Reading Log

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

What I read in 2024:

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

  2. They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

  3. Our Strangers: Stories by Lydia Davis

  4. Open Throat by Henry Hoke

  5. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

  6. Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith

  7. About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler

  8. Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

  9. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (again)

  10. Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

What I read in 2023:

  1. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

  2. Arkansas: Three Novellas by David Leavitt

  3. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

  4. The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

  5. Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump)

  6. Rikers: An Oral History by by Graham Rayman & Reuven Blau

  7. Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin

  8. Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

  9. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

  12. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

  13. Joyland by Stephen King

  14. The Guest by Emma Cline

  15. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

  16. Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib

  17. Take What You Need by Idra Novey

  18. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (again)

  19. Going Down by Jennifer Belle

  20. Bunny by Mona Awad

  21. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

  22. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

  23. The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz

What I read in 2022:

  1. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

  2. The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye

  3. Fight Night by Miriam Towes

  4. Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe

  5. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

  6. Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

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

  8. No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman

  9. Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman

  10. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

  11. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (again)

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

  13. Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman

  14. Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

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

  16. The Old Place by Bobby Finger

  17. The Good House by Ann Leary

  18. Exalted by Anna Dorn

  19. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (again #3)

  20. My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

  21. City of Quartz by Mike Davis

What I read in 2021:

  1. Severance by Ling Ma

  2. Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

  3. The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

  4. All My Friends by Marie NDiaye

  5. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

  6. 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

  7. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion

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

  9. Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora

  10. Broken People by Sam Lansky

  11. Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

  12. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

  13. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

  14. Second Place by Rachel Cusk

  15. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  16. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

  17. Animal by Lisa Taddeo

  18. Columbine by Dave Cullen

  19. Wayward by Dana Spiotta

  20. Return Trips by Alice Adams

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

  22. Rich Rewards by Alice Adams

  23. Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

  24. Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

  25. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

  26. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

What I read in 2020:

  1. Women Talking by Miriam Toews

  2. The Public Image by Muriel Spark

  3. Lithium for Medea by Kate Braverman

  4. Weather by Jenny Offill

  5. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

  6. Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector

  7. American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman

  8. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

  9. The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst

  10. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  11. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

  12. White Girls by Hilton Als

  13. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (again)

  14. Listening to Billie by Alice Adams

  15. Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  16. Real Life by Brandon Taylor

  17. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

  18. What Are You Going Through? by Sigrid Nunez

  19. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (again)

  20. My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye

  21. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  22. That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye

  23. Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (again)

  24. Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis

  25. Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

  26. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

  27. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

  28. If It Bleeds by Stephen King

  29. Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiyae

  30. Dearly by Margaret Atwood

  31. Luster by Raven Leilani

  32. Big Ideas by Lynda Barry (again)

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

  34. Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh