Books Read
2026
The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous the classics always say the circuitous is the route to The Thing
Hold Everything Dear by John Berger read whilst traveling - felt lost and rootless ie. worthwhile & what I wanted
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour gambling on the Self is not fun when the game is created by Losers
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood the phone = “the portal,” but to where?
The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han learnt that the Marx quote I quote is actually from Hegel, whoops
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad theater still doesn’t do it for me, but I dig its digestion processes
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan finally stop working like a dog, then cannot write about anything else
Soft Burial by Fang Fang in Lily’s words: Politics is never about politics, it’s always about relationships
Chilco by Daniela Catrileo what's worth illuminating vs. kept obscure
Independent People by Haldór Laxness the artist in the family can talk to (love) all its members (in Iceland?)
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova grief resurrects knotted souls
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop attention is a set of conditions involving me but not from me
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis honesty from a dead scoundrel can say …
Samba: Resistance in Motion by Barbara Browning anthro texts make me most aware of the author’s pov
Verdant Inferno/ A Scabby Black Brazilian by Alberto Rangel, Jean-Christophe Godard desire has a habit to invent, for better or for worse
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger what does he say? We’re now left with a grin without a cat
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson pain always comes as a surprise. She is one of few I like who uses “you”
Mark Leckey: Fiorrucci Made Me Hardcore by Mitch Speed the past can be useful once it’s defamiliarized to us
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow big tech says “there’s nowhere else” by making the “else” illegal (& without friends)
Road to Tamazunchale by Ron Arias it all comes back on time & too late
Beast in the Jungle by Henry James like months-old air i have 2 breathe eh
One Thousand Ghosts In This Feast by Sahar Khraibani read it because of the title & because it was in front of me
Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You by Alice Munro only found out about her getting cancelled midway
Chubz: The Demonization of My Working Arse by Spitzenprodukte satirical Farage x Poppers audience
The Time of the Novel by Lara Mimosa Montes trying to prolong anything in my life actually kills everything good
The Empty Space by Peter Brook all the right words about the present
Health and Safety by Emily Witt like any recorded lived exp. where the genuine becomes cringe (embrace it)
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Robert Bolaño only on p. 12 do we hear the narrator’s name & it’s in a dream
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon one long joke on the sincere
The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky a little dry, but reminded: a medium that brings “magic” to labor
The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin convincing to those who already know
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha dislike poetry of today
Superstars by Ann Scott sth about all the cliffs & when u stop desiring them
The Works of Guillaume Dustan Volume 1: In My Room, I’m Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me disease with a death sentence: party, have fun, cry spontaneously and avoid goodbyes
Towards a Poor Theater by Jerzy Grotowski use what u have, imagine what u don’t, go somewhere new (poor)
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint Exupéry it's wwii & an idiot is giving u orders & the little prince is not out yet
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell how cool, writing On The Unfathomable encased in The Accessible
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler positive obsession- like same
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin the disparate fans of this novel was a worthwhile thing to interrogate
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler jumps 30 years ahead to show the past 600 & guesses a (v good) sol’n
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz the condition of exorcism and exile into determined negation
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger provenance of English translations can mark empire
Repetition Nineteen by Mónica de la Torre w8 I do vibe w/ poetry of today, just has 2 be good, has 2 be collage
False Friends by Uljana Wolf (tr. by Susan Bernofsky) zoos are excellent displays of false cognates
Deformation Zone: On Translation by Joyelle McSweeney with Johannes Göransson problems r good, gr8 even
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (tr. by Sawako Nakayasu) jump in the night, jump in the day
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer rhymed heart w/ fart, yipeeee
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl only living beings are not indifferent to corpses
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey i like that Cam'ron drove her around in a purple lamborghini
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol surplus defines who becomes inconsequential
Fallacies in Mathematics by E. A. Maxwell errors in math's arcs have no place except in (my fave) stories
Slow Guillotine by Teo Rivera-Dundas tic toc tic toc
2025
Re-read Directing Actors by Judith Weston
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach by Paul Joseph Gulino
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
They Went Another Way by Bruce Eric Kaplan
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution by Maurizio Lazzarato
No Language Is Neutral by Dionne Brand
Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay by T. Fleischmann
Return to my Native Land by Aimé Césaire
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann
The Films in My Life by François Truffaut
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin
Information Desk by Robyn Schiff
cue by Siwar Masannat
Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully
Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson
Lion by Sonya Walger
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
The Holy Grail by Jack Spicer
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen by Steven D. Katz
Quarterlife by Satya Doyle Byock
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Doppelganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Danto
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
Women by Chloé Caldwell
I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo Chong
Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly by Jeff Weiss
The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George
The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life by David Revill
American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kōhei Saitō
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography by Kaoutar Harchi
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Public Power in the Age of Empire by Arundhati Roy
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had To Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader Edited by Lucy Ives
Flesh by David Szalay
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger
Pages of Mourning by Diego Gerard Morrison
Loving Orphaned Space: the art and science of belonging to earth by Mill Ingram
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: selected works by Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Work Without The Worker: Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Phil Jones
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Daytripper by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec
Mysticism by Simon Critchley
Mending Bodies by Hon Lai Chu
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas
Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga
The Flick by Annie Baker
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
2024
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Inside the Painter’s Studio by Joe Fig
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri
History of Violence by Édouard Louis
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino
A Death in the Family by James Agee
A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema by Emilie Bickerton
The Dog of Tithwal by Saadat Hasan Manto
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Fassbinder by Ian Penman
Unpayable Debt by Denise Ferreira da Silva
Love Novel by Ivana Sajko
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
West Indian Stories Edited by Andrew Salkey
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
The Unhappiness of Being A Single Man by Franz Kafka
The Method: How The Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun by Jackie Wang
Nomenclatures by Dionne Brand
The Bhagavad Gita Tr. by Eknath Easwaran
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Vita Nuova Dante Alighieri
Reflections by Walter Benjamin
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval Edited by Jake Perlin
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Severance by Ling Ma
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s “Nightmare Comedy” by Mick Broderick
The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community, Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman
My Life and My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Heijinian
Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra
Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
Role Play by Clara Drummond
Faraway the Southern Sky by Joseph Andras
Can the Monster Speak? by Paul B. Preciado
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Picture by Lillian Ross
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Ports of Sunset by Ernestine Hill
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Walking in Berlin by Franz Hessel
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Decreation by Anne Carson
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
Change by Édouard Louis
The Guest by Emma Cline
All Fours by Miranda July
Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
Down the Drain by Julia Fox
The 90-Day Screenplay by Alan Watt
The Present Age by Søren Kierkegaard
The Autobiography of my Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Any Person Is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert
The Sorrows of Others by Ada Zhang
Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård
A Third University is Possible by la paperson
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy
The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard
Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
Not A River by Selva Almada
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
This Bridge Called My Back Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva
2023
Directing Actors by Judith Weston
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Sound Design for Film by Tim Harrison
The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Stay True by Hua Hsu
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamín Labatut
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang
Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism by Tina Landis
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
History, Society and Land Relations: Selected Essays by E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Raving by McKenzie Wark
Out of Place by Edward Said
Ming Smith: The Invisible Man: MoMA One on One Series
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Vienna 1900: Games with Love and Death by Arthur Schnitzler
Corydon by André Gide (tr. by Richard Howard)
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen
The Summons of Love by Mari Ruti
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze (tr. by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam)
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson
Black Women Writers at Work Edited by Claudia Tate
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
The Possession by Annie Ernaux
Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia Edited by Anita Heiss
Philosophy of the Tourist by Hiroki Azuma
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Difficult, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker
Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
G. by John Berger
The Many Careers of D.D. Kosambi Edited by D.N. Jha
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis
Farewell and Encounters: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig (tr. by Will Stone)
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith
Shakespeare’s imagery: And what it tells us by Caroline F.E. Spurgeon
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zukoff
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes by Lídia Jorge (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Lucrezia Floriani by George Sand (tr. by Julius Eker)
Em by Kim Thúy (tr. by Sheila Fischman)
Sweet Undoings by Yanick Lahens (tr. by Kaiama L. Glover)
State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas (tr. by Patrick Camiller)
Two Women in One by Nawal El Saadwi (tr. Osman Nusairi)
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
Candide by Voltaire
Beijing Sprawl by Xu Zechen (tr. Jeremy Tiang, Eric Abrahamsen)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Moment on the Clock of the World: A Foundry Theatre Production Edited by Melanie Joseph and David Bruin
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Bolla by Pajtim Statovici
Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America by Writers for the 99%
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for the Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee
Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (tr. by Louise Bethlehem)
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka (tr. by Willa and Edwin Muir, and Michael Hoffmann)
Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss
On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity by Derek Thompson
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (tr. by Shaun Whiteside)
A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros (tr. by John Howe)
2022
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer
Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years At His Side by Emilio D’Alessandro
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood / Youth / Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks by Adam Nayman
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Democracy by Joan Didion
The System of Dante’s Hell by Amiri Baraka
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable by Judith Butler
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
The Bakkhai by Euripides
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
About Looking by John Berger
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Short Stories Volume I by Ernest Hemingway
Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Oh, To Be A Painter! by Virginia Woolf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World by Mary Blume
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Speedboat by Renata Adler
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
No Document by Anwen Crawford
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
Chinatown by Thuân
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
On Street Photography and the Poetic Image by Alex Webb
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Complaint! by Sara Ahmed
The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate by Arundhati Roy
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
Cahiers d’Art: Arthur Jafa: 43rd Year
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
The Indian Theater by Mulk Raj Anand
Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Fear by Stefan Zweig
Orientalism by Edward Said
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Nationalism by Harsha Walia
Home by Toni Morrison
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry by Laurence Perrine
Human Resources by Ryann Stevenson
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Salvador by Joan Didion
Miami by Joan Didion
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
Subduction: A Novel by Kristen Millares Young
The Best Debut Short Stories 2022
On Not Being Able to Paint by Marion Milner
2021
Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais
Memorial by Bryan Washington
White Girls by Hilton Als
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch
The Dialectics of Art by John Molyneux
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong (Editor)
Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time by Saul Friedländer
The Lost Revolution by Chris Harman
Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson
Dune Messiah #2 by Frank Herbert
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon by Leo Zeilig
Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane with Neil Martinez-Belkin
Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch (ed. Chris Rodley)
Debriefing by Susan Sontag (ed. by Benjamin Taylor)
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane
Owed by Joshua Bennett
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
We Do This ‘till We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
Poetics of Cinema by Raúl Ruiz
Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Summer by Edith Wharton
Landscapes by John Berger
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Sun of Consciousness by Édouard Glissant
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
24 / 7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Brecht; The Man and His Work by Martin Esslin
Poet in New York: Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca (tr. Steven F. White)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (tr. Maria Jolas)
The Selected Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba (Editor)
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Sight Lines by Arthur Sze
Angels and Saints by Eliot Weinberger
Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera by Joel Schlemowitz
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
2020
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The White Album by Joan Didion
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto (Editor)
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives by Thich Nhat Hanh
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngūgī wa Thiong’o
The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2) by Elena Ferrante
Educated by Tara Westover
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3) by Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4) by Elena Ferrante
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Dune by Frank Herbert
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Devotion by Patti Smith
Real Life by Brandon Tyler
10 : 04 by Ben Lerner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davis
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
all about love: new visions by bell hooks
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Intimations by Zadie Smith
The Intervals of Cinema by Jacques Rancière
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
Sun of Consciousness by Édouard Glissant
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Begins
In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone by Seamus Heaney
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
2019
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Baldi Kaur Jaswal
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Daily Rituals of Women by Maison Currey
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich That Hanh
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance by L.A. Kauffman
South and West by Joan Didion
Conversations with Friend by Sally Rooney
The Women by Hilton Als
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Orlando by Virgina Woolf
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous
Manifestly Haraway by Donna Haraway
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Thick: And Other Essay by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
2018
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
Open City by Teju Cole
The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
The Artist and the Mathematician by Amir D. Aczel
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
To The Lighthouse by Virgina Woolf
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Dreams from my Father by Barrack Obama
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Manifesto by Charlene Carruthers
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Shape of Space by J. Weeks
Drown by Junot Diaz
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Hare With The Amber Eyes by Edmund Der Wall
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Some Thoughts about Relationships by Colin Wright