Reading

2024:

• 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