a list of every book i've read since

aug. 16, 2017

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dates indicate when i finished them

this list includes chapbooks, zines, etc.

2017

• Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra (Aug. 21)
• Sad Girl Poems by C. Soto (Aug. 27)
• Self as Other: Reflections on Self-Care by CrimeThinc. (Oct. 6)
• Man Seeking Woman by Simon Rich (Oct. 12)
• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (Oct. 16)
• The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Oct. 29)
• Deep Lane by Mark Doty (Nov. 8)
• Mother Love by Rita Dove (Nov. 20)
• We Are Okay by Nina LaCouer (Nov. 26)
• The Unspeakable Girl by Giorgio Agmber and Monica Ferrando (Dec. 2)
• All My Heroes Are Broke by Ariel Francisco (Dec. 17)
• Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (Dec. 17)
• Maybe the Saddest Thing by Marcus Wicker (Dec. 20)
• Rivers of Suggestion by April Richardson (Dec. 28)
• I Hate Everyone But You by Allison Raskin and Gaby Dunn (Dec. 30)

2018

• Harmontown by Miranda Harmon (Jan. 1)
• Red Doc> by Anne Carson (Jan. 7)
• There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Jan. 8)
• No Planets Strike by Josh Bell (Jan. 9)
• Vincent by Barbara Stok (Jan. 16)
• Mooncop by Tom Gauld (Jan. 16)
• If Not, Winter: Fragments by Sappho, trans. Anne Carson (Feb. 15)
• Versed by Rae Armantrout (Feb. 18)
• Beastiary by Donika Kelly (Feb. 18)
• Saturn by Simon Jacobs (Feb. 26)
• Witch Wife by Kiki Petrosino (Feb. 28)
• Looking for Alaska by John Green (re-read, May 4)
• Cheap Yellow by Shy Watson (May 7)
• Exit, Pursued by Dalton Day (May 27)
• China Trace by Charles Wright (May 27)
• Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (June 2)
• 69 Love Songs (33 1/3) by LD Beghtol (June 9)
• i'm not even that into astrology by Linnea Brett (June 16)
• Do It: The Compendium by Hans Ulrich Obrist (June 16)
• Some Animals by Ely Shipley (June 21)
• The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey (re-read, June 23)
• Radiant Action by Matt Hart (June 26)
• Radiant Companion by Matt Hart (June 27)
• Just Kids by Patti Smith (July 5)
• While Standing In Line For Death by CAConrad (July 8)
• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3) by Kim Cooper (July 10)
• Marbles by Ellen Forney (July 12)
• Sexting Ghosts by Joanna C. Valente (July 13)
• Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson (July 17)
• Casserole by Sara Adams (July 24, mini-chap)
• there are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy by canaan anthony whitston (July 24, mini-chap)
• Maybe I'm The Problem by Naadeyah Haseef (July 25, mini-chap)
• Out of the Shell by Zac Porter (July 25, mini-chap)
• Public Places I've Cried by Alyssa Carabez (July 25, mini-chap)
• My Only Regret is having a Body by Jess R Sutton (July 25, mini-chap)
• Evolving God by M. Stone (July 25, mini-chap)
• Gulag Picture Radio by John Leo (July 25, mini-chap)
• Lonlieness and other wats to split a body by Kanika Lanton (July 25, mini-chap)
• founder by eve kenneally (July 26, mini-chap)
• Outerbridge Shelter by Brett Stuckel (July 26, mini-chap)
• Navy News Service by Jacquelyne Bengfort (July 26, mini-chap)
• Epoch and Olivetti Sing All the Hits by Ashley Naftule (July 26, mini-chap)
• When I Was a Hare Krishna by Lucas Gonzalez (July 26, mini-chap)
• Graphic 2 by Rachelle Toarmino (July 26, mini-chap)
• Manilla Kisses by Polina Riabora (July 27, mini-chap)
• Shock by Shock by Dean Young (re-read, Sept. 3)
• Compass Rose by Arthur Sze (Sept. 25)
• Evolution by Eileen Myles (Oct. 4)
• Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (Oct. 7)
• An Absoluetly Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (Nov. 1)
• Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems by Marina Tavetaeva, trans. Kaminsky and Jean Valentine (Nov. 16)
• What Loss Taught Me by Stephen Furlong (Dec. 21)
• Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple by Malcolm Friend (Dec. 24)

2019

• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (Jan. 28)
• Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (Feb. 21)
• Ohio Violence by Alison Stine (March 19)
• The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett (April 7)
• Extratransmission by Andrea Abi-Karam (April 18)
• Here by Richard McGuire (April 19)
• Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes (April 24)
• We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Perlman (April 27)
• Poems of Paul Celan: Revised and Expanded, trans. Michael Hamburger (May 1)
• Truman State University by Alex Wennerberg (May 10, mini-chap)
• Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (May 12)
• how much of what falls will be left when it gets to the ground? by Carolyn Guinzio (May 13)
• Spooky Action at a Distance by Dalton Day (May 14)
• The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi (May 20)
• Everyone Who Is Dead by Daniel Welch (May 20)
• The Last Thing I'll Ever Write (Part 1) by Adam Lauver (May 22)
• I Don't Write about Race by June Gehringer (May 22)
• New Micro, edited by James Thomas and Robert Sectellaro (May 23)
• Textbook by Amy Krause Rosenthal (May 26)
• i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) by Leai Penina Wilson (May 28)
• Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart (May 29)
• Gephyromania by TC Tolbert (May 30)
• The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (June 3)
• Partly: New and Selected Poems by Rae Armantrout (June 4)
• Hold by Bob Hicok (June 4)
• Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (June 4)
• Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kay (June 14)
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie (June 20)
• Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon (June 21)
• Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli (June 26)
• How to be a Poet by Guy Mead (July 14, handmade chap)
• My Favorite Things by Maira Kalman (July 14)
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (July 18)
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (July 21)
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (July 23)
• Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin (Aug. 4)
• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (Aug. 17)
• Dream Journal Volume One by Julian K. Jarboe (Sept. 7, mini-chap)
• If Something Has to Define Me Let It Be the People I Have Given Myself Away To by Caroline Grand-Clement (Sept. 7, mini-chap)
• My Skin Really Means His Need and His Dying by Sara Adams (Sept. 7, mini-chap)
• There Is A Monster by Aidan Aragan (Sept. 7)
• Gephyromania by TC Tolbert (re-read, Sept. 15)
• Keep It Moving: A Sufjan Stevens Fan Zine (Sept. 24)
• How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Sept. 26)
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (Oct. 5)
• 49 Venezuelan Novels by Sebastian Castillo (Oct. 16)
• I Will Destroy You by Nick Flynn (Oct. 22)
• Sheets by Brenna Thummler (Oct. 27)
• Dunce by Mary Ruefle (Oct. 27)
• GMorning, GNight! Little Pep Talks by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Oct. 28)
• Father's Day by Matthew Zapruder (Oct. 30)
• Variations on Dawn and Dusk by Dan Beachy-Quick (Nov. 2)
• SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker (Nov. 9)
• Space Invaders by Nona Fernández (Nov. 10)
• Space Struck by Paige Lewis (Nov. 23)
• Moon Crumbs by Shelia Dong (Dec. 5)
• Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn (Dec. 11)
• The Collected Schizophrenia by Esmé Weijun Wang (Dec. 18)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Dec. 23? not sure)
• The Crying Book by Heather Christle (Dec. 25)
• Your Healing Is Killing Me by Virginia Grise (Dec. 26)
• Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith (Dec. 26)
• Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (Dec. 29)

