A Year of Reading: 2021

1. Indelicacy by Amina Cain (fiction, 2020)

2. Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson (fiction, 2020)

3. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (nonfiction, 2019)

4. Luster by Raven Leilani (fiction, 2020)

5. The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer (nonfiction, 2019)

6. Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (nonfiction, 2020)

7. The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen (memoir in translation from Danish, 1967)

8. Kink: Stories edited by R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell (short fiction collection, 2021)

9. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (nonfiction, 2019)

10. Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin M. Gannon (nonfiction, 2020)

11. Circe by Madeline Miller (fiction, 2018)

12. Memorial by Bryan Washington (fiction, 2020)

13. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener (nonfiction, 2020)

14. Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora (memoir in translation from French, 2020)

15. Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (memoir in translation from French, 1991)

16. King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (memoir and essays in translation from French, 2006)

17. Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer (memoir and lyric prose, 2015)

18. Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel (nonfiction, 2019)

19. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel (nonfiction, 2021)

20. Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (fiction, 2021)

21. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (nonfiction essays, 2021)

22. Border Nation: A Story of Migration by Leah Cowan (nonfiction, 2020)

23. Bad Behavior: Stories by Mary Gaitskill (fiction, 1988)

24. Radical Attention by Julia Bell (nonfiction, 2020)

25. Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (nonfiction, 2015)

26. Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard (nonfiction, 2019)

27. Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (fiction, 2019)

28. Notes from No Man’s Land by Eula Biss (nonfiction, 2009)

29. Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (fiction, 2020)

30. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell (nonfiction, 2020)

31. All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui (autofiction in translation from French, 2018)

32. Dunce by Mary Ruefle (poetry, 2019)

33. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper (nonfiction, 2020)

34. Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan (fiction, 2021)

35. The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood (fiction, 2021)

36. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia (nonfiction, 2021)

37. Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann (nonfiction, 2021)

38. Assembly by Natasha Brown (fiction, 2021)

39. Girlhood by Melissa Febos (memoir, 2021)

40. Three Rooms by Jo Hamya (fiction, 2021)

41. The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan (nonfiction, 2021)

42. Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney (fiction, 2021)

43. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (fiction, 2021)

44. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins (fiction, 2021)

45. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (nonfiction, 2017)

46. Exteriors by Annie Ernaux (memoir in translation from French, 1996)

47. Real Estate by Deborah Levy (memoir, 2021)

48. The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer (fiction, 2020)

49. The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (fiction, 1962)

50. How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (nonfiction, 2020)

51. No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute by Lauren Elkin (nonfiction, 2021)

52. Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman (fiction, 1982)

53. Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück (poetry, 2021)

54. Paul by Daisy Lafarge (fiction, 2021)

55. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi (nonfiction, 2021)

56. Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados (fiction, 2021)

57. It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst (poetry, 1968)