Books I really loved:
- Commonwealth Ann Patchett
- How to set a fire and why Jesse Ball
- In the dark room Susan Faludi
- The rules do not apply Ariel Levy
- Idaho Emily Ruskovich
- The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
- La Rose Louise Erdrich
- In Defense of Housing Peter Marcuse and David Madden
- The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
- The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
- Sing, unburied, sing Jesmyn Ward
- It’s okay to laugh Nora McInerney
Books that I loved:
- When breath becomes air Paul Kalanaith
- Home going Yaa Gyasi
- Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Work like any other Virginia Reeves
- The Plot against America Philip Roth
- Drown Junot Diaz
- Governmentality Mitchell Dean
- The Shipping News Annie Proulx
- Security, Territory, Population Michel Foucault
- Into the Wild Jonathan Krakauer
- Let’s explore diabetes with owls David Sedaris
- History of Wolves Emily Fredlund
- A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again David Foster Wallace
- We were eight years in power Ta Nehisi Coates
- Turtles all the way down John Green
- New Boy Tracy Chevalier
- Bright lights, big city Jay Mcinnerney
- Air and time and light and space Helen Sword
- The unbearable lightness of being Milan Kundera (okay, well I’m still going with this one, but it’ll get there)
- The will to empower Barbara Cruikshank
Books I felt ‘meh’ about:
- Swing Time Zadie Smith
- The underground railroad Colson Whitehead
- The Vegetarian Han Kang
- Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights Salman Rushdie
- Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance
- Men we reaped Jesmyn Ward
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy (okay, I didn’t actually read all of this—I didn’t finish this because I felt so ‘meh’ about it)
- Home Fire Kamila Shamsie
- A kind of freedom Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
LAURA WYNNE 