Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Tag: novel
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
i’ve found my local indie press
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
Mariana by Monica Dickens
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Triumph Of The Now 