What lies herein is a list of every book I’ve read since 2002. Yes, I’m a booknerd. A list making booknerd. After tall, reader is the second word I used to describe myself. I’m a tall, reading writer who is kind of a nerd. A nerd who likes lists.
2022
- We Were Never Here
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home
- Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
- Carry the Dog
- Fiona and Jane
- Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
- To Paradise
- Hell of a Book
- The Heroine with a 1001 Faces
- Joan is Okay
- The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
- The Start-Up Wife
- The School for Good Mothers
- Lies She Told
- Mona at Sea
- The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- Olga Dies Dreaming
- Rock Paper Scissors
- The Bookshop
- The Hunting Wives
- The Bookshop of Second Chances
- Femlandia
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
- What to Do When Someone Dies
- Heard it in a Love Song
- Wahala
- Ghost Forest
- Uncanny Valley
- Several People Are Typing
- Drama: An Actor’s Education
- Nothin’ But a Good Time
- Lesson in Red
- The Downstairs Neighbor
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- Social Creature
- Commonwealth
- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Instructions for Dancing
- Timequake
- Not a Happy Family
- The Nineties
- Dear Committee Members
- All the Feels
- Faithful Place
- Good Company
- The Verifiers
- Incense and Sensibility
- The Stranger in the Mirror
- The Girls are All So Nice Here
- Our Country Friends
- The Husbands
- Little Threats
- Lying in Wait
- Little Cruelties
- Unraveling Oliver
- The Shakespeare Requirement
- How High We Go in the Dark
- Ten Steps to Nanette
- Broken Harbor
- We Are Watching Eliza Bright
- Never Saw Me Coming
- You’ll Be the Death of Me
- The Book of Cold Cases
- Did I Say You Could Go
- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
- The Younger Wife
- The Likeness
- Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
- The Art Forger
- I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
- Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
- Black Cake
- True Biz
- I am the Ghost in Your House
- Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
- The World Cannot Give
- Memphis
- The Collective
- The Club
- Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- Seven Dirty Secrets
- The Thorn Birds
- The Paris Apartment
- Glory
- Easy Beauty
- Run Rose Run
- The Golden Couple
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- The Secret History of Home Economics
- Local Gone Missing
- Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
- The Woman in the Library
- An Arrow to the Moon
- The Ghosts of Rose Hill
- 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line
- The Change
- Stories I Might Regret Telling You
- Acts of Violet
- Sirens & Muses
- The Night She Disappeared
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- The Third Wife
- Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- Just Like Home
- A Natural Woman
- Portrait of a Thief
- Thank You, Mr. Nixon
- The Latecomer
- Our Wives Under the Sea
- Hawk Mountain
- You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
- Sing Backwards and Weep
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- The Monsters of Templeton
- The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- Your Oasis in Flame Lake
- Unlikely Animals
- The It Girl
- Disorientation
- Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
- The Temps
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
- Fake
- Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
- The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Girl, Forgotten
- Hollywood Park
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
- Sleep Walk
- Ill Will
- Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)
- Ghosts
- Maybe We’ll Make It
- Elektra
- Our Missing Hearts
- The Lying Club
- Bad Vibes Only
- The Hero of This Book
- On the Rooftop
- Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More
- Orwell’s Roses
- The Counselors
- Shit Cassandra Saw
- The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
- Nightcrawling
- It All Comes Down to This
- The Secret History
- False Witness
- Confidence
- People Person
- A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- The Long Weekend
- To Tell You the Truth
- What She Knew
- Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- Odd Child Out
- The Perfect Girl
- I’ll Be You
- Acid for Children
- The Nanny
- Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club
- Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
- Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
- The Other Family
- Till the Wheels Fall Off
- Johnny Cash: The Life
- Family of Liars
- The Unheard
- The Thursday Murder Club
- We Were Liars
- Meredith Alone
- Keep Her Safe
- Magpie
- One-Hit Wonder
- A Death in Door County
2021
- How to Write One Song
- Written on the Body
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- The Wrong Family
- Self-Help
- No Walls and the Recurring Dream
- Horror Stories
- The Brief History of the Dead
- Little Weirds
- A Dream About Lightning Bugs
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
- True Grit
- Geek Love
- Detransition, Baby
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- The Wife Upstairs
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
- The Charmed Wife
- The Survivors
- Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it
- Pretty Little Wife
- Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Concrete Rose
- The Girls I’ve Been
- All Girls
- The Project
- A Thousand Ships
- Fat Girl
- The Echo Wife
- Dear Edward
- The Divines
- Parable of the Sower
- No One is Talking About This
- The Ex Talk
- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)
- Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
- The Perfect Girlfriend
- The Push
- Shrill
- More Than Love
- Sigh, Gone
- Divided Soul
- The Witch’s Heart
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown
- Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things
- Dear Mr. You
- The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
- Klara and The Sun
- People Like Her
- Luck or Something Like It
- The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
- Honey Girl
- The Butterfly Lampshade
- Firekeeper’s Daughter
- Always a Song
- The Art of Memoir
- Women and Other Monsters
- Of Women and Salt
- Lolita in the Afterlife
- The Souvenir Museum
- Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
- Love, Loss, and What We Ate
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
- Crying in H Mart
- White Feminism
- Ariadne
- Sanctuary
- E.E. Cummings: A Life
- Portrait of an Artist
- Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
- Spoiler Alert
- The Songbook of Benny Lament
- Olympus, Texas
- Mary Jane
- The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
- The Other Black Girl
- Rememberings
- Broken Horses
- Capote
- The Disappearing Act
- The Atmospherians
- Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
- Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- Meet Me in Another Life
- Hype : How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We’re Following
- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
- Men Explain Things to Me
- Sister Outsider
- Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
- Bad Habits
- Brat: An 80’s Story
- The Vixen
- Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
- My Sweet Audrina
- The Plot
- The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
- Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements
- Lakewood
- Mother Daughter Widow Wife
- Recipe For Persuasion
- A Touch of Jen
- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
- All My Mother’s Lovers
- If I Had Your Face
- The Margot Affair
- The Removed
- The Lottery & Other Stories
- Madam
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
- Autobiography of a Face
- Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
- The Perfect Nanny
- Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
- The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
- The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
- Daughters of Sparta
- Infinite Country
- Quiet in Her Bones
- Nightbitch
- She’s Too Pretty to Burn
- Mother May I
- Matrix
- Cultish
- Apples Never Fall
- When Women Invented Television
- His & Hers
- Beautiful World, Where Are You?
- Mellencamp
- The Less Dead
- Meaty
- Morningside Heights
- The Good Sister
- Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – and the Journey of a Generation
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
- Fierce Little Thing
- A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston
- Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
- Writers & Lovers
- The Lost Apothecary
- Lies Like Wildfire
- Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- For Your Own Good
- Sometimes You Have to Lie
- We Hold the Dead Close
- The Heart Principle
- Fallopian Rhapsody
- Magpie Murders
- Moonflower Murders
- The Man Who Ate Too Much
- Forever
- I Don’t Forgive You
- Black Widow
- Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
- The Five Wounds
- Music is History
- The Sentence
- The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
- The Body is Not an Apology
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
- Willie Nelson’s Letters to America
- The Perfect Family
- Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing
- The World Gives Way
- Songs in Ursa Major
- Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
2020
- Written on the Body
- All This Could Be Yours
- In the Dream House
- The Lying Room
- Bird by Bird
The Future of Another Timeline- Reputation
- The Silent Patient
- Such a Fun Age
- Girls Like Us
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown
- A Madness of Sunshine
- How to Do Nothing
- One of Us is Next
- A Death in White Bear Lake
- Girl, Woman, Other
- The Queen
- Followers
- Saint X
- Perfect Little Children
- The Resisters
- Good Girls Lie
- Mr. Nobody
- Weather
- Upright Women Wanted
- The Mercies
- Little Gods
- My Dark Vanessa
- You Are Not Alone
- The Glass Hotel
- Darling Rose Gold
- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
- Writers & Lovers
- Behind Every Lie
- The Sun Down Motel
- Resistance
- The Look-Alike
- The Herd
- Strike Me Down
- Wow, No Thank You
- Pretty as a Picture
- Clap When You Land
- Perfect Tunes
- A Good Marriage
- Have You Seen Me?
- The Vanishing Half
- Happy & You Know It
- Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr
- These Women
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown
- A Burning
- Oona Out of Order
- The Girl from Widow Hills
- The Knockout Queen
- Yellow Bird
- The Guest List
- Mexican Gothic
- Pretty Things
- Hood Feminism
- The Sea of Lost Girls
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
- She Said
- Luster
- The Comeback
- Memorial Drive
- The Heir Affair
- He Started It
- What Alice Forgot
- The End of Her
- Empire of Wild
- The Whitsun Daughters
- Little Secrets
- Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop
- The Night Swim
- His Only Wife
- One by One
- One to Watch
- When No One is Watching
- The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
- All I Ever Wanted
- The Other Americans
- The Lying Life of Adults
- Transcendent Kingdom
- The Searcher
- Eat a Peach
- Slaughter-House Five
- The Death of Vivek Oji
- Monogamy
- Confessions on the 7:45
- Disability Visibility
- Conditional Citizens
- Caste
- Don’t Look For Me
- Me and Sister Bobbie
- Let Love Rule
- Shit, Actually
- Madame Clairvoyant’s Guide to the Stars
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Leave the World Behind
- Invisible Girl
- The Argonauts
- White Ivy
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- The Girls Weekend
- The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
- No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
- Janis: Her Life and Music
- Plain Bad Heroines
- Long Bright River
- Goodnight Beautiful
- Want
- Days of Distraction
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- Golem Girl
- Cat’s Cradle
- My Own Devices
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
2019
- The Bluest Eye
- Milkman
- What If It’s Us
- Heavy: An American Memoir
- Watching You
- Evening in Paradise: More Stories
- The Power
- The Dreamers
- In the Woods
- How Long ’til Black Future Month?
- Talent
- Inheritance
- An Anonymous Girl
- An Orchestra of Minorities
- The Lost Man
- Parker: Selected Stories
- Two Can Keep a Secret
- The Poet X
- Black Enough
- Persons Unknown
- 90s Bitch
- The Wife
- Blue Nights
- Hark
- The Last Romantics
- Sugar Run
- On the Come Up
- No Happy Endings
- The Lost Girl
- Thick: And Other Essays
- Sadie
- The Bad Daughter
- Our Souls at Night
- The Au Pair
- How to be a Person in the World
- Dreams of Falling
- Queenie
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Girl Last Seen
- Maid
- Shout
- The Source of Self-Regard
- Everything is Horrible and Wonderful
The Cassandra(DNF)- My Lovely Wife
- My Own Devices
- Creative Quest
Women Talking(DNF)- Beautiful Bad
- Beastie Boys Book
- Come Find Me
- Normal People
- The Night Olivia Fell
- Miracle Creek
- Lost and Wanted
- The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks
- All That You Leave Behind
- Notes from a Young Black Chef
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Doing Harm- Such a Perfect Wife
- Save Me the Plums
- The Mother-in-Law
- Trust Exercise
- The Farm
- What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About
- Before She Was Found
- With the Fire on High
- Furious Hours
- Searching for Sylvie Lee
- I Know Who You Are
- City of Girls
- Evvie Drake Starts Over
- The Last House Guest
- Donna Has Left the Building
- Rules for Visiting
- Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune
- Mrs. Everything
- Necessary People
- Fake Like Me
- The Nickel Boys
- The Need
- The Invited
- Gods of Jade and Shadow
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
- Ask Again, Yes
- Conviction
- Someone We Know
- The Lager Queen of Minnesota
- Gravity is the Thing
- Never Have I Ever
- Speaking of Summer
- More than Enough
- The Turn of the Key
- The Most Fun We Ever Had
- The Last Widow
- Trick Mirror
- Bluebird, Bluebird
- Call Them by Their True Names
- My Friend Anna
- The Testaments
- American Predator
- The Tenth Muse
- Marilou is Everywhere
- Sharp
- Red at the Bone
- The Ungrateful Refugee
- Patsy
- The Hot Young Widows Club
- Whisper Network
- Trick Mirror
- The Dutch House
- Fleishman Is in Trouble
- Know My Name
- Girl in Pieces
- How We Fight For Our Lives
- On Time: A Princely Life in Funk
- Face It
- The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
- High School
- Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
- Dear Girls
- I Like to Watch
- The Sweetest Fruits
- The Family Upstairs
- Nothing to See Here
- Catch and Kill
- The First Mistake
- The Grammarians
- The Escape Room
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
- I Found You
- Magic for Liars
- The Witches are Coming
- Bowlaway
2018
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (review)
- Home Fire
- Chemistry ★ ★ ★ ★
- Her Body and Other Parties ★ ★ ★
The ImmortalistsDNF- The Woman in the Window (review)
- Give a Girl a Knife ★ ★ ★
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News★ ★
- Stay With Me (review)
- Force of Nature ★ ★ ★
- The Outsiders ★ ★ ★ ★
- Heart Berries ★ ★ ★ ★
- White Houses ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Wife Between Us ★ ★ ★
- Far From the Tree
- The Wedding Date ★ ★ ★
SunburnDNF- An American Marriage
- Sometimes I Lie ★ ★ ★
- Girls Burn Brighter ★ ★
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark ★ ★ ★ ★
- If I Die Tonight ★ ★
- Sula ★ ★ ★ ★
- Even If it Kills Her ★ ★ ★ ★
- Everything Here is Beautiful
- Lucky Us ★ ★
- The Female Persuasion ★
- Dread Nation ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Broken Girls ★ ★ ★
- The Perfect Mother ★ ★
- Less ★ ★ ★
- The Favorite Sister (review)
- A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out ★ ★
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway ★ ★
- Then She Was Gone ★ ★
- Circe ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Mars Room ★ ★
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows ★ ★ ★ ★
- Something in the Water ★ ★ ★
- The Ensemble ★ ★ ★ ★
- Florida ★ ★ ★
- Jar of Hearts ★ ★ ★
- The Kiss Quotient ★ ★ ★
- Educated ★ ★ ★
- There There ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Astonishing Color of After ★ ★ ★ ★
- Tin Man ★ ★ ★
- The Great Believers ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Summer Wives ★ ★
- So You Want to Talk About Race? ★ ★ ★
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree (review)
- Give Me Your Hand ★ ★ ★
- Baby Teeth (review)
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation ★ ★ ★
- Ghosted ★ ★
- The Death of Truth
- Kitchen Confidential ★ ★
- Pieces of Her ★ ★
- An Unwanted Guest ★ ★
- My Brilliant Friend ★ ★ ★ ★
- Vox (review)
- Severance ★ ★ ★ ★
- Robin ★ ★ ★
- Fear ★ ★
- The Good Neighbor ★ ★ ★
- The Real Lolita ★ ★ ★
- Tiny Beautiful Things ★ ★ ★ ★
- A Visit From the Goon Squad ★ ★ ★ ★
- My Own Devices ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Silence of the Girls ★ ★ ★ ★
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death ★ ★ ★ ★
- In Pieces ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Witch Elm ★ ★ ★
- Leave No Trace ★ ★
- The Library Book ★ ★ ★
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing ★ ★ ★ ★
- All You Can Ever Know (review)
- The Greatest Love Story Ever Told★ ★ ★
- Nine Perfect Strangers ★ ★ ★
- The Secret Place ★ ★ ★
- Small Fry ★ ★
- The Tresspasser ★ ★ ★
- Patty Jane’s House of Curl ★ ★ ★
- Good and Mad ★ ★
- My Love Story ★ ★ ★ ★
- Well-Read Black Girl ★ ★ ★ ★
- This Will Only Hurt a Little ★ ★ ★
- Lake Success ★ ★ ★
- My Sister the Serial Killer★ ★ ★ ★
- How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t★ ★
- Those Who Knew★ ★ ★ ★
- Family Trust★ ★ ★ ★
- I Might Regret This★ ★
- I Know You Know★ ★
- Becoming
2017
- Cop Town (review)
- We Should All be Feminists ★ ★ ★
- Big Little Lies (review)
- History of Wolves (review)
- Don’t You Cry (review)
- The Dry (review)
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (review)
- The Shipping News ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Last Anniversary (review)
- Under the Harrow ★
- Lincoln in the Bardo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
- We Love You, Charlie Freeman (review)
- The Husband’s Secret ★ ★
- Everything You Want Me to Be (review)
- The Sun is Also a Star (review)
- White Tears (review)
- Lucky Boy (review)
- The Handmaid’s Tale ★ ★ ★ ★
- Truly Madly Guilty ★ ★
- The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (review)
- Three Wishes ★ ★
- The Leavers (review)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 ★ ★
- Behind Her Eyes ★
- Hunger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
- Homegoing (review)
- The Perfect Stranger ★ ★
- Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements (review)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (review)
- Shotgun Lovesongs (review)
- Magpie Murders ★ ★ ★
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me ★ ★ ★ ★
- The Lying Game ★ ★ ★
- Goodbye, Vitamin ★ ★ ★
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
- Do Not Become Alarmed
- Young Jane Young
- The Good Daughter
- What Happened
- The Hate U Give
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Genuine Fraud ★ ★
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore ★ ★
- My Life on the Road
- Manhattan Beach
- They Both Die at the End
- A Stranger in the House
- Mrs. Fletcher
- Hello, Sunshine
- We Were Eight Years in Power
- Conversations With Friends
- Turtles All the Way Down
- What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
- Exit West
- Lie to Me
- One of Us is Lying
- The Almost Sisters
- Sing, Unburied, Sing
- There’s Someone Inside Your House
2016
- Jem and the Holograms Volume 1: Showtime (review)
- Fates and Furies (review)
- My Brilliant Friend(review)
- Hopeless Savages: Break
- The Story of a New Name (review)
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (review)
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (review)
- Black-Eyed Susans (review)
- The Story of the Lost Child (review)
- Boys in the Trees: A Memoir (review)
- Every Anxious Wave (review)
- The Tsar of Love and Techno (review)
- Living Like a Runaway (review)
- The Book of Unknown Americans (review)
- Girls on Fire (review)
- The Woman Upstairs (review)
- Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (review)
- I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland (review)
