In 2021 I started documenting the books I've finished reading on a roll of brown paper pasted outside my bedroom door. (The list of books I never finished reading is a different matter altogether)
READING LIST
Current (updated: October 6, 2024)
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Hunger by Roxane Gay
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The Idiot by Elif Batuman
** - love
* - like
2024 Finished Books
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro*
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Ant Colony by Michael Deforge*
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Sula by Toni Morrison**
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Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
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Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez*
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The Wendy Award by Walter Scott**
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Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian and Patria Rivera*
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Beloved by Toni Morrison*
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If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga*
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Wendy Master of Art by Walter Scott**
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Wendy's Revenge by Walter Scott**
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There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
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How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
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The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
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All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
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Grievers by adrienne maree brown
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Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls
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Roaming by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki
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Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley*
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Fever Drean / Distance de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin (t. Megan McDowell)*
2023 Finished Books
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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang*
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Building Stories by Chris Ware*
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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
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Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis**
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Only this Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (trans. Eric Ozawa)
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Trust by Hernan Diaz**
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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin*
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And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini*
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The Years by Annie Ernaux
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Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith*
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Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück
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Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki*
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Open City by Teju Cole*
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
2022 Finished Books
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The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim*
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The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
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Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman
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The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin*
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Passing by Nella Larsen
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Creation by Sylvia Nickerson
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi*
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Good Talk by Mira Jacob
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Stone Fruit by Lee Lai*
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Boundless by Jillian Tamaki
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut*
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Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz
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Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
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Love's Work by Gillian Rose
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee**
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Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal
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In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott*
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No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
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Grass by Keum-Suk Gendry-Kim, t: Janet Hong*
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On Beauty by Zadie Smith*
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War Primer by Bertolt Brecht; t: Stefan Brecht
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; t: Ginny Tapley Takemori*
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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
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The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
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Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté*
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On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong*
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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht; t: W.H. Auden
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Medea by Euripedes; t: Rex Warner
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
2021 Finished Books
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Weather by Jenny Offill*
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Misfits by Michaela Coel
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
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If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson*
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On Tyranny by Nora Krug, Timothy Snyder
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Smoke by John Berger, Selçuk Daniel
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Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom
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Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers*
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Seek You by Kristen Radtke*
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Paying the Land by Joe Sacco*
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Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel*
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The Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han
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The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui*
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Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
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The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante*
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante**
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Sweet Time and Other Stories by Weng Pi Xin
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Body Music by Julie Maroh
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The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante**
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison*
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The Book You Wish Your Parents Read by Philippa Perry
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*
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Salvation by bell hooks
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Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt
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Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco**
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I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt
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Belonging by Nora Krug
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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life by Matt Hern, Am Johal and Joe Sacco*
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda
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The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
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The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow
ALL TIME FAVOURITES
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Walter Scott's Wendy series