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Bookshelf

A living reading list. Track what you're reading, want to read, and your notes/reviews.

Reading

The Secret History — Donna Tartt
Write Useful Books — Rob Fitzpatrick
Shapes of Native Nonfiction — Elissa Washuta (ed.)
Dark Academia: How Universities Die — Peter Fleming
River Woman — Katherena Vermette
Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising — Brandi Morin
How to Take Smart Notes — Sönke Ahrens

Finished

Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu
A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley
Real Ones — Katherena Vermette
Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood — Marjane Satrapi
Clementine: Book One — Tillie Walden
This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El‑Mohtar
Through the Garden: A Love Story — Lorna Crozier
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale — Art Spiegelman
Yellowface — R. F. Kuang
I'm Just Waiting for Something to Happen — Felix Da Costa Gomez
The Blazing World and Other Writings — Margaret Cavendish
On the Fringe: A Collection of Filth — Danaë Webb (ed.)
Bunny — Mona Awad
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh
The Double Life of Benson Yu — Kevin Chong
The Fake — Zoe Whittall
The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
Getting Things Done — David Allen
The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Padmasambhava
Late Bloomers — Rich Karlgaard
Why Are We Yelling? — Buster Benson
First You Write a Sentence. — Joe Moran
Atomic Habits — James Clear
The Bullet Journal Method — Ryder Carroll
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything — James Martin
Show Your Work! — Austin Kleon
A Book of Luminous Things — Czesław Miłosz (ed.)
Start Small, Stay Small — Rob Walling

Want to Read

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing — Richard Hugo
Poetry as Survival — Gregory Orr
Why Poetry Matters — Jay Parini
A Little Book on Form — Robert Hass
The Life of Poetry — Muriel Rukeyser
Madness, Rack, and Honey — Mary Ruefle
The Spell of the Sensuous — David Abram
The Way of the Fearless Writer — Beth Kempton
Poemcrazy — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
Ordinary Genius — Kim Addonizio
Being True to Life — David Richo
Poetry as Spiritual Practice — Robert McDowell
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill — Jericho Brown (ed.)
The Writer's Practice — John Warner
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Bible Translation of the New Testament — Terry M. Wildman
Crip Spacetime — Margaret Price
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper — Roland Allen
Love After the End — Joshua Whitehead (ed.)
Craft and Conscience — Kavita Das
The Science of Storytelling — Will Storr
Novelist as a Vocation — Haruki Murakami
The Will to Change — bell hooks
Nine Gates — Jane Hirshfield
Living is Dying — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
The Creative Community Builder's Handbook — Tom Borrup
The Art of Gathering — Priya Parker
Writing and Workshopping Poetry — Stephen Guppy
What You Know by Heart — Katie Wood Ray
Writing Alone and with Others — Pat Schneider
The Program Era — Mark McGurl
The Elephants Teach — D. G. Myers