recently read

2018

Within each month, the books I've read most recently are at the top of the list, and an asterisk indicates a book I especially loved. I also have a booklog, which contains thoughts on what I've read.

November

*How to be both by Ali Smith

October

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus
*There There by Tommy Orange

September

*Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul

August

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
*Starlings by Jo Walton
*The Chosen Ones by Scarlett Thomas

July

Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Minna Zallman Proctor
*The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall

June

The Game by Diana Wynne Jones
*Calypso by David Sedaris
*Inferno by Eileen Myles

May

Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
Concluding by Henry Green

April

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
*Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker
Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch

March

Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
*The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee

February

Secret Brooklyn by Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet
*Going into Town by Roz Chast
*Winter by Ali Smith

January

*Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese, translated by Shaun Whiteside
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

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