Reading

2024:

  • Anne Rice: The Vampire Armand
  • Victor Hugo: Les Misérables volume 1: Fantine
  • Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  • Sarah Schulman: Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
  • Esther Yi: Y/N
  • Patricia Lockwood: No One is Talking About This
  • Lewis Hyde: The Gift
  • Patricia Lockwood: Priestdaddy
  • Mary Doria Russell: Doc
  • James Purdy: In a Shallow Grave

2023:

  • Patrick Süskind: Perfume: The story of a Murderer
  • Clive Barker: The Hellbound Heart
  • Voltaire: L’Ingénu
  • Voltaire: Candide
  • Mary Doria Russell: Children of God
  • Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Ada
  • Thomas Thwaites: The Toaster Project
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory
  • Gore Vidal: Point-to-Point Navigation
  • Nnedi Okorafor: Noor
  • Gore Vidal: Palimpsest
  • Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet
  • Patrick O’Brien: Master and Commander

2022:

  • Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red
  • Mary Renault: The King Must Die
  • Virginia Woolf: Orlando
  • Lauren Groff: Matrix
  • Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo
  • Gore Vidal: 1875
  • Gore Vidal: Julian
  • David Sweetman: Mary Renault: A Biography
  • Janet Malcolm: The Journalist and the Murderer
  • Mary Renault: North Face
  • Grace Lavery: Please Miss
  • Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
  • Elif Batuman: Either/Or
  • Gore Vidal: Creation
  • Mary Shelley: Mathilda
  • Laurent Gaudé: Pour seul cortège
  • Doireann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat
  • Marcus Rediker: The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
  • Mary Renault: The Charioteer
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer
  • Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
  • Pierre Bayard: Comment parler des livres que l’on n’a pas lus?
  • Aristophanes: The Birds
  • Donald Engels: Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
  • Caitlin Starling: The Luminous Dead
  • Richard Miles: Carthage Must be Destroyed
  • Joan Nestle (Ed.): GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary

2021:

  • Magda Szabó: The Door
  • Arrian: The Anabasis of Alexander
  • Caroline Zilboorg: The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography
  • Richard Feynman: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
  • Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls
  • Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine
  • Magda Szabó: Abigail
  • James Purdy: Eustace Chisolm and the Works
  • Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox
  • Micah Nemerever: These Violent Delights
  • Frank Huyler: White Hot Light
  • Thomas King: Indians on Vacation
  • Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven
  • Torrey Peters: Detransition, Baby
  • James Purdy: Narrow Rooms
  • Mary Renault: The Persian Boy
  • Agustina Bazterrica: Tender is the Flesh
  • Eileen Myles: Inferno
  • Elif Batuman: The Possessed
  • James Gaines: Evening in the Palace of Reason
  • Ursula Le Guin: No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
  • Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism
  • Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw
  • Elif Batuman: The Idiot
  • Alicia Eliott: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
  • Cheng-Rae Lee: A Gesture Life

2020:

  • Jenny Odell: How To Do Nothing
  • Terry Castle: The Professor and Other Writings
  • Carmen Machado: In the Dream House
  • Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth
  • Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies