2023 Finished Books

• Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

• Open City by Teju Cole*

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*

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​2022 Finished Books

• The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim*

• The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

• Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman

• The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin*

• Passing by Nella Larsen

• Creation by Sylvia Nickerson 

• The Vegetarian by Han Kang

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi*

• Good Talk by Mira Jacob

• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai*

• Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut* 

• Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz

• Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill*

• Love's Work by Gillian Rose*

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee*

• Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

• In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott

• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

• Grass by Keum-Suk Gendry-Kim, t: Janet Hong*

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith*

• War Primer by Bertolt Brecht; t: Stefan Brecht

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; t: Ginny Tapley Takemori*

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

• The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

• Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté*

• On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong*

• The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht; t: W.H. Auden

• Medea by Euripedes; t: Rex Warner

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

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2021 Finished Books

• Weather by Jenny Offill*

• Misfits by Michaela Coel

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

• If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson*

• On Tyranny by Nora Krug, Timothy Snyder

• Smoke by John Berger, Selçuk Daniel

• Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom

• Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

• Seek You by Kristen Radtke*

• Paying the Land by Joe Sacco*

• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

• The Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han

• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante*

• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante*

• Sweet Time and Other Stories by Weng Pi Xin

• Body Music by Julie Maroh

• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante*

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong 

• The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison*

• The Book You Wish Your Parents Read by Philippa Perry

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*

• Salvation by bell hooks

• Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt

• Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco*

• I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt

• Belonging by Nora Krug

• Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life by Matt Hern, Am Johal and Joe Sacco

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

• The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

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*wow. 

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