books I've read

2024

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