chase; haruki murakami
• colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage; haruki murakami
• dance dance dance; haruki murakami
• silently and very fast; catherynne m. valente
• the bread we eat in dreams; catherynne m. valente
• the remains of the day; kazuo ishiguro
• the diviners; libby bray
• the shadow of the wind; carlos ruiz zafón
• babi yar; a.anatolii
• all our names; dinaw mengestsu
• all the light we cannot see; anthony doerr
• the assassination of margaret thatcher; hilary mantel
• the blazing world; siri hustvedt
• boy, snow, bird; helen oyeyemi
• the book of unknown americans; cristina henriquez
• the children act; ian mcewan
• china dolls; lisa see
• close your eyes, hold hands; chris bohjalian
• the derek smith omnibus; derek howe smith
• dust; yvonne adhiambo owuor
• euphoria; lily king
• frog music; emma donoghue
• high as the horses' bridles; scott cheshire
• in the night of time; antonio munoz molina
• j; howard jacobson
• the laughing monsters; denis johnson
• a little lumpen novelita; roberto bolano
• long man; amy greene
• love and treasure; ayelet waldman
• lovers at the chameleon club, paris 1932; francine prose
• lucky us; amy bloom
• marry me; dan rhodes
• mr.tall; tony earley
• nora webster; colm toibin
• nothing is impossible: further problems of dr.san hawthorne; edward d. hoch
• orfeo; richard powers
• the peripheral; william gibson
• redeployment; phil klay
• revival; stephen king
• shirley; susan scarf merrell
• some luck; jane smiley
• the temporary gentleman; sebastian barry
• thunderstruck; elizabeth mccracken
• tigerman; nick harkaway
• under the wide and starry sky; nancy horan
• an unnecessary woman; rabih alameddine
• an untamed state; roxane gay
• us; david nicholls
• we are all completely beside ourselves; karen joy fowler
• we are not ourselves; matthew thomas
• the young desire it; kenneth mackenzie
• aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe; benjamin alire sáenz
• runaway horses; yukio mishima
• the penelopiad; margaret atwood
• the dark wife; sarah diemer
• the king must die; mary renault
• cleopatra’s daughter; michelle moran
• the autobiography of red; anne carson
• hurricane hold; charlie higson
• the goddess test; aimme carter
• sweet venom; tera lyn childs
• redemption in indigo; karen lord
• anansi boys; neil gaiman
• the owl service; alan garner
• american gods; neil gaiman
• ugly love; colleen hoover
• maybe someday; colleen hoover
• and the mountains echoed; khaled hosseini
• to all the boys i’ve loved before; jenny han
• Selected Poems: 1965-1975 – Margaret Atwood
• Loose Woman: Poems – Sandra Cisneros
• bone – Yrsa Daley-Ward
• Letters from Medea – Salma Deera
• The Bones Below – Sierra DeMulder
• New Shoes On A Dead Horse – Sierra DeMulder
• When My Brother Was an Aztec – Natalie Díaz
• The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
• Blue Hour – Carolyn Forché
• Kingdom Animalia – Aracelis Girmay
• Erosion – Jorie Graham
• How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 – * Joy Harjo
• She Had Some Horses – Joy Harjo
• What the Living Do: Poems – Marie Howe
• What We Carry – Dorianne Laux
• The Black Unicorn: Poems – Audre Lorde
• Bluets – Maggie Nelson
• Pelican – Emily O’Neill
• Lunch Poems – Frank O’Hara
• Ariel: The Restored Edition – Sylvia Plath
• Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
• Diving into the Wreck – Adrienne Rich
• The Dream of a Common Language – Adrienne Rich
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho – Sappho (tr. Anne Carson)
• Love Poems – Anne Sexton
• Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems – Marina Tsvetaeva
• Said the Manic to the Muse – Jeanann Verlee
• salt. – Nayyirah Waheed