Every year I challenge myself to read 52 books, and I track my progress here.
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January
1. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
2. Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
3. What You See In The Dark by Manuel Muñoz
4. All’s Well by Mona Awad
5. The Touch System by Alejandra Costamagna
6. A Horse At Night by Amina Cain
February
7. Checkout-19 by Claire Louise Bennett
8. Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
9. A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
10. The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
11. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
12. Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
March
13. Real Estate by Deborah Levy
14. Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel
15. Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri
16. When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labatout
April
17. Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
18. The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
19. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
20. A Minor Chorus by Billy Ray Belcourt
May
21. True Biz by Sara Novic
22. The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
23. Hole Studies by Hilary Plum
24. All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
25. This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
June
26. The Telling by Ursula K LeGuin
27. Look At The Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux
July
28. Monsters by Claire Dederer
29. Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
30. The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
31. Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
32. White On White by Ayşegül Savaş
33. I Will Write to Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
August
34. The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
35. August Blue by Deborah Levy
36. Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
37. The Employees by Olga Ravn
38. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
39. In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
September
40. Having and Being by Had Eula Biss
41. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
42. This Ragged Grace by Octavia Bright
43. Voyager by Nona Fernández
44. The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
45. The Nerves and Their Endings by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
October
46. Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra
47. If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
48. Shame by Annie Ernaux
49. A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
50. A Prayer For The Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
51. Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha
52. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
November
53. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
54. Homesick by Jennifer Croft
December
55. Science of Yoga by Ann Swanson
56. Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark
57. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
58. The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez
59. Black Paper Teju Cole
60. The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz
61. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunes
62. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
63. Regarding The Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
64. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
DNFs
Haunted Houses Lynne Tillman
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
Is Mother Dead? by Vigdis Hjorth
Y/N Esther Yi
Our Wives Under The Sea Julia Armfield
Woman Running In The Mountains Yūko Tsushima
The Last Supper Rachel Cusk
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain