2021 Reading List
FICTION
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Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
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The Vanishing Half, Brit Benning
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The Mothers, Brit Benning
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Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
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Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo
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Severance, Ling Ma
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The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
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salt slow, Julia Armfield
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Black Light, Kimberly King Parsons
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White Tears, Hari Kunzru
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Hot Milk, Deborah Levy
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The Other Americans, Laila Lalami
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Memories of the Future, Siri Hustvedt
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Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
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Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
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Revenge, Yōko Ogawa
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Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
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Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
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The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
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Great House, Nicole Krauss
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Outline, Rachel Cusk
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My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki (re-read)
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The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami
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The Other Black GIrl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
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Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami
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Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley
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Territory of Light, Yuko Tsushima
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Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
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The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, Cherie Jones
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The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez
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Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enríquez
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Miss Iceland, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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Real Life, Brandon Taylor
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Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
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Bunny, Mona Award
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Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
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Writers & Lovers, Lily King
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Magma, Thora Hjortleifsdottir
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Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
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Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong
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Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost, David Hoon Kim
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Intimacies, Katie Kitamura
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Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
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No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
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Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
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Ghost Forest, Pik-Shuen Fung
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The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada
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Winter in Sochko, Elisa Shua Dusapin
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Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead
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Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
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Matrix, Lauren Groff
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Animal, Lisa Taddeo
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
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Summerwater, Sarah Moss
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Luster, Raven Leilani
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Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
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My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen
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Transit, Rachel Cusk
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Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
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Comemadre, Roque Larraquy
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All's Well, Mona Awad
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A Children's Bible, Lydia Millet
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Swallowing Geography, Deborah Levy
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The Days of Afrekete, Asali Solomon
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The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
NON-FICTION
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Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
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In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
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Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, Lauren Hough
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Thanks for Waiting, Doree Shafrir
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Somebody's Daughter, Ashley C. Ford
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Why Fish Don't Exist, Lulu Miller
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The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner
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Childhood, Tove Ditlevsen
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden
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Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
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Youth, Tove Ditlevsen