books i’ve read in 2016 so far
some of you sometimes ask me what i’m reading—so for posterity’s sake (yours & mine) i’m going to try and document this more clearly. will try and do the same things with films, etc.
1. antwerp by roberto bolaño
2. chelsea girls by eileen myles
3. the foreign legion by clarice lispector
4. with my dog eyes hilda hilst
5. another country by james baldwin
6. the glance by rumi
7. gravel and sand by leonard koren
8. family ties by clarice lispector
9. a small place by jamaica kincaid
10. the volcano lover by susan sontag
11. open city by teju cole
12. a lover’s discourse by roland barthes (re-read, one of my faves)
13. war and the iliad by simone weil and rachel bespaloff
next installment of 2016!
14. Where I live Now by Lucia Berlin
15. Life Sentences by William H Gass
16. Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
17. Once by Alice Walker
18. The Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jalloun
19. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
20. The Art of The Publisher by Roberto Calasso
21. Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
22. Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
23. The Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston
24. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
25. Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
26. The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
27. The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika Sagawa
28. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil
29. Asmarani by Safia Elhillo
third installment of 2016
30. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
31. If you’re reading this I’m probably still yelling by Jess Rizkallah
32. Where’d the Moon go by Jess Rizkallah
33. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
34. Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson
35. Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
36. View with a grain of Sand by Wislawa Szyborska
37. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
38. Don’t Let me be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
39. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
40. Women Chloe Caldwell
41. Look by Solmaz Sharif
42. Not Yet by Eileen Myles
43. Decreation by Anna Carson
