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➜ books I read for classes
chronological, most recent at top
Fall 2025 (September to November)
➜ The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon): ★★★☆
➜ The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins): ★★★★
➜ From Hell (Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell): ★★★★★
Summer 2025 (June to August)
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Scott McCloud): ★★★★★
➜ Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman Melville): ★★★★★
Nineteen (Ancco): ★★★★
➜ The Farm (Joanne Ramos): ★★★★★
➜ The Autobiography of My Mother (Jamaica Kincaid): ★★
No Country For Old Men (Cormac McCarthy): ★★★★
Spring 2025 (March to May)
Wool (Hugh Howey): ★★★☆
Emma (Jane Austen): ★★★★★
Chemistry (Weike Wang): ★★★☆
➜ The Necessary Hunger (Nina Revoyr): ★★☆
Cthulthu Tales Vol. 2: The Whisper Of Madness (Steve Niles): ★★★★
➜ On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong): ★★★
Sunrise On The Reaping (Suzanne Collins): ★★★★
Winter 2025 (December to February)
➜ The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison): ★★★
➜ The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston): ★★★
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Sequoia Nagamatsu): ★★★☆
Butter (Asako Yuzuki): ★★★★
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr): ★★★★★
➜ Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin): ★★★★
➜ In Cold Blood (Truman Capote): ★★☆
Friday Black (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah): ★★★☆
The Final Girl Support Group (Grady Hendrix): ★★★★☆
The Ring (Koji Suzuki): ★★★☆
My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Grady Hendrix): ★★★★
Fall 2024 (September to November)
Once The Shore (Paul Yoon): ★★★☆
Green Frog (Gina Chung): ★★★★
➜ Native Speaker (Chang Rae Lee): ★★★★☆
➜ Rolling the R’s (R.Zamora Linmark): ★★
➜ Tropic of Orange (Karen Tei Yamashita): ★★
Salt Sugar Fat (Michael Moss): ★★★★★
➜ M. Butterfly (David Henry Hwang): ★★★☆
➜ We Should Never Meet (Aimee Phan): ★★★★☆
➜ Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri): ★★★
Summer 2024 (June to August)
How High We Go In The Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu): ★★★★★
Imposter Syndrome (Kathy Wang): ★★★★
The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories (Ken Liu): ★★★★★Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Simon Garfield): ★★★☆
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (Alice Bolin): ★★★
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet (Neil McShane Wulfhart): ★★★★
The Love Scribe (Amy Meyerson): ★
White Cat, Black Dog (Kelly Link): ★★★★
The Poppy War (R.F Kuang): ★★★★
The Library Book (Susan Orlean): ★★★★★
A Tale For The Time Being (Ruth Ozeki): ★★★★★
Spring 2024 (March to May)
➜ Pearl (translation by Simon Armitage): ★★★
➜ Alliterative Morte Arthur (translation by Simon Armitage): ★★
➜ The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe): ★★★
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt): ★★★★★
Chain Gang All Stars (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah): ★★★★★
Winter 2024 (December to February)
Passing (Nella Larsen): ★★★☆
➜ A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens): ★★★
➜ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson): ★★☆
➜ Oroonoko (Aphra Behn): ★★
All The Single Ladies (Rebecca Traister): ★★★★★
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan): ★★★★
➜ Frankenstein (Mary Shelley): ★★★☆
➜ The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka): ★★★
The Secret History (Donna Tartt): ★★★★☆
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie): ★★★★☆
➜ The Vegetarian (Han Kang): ★★★★
Killing and Dying (Adrian Tomine): ★★★☆