Readings

Reading is my first love and I enjoy reading a range of things. You’ll see lots of literary fiction in here, but also comics and graphic novels, and a bit of history, philosophy, and general non-fiction. The list comprises books that I read from cover to cover, so meaning I did not include the giant pile of books I’ve never finished :).

What I’m currently reading (updated on December 9 2024):

  • Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha Nussbaum

2024 Finished Books:
* liked
** loved

  • Artist by Yeong Shin-Ma

  • Ducks by Kate Beaton

  • Isle of Dogs by Minetaro Mochizuki*

  • The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk, Joanna Concejo

  • Big Kids by Michael Deforge*

  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman* [book review]

  • Something Not Nothing by Sarah Leavitt*

  • Hunger by Roxane Gay*

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro*

  • Ant Colony by Michael Deforge*

  • Sula by Toni Morrison**

  • Gaza Writes Back edited by Refaat Alareer*

  • Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

  • Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez*

  • The Wendy Award by Walter Scott**

  • Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian and Patria Rivera*

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison*

  • If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga*

  • Wendy Master of Art by Walter Scott**

  • Wendy's Revenge by Walter Scott**

  • There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

  • How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis*

  • The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

  • All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

  • Grievers by adrienne maree brown

  • Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls 

  • Roaming by  Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

  • Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley* 

  • Fever Drean / Distance de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin (t. Megan McDowell)**

    1. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang*

    2. Building Stories by Chris Ware*

    3. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears 

    4. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis**

    5. Only this Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

    6. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (trans. Eric Ozawa)

    7. Trust by Hernan Diaz**

    8. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin*

    9. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini*

    10. The Years by Annie Ernaux

    11. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

    12. White Teeth by Zadie Smith*

    13. Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück

    14. Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki*

    15. Open City by Teju Cole*

    16. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*

    1. The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim*

    2. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

    3. Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman

    4. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin*

    5. Passing by Nella Larsen

    6. Creation by Sylvia Nickerson 

    7. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

    8. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi*

    9. Good Talk by Mira Jacob

    10. Stone Fruit by Lee Lai*

    11. Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

    12. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut* 

    13. Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz

    14. Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill

    15. Love's Work by Gillian Rose

    16. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee**

    17. Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

    18. In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott*

    19. No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

    20. Grass by Keum-Suk Gendry-Kim, t: Janet Hong*

    21. On Beauty by Zadie Smith*

    22. War Primer by Bertolt Brecht; t: Stefan Brecht

    23. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; t: Ginny Tapley Takemori*

    24. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

    25. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    26. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

    27. Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté*

    28. On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong*

    29. The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht; t: W.H. Auden

    30. Medea by Euripedes; t: Rex Warner

    31. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

    1. Weather by Jenny Offill*

    2. Misfits by Michaela Coel

    3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

    4. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

    5. If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson*

    6. On Tyranny by Nora Krug, Timothy Snyder

    7. Smoke by John Berger, Selçuk Daniel

    8. Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom

    9. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers*

    10. Seek You by Kristen Radtke*

    11. Paying the Land by Joe Sacco*

    12. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel*

    13. The Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han

    14. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui*

    15. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

    16. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante*

    17. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante**

    18. Sweet Time and Other Stories by Weng Pi Xin

    19. Body Music by Julie Maroh

    20. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante**

    21. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

    22. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong 

    23. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

    24. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison*

    25. The Book You Wish Your Parents Read by Philippa Perry

    26. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*

    27. Salvation by bell hooks

    28. Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt

    29. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco**

    30. I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt

    31. Belonging by Nora Krug

    32. Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life by Matt Hern, Am Johal and Joe Sacco*

    33. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda

    34. The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

    35. The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

    1. Fifteen Dogs (2015) by Andre Alexis

    2. Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino

    3. The Autobiography of Red (1998) by Anne Carson

    4. The Wendy Series (2021—) by Walter Scott