Read (sorted by completion date):

August 2020: Poor People – William T. Vollmann

July 2020: Barbarossa – Alan Clark

June 2020: Tokyo Vice – Jake Adelstein

April 2020: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

February 2020: Japan Story – Christopher Harding, The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson

March 2019: Role Models – John Waters, Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

December 2018: Compass – Mathias Enard (Charlotte Mandell trans.), The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell

June 2018: All My Puny Sorrows – Miriam Toews

December 2017: A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin

November 2017: Hunger – Roxane Gay

June 2017: The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux

March 2017: Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction – Christopher Goto-Jones, The Man Who Walked Through Walls – Marcel Aymé, A Horse Walks Into a Bar – David Grossman (Jessica Cohen trans.)

February 2017: Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry, Steps – Jerzy Kosinski

December 2016: The Fahrenheit Twins – Michel Faber, The Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood

November 2016: The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction – Mike Rapport, Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey, Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

October 2016: White Sands – Geoff Dyer, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Paris Street Tales – Helen Constantine (ed.), The Other Paris – Luc Sante

August 2016: A Kim Jong-Il Production – Paul Fischer, Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction – J. Allan Hobson, There but for the – Ali Smith, Hiroshima – John Hersey

July 2016: Modern France: A Very Short Introduction – Vanessa R. Schwartz, Finding Time Again – Marcel Proust (Ian Patterson trans.)

June 2016: The Prisoner – Marcel Proust (Carol Clark trans.), The Fugitive – Marcel Proust (Peter Collier trans.), Naked Airport – Alastair Gordon

April 2016: The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction – Helen Graham

March 2016: The Guermantes Way – Marcel Proust (Mark Treharne trans.), The Throwback Special – Chris Bachelder, Sodom and Gomorrah – Marcel Proust (John Sturrock trans.)

February 2016: The End – Ian Kershaw, Sex and Disability – Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow (eds.), The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

January 2016: The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

December 2015: Ways of Seeing – John Berger, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower – Marcel Proust (James Grieve trans.)

November 2015: Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust (Lydia Davis trans.)

October 2015: The Boys of My Youth – Jo Ann Beard, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance – Heather Laine Talley

September 2015: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde, The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber

August 2015: Ongoingness – Sarah Manguso, Autobiography – Morrissey

July 2015: Low Life – Luc Sante, The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson, Staring: How We Look – Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

June 2015: The Liars’ Club – Mary Karr

May 2015: The Book of Strange New Things – Michel Faber, The Ugly Laws – Susan Schweik, China in Ten Words – Yu Hua

April 2015: Notes from No Man’s Land – Eula Biss, Berlin Diary – William Shirer, The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear and Volokhonsky trans.)

March 2015: Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson

February 2015: Other Electricities – Ander Monson, An African in Greenland – Tété-Michel Kpomassie

January 2015: The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

December 2014: Detroit City is the Place to Be – Mark Binelli, Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay

October 2014: A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

September 2014: Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy

August 2014: The Whale – Philip Hoare, Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson, The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

June 2014: Infinite Jest (re-read) – David Foster Wallace

April 2014: The Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison

March 2014: Kapitoil – Teddy Wayne, Farther Away – Jonathan Franzen

February 2014: Mimi and Toutou Go Forth – Giles Foden, Thirst – Ken Kalfus

January 2014: Bluets – Maggie Nelson, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace, The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst – Nicholas Tomalin, Abbott Awaits – Chris Bachelder

December 2013: Changing Faces: The Challenge of Facial Disfigurement – James Partridge, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story – D.T. Max

November 2013: The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen, The Elephant Man – Bernard Pomerance

October 2013: Oblivion – David Foster Wallace, Bough Down – Karen Green

September 2013: Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

May 2013: The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing

April 2013: The Pale King – Davis Foster Wallace

Currently actively reading:

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The I-Wanna-Read-Imminently pile:

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