Reading logs

In preparing to retire my old Squarespace site, here's a copypaste of my reading logs from the past few years, migrated from my old site. 

Since this is my first post, I'll mention here that this new (old-feeling) blog is part of a mess of "digital minimalist" (or, as my husband puts it, neo-luddite) moves over the past couple months, including ditching my iPhone for a dumbphone (shout-out dumb.co, who have enabled my dumbed-down lifestyle with a pretty sweet flip phone) and finding other ways to do less online. Cutting back on modern devices and platforms has turned into a process akin to pulling the tech asbestos out of my capacity for attention. Tedious, yes, and a little scary. Worth it. 

Anyway, here's a log of all the books I read front to end over the past few years, migrated from my old site. 

2026 (so far--the limits of my reading now make me sad, but my sweet, mewling 11-month-old takes priority in this season) 

Julie Myerson, Nonfiction: A Novel

Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

Lily King, Heart the Lover 

Scholastique Mukasonga, A Book of My Own (Isolarii)

Greer Kirshenbaum, Nurture Revolution 

Meagan Church, Mad Wife 

Best American Short Fiction 2014 (Collection)  

Allen Ginsberg, AH!MERICA (Isolarii) 

CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

R F Kuang, Yellowface  

Catherine Lacey, Certain American States (reread)

2025 (Strange year for reading; grew and birthed a child) 

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Zadie Smith, Intimations 

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

La Leche League, Sweet Sleep

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 

Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth 

Brock Clarke, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England

Bruna Dantas Lobato, Blue Light Hours

John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis 

Ron Currie, The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

Sally Rooney, Normal People 

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Shakespeare, Macbeth

Ina May Gaskin, Guide to Childbirth

Ann Patchett, The Dutch House 

Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

Lily King, Writers and Lovers 

Stephen King, 11/22/63

Claire Louise Bennett, Pond 

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood 

Kate Northrup, Do Less 

Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch (reread)

Emily Oster, Expecting Better

Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

2024 

T. Greenwood, Rust and Stardust

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