read list
prof:
- apr 23 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
- may 23 - The Applicant (Nazli Koca)✝
post-grad:
- dec 16 - A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)*
- jan 17 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)
- mar 17 - I Love Dick (Chris Kraus)✝
- may 17 - Pamela, A Novel (Pamela Lu)*
- may 17 - All About Love (Bell Hooks)
- jun 17 - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
- jun 17 - When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (Chen Chen)*
- jun 17 - Men Without Women (Haruki Murakami)2
- jun 17 - Chemistry (Weike Wang)*
- jul 17 - The Wangs vs. the World (Jade Chang)
- aug 17 - All the Dirty Parts (Daniel Handler)
- sep 17 - How to Write a Lot (Paul J. Sylvia)
- sep 17 - The Reason I Jump (Naoki Higashida)
- oct 17 - Sour Heart (Jenny Zhang)*
- dec 17 - Call Me by Your Name (André Aciman) (begin creative writing class)
- jan 18 - Hunger (Lan Samantha Chang)✝
- jan 18 - In Hindsight (Callan Wink)
- jan 18 - Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
- jan 18 - So Much for That Winter (Dorthe Nors)
- feb 18 - McGlue (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- feb 18 - Suspended Sentences (Patrick Modiano)
- feb 18 - The Barracks Thief (Tobias Wolff)
- mar 18 - With My Dog-Eyes (Hilda Hilst)
- mar 18 - The Third Elevator (Aimee Bender) (end creative writing class)
- apr 18 - The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (Aimee Bender)✝
- may 18 - The Color Master (Aimee Bender)
- jun 18 - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
- dec 18 - The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
- jun 19 - Soft Science (Franny Choi)
- jul 19 - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person (Darcie Wilder)
- aug 19 - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Alexander Chee)
- sep 19 - Come as You Are (Emily Nagoski)
- oct 19 - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
- oct 19 - Bottle Grove (Daniel Handler)
- mar 20 - Year of Blue Water (Yanyi)
- apr 20 - There There (Tommy Orange)
- apr 20 - Minor Feelings (Cathy Park Hong)
- sep 20 - Beast Meridian (Vanessa Villarreal)
- aug 20 - How Much of These Hills is Gold (C Pam Zhang)
- nov 20 - At the Mouth of the River of Bees (Kij Johnson)
- dec 20 - Luster (Raven Leilani) (here i try to fill in 3 years of backlog)
- jan 21 - My Baby First Birthday (Jenny Zhang)
- apr 21 - Crying in H Mart (Michelle Zauner)
- jun 21 - Disability Visibility (Alice Wong)
- feb 22 - Joan is Okay (Weike Wang)
- nov 22 - Either/Or (Elif Batuman)
- nov 22 - The Possessed (Elif Batuman)
- nov 22 - On Freedom (Maggie Nelson)*
- apr 23 - Palo Alto (Malcom Harris)
- may 23 - Yellowface (RF Kuang)
- jun 23 - Falling Back in Love with Being Human (Kai Cheng Thom)
undergrad:
- jul 13 - The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)*
- aug 13 - Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut)
- may 14 - Birds of America (Lorrie Moore)*
- ??? 14 - This Is How You Lose Her (Junot Díaz)
- nov 14 - The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
- jan 15 - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (Lorrie Moore)
- jan 15 - NW (Zadie Smith)1
- jan 15 - Bark (Lorrie Moore)
- apr 15 - The Basic Eight (Daniel Handler)
- may 15 - Watch Your Mouth (Daniel Handler)
- may 15 - We Are Pirates (Daniel Handler)
- jun 15 - The Argonauts (Maggie Nelson)
- aug 16 - Days of Awe (Lauren Fox)
- aug 16 - Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir (Eddie Huang)
- aug 16 - The Strange Library (Haruki Murakami)
formative favorites:
- Adverbs (Daniel Handler)
- Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
* Favorites at the time I read them
✝ Runner Ups
1 Read entirely during Spring Awakening rehearsals without, really, an intent to finish
2 Read in one sitting inside the Harvard Book Store because it was expensive