TBR: Jenny

An ongoing, work-in-progress list of the books I want to read. They are in no particular order; I read them at whim, and sometimes it takes me years to get to them. As I read them, I will remove them from this page and put them on the page of books I’ve finished. Excelsior!

The Sentence, Louise Erdrich

The Poet Empress, Shen Tao

Childhood, Andre Alexis

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Flame Throwers, Rachel Kushner

Louise Hegarty

Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor

Audition, Katie Kitamura

Birnam Wood, Eleanor Cotton

Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews

Clear, Carys Davies

Beyond Survival, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward

Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes

Ex-Wife, Ursula Parrott

Psychopomp and Circumstance, Eden Royce

Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Helm, Sara Hall

The Hypebeast

The Last Shtetl, Max Gross

This Bright Dust, Nina Berkhout

Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall

The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt

The Exiles, Hilary McKay

The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin

The Luzhin Defense, Nabokov

Fortunata and Jacinta

Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast

Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick

How We Fight For Our Lives, Saeed Jones

Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood

Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner

Tinkers, Paul Harding

Funny Boy, Jessica Max Stein

Jim Henson: the Biography, Brian Jay Jones

Seven Demons, Aiden Truhen

The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry

Bird Suit, Sydney Hegele

Cane, Jean Toomer

Back From the Land, Eleanor Agnew

The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff

Anna and the Five Towns, Arnold Bennett

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, T.L. Huchu

Shepherd’s Sight, Barbara McLean

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires, Lyndsey Medford

Self-Compassion, Kristin Neff

Colored Television, Danzy Senna

Dead Silence, SA Barnes

Katherine Rundell

Bad Actors, Mick Herron

The Gray House, Maryam Petrosian

Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

Good Behaviour, Molly Keane

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (Bleuets)

Jesus’s Son, Denis Johnson

O, Caledonia, Elspeth Barker

The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown

The Last Policeman, Ben Winters

Invisible Women, Caroline Criado-Perez

Being Heumann, Judith Heumann

Wild Wales, George Borrow

The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea

Down the Rabbit Hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos

Leech, Hiron Ennes

The Books of Jacob, Olga Togarczuk

God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam

Yukio Mishima (Spring Snow?)

A Simple Story, Elizabeth Inchbald

Germinal, Zola

Mazebook, Jeff Lemire

Raising Raffi, Keith Gessen

Season of Migration to the North

Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow

Patrick Modiano

Africa Is Not a Country, Dipo Faloyin

Dans les bois éternels, Fred Vargas

The Black Powder War, Naomi Novik

Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner

Monsters I Have Been, Kenji Liu

Dear Diaspora, Susan Nguyen

Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather

The Ramayana

Journey to the West

The Lusiads

Phantom Pains, Mishell Baker

Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian Jarboe

The Goat’s Song, Dermot Healy

Hotel World, Ali Smith

Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden

Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy

Outpost, Dan Richards

The Yield, Tara June Winch

Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf (Night and Day, The Years)

The Funnies, J. Robert Lennon

The Book of Ebenezer LePage, G. B. Edwards

It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s, Lisa Blower

The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor (and others)

A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson (The Morning Gift)