Last updated 07/06/2026
Currently reading: The Republic, The World for Sale
Those two have been taking a while and I predict will continue to take a while. In the meantime, please email me reading suggestions. I am most interested in short story recommendations– my favourite is still Of Mice and Men.
2026:
- Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant (2011)
- The Promise of Happiness, Sara Ahmed (2010)
- The Three-Body Problem; The Dark Forest; Death’s End, Cixin Liu (2006, 2008, 2010)
2025:
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (2012)
- The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith (1952)
- Medea, Rachel Cusk (2015)
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
- Emma, Jane Austen (1815)
- Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte (2016)
- Dubliners, James Joyce (1914)
- Male Fantasies, Klaus Theweleit (1977)
- Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit (1984)
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
- My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2011)
- Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)– my 4th reread
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (2002)
- The Prize, Daniel Yergin (1990)
2024:
- Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitskill
- The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
- Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
- Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
- The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt