books I've read
2024
(an asterisk indicates a book I especially loved)
January
*
Loving Venice
by Petr Král, translated by Christopher Moncrieff
Nipponia Nippon
by Kazushige Abe, translated by Kerim Yasar
The Rediscovery of America
by Ned Blackhawk
February
OKPsyche
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
*
Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
Get A Life, Chloe Brown
by Talia Hibbert
March
What Fresh Hell Is This?
by Heather Corinna
*
Treacle Walker
by Alan Garner
Crossings
by Ben Goldfarb
April
All the Feels
by Olivia Dade
Bird Life
by Anna Smaill
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
by Justin Gregg
May
More
by Molly Roden Winter
The Idea of You
by Robinne Lee
Glitter and Concrete
by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
June
Incubation
by Bhanu Kapil
Inverno
by Cynthia Zarin
*
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv
July
*
All Fours
by Miranda July
*
Boy of Chaotic Making
by Charlie N. Holmberg
*
Vladivostok Circus
by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
*
New Yorkers
by Craig Taylor
August
*
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
by Danielle Dutton
*
The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden
by Karina Yan Glaser
Heart: A History
by Sandeep Jauhar
How to Solve a Problem
by Ashima Shiraishi, illustrated by Yao Xiao
September
Banal Nightmare
by Halle Butler
Cecilia
by K-Ming Chang
October
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
by Kimberly Lemming
Greasepaint
by Hannah Levene
The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington
by Brian Francis
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee
November
*
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
Letters to His Neighbor
by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis
December
Evicted
by Matthew Desmond
*
Cathedrals of Industry
by Michael L. Horowitz (photographs) and James P. Holtje (text)
*
Winter Solstice
by Nina MacLaughlin
The Wood at Midwinter
by Susanna Clarke