BOOKS I READ IN 2026

• the dhammapada
• the double by jose saramago
• fever dream by samanta schweblin
• the prayer of st. francis by james f. twyman
• wide sargasso sea by jean rhys
• stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity by erving goffman
• the conspiracy against the human race by thomas ligotti
• literature and evil by georges bataille
• the cement garden by ian mcewan
• low life: lures and snares of old new york by lucy sante
• holy the firm by annie dillard
• asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates by erving goffman
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman
• the last of the wine by mary renault
• the poppy war by r.f. kuang
• no one taught me how to be a man: what a trans man's experience reveals about masculinity by shannon t.l. kearns
• cloud atlas by david mitchell

BOOKS I READ IN 2025

• a series of unfortunate events, books 1 - 13 by lemony snicket
• necrophilia variations by supervert
• invisible cities by italo calvino
• cruddy by lynda barry
• the black prince by iris murdoch
• woom by duncan ralston
• the idiot by fyodor dostoyevsky
• the fisherman by john langan
• on old age by marcus tullius cicero
• tampa by alissa nutting
• corpsemouth and other autobiographies by john langan
• hollow by brian catling
• butter by asako yuzuki
• sefira and other betrayals by john langan
• between two fires by christopher buehlman
• cows by matthew stokoe
• pilgrim: a medieval horror by mutchell luthi

BOOKS I READ IN 2024

• the goldfinch by donna tartt
• the haar by david sodergren
• his black tongue by mitchell luthi
• the wide, carnivorous sky and other monstrous geographies by john langan
• bastard out of carolina by dorothy allison
• tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica
• songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe by thomas ligotti
• the black hunger by nicholas pullen
• lavil: life, love, and death in port-au-prince by peter orner
• black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity by c. riley snorton
• we want freedom: a life in the black panther party by mumia abu-jamal
• things fall apart chinua achebe
• invisible man by ralph ellison
• dhalgren by samuel r. delany
• the satyricon by petronius
• the secret history by donna tartt
• same-sex unions in premodern europe by john boswell
• jesus as mother: studies in the spirituality of the high middle ages by caroline walker bynum
• remainder by tom mccarthy
• men in space by tom mccarthy
• in cold blood by truman capote
• geek love by katherine dunn
• waif by samantha kolesnik
• white noise by don delillo
• joe gould's teeth by jill lepore
• monstrous affections by david nickle
• alien hearts by guy de maupassant
• sharp objects by gillian flynn
• the myth of sisyphus by albert camus
• spinal catastrophism: a secret history by thomas moynihan
• the great mortality: an intimate history of the black death, the most devastating plague of all time by john kelly
• exquisite corpse by poppy z. brite
• if not, winter: fragments of sappho by sappho, trans. anne carson
• lapvona by ottessa moshfegh
• let the record show: a political history of ACT UP new york, 1987-1993 by sarah schulman
• gender outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us by kate bornstein

BOOKS I READ IN 2023

• twelve diseases that changed our world by irwin w. sherman
• the price of salt, or, carol by patricia highsmith
• the wind's twelve quarters by ursula k. le guin
• cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world by mark kurlansky
• salt: a world history by mark kurlansky
• discipline and punish: the birth of the prison by michel foucault
• sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson
• oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
• the fifth wound by aurora mattia
• viruses, plagues, and history: past, present, and future by michael b. a. oldstone
• health communism by beatrice adler-bolton
• insane: america's criminal treatment of mental illness by alisa roth
• abnormal statistics by max booth iii
• racial migrations: new york city and the revolutionary politics of the spanish caribbean by jesse hoffnung-garskof
• my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh
• death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh
• middlesex by jeffrey eugenides
• eileen by ottessa moshfegh
• purity by jonathan franzen
• anarchist communism by pyotr kropotkin
• helter skelter: the true story of the manson murders by vincent bugliosi
• the people in the trees by hanya yanagihara
• hurts so good: the science and culture of pain on purpose by leigh cowart