2019 book thread

1. Lo Terciario/The Tertiary - Raquel Salas Rivera

2. Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

3. Severance - Ling Ma

4. Sick: A Memoir - Porochista Khakpour

5. Convinience Store Woman - Sakaya Murata

6. Cualquier Miércoles Soy Tuya - Mayra Santos-Febres

7. Cherry - Nico Walker

8. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty

9. Fever Dream - Samantha Schweblin

10. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom - Sylvia Plath

11. Nenísimas - Tere Dávila

12. The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America - Mike Gonzalez

13. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights - Juno Mac & Molly Smith

14. Feminism For the 99%: A Manifesto- Cinzia Aruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser

15. The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh

16. The Line Becomes A River: Dispaches From the Border - Francisco Cantú (read this bc of work and I honestly haven’t felt this conflicted about a book in a long, long time)

17. Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism - Michael Parenti

18. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

19. Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh

20. The Collected Schizophrenias- Esmé Weijun Wang

21. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks (re-read)

22. Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner (I hate that I really enjoyed this book)

23. Prostitute Laundry - Charlotte Shane

24. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise To Power- Anna Merlan

25. Next Level Basic - Stassi Schroeder

26. Women Talking - Miriam Toews

27. Normal People- Sally Rooney

28. Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

29. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide - Ben White

30. IRL - Tommy Pico

31. Nature Poem - Tommy Pico

32. Starvation Mode - Elissa Washuta

33. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

34. Reality TV - June Deery

35 & 36. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget - Sarah Hepola / Calling a Wolf a Wolf - Kaveh Akbar (both re-reads)

37. Simulations - Jean Baudrillard

38. Junk - Tommy Pico

39. Juliet the Maniac - Juliet Escoria

40. The Last Book Party - Karen Dukess

41. Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life - Natasha Lennard

42. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo

43. Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

44. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

45. Socialist Realism - Trisha Low

46. Leash - Jane Delynn

47. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging- Jodi Dean

48. Salt Slow - Julia Armfield

49. Exquisite Mariposa - Fiona Alison Duncan

50. Citizen- Claudia Rankine (I just finished this a couple of minutes ago and I’m legit breathless)

51. Females: A Concern - Andrea Long Chu

52. Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales

53. Sirens - Joshua Mohr

54. Black Hole - Charles Burns

55. Horror Stories: A Memoir - Liz Phair

56. The Topeka School - Ben Lerner (I’ve gone back and forth on Lerner, HATED 10:04 but really enjoyed ATOCHA STATION. I loved this book until the last chapter, it’s so fucking embarrassing)

57. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison (re-read)

58. Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps - David Heatley

59. The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada

60. Permission - Saskia Vogel

61. The Involuntary Sojourner - S.P. Tenhoff

62. Space Invaders - Nona Fernández

63. I Will Destroy You - Nick Flynn

favorite books I read this year:

reading resolutions for 2020: read more in Spanish, read more poetry, try to read more published by small & micro presses!