Currently Reading:
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1968)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
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March 11
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (2017) 
"I thought of the story I had sent to Valerie that morning, a story that I now remembered was explicitly about Bobbi, a story that characterized Bobbi as a mystery so total I couldn't endure her, a force I couldn't subjugate with my will, and the love of my life."
January 27
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
January 7
Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
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December 30
Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)
"Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially."
December 13
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (2018)
December 11
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (2018)
December 8
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (2018)
December 3
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (2009)
November 30
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2017)
“They were all so nice and it was just excruciating. I was never taking off the helmet again. I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.”
November 29
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017)
"Etsuko had failed in this important way-- she had not taught her children to hope, to believe in the perhaps absurd possibility that they might win. Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not."
November 10
Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko (2025)
"You stare into it for days, all your life, as if waiting for a curtain to rise."
November 9
Making and Faking Kinship by Caren Freeman (2011)
November 4
I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde (1988)
November 3
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
October 20
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (1979)
"You grew many flowers in a few corners."
September 15
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta (1976)
August 8
Babel by R.F. Kuang (2022)
July 12
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (2023)
July 3
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (2022)
June 28
Evocation by S.T. Gibson (2024)
June 24
Blackouts by Justin Torres (2023)
"But the mentions of Father in the paper increase, news of the work he's doing in Chicago, of his legendary life. Each new article like a shadow suddenly falling across her lap. And she feels rage, and thrill, and wonder."
June 16
Sorcery & Small Magics by Maiga Doocy (2024)
May 30
The Analog Sea Review: An Offline Journal No. 3 edited by Johnathan Simons (2020)
“No images leave you in peace: they all want something from you.”
May 23
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1956)
April 4
Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh (2007)
April 1
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh (2022)
March 13
Elegy IV by Rainer Maria Rilke (1915)
“And you, my parents, am I not right? You who loved me for that small beginning of my love for you from which I always shyly turned away, because the distance in your features grew, changed, even while I loved it, into cosmic space where you no longer were.”
February 19
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)
February 6
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956) 
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”
January 30
Shame by Salmon Rushdie (1983)
January 23
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956) 
“I will be the chief European's boy. The dog of a king is a king of dogs.”
January 14
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (1980)
January 11
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
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November 10
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Mirii and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1977)
October 21
Sizwe Banzi is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona (1972)
The Island by Athol Fugard (1973)
October 2
Upstream by Mary Oliver (2016)
September 29
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams (2012) 
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."
September 24
Fate of a Cockroach by Tawfik Al-Hakim (1966)
June 24
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (2021) 
"What a blessing it is to be breathing on a breathing planet.
What a blessing to be Earth loving Earth."
June 2
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) 
“He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach.”
May 27
Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico (2023) 
"I don't know why you need so much for the story to be true.
The important thing is that it exists, no?"
May 10
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (2012)