Click below for the Directory of Dog-Eared Pages, an ongoing compilation of dog-eared pages and well-turned phrases from books I've read.
2022
FICTION
The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin
Intimacies, Katie Kitamura ๐
Matrix, Lauren Groff
The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Nรญ Ghrรญofa
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez
The Immortal King Rao, Vauhini Vara
Either/Or, Elif Batuman
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou
Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
POETRY
Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar ๐
Dream of the Divided Field, Yanyi
What Noise Against the Cane, Desiree C. Bailey
NONFICTION
The Natural Mother of the Child, Krys Malcolm Belc ๐
Pop Song, Larissa Pham
The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
2021
FICTION
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Shookoofeh Azar
Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
A Childrenโs Bible, Lydia Millet
Memorial, Bryan Washington
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry
Outlawed, Anna North
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel ๐
Hamnet, Maggie OโFarrell
The Removed, Brandon Hobson
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian
Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler
No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Yolk, Mary H. K. Choi
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell
Minor Detail, Adania Shibli
Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen
NONFICTION
The Power of Ritual, Casper ter Kuile
Just Us, Claudia Rankine
Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
Consent, Vanessa Springora
White Magic, Elissa Washuta
2020
FICTION
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
Space Invaders, Nona Fernรกndez
Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Bangkok Wakes to Rain, Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Weather, Jenny Offill ๐
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
Labyrinth, Burhan Sรถnmez
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor
Temporary, Hilary Leichter
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
Drifts, Kate Zambreno
How Much of These Hills is Gold, C Pam Zhang
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata ๐
The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel
Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
Our Riches, Kaouther Adimi
Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff
Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha
Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline
Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
Luster, Raven Leilani
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
Sisters, Daisy Johnson
A Burning, Megha Majumdar
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Real Life, Brandon Taylor
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa
You Exist Too Much, Zaina Arafat
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar
I Hold a Wolf By the Ears, Laura van den Berg
POETRY
Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Solace is Not the Lullaby, Jill Osier
Shrapnel Maps, Philip Metres
[ G A T E S ], Sahar Muradi
Virgin, Analicia Sotelo
Feeld, Jos Charles
Gilt, Raena Shirali
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Soft Science, Franny Choi ๐
Equilibrium, Tiana Clark ๐
Savage Pageant, Jessica Q Stark
Space Struck, Paige Lewis ๐
Brute, Emily Skaja
Madness, sam sax ๐
Invasive Species, Marwa Helal ๐
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
Documents, Jan-Henry Gray
1919, Eve L Ewing
Blackacre, Monica Youn
Hard Damage, Aria Aber ๐
Cannibal, Safiya Sinclair
Donโt Call Us Dead, Danez Smith ๐
Too Much Midnight, Krista Franklin
WHEREAS, Layli Long Soldier ๐
Bone Confetti, Muriel Leung
The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Bhanu Kapil
semiautomatic, Evie Shockley
Upend, Claire Meuschke
Good Boys, Megan Fernandes ๐
Seeing the Body, Rachel Eliza Griffiths ๐
Ordinary Beast, Nicole Sealey
Dhaka Dust, Dilruba Ahmed
The Carrying, Ada Limรณn ๐
NONFICTION
Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
Canโt Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation: Anne Helen Petersen
2019
A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Marilyn Chin
If You See Me, Donโt Say Hi, Neel Patel
The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
House A, Jennifer S. Cheng ๐
Rocket Fantastic, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Everything Under, Daisy Johnson
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
The Obelisk Gate, NK Jemisin
The Stone Sky, NK Jemisin
Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli ๐
The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza
One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Tower of the Antilles, Achy Obejas
The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
North of Dawn, Nuruddin Farah
Deathโs End, Cixin Liu
Golden Child, Claire Adam
Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky ๐
Sabrina & Corina, Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk ๐
The Atlas of Reds and Blues, Devi S. Laskar
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
Sea Monsters, Chloe Aridjis ๐
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
Optic Nerve, Maria Gainza ๐
Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Women Talking, Miriam Toews
Good Talk, Mira Jacob
In the Woods, Tana French
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
Oculus, Sally Wen Mao
On Earth Weโre Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong ๐
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett
The Tenth Muse, Catherine Chung
Walking on the Ceiling, Aysegรผl Savaล ๐
Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
The Farm, Joanne Ramos
Normal People, Sally Rooney
The Trojan War Museum and other stories, Ayse Papatya Bucak
Costalegre, Courtney Maum
The Year of Blue Water, Yanyi ๐
A Prayer for Travelers, Ruchika Tomar
Make it Scream, Make it Burn, Leslie Jamison ๐
Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh
The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
Be Recorder, Carmen Gimรฉnez Smith
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott
How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib ๐
American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson
Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado ๐
2018
What We Lose, Zinzi Clemmons
Outline, Rachel Cusk
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
My Absolute Darling, Gabriel Tallent
Chemistry, Weike Wang
Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
Salt Houses, Hala Alyan
Hunger, Roxane Gay
Modern Lovers, Emma Straub
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O, Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck ๐
Swimmer Among the Stars, Kanishk Tharoor
How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas
The Isle of Youth, Laura van den Berg
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot ๐
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, Kathleen Collins
The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henrรญquez
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Mislaid, Nell Zink
The World Goes On, Lรกszlรณ Krasznahorkai
Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
Call Me Zebra, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Girls Burn Brighter, Shobha Rao
Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
Happiness, Aminatta Forna
The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt
Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith ๐
Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee
This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins
Tangerine, Christine Mangan
The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantรบ
blud, Rachel McKibbens ๐
Eye Level, Jenny Xie
Here in Berlin, Cristina Garcรญa
America is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar ๐
Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras ๐
Find Me, Laura van den Berg
Mem, Bethany C. Morrow
Tonight Iโm Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson ๐
Half Gods, Akil Kumarasamy
Registers of Illuminated Villages, Tarfia Faizullah ๐
The Golden State, Lydia Kiesling
Florida, Lauren Groff
Circe, Madeline Miller
The Incendiaries, R.O. Kwon
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee
Ordinary People, Diana Evans
The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg
Suicide Club, Rachel Heng
The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint ๐
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
A River of Stars, Vanessa Hua
300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso
There There, Tommy Orange
Hunger, Lan Samantha Chang
Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi
Certain American States, Catherine Lacey
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
Fen, Daisy Johnson
Severance, Ling Ma
Be With, Forrest Gander
All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
Kingdom Animalia, Aracelis Girmay ๐
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen
Insurrecto, Gina Apostol
Heartbreaker, Claudia Dey
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim
2017
Swing Time, Zadie Smith
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen ๐
Commonwealth, Ann Patchett
The Wangs vs. the World, Jade Chang
Wreck and Order, Hannah Tennant-Moore
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
The Sellout, Paul Beatty ๐
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Hot Milk, Deborah Levy
The Nix, Nathan Hill
Freeman's: Arrival (anthology), ed. John Freeman
Black Dog of Fate, Peter Balakian
Cities I've Never Lived In, Sara Majka
Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose
The Big Green Tent, Ludmila Ulitskaya
Beauty Is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan
The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid ๐
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin
Amatka, Karin Tidbeck
A Separation, Katie Kitamura
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera ๐
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang
The Mountain, Paul Yoon
The Answers, Catherine Lacey
A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong
The Readymade Thief, Augustus Rose
When My Brother Was an Aztec, Natalie Diaz
You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, Carolina Ebeid
Our Lady of the Ruins, Traci Brimhall
The Idiot, Elif Batuman ๐
Refuge, Dina Nayeri
The Last Illusion, Porochista Khakpour
The Power, Naomi Alderman
New People, Danzy Senna
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy