Reading List

Reading is my first love and I enjoy reading a range of things. You’ll see lots of literary fiction in here, but also comics and graphic novels, and a bit of history, philosophy, and general non-fiction. The list comprises books that I read from cover to cover, so meaning I do not include the giant pile of books I’ve never finished :).

What I’m currently reading (updated on June 25 2026):

  • This Place edited by Alicia Elliott

2026 Finished Books:
* liked
** loved

  • Landing in Place by Sherine Hamdy and Myra El Mir*

  • Girl Juice by Benji Nate*

  • Lorna by Benji Nate

  • Why Art? by Eleanor Davis**

  • This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki**

  • Sleepwalk and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine*

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine*

  • Shame Shame Go Away by Jess MacCormack

  • Closing Act by Chris W. Kim

  • Dear Kenneth by Cole Degenstein

  • 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine**

  • Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem

  • Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

  • I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang

  • Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy*

  • The Train by Chihoi / Hung Hung (translated by Steve Bradbury)

  • Citymouse by Eleanor Hannon

  • Never the Same by Donna Schuurman

  • Rave by Jessica Campbell

    • Cannon by Lee Lai*

    • Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls**

    • Stray by Annie Canto*

    • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara*

    • Stay True by Hua Hsu**

    • Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro*

    • Endsickness by Sofia Alarcon**

    • Son of the House by Cheyuchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

    • Wake Up Pixoto by Weng Pi Xin*

    • Fat by Regina Hofer (trans. Natascha Hoffmeyer)

    • Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis** (re-read)

    • Madeline’s Good Dirt and Junk Collection by Madeline Berger

    • Seoul Before Sunrise by Samir Dahmani

    • Alienation by Inez Estrada**

    • Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener

    • The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

    • This is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics by Jeet Heer / Joe Ollman*

    • Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki**

    • Holy Lacrimony by Michael deForge*

    • The Gulf by Adam de Souza*

    • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

    • Q&A by Adrian Tomine*

    • Cop City Swagger by Mercedes Eng

    • Megahex by Simon Hanselmann*

    • America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo**

    • The City of To-Morrow and its Planning by Le Corbusier

    • War on Gaza by Joe Sacco**

    • Last Woman by Carleigh Baker*

    • Bad Friends by Ancco* (translated by Janet Hong)

    • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    • Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim** (translated by Janet Hong)

    • Tokyo Love Story by Julie Blanchin-Fujita

    • All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong*

    1. Artist by Yeong Shin-Ma

    2. Ducks by Kate Beaton

    3. Isle of Dogs by Minetaro Mochizuki*

    4. The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk, Joanna Concejo

    5. Big Kids by Michael Deforge**

    6. The Idiot by Elif Batuman* [book review]

    7. Something Not Nothing by Sarah Leavitt*

    8. Hunger by Roxane Gay*

    9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro*

    10. Ant Colony by Michael Deforge*

    11. Sula by Toni Morrison**

    12. Gaza Writes Back edited by Refaat Alareer*

    13. Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

    14. Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez*

    15. The Wendy Award by Walter Scott**

    16. Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian and Patria Rivera*

    17. Beloved by Toni Morrison*

    18. If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga*

    19. Wendy Master of Art by Walter Scott**

    20. Wendy's Revenge by Walter Scott**

    21. There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

    22. How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis*

    23. The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

    24. All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

    25. Grievers by adrienne maree brown

    26. Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls 

    27. Roaming by  Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

    28. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

    29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley* 

    30. Fever Drean / Distance de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin (t. Megan McDowell)**

    1. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang*

    2. Building Stories by Chris Ware*

    3. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears 

    4. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis**

    5. Only this Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

    6. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (trans. Eric Ozawa)

    7. Trust by Hernan Diaz**

    8. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin*

    9. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini*

    10. The Years by Annie Ernaux

    11. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

    12. White Teeth by Zadie Smith*

    13. Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück

    14. Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki*

    15. Open City by Teju Cole*

    16. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*

    1. The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim*

    2. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

    3. Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman

    4. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin*

    5. Passing by Nella Larsen

    6. Creation by Sylvia Nickerson 

    7. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

    8. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi*

    9. Good Talk by Mira Jacob

    10. Stone Fruit by Lee Lai*

    11. Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

    12. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut* 

    13. Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz

    14. Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill

    15. Love's Work by Gillian Rose

    16. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee**

    17. Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

    18. In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott*

    19. No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

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

    21. On Beauty by Zadie Smith*

    22. War Primer by Bertolt Brecht; t: Stefan Brecht

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

    24. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

    25. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    26. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

    27. Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté*

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

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

    30. Medea by Euripedes; t: Rex Warner

    31. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

    1. Weather by Jenny Offill*

    2. Misfits by Michaela Coel

    3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

    4. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

    5. If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson*

    6. On Tyranny by Nora Krug, Timothy Snyder

    7. Smoke by John Berger, Selçuk Daniel

    8. Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom

    9. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers*

    10. Seek You by Kristen Radtke*

    11. Paying the Land by Joe Sacco*

    12. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel*

    13. The Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han

    14. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui*

    15. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

    16. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante*

    17. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante**

    18. Sweet Time and Other Stories by Weng Pi Xin

    19. Body Music by Julie Maroh

    20. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante**

    21. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

    22. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong 

    23. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

    24. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison*

    25. The Book You Wish Your Parents Read by Philippa Perry

    26. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*

    27. Salvation by bell hooks

    28. Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt

    29. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco**

    30. I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt

    31. Belonging by Nora Krug

    32. Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life by Matt Hern, Am Johal and Joe Sacco*

    33. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda

    34. The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

    35. The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

    1. Fifteen Dogs (2015) by Andre Alexis

    2. Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino

    3. The Autobiography of Red (1998)by Anne Carson

    4. The Wendy Series (2021—) by Walter Scott

    5. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (1929) (trans. Stephen Howard)