If a book is on this list, I’ve read most—though not necessarily all—of it (the list of books I started and quickly bailed on is, regrettably, very long). An asterisk (*) indicates a book I found myself thinking about or discussing long after finishing.
2024
- *Middlemarch (George Eliot)
- *The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life (Clare Carlisle)
- Inseparable (Simone de Beauvoir)
- *My brilliant friend (Elena Ferrante)
- The story of a new name (Elena Ferrante)
- Those who leave and those who stay (Elena Ferrante)
- The story of the lost child (Elena Ferrante)
- *To the lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
- Genius and ink (Virginia Woolf)
- Collected essays (Virginia Woolf)
- A room of one’s own (Virginia Woolf)
- A life’s work (Rachel Cusk)
- Aftermath (Rachel Cusk)
- *Outline (Rachel Cusk)
- What are children for (Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman)
- *Wing to wing, oar to oar (Leon & Amy Kass)
- *The pleasure of finding things out (Richard Feynman)