2019 Reading Roundup

Susannah’s Reading Recommendations

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami

Emily’s Recommendations

Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

American Childhood, Annie Dillard

One Big Self, CD Wright

Be With, Forrest Gander

The Beast: Riding Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail, Oscar Martinez

Stephen Shore photographs

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli

Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit

A Letter to My Mother That She’ll Never Read, Ocean Vuong

The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison,

Murphy’s Recommendations

Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, Alec Karakatsanis

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell

(& the lecture that inspired her book)

The Yellow House, Sarah Broom

My Soul Looks Back, Jessica Harris

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo

Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky

Braindead Megaphone, George Saunders

“The Secret Life of Time,” Alan Burdick

When They Call You a Terrorist, patrisse khan-cullors

“The Uses of the Erotic,” Audre Lorde