Reading Log

I took this on a Sunset drive. That is a drive on Sunset.

What I read in 2025:

  • Ripcord by Nate Lippens

  • Event Factory by Renee Gladman

What I read in 2024:

  • Motherhood: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence by Lynne Tillman

  • They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

  • Our Strangers: Stories by Lydia Davis

  • Open Throat by Henry Hoke

  • Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

  • About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler

  • Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (again)

  • Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

  • Open Secrets by Alice Munro (again)

  • Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiyae (again)

  • Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent by Brian Kellow

  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

  • Open Throat by Henry Hoke (again)

  • There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

  • All Fours by Miranda July

  • Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun

  • How Fiction Works by James Wood

  • You Like It Darker by Stephen King

  • Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia

  • The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood

  • Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

  • The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking On America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Drive

  • Four-Legged Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss

  • Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

  • Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany

  • Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  • Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

  • My Dead Book by Nate Lippens

What I read in 2023:

  • Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

  • Arkansas: Three Novellas by David Leavitt

  • Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

  • The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

  • Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump)

  • Rikers: An Oral History by by Graham Rayman & Reuven Blau

  • Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin

  • Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

  • Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump) (again)

  • I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

  • Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

  • Joyland by Stephen King

  • The Guest by Emma Cline

  • The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

  • Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib

  • Take What You Need by Idra Novey

  • Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (again)

  • Going Down by Jennifer Belle

  • Bunny by Mona Awad

  • The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

  • The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

  • The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz

What I read in 2022:

  • The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

  • The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye

  • Fight Night by Miriam Towes

  • Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe

  • The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

  • Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

  • A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien

  • No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman

  • Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman

  • Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

  • The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (again)

  • Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin

  • Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman

  • Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

  • The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central by Christine Pelisek

  • The Old Place by Bobby Finger

  • The Good House by Ann Leary

  • Exalted by Anna Dorn

  • The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (again #3)

  • My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

  • City of Quartz by Mike Davis

What I read in 2021:

  • Severance by Ling Ma

  • Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

  • The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

  • All My Friends by Marie NDiaye

  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

  • 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion

  • Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

  • Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora

  • Broken People by Sam Lansky

  • Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

  • Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang

  • Second Place by Rachel Cusk

  • The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  • Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

  • Animal by Lisa Taddeo

  • Columbine by Dave Cullen

  • Wayward by Dana Spiotta

  • Return Trips by Alice Adams

  • Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan

  • Rich Rewards by Alice Adams

  • Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

  • Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

  • My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

What I read in 2020:

  • Women Talking by Miriam Toews

  • The Public Image by Muriel Spark

  • Lithium for Medea by Kate Braverman

  • Weather by Jenny Offill

  • My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

  • Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector

  • American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman

  • The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

  • The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

  • White Girls by Hilton Als

  • Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (again)

  • Listening to Billie by Alice Adams

  • Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor

  • Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

  • What Are You Going Through? by Sigrid Nunez

  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (again)

  • My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye

  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  • That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye

  • Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (again)

  • Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis

  • Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

  • Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

  • If It Bleeds by Stephen King

  • Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiyae

  • Dearly by Margaret Atwood

  • Luster by Raven Leilani

  • Big Ideas by Lynda Barry (again)

  • One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison

  • Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh