books i read in 2021

• Crush by Richard Siken

• Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry

• Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

• The Decagon House Murders (十角館の殺人) by Yukito Ayatsuji

  • Some excellent Japanese detective fiction of the shin honkaku ha (新本格派) “new orthodox” movement. I want to read more!

• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

  • This was my first Discworld novel & now I’m fully committed to finishing the series. There are 41 books and I’m going to start reading them chronologically

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • a bit predictable, but such is the case for most AI-centric fiction

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

• A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

• Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

• Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen (thanks Sela!)

• Against Interpretation: and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (6/6)

• No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie