Booknerd

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

  1. We Were Never Here
  2. Tell the Wolves I’m Home
  3. Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
  4. Carry the Dog
  5. Fiona and Jane
  6. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
  7. To Paradise
  8. Hell of a Book
  9. The Heroine with a 1001 Faces
  10. Joan is Okay
  11. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
  12. The Start-Up Wife
  13. The School for Good Mothers
  14. Lies She Told
  15. Mona at Sea
  16. The Bookshop of Yesterdays
  17. Olga Dies Dreaming
  18. Rock Paper Scissors
  19. The Bookshop
  20. The Hunting Wives
  21. The Bookshop of Second Chances
  22. Femlandia
  23. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
  24. What to Do When Someone Dies
  25. Heard it in a Love Song
  26. Wahala
  27. Ghost Forest
  28. Uncanny Valley
  29. Several People Are Typing
  30. Drama: An Actor’s Education
  31. Nothin’ But a Good Time
  32. Lesson in Red
  33. The Downstairs Neighbor
  34. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
  35. Social Creature
  36. Commonwealth
  37. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
  38. Instructions for Dancing
  39. Timequake
  40. Not a Happy Family
  41. The Nineties
  42. Dear Committee Members
  43. All the Feels
  44. Faithful Place
  45. Good Company
  46. The Verifiers
  47. Incense and Sensibility
  48. The Stranger in the Mirror
  49. The Girls are All So Nice Here
  50. Our Country Friends

2021

  1. How to Write One Song
  2. Written on the Body
  3. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  4. The Wrong Family
  5. Self-Help
  6. No Walls and the Recurring Dream
  7. Horror Stories
  8. The Brief History of the Dead
  9. Little Weirds
  10. A Dream About Lightning Bugs
  11. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
  12. True Grit
  13. Geek Love
  14. Detransition, Baby
  15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  16. The Wife Upstairs
  17. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
  18. The Charmed Wife
  19. The Survivors
  20. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it
  21. Pretty Little Wife
  22. Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year
  23. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
  24. Concrete Rose
  25. The Girls I’ve Been
  26. All Girls
  27. The Project
  28. A Thousand Ships
  29. Fat Girl
  30. The Echo Wife
  31. Dear Edward
  32. The Divines
  33. Parable of the Sower
  34. No One is Talking About This
  35. The Ex Talk
  36. Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)
  37. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
  38. The Perfect Girlfriend
  39. The Push
  40. Shrill
  41. More Than Love
  42. Sigh, Gone
  43. Divided Soul
  44. The Witch’s Heart
  45. Act Your Age, Eve Brown
  46. Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things
  47. Dear Mr. You
  48. The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
  49. Klara and The Sun
  50. People Like Her
  51. Luck or Something Like It
  52. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
  53. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
  54. Honey Girl
  55. The Butterfly Lampshade
  56. Firekeeper’s Daughter
  57. Always a Song
  58. The Art of Memoir
  59. Women and Other Monsters
  60. Of Women and Salt
  61. Lolita in the Afterlife
  62. The Souvenir Museum
  63. Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
  64. Love, Loss, and What We Ate
  65. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
  66. Crying in H Mart
  67. White Feminism
  68. Ariadne
  69. Sanctuary
  70. E.E. Cummings: A Life
  71. Portrait of an Artist
  72. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
  73. Spoiler Alert
  74. The Songbook of Benny Lament
  75. Olympus, Texas
  76. Mary Jane
  77. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
  78. The Other Black Girl
  79. Rememberings
  80. Broken Horses
  81. Capote
  82. The Disappearing Act
  83. The Atmospherians
  84. Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
  85. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
  86. Meet Me in Another Life
  87. Hype : How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We’re Following
  88. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
  89. Men Explain Things to Me
  90. Sister Outsider
  91. Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
  92. Bad Habits
  93. Brat: An 80’s Story
  94. The Vixen
  95. Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
  96. My Sweet Audrina
  97. The Plot
  98. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
  99. Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements
  100. Lakewood
  101. Mother Daughter Widow Wife
  102. Recipe For Persuasion
  103. A Touch of Jen
  104. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
  105. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
  106. All My Mother’s Lovers
  107. If I Had Your Face
  108. The Margot Affair
  109. The Removed
  110. The Lottery & Other Stories
  111. Madam
  112. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  113. Autobiography of a Face
  114. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
  115. The Perfect Nanny
  116. Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
  117. The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution
  118. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
  119. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
  120. Daughters of Sparta
  121. Infinite Country
  122. Quiet in Her Bones
  123. Nightbitch
  124. She’s Too Pretty to Burn
  125. Mother May I
  126. Matrix
  127. Cultish
  128. Apples Never Fall
  129. When Women Invented Television
  130. His & Hers
  131. Beautiful World, Where Are You?
  132. Mellencamp
  133. The Less Dead
  134. Meaty
  135. Morningside Heights
  136. The Good Sister
  137. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – and the Journey of a Generation
  138. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  139. Fierce Little Thing
  140. A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston
  141. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
  142. Writers & Lovers
  143. The Lost Apothecary
  144. Lies Like Wildfire
  145. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
  146. For Your Own Good
  147. Sometimes You Have to Lie
  148. We Hold the Dead Close
  149. The Heart Principle
  150. Fallopian Rhapsody
  151. Magpie Murders
  152. Moonflower Murders
  153. The Man Who Ate Too Much
  154. Forever
  155. I Don’t Forgive You
  156. Black Widow
  157. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
  158. The Five Wounds
  159. Music is History
  160. The Sentence
  161. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
  162. The Body is Not an Apology
  163. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
  164. Willie Nelson’s Letters to America
  165. The Perfect Family
  166. Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing
  167. The World Gives Way
  168. Songs in Ursa Major
  169. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

2020

  1. Written on the Body
  2. All This Could Be Yours
  3. In the Dream House
  4. The Lying Room
  5. Bird by Bird
  6. The Future of Another Timeline
  7. Reputation
  8. The Silent Patient
  9. Such a Fun Age
  10. Girls Like Us
  11. Get a Life, Chloe Brown
  12. A Madness of Sunshine
  13. How to Do Nothing
  14. One of Us is Next
  15. A Death in White Bear Lake
  16. Girl, Woman, Other
  17. The Queen
  18. Followers
  19. Saint X
  20. Perfect Little Children
  21. The Resisters
  22. Good Girls Lie
  23. Mr. Nobody
  24. Weather
  25. Upright Women Wanted
  26. The Mercies
  27. Little Gods
  28. My Dark Vanessa
  29. You Are Not Alone
  30. The Glass Hotel
  31. Darling Rose Gold
  32. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
  33. Writers & Lovers
  34. Behind Every Lie
  35. The Sun Down Motel
  36. Resistance
  37. The Look-Alike
  38. The Herd
  39. Strike Me Down
  40. Wow, No Thank You
  41. Pretty as a Picture
  42. Clap When You Land
  43. Perfect Tunes
  44. A Good Marriage
  45. Have You Seen Me?
  46. The Vanishing Half
  47. Happy & You Know It
  48. Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr
  49. These Women
  50. Take a Hint, Dani Brown
  51. A Burning
  52. Oona Out of Order
  53. The Girl from Widow Hills
  54. The Knockout Queen
  55. Yellow Bird
  56. The Guest List
  57. Mexican Gothic
  58. Pretty Things
  59. Hood Feminism
  60. The Sea of Lost Girls
  61. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
  62. She Said
  63. Luster
  64. The Comeback
  65. Memorial Drive
  66. The Heir Affair
  67. He Started It
  68. What Alice Forgot
  69. The End of Her
  70. Empire of Wild
  71. The Whitsun Daughters
  72. Little Secrets
  73. Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop
  74. The Night Swim
  75. His Only Wife
  76. One by One
  77. One to Watch
  78. When No One is Watching
  79. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
  80. All I Ever Wanted
  81. The Other Americans
  82. The Lying Life of Adults
  83. Transcendent Kingdom
  84. The Searcher
  85. Eat a Peach
  86. Slaughter-House Five
  87. The Death of Vivek Oji
  88. Monogamy
  89. Confessions on the 7:45
  90. Disability Visibility
  91. Conditional Citizens
  92. Caste
  93. Don’t Look For Me
  94. Me and Sister Bobbie
  95. Let Love Rule
  96. Shit, Actually
  97. Madame Clairvoyant’s Guide to the Stars
  98. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  99. Leave the World Behind
  100. Invisible Girl
  101. The Argonauts
  102. White Ivy
  103. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  104. Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
  105. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
  106. The Girls Weekend
  107. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
  108. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
  109. Janis: Her Life and Music
  110. Plain Bad Heroines
  111. Long Bright River
  112. Goodnight Beautiful
  113. Want
  114. Days of Distraction
  115. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  116. Daisy Jones & The Six
  117. Golem Girl
  118. Cat’s Cradle
  119. My Own Devices
  120. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

2019

  1. The Bluest Eye
  2. Milkman
  3. What If It’s Us
  4. Heavy: An American Memoir
  5. Watching You
  6. Evening in Paradise: More Stories
  7. The Power
  8. The Dreamers
  9. In the Woods
  10. How Long ’til Black Future Month?
  11. Talent
  12. Inheritance
  13. An Anonymous Girl
  14. An Orchestra of Minorities
  15. The Lost Man
  16. Parker: Selected Stories
  17. Two Can Keep a Secret
  18. The Poet X
  19. Black Enough
  20. Persons Unknown
  21. 90s Bitch
  22. The Wife
  23. Blue Nights
  24. Hark
  25. The Last Romantics
  26. Sugar Run
  27. On the Come Up
  28. No Happy Endings
  29. The Lost Girl
  30. Thick: And Other Essays
  31. Sadie
  32. The Bad Daughter
  33. Our Souls at Night
  34. The Au Pair
  35. How to be a Person in the World
  36. Dreams of Falling
  37. Queenie
  38. Daisy Jones & The Six
  39. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
  40. Girl Last Seen
  41. Maid
  42. Shout
  43. The Source of Self-Regard
  44. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful
  45. The Cassandra (DNF)
  46. My Lovely Wife
  47. My Own Devices
  48. Creative Quest
  49. Women Talking (DNF)
  50. Beautiful Bad
  51. Beastie Boys Book
  52. Come Find Me
  53. Normal People
  54. The Night Olivia Fell
  55. Miracle Creek
  56. Lost and Wanted
  57. The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks
  58. All That You Leave Behind
  59. Notes from a Young Black Chef
  60. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
  61. Doing Harm
  62. Such a Perfect Wife
  63. Save Me the Plums
  64. The Mother-in-Law
  65. Trust Exercise
  66. The Farm
  67. What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About
  68. Before She Was Found
  69. With the Fire on High
  70. Furious Hours
  71. Searching for Sylvie Lee
  72. I Know Who You Are
  73. City of Girls
  74. Evvie Drake Starts Over
  75. The Last House Guest
  76. Donna Has Left the Building
  77. Rules for Visiting
  78. Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune
  79. Mrs. Everything
  80. Necessary People
  81. Fake Like Me
  82. The Nickel Boys
  83. The Need
  84. The Invited
  85. Gods of Jade and Shadow
  86. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  87. Ask Again, Yes
  88. Conviction
  89. Someone We Know
  90. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
  91. Gravity is the Thing
  92. Never Have I Ever
  93. Speaking of Summer
  94. More than Enough
  95. The Turn of the Key
  96. The Most Fun We Ever Had
  97. The Last Widow
  98. Trick Mirror
  99. Bluebird, Bluebird
  100. Call Them by Their True Names
  101. My Friend Anna
  102. The Testaments
  103. American Predator
  104. The Tenth Muse
  105. Marilou is Everywhere
  106. Sharp
  107. Red at the Bone
  108. The Ungrateful Refugee
  109. Patsy
  110. The Hot Young Widows Club
  111. Whisper Network
  112. Trick Mirror
  113. The Dutch House
  114. Fleishman Is in Trouble
  115. Know My Name
  116. Girl in Pieces
  117. How We Fight For Our Lives
  118. On Time: A Princely Life in Funk
  119. Face It
  120. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
  121. High School
  122. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
  123. Dear Girls
  124. I Like to Watch
  125. The Sweetest Fruits
  126. The Family Upstairs
  127. Nothing to See Here
  128. Catch and Kill
  129. The First Mistake
  130. The Grammarians
  131. The Escape Room
  132. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
  133. I Found You
  134. Magic for Liars
  135. The Witches are Coming
  136. Bowlaway

2018

  1. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (review)
  2. Home Fire
  3. Chemistry ★ ★ ★ ★
  4. Her Body and Other Parties ★ ★ ★
  5. The Immortalists DNF
  6. The Woman in the Window (review)
  7. Give a Girl a Knife ★ ★ ★
  8. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News★ ★
  9. Stay With Me (review)
  10. Force of Nature ★ ★ ★
  11. The Outsiders ★ ★ ★ ★
  12. Heart Berries ★ ★ ★ ★
  13. White Houses ★ ★ ★ ★
  14. The Wife Between Us ★ ★ ★
  15. Far From the Tree
  16. The Wedding Date ★ ★ ★
  17. Sunburn DNF
  18. An American Marriage
  19. Sometimes I Lie ★ ★ ★
  20. Girls Burn Brighter ★ ★
  21. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark ★ ★ ★ ★
  22. If I Die Tonight ★ ★
  23. Sula ★ ★ ★ ★
  24. Even If it Kills Her ★ ★ ★ ★
  25. Everything Here is Beautiful
  26. Lucky Us ★ ★
  27. The Female Persuasion ★
  28. Dread Nation ★ ★ ★ ★
  29. The Broken Girls ★ ★ ★
  30. The Perfect Mother ★ ★
  31. Less ★ ★ ★
  32. The Favorite Sister (review)
  33. A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out ★ ★
  34. The Death of Mrs. Westaway ★ ★
  35. Then She Was Gone ★ ★
  36. Circe ★ ★ ★ ★
  37. The Mars Room ★ ★
  38. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows ★ ★ ★ ★
  39. Something in the Water ★ ★ ★
  40. The Ensemble ★ ★ ★ ★
  41. Florida ★ ★ ★
  42. Jar of Hearts ★ ★ ★
  43. The Kiss Quotient ★ ★ ★
  44. Educated ★ ★ ★
  45. There There ★ ★ ★ ★
  46. The Astonishing Color of After ★ ★ ★ ★
  47. Tin Man ★ ★ ★
  48. The Great Believers ★ ★ ★ ★
  49. The Summer Wives ★ ★
  50. So You Want to Talk About Race? ★ ★ ★
  51. Fruit of the Drunken Tree (review)
  52. Give Me Your Hand ★ ★ ★
  53. Baby Teeth (review)
  54. My Year of Rest and Relaxation ★ ★ ★
  55. Ghosted ★ ★
  56. The Death of Truth
  57. Kitchen Confidential ★ ★
  58. Pieces of Her ★ ★
  59. An Unwanted Guest ★ ★
  60. My Brilliant Friend ★ ★ ★ ★
  61. Vox (review)
  62. Severance ★ ★ ★ ★
  63. Robin ★ ★ ★
  64. Fear ★ ★
  65. The Good Neighbor ★ ★ ★
  66. The Real Lolita ★ ★ ★
  67. Tiny Beautiful Things ★ ★ ★ ★
  68. A Visit From the Goon Squad ★ ★ ★ ★
  69. My Own Devices ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  70. The Silence of the Girls ★ ★ ★ ★
  71. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death ★ ★ ★ ★
  72. In Pieces ★ ★ ★ ★
  73. The Witch Elm ★ ★ ★
  74. Leave No Trace ★ ★
  75. The Library Book ★ ★ ★
  76. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing ★ ★ ★ ★
  77. All You Can Ever Know (review)
  78. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told★ ★ ★
  79. Nine Perfect Strangers ★ ★ ★
  80. The Secret Place ★ ★ ★
  81. Small Fry ★ ★
  82. The Tresspasser ★ ★ ★
  83. Patty Jane’s House of Curl ★ ★ ★
  84. Good and Mad ★ ★
  85. My Love Story ★ ★ ★ ★
  86. Well-Read Black Girl ★ ★ ★ ★
  87. This Will Only Hurt a Little ★ ★ ★
  88. Lake Success ★ ★ ★
  89. My Sister the Serial Killer★ ★ ★ ★
  90. How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t★ ★
  91. Those Who Knew★ ★ ★ ★
  92. Family Trust★ ★ ★ ★
  93. I Might Regret This★ ★
  94. I Know You Know★ ★
  95. Becoming

