2022
Gentleman Callers by Corinne Hoex, translated by Caitlin O'Neil
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Stories of a Life by Nataliya Meshchaninova, translated by Fiona Bel
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky
1000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel, translated by Priscilla Layne
They by Kay Doyle
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Panics by Barbara Molinard, translated by Emma Ramadan
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
You’ve Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War
All About Love by bell hooks
Carnality by Lina Wolff, translated by Frank Perry
Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
A Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
Happening by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie
Oh Painters by Virginia Woolf
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
A Secret History by Donna Tart
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
2021
She Comes by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh
Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
Not One Day by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan
Kapo by Alexander Tišma, translated by Richard Williams.
Socialism: a Very Brief Introduction by Michael Neuman
In Concrete by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan
Communism: a Very Brief Introduction by Leslie Holmes
Kin by Miljenko Jergović, translated by Russell Scott Valentino
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkewti
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Disquiet by by Zülfü Livaneli, translated by Brendan Freely
With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
Distant Fathers by Marina Jarre, translate by Ann Goldstein
Variations on the Body by María Ospina, translated by Heather Cleary
Out of the Cage by Fernanda García Lao, translated by Will Vanderhyden
Beautiful World, Where Are You? By Sally Rooney
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Transit by Rachel Cusk
2020
My Own Devices by Dessa
Pen America Prize (reader for the Writing for Justice Fellowship)
Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
Center for Fiction Prize (reader)
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
Paris Review
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Educated by Tara Westover
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me by Bess Kalb
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
Straight From the Horse’s Mouth by Meryem Alaoui, translated by Emma Ramadan
No Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa, translated by Emma Ramadan
Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump
The Ancestry of Objects by Tatiana Ryckman
Jean-Luc Persecuted by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras, translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes
FEM by Magda Carneci, translated by Sean Cotter
Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated by Jeremy Leggat
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Celia Hawkesworth
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lipector, translated by Idra Novey
Luster by Raven Leilani
She Comes by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh
2019
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
The Paris Review 227
Emily L by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barabara Bray
The Hour of The Star by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
The Beekeeper by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail
Lost Child Achieve by Valeria Luiselli
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector, translated by Johnny Lorenz
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich
Maid by Stephanie Land
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Paris Review
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
2018
The Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
Friendship by Emily Gould
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Compass by Mathias Énard
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
The End of an Affair by Graham Greene
Persuasion by Jane Austen
There There by Tommy Orange
Paris Review (Summer)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Waitress was New by Dominique Fabre, translated by Jordan Stump
Pearls on a Branch by Najla Jraissaty Khoury, translated by Inea Bushnaq
The Paris Review (Fall)
Early Work by Andrew Martin
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, , translated by Ann Goldstein
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Story of The Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, , translated by Ann Goldstein
Wait Until They See Me Dance by Deb Olin Unferth
War: a memoir by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
A Public Space No 23
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
Milkman by Anna Burns
N+1 Winter
A Public Space No 27
2017
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood
The Souls of Black Folks by W. E. B. Du Bois
Quicksand by Nella Larson
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Sula by Toni Morrison
Mary, A fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Castle Rachrent by Maria Edgeworth
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Waverly by Walter Scott
Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Happiness by Heather Haphram
Breakable You by Brian Morton
Once and For All by Sarah Dessen
Passing by Nella Larson
Sometimes I Think About It by Stephen Eliot
Conflict is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman
The Living Infinite by Chantel Acevedo
Democracy by Joan Didion
Testojunkie by Paul B. Preciado, translated by Bruce Benderson
The Sphinx by Anne Garréta
Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenedies
Varieties of Disturbances by Lydia Davis