past reads

A full listing of reads and reviews

2022

The Wedding, by Dorothy West
Brass, by Xhenet Aliu
Tin Man, by Sarah Winman
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
In the Face of the Sun, by Denny S. Bryce
Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

2021

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 
Lady Killers, by Tori Telfer 
Beast In View, by Margaret Millar 
Three Martini Lunch, by Suzanne Rindell 
The Library Book, by Susan Orlean 
The L-Shaped Room, by Lynne Reid-Banks 
The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis 
Yellow Wife, by Sadeqa Johnson 
The Time In Between, by María Dueñas 
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, by Hisaye Yamamoto
The Betrayal (The Fear Street Saga #1), by R.L. Stine
The Secret (The Fear Street Saga #2), by R.L. Stine
The Burning (The Fear Street Saga #3), by R.L. Stine
The Last Time I Lied, by Riley Sager
The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling 

2020

Ragtime, by E.L. Doctrow 
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny, by Nile Rodgers 
The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin, by Dr. Anjali Mahto
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, by Ron Hansen
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, by Zora Neale Hurston
My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell 
The Neon Bible, by John Kennedy Toole 
Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola
Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin
The Silent Companions, by Laura Purcell
Maynard's House, by Herman Raucher
The Vanishing Act, by Brit Bennett 
Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier
The Auctioneer, by Joan Samson
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing, ed. by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Psycho, by Robert Bloch
The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa 
Ghachar, Ghochar, by Vivek Shanbhag
Aura, by Carlos Fuentes

2019

A Ladder To The Sky, by John Boyne
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee
Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid
Lives Of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro
White Fur, by Jardine Libaire
Brother, by David Chariandy
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, by Horace McCoy
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, edited by Glory Edim
My Sister, The Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction, by Gabrielle Moss
A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor
The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep
The Mother Of Black Hollywood: A Memoir, by Jenifer Lewis
Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down, by Gina McIntyre
The Boys From Brazil, by Ira Levin
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Great Granny Webster, by Caroline Blackwood
In Pieces, by Sally Field
The Beguiled, by Thomas Cullinan
My Love Story, by Tina Turner
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow
The Bridge of Beyond, by Simone Schwartz-Bart
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories, by Flannery O'Connor

2018 

Juliet Takes A Breath, by Gabby Rivera
They Came Like Swallows, by William Maxwell
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing
Seance On A Wet Afternoon, by Mark McShane
Handbook For An Unpredictable Life, by Rosie Perez
Man In The Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson, by Joseph Vogel
Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove
Sisters Of The Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, by bell hooks
Intimate Apparel & Fabulation, by Lynn Nottage
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, by Joseph Zeitz
Making Faces, by Kevyn Aucoin
The Vagabond, by Colette
Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution In Trump's America, edited by: Samhita Mukhopadhyay
The Slaves Of Solitude, by Patrick Hamilton
Little Birds, by Anaïs Nin
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost Of Cheap Fashion, by Elizabeth L. Cline
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
Face Paint: The Story of Makeup, by Lisa Eldridge
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Essays, edited by George Breitman
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching For James Brown and the American Soul, by James McBride
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
The Good Girls Revolt: How The Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed The Workplace, by Lynn Povich
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky, by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Brat Pack America: Visiting Cult Movies of the '80s, by Kevin Smokler
Mrs. Kimble, by Jennifer Haigh
Lost Among The Living, by Simone St. James
Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, by Audre Lorde
Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh
Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin, by David Ritz
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai, by Jim Colucci
Different Seasons, by Stephen King
The Love-Child, by Edith Olivier
Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work, by Melissa Gira Grant
Montana 1948, by Larry Watson
Black Klansman:Race, Hate, and The Undercover Investigation of a A Lifetime, by Ron Stallworth