2017

  1. Cop Town (review)
  2. We Should All be Feminists ★ ★ ★
  3. Big Little Lies (review)
  4. History of Wolves (review)
  5. Don’t You Cry (review)
  6. The Dry (review)
  7. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (review)
  8. The Shipping News ★ ★ ★ ★
  9. The Last Anniversary (review)
  10. Under the Harrow ★
  11. Lincoln in the Bardo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  12. We Love You, Charlie Freeman (review)
  13. The Husband’s Secret ★ ★
  14. Everything You Want Me to Be (review)
  15. The Sun is Also a Star (review)
  16. White Tears (review)
  17. Lucky Boy (review)
  18. The Handmaid’s Tale ★ ★ ★ ★
  19. Truly Madly Guilty ★ ★
  20. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (review)
  21. Three Wishes ★ ★
  22. The Leavers (review)
  23. The Woman in Cabin 10 ★ ★
  24. Behind Her Eyes ★
  25. Hunger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  26. Homegoing (review)
  27. The Perfect Stranger ★ ★
  28. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements (review)
  29. Killers of the Flower Moon (review)
  30. Shotgun Lovesongs (review)
  31. Magpie Murders ★ ★ ★
  32. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
  33. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me ★ ★ ★ ★
  34. The Lying Game ★ ★ ★
  35. Goodbye, Vitamin ★ ★ ★
  36. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
  37. Do Not Become Alarmed
  38. Young Jane Young
  39. The Good Daughter
  40. What Happened
  41. The Hate U Give
  42. Little Fires Everywhere
  43. Genuine Fraud ★ ★
  44. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore ★ ★
  45. My Life on the Road
  46. Manhattan Beach
  47. They Both Die at the End
  48. A Stranger in the House
  49. Mrs. Fletcher
  50. Hello, Sunshine
  51. We Were Eight Years in Power
  52. Conversations With Friends
  53. Turtles All the Way Down
  54. What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
  55. Exit West
  56. Lie to Me
  57. One of Us is Lying
  58. The Almost Sisters
  59. Sing, Unburied, Sing
  60. There’s Someone Inside Your House

2016

  1. Jem and the Holograms Volume 1: Showtime (review)
  2. Fates and Furies (review)
  3. My Brilliant Friend(review)
  4. Hopeless Savages: Break
  5. The Story of a New Name (review)
  6. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (review)
  7. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (review)
  8. Black-Eyed Susans (review)
  9. The Story of the Lost Child (review)
  10. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir (review)
  11. Every Anxious Wave (review)
  12. The Tsar of Love and Techno (review)
  13. Living Like a Runaway (review)
  14. The Book of Unknown Americans (review)
  15. Girls on Fire (review)
  16. The Woman Upstairs (review)
  17. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (review)
  18. I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland (review)
  19. The Girls
  20. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
  21. It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too (review)
  22. My Name is Lucy Barton
  23. Everything, Everything
  24. The Hopefuls (review)
  25. Invincible Summer
  26. The Lost Girls (review)
  27. You Will Know Me (review)
  28. All is Not Forgotten (review)
  29. Between the World and Me
  30. Modern Romance (review)
  31. Why Not Me? (review)
  32. The Underground Railroad
  33. Good as Gone (review)
  34. The Couple Next Door (review)
  35. Sweetbitter (review)
  36. The Nix
  37. The Unseen World
  38. Commonwealth
  39. The Nest
  40. Today Will Be Different
  41. All the Missing Girls (review)
  42. Harmony
  43. The Mothers
  44. Another Brooklyn
  45. The Red Car
  46. Here Comes the Sun
  47. Missing, Presumed
  48. In a Dark, Dark Wood
  49. Christmas Jars
  50. Pretty Girls
  51. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

2015

  1. Geek Love (review)
  2. All the Light We Cannot See (review)
  3. A Reunion of Ghosts (review)
  4. Sister Golden Hair Abandoned
  5. Girl in a Band: A Memoir (review)
  6. Sex Criminals Volume 2
  7. Scott Pilgrim 1-6
  8. Bone Gap
  9. Delicious Foods
  10. Lumberjanes Vol. 1
  11. It’s a Long Story: My Life (review)
  12. Over Easy
  13. Mislaid (review)
  14. Giraffes in My Hair (review)
  15. Armada (review)
  16. Wonderland (review)
  17. Loving Day
  18. Nimona (review)
  19. This One Summer (review)
  20. Kitchens of the Great Midwest (review)
  21. Luckiest Girl Alive (review)
  22. Days of Awe (review)
  23. Saga Volume 5
  24. Fates and Furies
  25. Dumplin’ (review)
  26. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender (review)
  27. Did You Ever Have a Family
  28. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
  29. The Royal We

2014

  1. Composed: A Memoir (review)
  2. Wuthering Heights
  3. A Life in Men (review)
  4. Dept. of Speculation (review)
  5. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (review)
  6. An Unnecessary Woman (review)
  7. Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain (review)
  8. Bark: Stories (review)
  9. Thunderstruck & Other Stories (review)
  10. Boy, Snow, Bird (review)
  11. Saga, Vol. 3
  12. An Untamed State (review)
  13. The Martian (review)
  14. A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade (review)
  15. Love Life (review)
  16. Stillwater (review)
  17. Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville (33 1/3) (review)
  18. Americanah (review)
  19. Sex Criminals Volume 1 (review)
  20. Seconds (review)
  21. How I Live Now (review)
  22. Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass & Sorcery (review)
  23. We Were Liars (review)
  24. Everything I Never Told You (review)
  25. 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas (review)
  26. Sweetness #9 (Review)
  27. Bittersweet (review)
  28. How to Build a Girl (review)
  29. Station Eleven (review)
  30. Wolf in White Van (review)
  31. Love Letters to the Dead (review)
  32. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (review)
  33. Yes Please
  34. Ugly Girls
  35. Reality Boy
  36. Love Me Back

2013

  1. The Round House (review)
  2. How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life (review)
  3. The Orphan Master’s Son (review)
  4. Who I Am: A Memoir (review)
  5. Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories (review)
  6. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (review)
  7. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (review)
  8. Eleanor & Park (review)
  9. Touch & Go (review)
  10. Woke Up Lonely (review)
  11. Unfamiliar Fishes (review)
  12. Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs (review)
  13. Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll (review)
  14. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (review)
  15. Uses for Boys (review)
  16. 11/22/63 (review)
  17. You Are One of Them (review)
  18. Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies (review)
  19. The Golem and the Jinni (review)
  20. The Original 1982 (review)
  21. Lexicon (review)
  22. We Sinners (review)
  23. Tampa (review)
  24. Saga, Vol. 2
  25. Let the Dark Flower Blossom (review)
  26. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (review)
  27. &Sons (review)
  28. Inferno (review)
  29. Fangirl (review)
  30. Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways (review)
  31. The Winter of the Robots (review)
  32. Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir (review)
  33. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (review)
  34. Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir (review)
  35. Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (review)
  36. Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
  37. Lips Unsealed: A Memoir (review)
  38. The Goldfinch
  39. Sex & Violence
  40. Coreyography: A Memoir

2012

  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany (review)
  2. Hope: A Tragedy (review)
  3. The Book of Drugs (review)
  4. The Fault in Our Stars (review)
  5. Ms. Hempel Chronicles (review)
  6. The Sense of an Ending (review)
  7. I Stay Near You (review)
  8. Girlchild (review)
  9. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (review)
  10. Stay Awake: Stories
  11. Out of the Vinyl Deeps (review)
  12. Friends with Boys (review)
  13. Baby’s in Black (review)
  14. Arcadia (review)
  15. Wild (review)
  16. Fiction Ruined My Family (abandoned)
  17. The Plain Janes (review)
  18. Janes in Love (review)
  19. Token (review)
  20. Are You My Mother? (review)
  21. Girl Walks into a Bar . . . (review)
  22. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (review)
  23. The Age of Miracles (review)
  24. Gone Girl (review)
  25. Stone Arabia (review)
  26. Boarded Windows (review)
  27. Fables Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind
  28. Level Up (review)
  29. Phonogram: Rue Britannia (review)
  30. Where’d You Go, Bernadette (review)
  31. Sharp Objects (review)
  32. Dark Places (review)
  33. Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone (review)
  34. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (review)
  35. Breakfast of Champions (review)
  36. The World Without You (review)
  37. This Is How You Lose Her (review)
  38. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (review)
  39. Have You Seen Marie? (review)
  40. Tell the Wolves I’m Home (review)
  41. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel (review)
  42. Saga, Vol. 1 (review)
  43. Tiny Beautiful Things (review)
  44. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
  45. Chopsticks (review)
  46. The Middlesteins (review)
  47. Tune: Vanishing Point
  48. Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?
  49. Half-Blood Blues (review)

2011

  1. Fables Vol. 16: Super Team
  2. Breadcrumbs
  3. When She Woke
  4. An Invisible Sign of My Own
  5. Everybody Sees the Ants (review)
  6. The Night Circus (review)
  7. The Giant’s House
  8. Habibi (review)
  9. Cheat
  10. The Family Fang (review)
  11. Ready Player One (review)
  12. The Tanglewood Terror (review)
  13. The Astral (review)
  14. My American Unhappiness (review)
  15. Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits Volume 1 (review)
  16. Blueprints for Building Better Girls (review)
  17. A Good Hard Look (review)
  18. The Mostly True Story of Jack (review)
  19. The Lover’s Dictionary (review)
  20. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (review)
  21. The Year We Left Home (review)
  22. Silver Sparrow (review)
  23. Imaginary Girls (review)
  24. If You Knew Then What I Know Now (review)
  25. Stories I Only Tell My Friends (review)
  26. Anya’s Ghost (review)
  27. Daytripper (review)
  28. See a Little Light (review)
  29. Orientation: And Other Stories (review)
  30. Dimiter (review)
  31. The Fates Will Find Their Way (review)
  32. The Tragedy of Arthur (review)
  33. Mamba Point (review)
  34. Fables Vol. 15
  35. Bossypants (review)
  36. So Much Pretty (review)
  37. The Illumination (review)
  38. Brooklyn, Burning (review)
  39. Please Ignore Vera Dietz (review)
  40. Ivy (review)
  41. How to Say Goodbye in Robot (review)
  42. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later (review)
  43. The Wilder Life (review)
  44. Jane-Emily (review)
  45. Gidget (review)
  46. Bloodroot (review)
  47. Swamplandia!(review)
  48. V for Vendetta (review)
  49. Just Kids (review)
  50. The Weird Sisters (review)
  51. 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man (review)
  52. An Abundance of Katherines (review)
  53. Freedom (review)

2010

  1. Rat Girl (review)
  2. Twins (review)
  3. A Sickness in the Family (review)
  4. Fables Vols. 4 – 12 (review)
  5. Fables Vol. 1 – 3 (review
  6. The Girl with the Silver Eyes (review)
  7. The Exes (review)
  8. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (review)
  9. Bound (review)
  10. Bad Marie (review)
  11. Slut Lullabies (review)
  12. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (review)
  13. Cruddy (review)
  14. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (review)
  15. The Absolute Value of -1 (review)
  16. Super Sad True Love Story (review)
  17. Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (review)
  18. Lost At Sea (review)
  19. Swallow Me Whole (review)
  20. The Feminine Mystique (review)
  21. Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (review)
  22. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (review)
  23. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (review)
  24. Scott Pilgirm’s Finest Hour (review)
  25. A Visit from the Goon Squad (review)
  26. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (review)
  27. Beezus and Ramona (review)
  28. Franny and Zooey (review)
  29. American Widow (review)
  30. Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe (review)
  31. Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together (review)
  32. Scott Pilgrim vs. The Infinite Sadness (review)
  33. Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
  34. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
  35. The Lathe Of Heaven
  36. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
  37. The Ask (review)
  38. Fly-over State (review)
  39. Ex Machina, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
  40. So Long, See You Tomorrow (review)
  41. The House of Tomorrow (review)
  42. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Already (review)
  43. Potential (review)
  44. Blackbriar (review)
  45. Awkward and Definition (review)
  46. The Melting Season (review)
  47. A Friend of the Family (review)
  48. Blankets (review)
  49. The Umbrella Academy: Dallas (review)
  50. The Nobody
  51. Ball Peen Hammer (review)
  52. Where the God of Love Hangs Out (review)
  53. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (review)
  54. Black Hole (review)

2009

  1. The English Major (review)
  2. Y the Last Man vols. 1-10 (review)
  3. My Happy Life (review)
  4. Taking Care
  5. Too Cool To Be Forgotten (review)
  6. Wonder Boys (review)
  7. The First Person: and Other Stories (review)
  8. Outliers: The Story of Success (review)
  9. Watchmen (abandoned)
  10. Local (review)
  11. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (review)
  12. Mudville (review)
  13. Don’t Cry (review)
  14. The Turtle Catcher (review)
  15. The Big Sleep (review)
  16. Pride and Prejudice (review)
  17. All-Star Superman Volumes 1 & 2 (review)
  18. The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar (review)
  19. The Year of Magical Thinking (review)
  20. Disquiet (review)
  21. So Brave, Young and Handsome (review)
  22. Epileptic (review)
  23. The Song Is You (review)
  24. German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons (review)
  25. Twin Study (review)
  26. The Umbrella Academy (v. 1) (review)
  27. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (review)
  28. The Rock Snob’s Dictionary (review)
  29. Funny Misshapen Body (abandoned)
  30. Laura Rider’s Masterpiece (review)
  31. Maus (review)
  32. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (review)
  33. Little Things (review)
  34. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (review)
  35. Sag Harbor: A Novel (review)
  36. Kingdom Come (abandoned)
  37. In the Shadow of No Towers (review)
  38. I Kill Giants (review)
  39. Love Is a Four-Letter Word (review)
  40. The Maltese Falcon
  41. Shortcomings (review)
  42. Do Not Deny Me (review)
  43. Asterios Polyp (review)
  44. We Need to Talk About Kevin (review)
  45. Andromeda Klein (review)
  46. Await Your Reply (review)
  47. American Born Chinese (review)
  48. Everything Matters! (review)
  49. Totally Killer (review)
  50. The Complete Essex County (review)
  51. Juliet, Naked (review)
  52. Stitches (review)
  53. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2008

  1. All About Lulu (review)
  2. The Virgin Suicides
  3. The Theory of Light & Matter
  4. Identity Crisis (DC Comics)
  5. The Gargoyle (review)
  6. Twilight (review)
  7. Indignation (review)
  8. Dear Everybody (review)
  9. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (review)
  10. What Was Lost (review)
  11. The Alcoholic (review)
  12. The Wordy Shipmates (review)
  13. Downtown Owl (review)
  14. Personal Days (review)
  15. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (review)
  16. Kafka on the Shore (review)
  17. The Night of the Gun (review)
  18. Netherland (review)
  19. Who Do You Love (Review)
  20. America America (review)
  21. So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (review)
  22. Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be (review)
  23. The Importance of Music to Girls (review)
  24. The Ghost Writer
  25. Secret Lives of Great Authors (review)
  26. The Wonders of the Invisible World (review)
  27. I Love You, Beth Cooper (review)
  28. The Monsters of Templeton (review)
  29. The Dead Fish Museum (review)
  30. The Stone Gods (review)
  31. I am the Messenger (podcast)
  32. Things I’ve Learned from the Women Who’ve Dumped Me (review)
  33. Things That Fall From the Sky (review)
  34. The Learners (review)
  35. Rock On (review)
  36. Bang Crunch (review)
  37. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (podcast)
  38. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (podcast)
  39. My Life in Heavy Metal (review)
  40. Candy Girl (review)
  41. Post Office (review)
  42. The Descendants (review)
  43. Self-Help (review)
  44. Atonement (review)
  45. The Screwtape Letters (podcast)
  46. No One Belongs Here More Than You (review)
  47. Away
  48. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (podcast)

2007

  1. Dead Boys
  2. Then We Came to the End
  3. My Date with Satan
  4. Best American Short Stories 2007
  5. Foreskin’s Lament
  6. Schulz and Peanuts
  7. All Over But the Shouting
  8. The Gum Thief
  9. Sammy’s Hill
  10. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
  11. The Sabotage Cafe
  12. The Best of Tin House
  13. The Sound and the Fury
  14. Honored Guest
  15. Forever Odd
  16. The Beautiful and Damned
  17. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
  18. The Words to Every Song
  19. Ignorance
  20. All This Heavenly Glory
  21. Throw Like a Girl
  22. Fitting Ends
  23. Later, at the Bar
  24. A Moveable Feast
  25. Reading Like a Writer
  26. Petal Pusher
  27. Fear of Flying
  28. Kissing in Manhattan
  29. American Pastoral
  30. Love is a Mix Tape
  31. A Brief History of the Dead
  32. You Don’t Love Me Yet
  33. Famous Writers School
  34. How to Be Alone
  35. Remainder
  36. Absurdistan
  37. The Brothers K
  38. Sweet and Low: A Family Story
  39. Hush, Vol. 2
  40. Hush, Vol. 1
  41. The Road
  42. Undead and Unwed
  43. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  44. Best American Short Stories 2006

2006

  1. Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
  2. My Secret
  3. Where I’m Calling From
  4. Motherless Brooklyn
  5. Brighton Rock*
  6. The Keep
  7. Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
  8. This is Not Chick Lit
  9. A Spot of Bother
  10. Because They Wanted To
  11. The Accidental
  12. This Side of Paradise
  13. The Vanished Man
  14. Prep
  15. Lolita
  16. Fun Home
  17. Between the Bridge and the River (Podcast)
  18. The Wedding (book club)
  19. Everyman
  20. Post Secret
  21. King Dork
  22. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
  23. JPod
  24. Fahrenheit 451 (Podcast)
  25. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  26. The Red Tent (book club)
  27. Twilight of the Superheroes
  28. The Secret Life of Bees (book club)
  29. 1984
  30. The Thin Place (book club)
  31. In Cold Blood
  32. My Sister’s Continent
  33. Crime and Punishment (book club)
  34. Company: A Novel
  35. Jane Eyre (book club)

