Last updated 12/01/2025

Currently reading: Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant (2011)

2025:

1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (2012)
2. The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith (1952)
3. Medea, Rachel Cusk (2015)
4. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
5. Emma, Jane Austen (1815)
6. Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte (2016)
7. Dubliners, James Joyce (1914)
8. Male Fantasies, Klaus Theweleit (1977)
9. Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit (1984)
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
11. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2011)

2024:

1. Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
3. Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitskill
4. The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck
5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
6. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
7. Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
8. Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
9. The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
10. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt

2024 favourite: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, though I think about Bad Behaviour more. Most of these stories were about Place– bit too much California for my preferences.