2025
key ↻ = re-read ☏ = others recommended and/or gifted to me ✄ = research ✧ = favorites
- the entire earth and sky: views on antarctica by leslie carol roberts - juiced: wild times, rampant 'roids, smash hits, and how baseball got big by josé canseco - infinite jest by david foster wallace - gravity's rainbow by thomas pynchon - blue nights by joan didion - the sweet hereafter by russell banks - not knowing: the essays and interviews by donald barthelme - ☏ romantic outlaws: the extraordinary lives of mary wollstonecraft & mary shelley by charlotte gordon - one story: empress by nini berndt - ants, indians, and little dinosaurs edited by alan ternes - something to do with paying attention by david foster wallace - gin blossoms: suicide, corporatism, addiction, creativity, and the lessons of doug hopkins by joe biel - the crown ain't worth much by hanif abdurraquib - this is water: some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life by david foster wallace - kaddish.com by nathan englander - where you once belonged by kent haruf - this was the decade I kept getting stabbed by john jodzio - the lost shtetl by max gross - one story: dachau by achy obejas - notes to john by joan didion - the argonauts by maggie nelson - the log from the sea of cortez by john steinbeck - ✧ waiting for the miracle by jason deyong - what we talk about when we talk about anne frank by nathan englander - thousands of shredded scraps of paper located across five landfills that, if pieced together, form a message by samuel rafael barber - further reports by brian evenson - rising tide by john m. barry - god's pocket by pete dexter - mexican goodbyes by dino enrique piacentini - ☏ the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune - ✧ eventide by kent haruf - gilgamesh: a new rendering in english verse by david ferry - ✧ what i remember of my love affair with the bird and other stories by thomas israel hopkins - wildlife by richard ford - a lover's discourse by roland barthes - ☏ ✧ lincoln in the bardo by george saunders - the end of the story by lydia davis - one story: vena cava by weike wang - the possession by annie ernaux (trans. anna moschovakis) - the serpents of paradise by edward abbey (edited by john macrae) - ☏ project hail mary by any weir - suicide: the forever decision by paul g. quinnett - run river by joan didion - one story: tripping dead by owen edgerton - pieces of soap: essays by stanley elkin - the terror by dan simmons - the corrections by jonathan franzen - the tenth of december by george saunders - a piece of my heart by richard ford - october light by john gardner - one story: needless things by gemma clarke - pastoralia by george saunders - the maldive shark by herman melville - as kingfishers catch fire by gerard manley hopkins - on photography by susan sontag - ☏ still life with oysters and lemon by mark doty - ☏ proust was a neuroscientist by jonah lehrer - mrs rosie and the priest by giovanni boccaccio (trans. peter hainsworth) - ✧ the saga of gunnlaug serpent-tongue (trans. katrina c. attwood)
