Reading List

2024

  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — Alison Bechdel

  • Heavy: An American Memoir — Kiese Laymon

  • I’m Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy

  • If This Gets Out — Cale Dietrich and Sophie Gonzales

  • American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century — Maureen Callahan

  • Lullaby — Leïla Slimani

2023

  • Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood

  • I Want You — Lisa Hanawalt

  • Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng

  • Dirtbag, Massachusetts — Isaac Fitzgerald

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes — Caitlin Doughty

  • A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara

  • The Tao of Pooh — Benjamin Hoff

  • Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn

2022

  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • Memorial Drive: A Memoir — Natasha Trethewey

  • When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

  • My Friend Dahmer — Derf Backderf

2021

  • Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays — Lauren Hough

  • Goodbye, Again — Jonny Sun

  • Hot Dog Taste Test — Lisa Hanawalt

  • Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened — Allie Brosh

  • No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us — Rachel Louise Snyder

  • Solutions and Other Problems — Allie Brosh

  • Pizza Girl — Jean Kyoung Frazier

  • The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson

  • Meaty — Samantha Irby

  • Sad Janet: A Novel — Lucie Britsch

  • Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism — Seyward Darby

2020

  • Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive — Stephanie Land

  • Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite — Suki Kim

  • Three Women — Lisa Taddeo

  • Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? — Roz Chast

  • Luster — Raven Leilani

  • The Elephant In The Room: One Fat Man's Quest To Get Smaller In A Growing America — Tommy Tomlinson

  • The Rainbow Comes and Goes — Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

  • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman — Lindy West

  • The Vegetarian — Han Kang

  • Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir — Shalom Auslander

  • Wait, What? And Life's Other Essential Questions — James E. Ryan

  • Shameless: A Sexual Reformation — Nadia Bolz-Weber

  • The Only Girl In The Car: A Memoir — Kathy Dobie

  • Born a Crime — Trevor Noah

  • Wow, No Thank You. — Samantha Irby

  • Camgirl: A Memoir — Isa Mazzei

  • The Idiot — Elif Batuman

  • Sex Object: A Memoir — Jessica Valenti

  • Coyote Doggirl — Lisa Hanawalt

  • Conversations With Friends — Sally Rooney

  • Boy Erased — Garrard Conley

  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things — Iain Reid

  • Dark Places — Gillian Flynn

  • Know My Name — Chanel Miller

  • I Miss You When I Blink — Mary Laura Philpott

  • We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. — Samantha Irby

  • Short Cuts to Happiness — Tal Ben-Shahar

  • Over The Top — Jonathan Van Ness

  • I Am Not Myself These Days — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

2019

  • Normal People — Sally Rooney

  • Getting Off — Erica Garza

  • Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory — Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  • All That You Leave Behind — Erin Lee Carr

  • Growing Up — Russell Baker

  • The Kiss — Kathryn Harrison

  • The Last Black Unicorn — Tiffany Haddish

  • Dear Girls — Ali Wong

  • M.D.: One Doctor’s Adventures Among the Famous and Infamous from the Jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue Practice — B. H. Kean

  • Columbine — Dave Cullen

  • Bossypants — Tina Fey

  • Lucky — Alice Sebold

  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) — Mindy Kaling

  • Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience — Gitta Sereny

  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science — Atul Gawande

2018

  • Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place — Aron Ralston

  • Give Us The Ballot — Ari Berman

  • Jesus Land — Julia Scheeres

  • Life Gets Better — Wendy Lustbader

  • Lone Survivor — Marcus Luttrell

  • Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden

  • Pigeon in a Crosswalk — Jack Gray

  • Scar Tissue — Anthony Kiedis

  • The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls

  • The Only Girl in the World — Maude Julien

  • The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver

  • This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism — Ashton Applewhite

  • We Need To Talk About Kevin — Lionel Shriver

  • You Don't Look Your Age and Other Fairy Tales — Sheila Nevins