2020

• Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (Jan. 3)
• while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera (Jan. 3)
• Silver Road by Kazim Ali (Jan. 5)
• feeld by Jos Charles (Jan. 7)
• The Paper Camera by Youmna Chilala (Feb. 1)
• Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgarrif and Georgia Hardstark (Feb. 19)
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughtry (Feb. 29)
• The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson (March 6)
• The Half-Inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali (re-read, March 7)
• Bone-Sculpture by Agha Shahid Ali (March 7)
• Solar Perplexus by Dean Young (March 10)
• If Men, Then by Eliza Griswold (March 15)
• The Space Poet by Samantha Edmonds (March 16)
• Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (March 18)
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells (March 19)
• From Here To Eternity by Caitlin Doughtry (March 21)
• The Sky Contains the Plans by Matthew Rohrer (March 22)
• Eleven "Erotic" Dreams by Mathias Svalina (mini-chap, March 23)
• The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (March 25)
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (May 4)
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (re-read, May 4)
• Letter for a Future Lover by Ander Monson (May 7)
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (May 24)
• Aug 9-Fog by Kathryn Scanlan (May 24)
• Seed, Star, Song by May Chong (May 26, mini-chap)
• Cybering by D. Arthur (May 26, mini-chap)
• When I was a girl, there were mountains by Blake Hackler (May 27, mini-chap)
• An Extra Doughnut Permantently Lent by Sara Adams (May 28, mini-chap)
• Mother is the Name for God by Judith Kingston (May 29, mini-chap)
• Where the Depths Reach Up by Jess Tanck (May 29, unpublished manuscript)
• Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos (May 30)
• Radio Cacophony by Michelle Dove (June 3)
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean (June 9)
• Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon (June 13)
• DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (June 15)
• The Shore by Chris Nealon (June 16)
• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (June 28)
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (July 1)
• I Love Godzilla 2000 by Giuseppe Manley (July 2, mini-chap)
• You Are An Artist by Sarah Urist Green (July 3)
• Heaven by Emerson Whitney (July 4)
• Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten (July 4)
• We, The Masses by Robyn O'Neil (July 10, exhibit pamphlet)
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (July 14)
• Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Fraizer (July 16)
• That Ex by Rachelle Toarmino (July 22)
• Outside the Body There is Something Like Hope by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (July 23)
• An Ice Cream Truck Stalled at the Bottom of the World by Jon Cone and Rauan Klassnik (July 23)
• Fever Dream by Samanta Scweblin (July 24)
• Exit, Pursued by Dalton Day (re-read, July 25)
• The Last Thing I'll Ever Write (Part One) by Adam Lauver (re-read, July 26)
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (July 29)
• I am not okay with this by Charles Foresman (July 30)
• The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi (re-read, Aug. 1)
• Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman (Aug. 2)
• Celestial Night Light by Austin Davis (Aug. 3)
• Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy (Aug. 4)
• Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets (Aug. 5)
• Teeth Never Sleep by Angel Garcia (Aug. 6)
• Yogaflowers by Marzi Margo (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• Some Tricks I Was Born Knowing by D.M. Spratley (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• carnal delights by hannah lamb-vines (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• 1984 by Dan Hoy (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• Teeth by Justene Dion-Glowa (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• elsewhen by Kenneth M. Cale (Aug. 7, mini-chap)
• Body of Render by Felicia Zamora (Aug. 8)
• I Don't Trust Skinny People by Ian Martin (Aug. 8, mini-chap)
• Why do we tilt our heads when we smile and other 2:00a.m. anxiety conversations with my fish by Grace Safford (Aug. 8, mini-chap)
• This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew (Aug. 13)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Aug. 30)
• This Day In June by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten (Sept. 6)
• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (Sept. 7)
• The Old Guard: Book One: Opening Fire by Leonardo Fernandez and Greg Rucka (Sept. 8)
• Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill (Sept. 9)
• Squirm by Carl Hiaasen (Sept. 9)
• Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, illustrated by Gabriel Picolo (Sept. 9)
• The Water Walker by Joanna Robertson (sept. 13, 2020)
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (sept. 13, 2020)
• CLICK, CLACK, MOO Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin, pictures by Betsy Lewin (sept. 16, 2020)
• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (sept. 16, 2020)
• ¡Sí, se puede! / Yes, we can!: Janitor Strike in L.A. (sept. 21, 2020)
• The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winters (sept. 23, 2020)

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