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Reading List

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  • Waterlog — Roger Deakin

  • Nina Simone’s Gum — Warren Ellis

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — David Foster Wallace

  • Junky — William S Burroughs

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Fiction

  • Paradiso 17 — Hannah Lillith Assadi

  • Red Ants — Kimberly Blaeser

  • Dèy — Edwidge Danticat

  • Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You — Julián Delgado Lopera

  • Python’s Kiss — Louise Erdrich

  • The Disappearers — Marlon James

  • Beginning Middle End — Valeria Luiselli

  • Passengers — Alexander Maksik

  • The Renovation — Kenan Orhan

  • Mad Eden — Morgan Thomas The New Yorker

Nonfiction

  • Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America — Rozina Ali

  • The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music — Colin Asher

  • Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground — Zayd Ayers Dohrn

  • Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming — Abdelrahman ElGendy

  • Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom — Camonghne Felix

  • The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home — Wil Haygood

  • Mother Tongue — Sara Nović

  • Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood — Joseph Osmundson

  • The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming — Angela Pelster

  • A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint — Wendy S. Walters The New Yorker

Poetry

  • Tree of Knowledge — Victoria Chang

  • Hide — Carolina Ebeid

  • Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation — Brenda Hillman

  • The Bronze Arms — Richie Hofmann

  • Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza — Fady Joudah

  • We — Layli Long Soldier

  • Promise/Threat — Jonah Mixon-Webster

  • JOAN — Jake Rose

  • Horses — Jake Skeets

  • Bramble — Susan Stewart The New Yorker

Translated Literature

  • My Dreadful Body — Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden

  • Now I Surrender — Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer

  • Eden at Dawn — Karim Kattan, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

  • The School of Night — Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken

  • To the East of the East — Ping Lu, translated by Jeremy Tiang

  • Centroeuropa — Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul Bery

  • Night of a Thousand Hells — Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao

  • Pure Men — Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Lara Vergnaud

  • The Disappearing Act — Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

  • Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza — Samar Yazbek, translated by Leri Price The New Yorker

Young People’s Literature

  • The Free Verse Society — Delali Adjoa

  • Holloway — Elana K. Arnold

  • The Celestial Seas — T. A. Chan

  • When Tomorrow Burns — Tae Keller

  • That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic — Keala Kendall

  • The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America — David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels

  • The Moon Without Stars — Chanel Miller

  • Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams — Eric Darnell Pritchard

  • Shook — Julian Randall

  • Life on the Moon — Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr The New Yorker

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  • Wendell Berry

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