- The Girls
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
- It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too (review)
- My Name is Lucy Barton
- Everything, Everything
- The Hopefuls (review)
- Invincible Summer
- The Lost Girls (review)
- You Will Know Me (review)
- All is Not Forgotten (review)
- Between the World and Me
- Modern Romance (review)
- Why Not Me? (review)
- The Underground Railroad
- Good as Gone (review)
- The Couple Next Door (review)
- Sweetbitter (review)
- The Nix
- The Unseen World
- Commonwealth
- The Nest
- Today Will Be Different
- All the Missing Girls (review)
- Harmony
- The Mothers
- Another Brooklyn
- The Red Car
- Here Comes the Sun
- Missing, Presumed
- In a Dark, Dark Wood
- Christmas Jars
- Pretty Girls
- Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
2015
- Geek Love (review)
- All the Light We Cannot See (review)
- A Reunion of Ghosts (review)
Sister Golden HairAbandoned- Girl in a Band: A Memoir (review)
- Sex Criminals Volume 2
- Scott Pilgrim 1-6
- Bone Gap
- Delicious Foods
- Lumberjanes Vol. 1
- It’s a Long Story: My Life (review)
- Over Easy
- Mislaid (review)
- Giraffes in My Hair (review)
- Armada (review)
- Wonderland (review)
- Loving Day
- Nimona (review)
- This One Summer (review)
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest (review)
- Luckiest Girl Alive (review)
- Days of Awe (review)
- Saga Volume 5
- Fates and Furies
- Dumplin’ (review)
- Reckless: My Life as a Pretender (review)
- Did You Ever Have a Family
- Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
- The Royal We
2014
- Composed: A Memoir (review)
- Wuthering Heights
- A Life in Men (review)
- Dept. of Speculation (review)
- One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (review)
- An Unnecessary Woman (review)
- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (review)
- Bark: Stories (review)
- Thunderstruck & Other Stories (review)
- Boy, Snow, Bird (review)
- Saga, Vol. 3
- An Untamed State (review)
- The Martian (review)
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade (review)
- Love Life (review)
- Stillwater (review)
- Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville (33 1/3) (review)
- Americanah (review)
- Sex Criminals Volume 1 (review)
- Seconds (review)
- How I Live Now (review)
- Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass & Sorcery (review)
- We Were Liars (review)
- Everything I Never Told You (review)
- 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas (review)
- Sweetness #9 (Review)
- Bittersweet (review)
- How to Build a Girl (review)
- Station Eleven (review)
- Wolf in White Van (review)
- Love Letters to the Dead (review)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (review)
- Yes Please
- Ugly Girls
- Reality Boy
- Love Me Back
2013
- The Round House (review)
- How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life (review)
- The Orphan Master’s Son (review)
- Who I Am: A Memoir (review)
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories (review)
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (review)
- When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (review)
- Eleanor & Park (review)
- Touch & Go (review)
- Woke Up Lonely (review)
- Unfamiliar Fishes (review)
- Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs (review)
- Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll (review)
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (review)
- Uses for Boys (review)
- 11/22/63 (review)
- You Are One of Them (review)
- Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies (review)
- The Golem and the Jinni (review)
- The Original 1982 (review)
- Lexicon (review)
- We Sinners (review)
- Tampa (review)
- Saga, Vol. 2
- Let the Dark Flower Blossom (review)
- The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (review)
- &Sons (review)
- Inferno (review)
- Fangirl (review)
- Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways (review)
- The Winter of the Robots (review)
- Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir (review)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane (review)
- Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir (review)
- Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (review)
- Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
- Lips Unsealed: A Memoir (review)
- The Goldfinch
- Sex & Violence
- Coreyography: A Memoir
2012
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (review)
- Hope: A Tragedy (review)
- The Book of Drugs (review)
- The Fault in Our Stars (review)
- Ms. Hempel Chronicles (review)
- The Sense of an Ending (review)
- I Stay Near You (review)
- Girlchild (review)
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (review)
- Stay Awake: Stories
- Out of the Vinyl Deeps (review)
- Friends with Boys (review)
- Baby’s in Black (review)
- Arcadia (review)
- Wild (review)
Fiction Ruined My Family(abandoned)- The Plain Janes (review)
- Janes in Love (review)
- Token (review)
- Are You My Mother? (review)
- Girl Walks into a Bar . . . (review)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (review)
- The Age of Miracles (review)
- Gone Girl (review)
- Stone Arabia (review)
- Boarded Windows (review)
- Fables Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind
- Level Up (review)
- Phonogram: Rue Britannia (review)
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette (review)
- Sharp Objects (review)
- Dark Places (review)
- Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone (review)
- The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (review)
- Breakfast of Champions (review)
- The World Without You (review)
- This Is How You Lose Her (review)
- Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (review)
- Have You Seen Marie? (review)
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home (review)
- A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel (review)
- Saga, Vol. 1 (review)
- Tiny Beautiful Things (review)
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
- Chopsticks (review)
- The Middlesteins (review)
- Tune: Vanishing Point
- Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?
- Half-Blood Blues (review)
2011
- Fables Vol. 16: Super Team
- Breadcrumbs
- When She Woke
- An Invisible Sign of My Own
- Everybody Sees the Ants (review)
- The Night Circus (review)
- The Giant’s House
- Habibi (review)
- Cheat
- The Family Fang (review)
- Ready Player One (review)
- The Tanglewood Terror (review)
- The Astral (review)
- My American Unhappiness (review)
- Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1 (review)
- Blueprints for Building Better Girls (review)
- A Good Hard Look (review)
- The Mostly True Story of Jack (review)
- The Lover’s Dictionary (review)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (review)
- The Year We Left Home (review)
- Silver Sparrow (review)
- Imaginary Girls (review)
- If You Knew Then What I Know Now (review)
- Stories I Only Tell My Friends (review)
- Anya’s Ghost (review)
- Daytripper (review)
- See a Little Light (review)
- Orientation: And Other Stories (review)
- Dimiter (review)
- The Fates Will Find Their Way (review)
- The Tragedy of Arthur (review)
- Mamba Point (review)
- Fables Vol. 15
- Bossypants (review)
- So Much Pretty (review)
- The Illumination (review)
- Brooklyn, Burning (review)
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz (review)
- Ivy (review)
- How to Say Goodbye in Robot (review)
- Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later (review)
- The Wilder Life (review)
- Jane-Emily (review)
- Gidget (review)
- Bloodroot (review)
- Swamplandia!(review)
- V for Vendetta (review)
- Just Kids (review)
- The Weird Sisters (review)
- 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man (review)
- An Abundance of Katherines (review)
- Freedom (review)
2010
- Rat Girl (review)
- Twins (review)
- A Sickness in the Family (review)
- Fables Vols. 4 – 12 (review)
- Fables Vol. 1 – 3 (review
- The Girl with the Silver Eyes (review)
- The Exes (review)
- Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (review)
- Bound (review)
- Bad Marie (review)
- Slut Lullabies (review)
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson (review)
- Cruddy (review)
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (review)
- The Absolute Value of -1 (review)
- Super Sad True Love Story (review)
- Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (review)
- Lost At Sea (review)
- Swallow Me Whole (review)
- The Feminine Mystique (review)
- Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (review)
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (review)
- Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (review)
- Scott Pilgirm’s Finest Hour (review)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (review)
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (review)
- Beezus and Ramona (review)
- Franny and Zooey (review)
- American Widow (review)
- Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe (review)
- Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together (review)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The Infinite Sadness (review)
- Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
- Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
- The Lathe Of Heaven
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- The Ask (review)
- Fly-over State (review)
- Ex Machina, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
- So Long, See You Tomorrow (review)
- The House of Tomorrow (review)
- If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Already (review)
- Potential (review)
- Blackbriar (review)
- Awkward and Definition (review)
- The Melting Season (review)
- A Friend of the Family (review)
- Blankets (review)
- The Umbrella Academy: Dallas (review)
- The Nobody
- Ball Peen Hammer (review)
- Where the God of Love Hangs Out (review)
- What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (review)
- Black Hole (review)
2009
- The English Major (review)
- Y the Last Man vols. 1-10 (review)
- My Happy Life (review)
- Taking Care
- Too Cool To Be Forgotten (review)
- Wonder Boys (review)
- The First Person: and Other Stories (review)
- Outliers: The Story of Success (review)
Watchmen(abandoned)- Local (review)
- Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (review)
- Mudville (review)
- Don’t Cry (review)
- The Turtle Catcher (review)
- The Big Sleep (review)
- Pride and Prejudice (review)
- All-Star Superman Volumes 1 & 2 (review)
- The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar (review)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (review)
- Disquiet (review)
- So Brave, Young and Handsome (review)
- Epileptic (review)
- The Song Is You (review)
- German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons (review)
- Twin Study (review)
- The Umbrella Academy (v. 1) (review)
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (review)
- The Rock Snob’s Dictionary (review)
Funny Misshapen Body(abandoned)- Laura Rider’s Masterpiece (review)
- Maus (review)
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (review)
- Little Things (review)
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (review)
- Sag Harbor: A Novel (review)
Kingdom Come(abandoned)- In the Shadow of No Towers (review)
- I Kill Giants (review)
- Love Is a Four-Letter Word (review)
- The Maltese Falcon
- Shortcomings (review)
- Do Not Deny Me (review)
- Asterios Polyp (review)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (review)
- Andromeda Klein (review)
- Await Your Reply (review)
- American Born Chinese (review)
- Everything Matters! (review)
- Totally Killer (review)
- The Complete Essex County (review)
- Juliet, Naked (review)
- Stitches (review)
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008
- All About Lulu (review)
- The Virgin Suicides
- The Theory of Light & Matter
- Identity Crisis (DC Comics)
- The Gargoyle (review)
- Twilight (review)
- Indignation (review)
- Dear Everybody (review)
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (review)
- What Was Lost (review)
- The Alcoholic (review)
- The Wordy Shipmates (review)
- Downtown Owl (review)
- Personal Days (review)
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames (review)
- Kafka on the Shore (review)
- The Night of the Gun (review)
- Netherland (review)
- Who Do You Love (Review)
- America America (review)
- So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (review)
- Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be (review)
- The Importance of Music to Girls (review)
- The Ghost Writer
- Secret Lives of Great Authors (review)
- The Wonders of the Invisible World (review)
- I Love You, Beth Cooper (review)
- The Monsters of Templeton (review)
- The Dead Fish Museum (review)
- The Stone Gods (review)
- I am the Messenger (podcast)
- Things I’ve Learned from the Women Who’ve Dumped Me (review)
- Things That Fall From the Sky (review)
- The Learners (review)
- Rock On (review)
- Bang Crunch (review)
- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (podcast)
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (podcast)
- My Life in Heavy Metal (review)
- Candy Girl (review)
- Post Office (review)
- The Descendants (review)
- Self-Help (review)
- Atonement (review)
- The Screwtape Letters (podcast)
- No One Belongs Here More Than You (review)
- Away
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (podcast)
2007
- Dead Boys
- Then We Came to the End
- My Date with Satan
- Best American Short Stories 2007
- Foreskin’s Lament
- Schulz and Peanuts
- All Over But the Shouting
- The Gum Thief
- Sammy’s Hill
- An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
- The Sabotage Cafe
- The Best of Tin House
- The Sound and the Fury
- Honored Guest
- Forever Odd
- The Beautiful and Damned
- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
- The Words to Every Song
- Ignorance
- All This Heavenly Glory
- Throw Like a Girl
- Fitting Ends
- Later, at the Bar
- A Moveable Feast
- Reading Like a Writer
- Petal Pusher
- Fear of Flying
- Kissing in Manhattan
- American Pastoral
- Love is a Mix Tape
- A Brief History of the Dead
- You Don’t Love Me Yet
- Famous Writers School
- How to Be Alone
- Remainder
- Absurdistan
- The Brothers K
- Sweet and Low: A Family Story
- Hush, Vol. 2
- Hush, Vol. 1
- The Road
- Undead and Unwed
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Best American Short Stories 2006
2006
- Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
- My Secret
- Where I’m Calling From
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Brighton Rock*
- The Keep
- Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- This is Not Chick Lit
- A Spot of Bother
- Because They Wanted To
- The Accidental
- This Side of Paradise
- The Vanished Man
- Prep
- Lolita
- Fun Home
- Between the Bridge and the River (Podcast)
- The Wedding (book club)
- Everyman
- Post Secret
- King Dork
- The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
- JPod
- Fahrenheit 451 (Podcast)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Red Tent (book club)
- Twilight of the Superheroes
- The Secret Life of Bees (book club)
- 1984
- The Thin Place (book club)
- In Cold Blood
- My Sister’s Continent
- Crime and Punishment (book club)
- Company: A Novel
- Jane Eyre (book club)
2005
- Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
- Catcher in the Rye
- The News from Paraguay
