BOOKS I READ
RATING SYSTEM:
1 = struggled to finish it
5 = this book changed my life
if I have long-form content about a book, it is linked
in 2023
1. All About Love by bell hooks 3/5
2. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner 5/5
3. A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris 3.5/5
4. L.A. Woman by Eve Babitz 3/5
5. The Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 2.5/5
6. Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by Rene Girard 5/5
7. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath 2/5
8. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni 1/5
9. Tirza by Arnon Grunberg 4.5/5
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3/5
11. King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov 2.5/5
12. Reflecting Men at Twice their Natural Size by Sally Cline and Dale Spender 5/5
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 3/5
14. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin 3/5
15. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer 2/5
16. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote 3.5/5
17. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos 2.5/5
18. The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell 2/5
in 2022
1. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
2. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Dr. Mary Pipher
3. The Brother's Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
5. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
6. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
7. The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
8. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
9. Mustique Island by Sarah McCoy
10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
11. Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
12. Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
13. Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life by James Hawes
14. Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
15. iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Lesss Happy -- and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood by Jean Twenge (Jean you couldn't cut down your title??? damn)
16. The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
17. Self Care by Leigh Stein
18. Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
19. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
20. You Have No Idea by Vanessa Williams
21. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
22. Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
23. How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control by Dr. Sarah E. Hill
24. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
25. Between Women: Love, Envy, and Competition in Women's Friendships by Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach
26. Metamorphosis (a collection with Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and A Judgement), by Franz Kafka
27. Norweigan Wood by Haruki Murakami
28. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
29. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
30. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin