lithub's lessons in teaching: when your student's a better writer than you are ⚘

• a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan
• less by andrew sean greer
• there, there by tommy orange
• open by andre agassi
• the corrections by jonathan franzen
• the meritocracy trap by daniel markovits

ocean vuong's 10 books needed to write his novel ⚘

• dictee by theresa hak kyung cha
• beloved by toni morrison
• autobiography of red by anne carson
• moby dick by herman melville
• go tell it on the mountain by james baldwin
• the gangster we are all looking for by lê thị diễm thúy
• to the lighthouse by virginia woolf
• close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration by david wojnarowicz
• crapalachia: a biography of place by scott mcclanahan
• dept of speculation by jenny offill

random unfiltered recs

• ella minnow pea by mark dunn
• uninhabitable earth by david wallace-wells
• pretext for mass murder by john roosa
• what is it i think i'm doing anyhow by toni cade bambara

on kindle

• braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer
• sea of tranquility - emily st. john mandel
• dark rise - c.s. pacat
• pride and prejudice - jane austen
• macbeth - william shakespeare
• wuthering heights - emily brontë
• notes from the underground - fyodor dostoyevsky
• little women - louisa may alcott
• the souls of black folk — w.e.b. du bois
• the hunger games - suzanne collins
• catching fire - suzanne collins
• mockingjay - suzanne collins
• the three-body problem - liu cixin
• a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki
• the doomsday machine - danel ellesberg
• piranesi - susanna clarke
• leaving isn't the hardest thing - lauren hough
• if i had your face - frances cha
• silence is my mother tongue - sulaiman addonia
• annihilation - jeff vandermeer
• crazy rich asians - kevin kwan
• china rich girlfriend - kevin kwan
• rich people problems - kevin kwan
• big little lies - liane moriarty
• my brilliant friend - elena ferrante
• the story of a new name - elena ferrante
• persuasion - jane austen
• heartburn - nora ephron
• breast and eggs - mieko kawakami
• earthlings - sayaka murata
• young jane young - gabrielle zevin
• funny you should ask - melissa sussman
• how to get filthy rich in rising asia - mohsin hamid
• the loosening skin - aliya whiteby
• i'm glad my mom died - jennette mccurdy
• tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin
• counterfeit - kirstin chen
• invisible child - andrea elliott
• how to slowly kill yourself and others in america - kiese laymon
• they can't kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqib
• she who became the sun - shelley parker-chan
• beautiful country - qian julie wang
• the fifth season - n.k. jemisin
• the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin
• the stone sky - n.k. jemisin
• the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson
• mbs: the rise to power of mohammed bin salman - ben hubbard
• diaries, 1910-1923 - franz kafka
• letters to the father - franz kafka
• when we cease to understand the world - benjamin labatut
• heavy - kiese laymon
• all the young men - ruth coker burks
• fault lines - emily itami
• bestiary - k-ming chang
• giovanni's room - james baldwin
• girl, woman, other - bernardine evaristo
• a psalm for the wild-built - becky chambers
• the sixth extinction - elizabeth kolbert
• homegoing - yaa gyasi
• the god of small things - arundhati roy
• the year of magical thinking - joan didion
• king leopold's ghost - adam hochschild