- Cat’s Cradle
- Eleanor Rigby
- Ella Minnow Pea
- Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon
- The Great Gatsby
- How to Breathe Underwater
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Plot Against America
- Love Invents Us
- Home Land
- The Giant’s House
- Under the Banner of Heaven*
- Geek Love
- The Night in Question
- Written on the Body
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- The Cheese Monkeys
- The Coast of Chicago
- God bless you, Mr. Rosewater
- The Kite Runner
- The Bluest Eye
- Case Histories
- How to Breathe Underwater (i read it twice)
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
- A Candle in Her Room
- Lighthousekeeping*
- Oh My Stars*
- The Pornographer’s Poem
- Upstate
- The Apple’s Bruise
- Snakes and Earrings
- Until I Find You
- Killing Yourself to Live
- Sex, Drugs, and Coca Puffs
- Willful Creatures
- Ibid
- Beware of God
- Samuel Johnson is Indignant
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Murder at the Vicarage
- Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
- Veronica : A Novel
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- Cloud Atlas
- A Changed Man
- Gilead
- Assassination Vacation
- Odd Thomas
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*
- The History of Love
2004
- Jesus’ Son
- Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist
- Quite a Year for Plums
- Reasons to Live
- What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
- Something Rising (Light and Swift)
- The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain*
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
- A Girl Named Zippy
- Among the Missing
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues*
- Bad Behavior
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
- Civilwarland in Bad Decline
- The Fortress of Solitude
- The Hazards of Good Breeding
- Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona
- The Namesake
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-workers
- How to Be Good
- Oblivion
- A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
- You Remind Me of Me
- Love and Hydrogen
- Emperor of the Air
- The Human Stain
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
- Liars and Saints
- Love
- The Point and Other Stories
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Naked
- Birds of America: Stories
- 33 1/3 Let it Be
- Crabwalk
- I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
- Little Children
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
- Autobiography of a Face
- The Best American Short Stories 2002
- The Best American Short Stories 2004
- How We Are Hungry
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Alias Grace
- Half in Love
- Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
- Godless
2003
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
- The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
- I Stay Near You
- The Crimson Petal and the White
- The Lost Soul Companion
- In Her Shoes
- Normal
- The Alchemist
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot
- Songbook
- The Bitch in the House*
- My Only Story
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
- Word Freak
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Thief of Always
- Beautiful Girls
- Slanky
- Cash: The Autobiography
- Happiness
- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
- They Have a Word for It
- The Secret History
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Wonder When You’ll Miss Me
- About the Author
- Reading Lolita in Tehran*
- You’ve Got to Read This
- Good Girls Gone Bad
- Hey Nostradamus!
- The Muse Asylum
- Written on the Body
- The Solace of Leaving Early
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Sleep Toward Heaven
- The Time of Our Singing*
- What I Loved
- Sula
- Jennifer Government
- The Torn Skirt
- The Subject Steve
- Please, Don’t Kill the Freshman
- The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
- The Losers’ Club
- Lucky Girls
- The Best American Short Stories 2003
- The Winter Zoo
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- The Little Women
2002
- Fargo Rock City
- Lightning Field
- The Vagina Monologues
- Net Words: Creating High-Impact Copy Online
- Lit Life
- The Powerbook
- Bias
- The Bell Jar
- Come to Me
- Mouthing the Words
- The Savage Girl
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined
- Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
- Use Me
- Superbad
- Ella Minnow Pea
- The Nanny Diaries
- Woe is I
- Junk English
- Shopgirl
- The Professor and the Madman
- Cheese Monkeys
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Bird by Bird
- Good in Bed
- The Invisible Circus
- An Invisible Sign of My Own**
- You Are Not a Stranger Here**
- Prague**
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
- A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashion, and Culture Change
- The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up**
- Snobbery: The American Version
- For Fucks Sake**
- You Shall Know Our Velocity**
- Welcome to Higby**
- The Little Friend
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