What I’m Reading
Leave a commentSummer 2014
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Dear Life by Alice Munro
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
The Good Luck of Right Now by Mattew Quick
Spring 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Winter 2013-2014
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
A History of U.S. Feminisms by Rory Dicker
The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Joyland by Stephen King
Fall 2013
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Summer 2013
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
Lucky Peach #7 (the travel issue)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut by Professor Paul R. Mullins
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
The Bling Ring: How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World by Nancy Jo Sales
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Spring 2013
Trinkets by Kirsten Smith
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
January 2013
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–and Perplexing–City by David Lebovitz
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami
Beginning of blog-December 2012
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories