in chronological order:
Stoner by John Williams (reread)
The Midnight Disease by Alice W. Flaherty
The Fountains of Neptune by Rikki Ducornet
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel
The Hamlet Syndrome by Adrienne Miller & Andrew Goldblatt
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Model Home by Eric Puchner
Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh
Next by James Hynes
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Munoz
Personal Days by Ed Park
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
If You’re Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Group by Paul Solotaroff
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz
Suicide by Edouard Leve
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Endless Love by Scott Spencer
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
Damage by Josephine Hart
Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
Stuff by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by Women by Denise Caignon
Seven Days in Rio by Francis Levy
Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
Picture This by Lynda Barry
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
Erotomania: A Romance by Francis Levy
Facing Violence by Rory Miller
Nothing Natural by Jenny Diski
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
You Think That’s Bad by Jim Shepard
Memories of Loss and Dreams of Perfection by Delmont and Shirley Linden Morrison
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Lying by Sam Harris
Eccentrics by David Weeks and Jamie James
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (reread)
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
Never the Face by Ariel Sands
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
The Secret Lives of Hoarders by Matt Paxton with Phaedra Hise
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman