A few books I read before I started keeping track of read-dates, minus many Russians & classics:
★★★★½
- The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
- The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
★★★★
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- A Song Flung Up To Heaven by Maya Angelou
- The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
- Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
- Going Solo by Roald Dahl
- Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany 1944
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
★★★½
- An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
- Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole by Scott Thompson, Paul Bellini
- Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
- Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World by David Sheff
- Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
- Perfume by Patrick Süskind
★★★
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
- The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
- The Garin Death Ray by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Genie: A Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
- The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
- Yellow by Don Lee
★★½
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
- the things i am thinking while smiling politely… by Sharon Dodua Otoo
- Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
★★
- Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
- Lovers in the Age of Indifference by Xiaolu Guo
- Mislaid by Nell Zink
- Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
- Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Paradise by Toni Morrison
- The Perfect Fool by Stewart Lee
- Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
★½
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
★
- The First Bad Man by Miranda July