2005

  1. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
  2. Catcher in the Rye
  3. The News from Paraguay
  4. Cat’s Cradle
  5. Eleanor Rigby
  6. Ella Minnow Pea
  7. Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon
  8. The Great Gatsby
  9. How to Breathe Underwater
  10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  11. The Plot Against America
  12. Love Invents Us
  13. Home Land
  14. The Giant’s House
  15. Under the Banner of Heaven*
  16. Geek Love
  17. The Night in Question
  18. Written on the Body
  19. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  20. The Cheese Monkeys
  21. The Coast of Chicago
  22. God bless you, Mr. Rosewater
  23. The Kite Runner
  24. The Bluest Eye
  25. Case Histories
  26. How to Breathe Underwater (i read it twice)
  27. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
  28. A Candle in Her Room
  29. Lighthousekeeping*
  30. Oh My Stars*
  31. The Pornographer’s Poem
  32. Upstate
  33. The Apple’s Bruise
  34. Snakes and Earrings
  35. Until I Find You
  36. Killing Yourself to Live
  37. Sex, Drugs, and Coca Puffs
  38. Willful Creatures
  39. Ibid
  40. Beware of God
  41. Samuel Johnson is Indignant
  42. A Confederacy of Dunces
  43. Murder at the Vicarage
  44. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
  45. Veronica : A Novel
  46. The Confessions of Max Tivoli
  47. Me Talk Pretty One Day
  48. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
  49. Cloud Atlas
  50. A Changed Man
  51. Gilead
  52. Assassination Vacation
  53. Odd Thomas
  54. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*
  55. The History of Love

2004

  1. Jesus’ Son
  2. Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist
  3. Quite a Year for Plums
  4. Reasons to Live
  5. What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
  6. Something Rising (Light and Swift)
  7. The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain*
  8. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  9. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
  10. A Girl Named Zippy
  11. Among the Missing
  12. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues*
  13. Bad Behavior
  14. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
  15. Civilwarland in Bad Decline
  16. The Fortress of Solitude
  17. The Hazards of Good Breeding
  18. Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona
  19. The Namesake
  20. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
  21. Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-workers
  22. How to Be Good
  23. Oblivion
  24. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
  25. You Remind Me of Me
  26. Love and Hydrogen
  27. Emperor of the Air
  28. The Human Stain
  29. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
  30. Liars and Saints
  31. Love
  32. The Point and Other Stories
  33. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  34. Naked
  35. Birds of America: Stories
  36. 33 1/3 Let it Be
  37. Crabwalk
  38. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
  39. Little Children
  40. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
  41. Autobiography of a Face
  42. The Best American Short Stories 2002
  43. The Best American Short Stories 2004
  44. How We Are Hungry
  45. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  46. Alias Grace
  47. Half in Love
  48. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
  49. Godless

2003

  1. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
  2. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
  3. I Stay Near You
  4. The Crimson Petal and the White
  5. The Lost Soul Companion
  6. In Her Shoes
  7. Normal
  8. The Alchemist
  9. The Partly Cloudy Patriot
  10. Songbook
  11. The Bitch in the House*
  12. My Only Story
  13. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
  14. Word Freak
  15. The Phantom Tollbooth
  16. The Thief of Always
  17. Beautiful Girls
  18. Slanky
  19. Cash: The Autobiography
  20. Happiness
  21. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
  22. They Have a Word for It
  23. The Secret History
  24. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  25. Wonder When You’ll Miss Me
  26. About the Author
  27. Reading Lolita in Tehran*
  28. You’ve Got to Read This
  29. Good Girls Gone Bad
  30. Hey Nostradamus!
  31. The Muse Asylum
  32. Written on the Body
  33. The Solace of Leaving Early
  34. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  35. Sleep Toward Heaven
  36. The Time of Our Singing*
  37. What I Loved
  38. Sula
  39. Jennifer Government
  40. The Torn Skirt
  41. The Subject Steve
  42. Please, Don’t Kill the Freshman
  43. The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
  44. The Losers’ Club
  45. Lucky Girls
  46. The Best American Short Stories 2003
  47. The Winter Zoo
  48. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  50. The Little Women

2002

  1. Fargo Rock City
  2. Lightning Field
  3. The Vagina Monologues
  4. Net Words: Creating High-Impact Copy Online
  5. Lit Life
  6. The Powerbook
  7. Bias
  8. The Bell Jar
  9. Come to Me
  10. Mouthing the Words
  11. The Savage Girl
  12. Small Pieces Loosely Joined
  13. Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
  14. Use Me
  15. Superbad
  16. Ella Minnow Pea
  17. The Nanny Diaries
  18. Woe is I
  19. Junk English
  20. Shopgirl
  21. The Professor and the Madman
  22. Cheese Monkeys
  23. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  24. Bird by Bird
  25. Good in Bed
  26. The Invisible Circus
  27. An Invisible Sign of My Own**
  28. You Are Not a Stranger Here**
  29. Prague**
  30. The Cluetrain Manifesto
  31. A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashion, and Culture Change
  32. The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up**
  33. Snobbery: The American Version
  34. For Fucks Sake**
  35. You Shall Know Our Velocity**
  36. Welcome to Higby**
  37. The Little Friend
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