2024

  • Tamara Shopsin, LaserWriter II

  • Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

  • Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

  • George Orwell, 1984

  • Thibaut Meurisse, Dopamine Detox

  • Miranda July, All Fours

  • David Foster Wallace, Something to Do With Paying Attention

  • Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy

  • Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

  • Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind

  • Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

  • Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

  • Henry Hoke, Open Throat

  • Elif Batuman, The Idiot

  • Salman Rushdie, Knife

  • Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale

  • Caroline O’Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

  • H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

  • Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

  • Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

  • Lottie Hazell, Piglet

  • Scholastique Mukasonga, Cockroaches

  • Don DeLillo, The Silence

  • Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone (collection of essays)

  • Susan Minot, Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories

  • Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup

  • Percival Everett, Erasure

  • B.A. Paris, The Prisoner

  • Annie Ernaux, Happening

  • Kevin M. Kearney, How to Keep Time

  • Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

  • Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

  • David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

  • Jonathan Franzen, Purity

  • Stephanie Land, Maid

  • Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • Sarah Rose Etter, The Book of X

  • Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

  • Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

  • Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

  • Jason Fung, The Obesity Code

  • Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

  • Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

2023

  • Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19 (reread)

  • Olga Ravn, My Work

  • Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

  • Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

  • Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be

  • Ron Currie, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

  • Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

  • Olga Ravn, The Employees

  • Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

  • Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

  • Elif Batuman, Either/Or

  • Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

  • Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

  • John Dean, House of Evil

  • Thomas Harris, Silence of the Lambs

  • Mona Awad, Bunny

  • Nicholson Baker, Vox

  • Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel

  • Zadie Smith, Swing Time

  • Chuck Palahniuk, Diary: A Novel

  • Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

  • Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

  • Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

  • Juliet Escoria, Juliet the Maniac

  • Sheila Heti, Motherhood

  • Stephen King, Duma Key

  • Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

  • Clay McLeod Chapman, Whisper Down the Lane

  • Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

  • William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

  • Sigrid Nunez, What You Are Going Through

  • Colin Winnette, Users

  • Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

  • Catherine Lacey, Certain American States

  • Lynne Tillman, Weird Fucks

Books I read this year