Reading

Thoughts on some of the books I've read

Here are some of the books I've enjoyed recently, listed roughly in reverse chronological order. I read some physical books, but do most of my reading on Kindle.

2025

  • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
  • Orbital, Samantha Harvey
  • Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
  • Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
  • The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke

2024

  • Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, Yang Shuang-zi
  • Outline, Rachel Cusk
  • Ways of Seeing, John Berger
  • Rejection: Fiction, Tony Tulathimutte
  • I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
  • The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • Waiting, Ha Jin
  • Severance, Ling Ma
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh