Books I’ve read (cover-to-cover) in reverse chronological order, Jan 2014-present.

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2020

• Calypso, David Sedaris*
• The Cactus, Sarah Haywood
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain*
• Wow, No Thank You., Samantha Irby
• Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
• Open Book, Jessica Simpson*
• Kindred, Octavia Butler
• Untamed, Glennon Doyle
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• Save Yourself, Cameron Esposito*
• Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
• Normal People, Sally Rooney
• Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory

2019 (33)

• Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
• The Girls, Emma Cline
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
• Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, Chuck Klosterman
• Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free, Wednesday Martin
• The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
• The Wedding Party, Jasmine Guillory
• Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
• The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• So Close to Being the Shit, Y’all Don’t Even Know, Retta*
• Stroke of Midnight, Andie J. Christopher
• The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory
• Always and Forever, Lara Jean, Jenny Han
• PS I Still Love You, Jenny Han
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han
• Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan
• China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan
• Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett
• Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
• Every Day, David Levithan
• Drag Teen, Jeffery Self
• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
• Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
• The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
• Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Padma Lakshmi*
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
• Shrill, Lindy West*
• The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
• My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
• All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung
• This Will Only Hurt a Little, Busy Phillips*

2018 (31)

• My Squirrel Days, Ellie Kemper*
• Art Girls Are Easy, Julie Klausner
• Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay, Phoebe Robinson*
• The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander
• The World to Come, Dara Horn
• Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
• Yekl, Abraham Cahan
• Feminasty, Erin Gibson*
• My Life as a Goddess, Guy Branum
• Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
• The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
• The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
• Ruth Hall, Fanny Fern
• The Lamplighter, Maria S. Cummins
• Embodied Avatars, Uri McMillan
• Hope Leslie, Catherine Maria Sedgwick
• Brothers on Life, Mike & Matt Czuchry
• The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Coquette, Hannah Webster Foster
• The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher*
• I’m Fine…and Other Lies, Whitney Cummings*
• Everything is Awful, Matt Bellassai*
• DC Trip, Sara Benincasa
• Great, Sara Benincasa
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

2017 (23)

• How To Be Black, Baratunde Thurston
• The Sellout, Paul Beatty
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett
• Black No More, George Schuyler
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Wine. All the Time., Marissa A. Ross
• Just the Essentials, Adina Grigore
• Hunger, Roxane Gay
• The First Bad Man, Miranda July
• The Circle, Dave Eggers
• And We’re Off, Dana Schwartz
• When You Find Out the World Is Against You, Kelly Oxford
• Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
• Agorafabulous!, Sara Benincasa
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs, Sara Benincasa
• The Curated Closet, Anuschka Rees
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Ayiti, Roxane Gay
• The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae
• Difficult Women, Roxane Gay

2016 (19)

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
• Talking As Fast As I Can, Lauren Graham
• Room, Emma Donoghue
• You Can’t Touch My Hair, Phoebe Robinson
• Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar, Kelly Oxford
• Where Am I Now?, Mara Wilson
• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu
• A Practical Wedding, Meg Keene
• I Know What I’m Doing, Jen Kirkman
• I Can Barely Take Care of Myself, Jen Kirkman
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
• Lust and Wonder, Augusten Burroughs
• The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living, Anna Newell Jones
• The Cost of Sugar, Cynthia McLeod
• The life-changing magic of tidying up, Marie Kondo
• Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein
• Super You, Emily V. Gordon

2015 (18)

• Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
• I Don’t Care About Your Band, Julie Klausner
• Passing, Nella Larsen
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
• The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
• Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
• An Untamed State, Roxane Gay
• Food: A Love Story, Jim Gaffigan
• How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, Anne Berest/Audrey Diwan/Caroline de Maigret/Sophie Mas
• The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
• Suburgatory, Linda Erin Keenan
• The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates
• Girl In A Band, Kim Gordon
• Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
• No one belongs here more than you., Miranda July
• Strong Motion, Jonathan Franzen

2014 (14)

• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• Yes Please, Amy Poehler
• The Art of Asking, Amanda Palmer
• In Defense of Food, Michael Pollen
• Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• On Writing, Steven King
• #GIRLBOSS, Sophia Amoruso
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
• Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris
• Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible, Tim Gunn
• The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
• Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee
• Mother. Wife. Sister. Warrior. Falcon.Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage., Rob Delaney