Favorite Books

2024 (so far)

In Ascension (MacInnes)

The Tusks of Extinction (Nayler)

The Anomaly (Le Tellier)

Prophet Song (Lynch)

When We Cease to Understand the World (Labatut)

2023

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Tokarczuk)

The Glass Hotel (Mandel)

The House on Via Gemito (Starnone)

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (McBride)

Vanishing Maps (García)

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Chakrabarti)

Victory City (Rushdie)

A Spell of Good Things (Adébáyọ̀)

This Other Eden (Harding)

2022

Calling for a Blanket Dance (Hokeah)

Tell Me an Ending (Harkin)

Black Smoke (Miller)

The Far Field (Vijay)

The Pages (Hamilton)

Sea of Tranquility (Mandel)

Tears We Cannot Stop (Dyson)

2021

I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound (Doughty)

The Sum of Us (McGhee)

Black Man in a White Coat (Tweedy)

The Promise (Galgut)

Rememberings (O’Connor)

Things We Lost to the Water (Nguyen)

How Much of These Hills is Gold (Zhang)

Horror Stories (Phair)

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (Walton)

I Came as a Shadow (Thompson)

2020

Trick Mirror (Tolentino)

Politics is for Power (Hersh)

2019

The Cooking Gene (Twitty)

Tenth of December (Saunders)

Heavy (Laymon)

2018

The King is Always Above the People (Alarcón)

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears (Mengestu)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Thien)

Flying Lessons and Other Stories (Oh)

2017

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching (Smith)

2016

A Strangeness in My Mind (Pamuk)

The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)

The Tsar of Love and Techno (Marra)

Americanah (Adichie)

Earlier

Snow (Pamuk)

The Fire Next Time (Baldwin)

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (Slichter)

Best American Sports Writing 2008

Not Dead and Not for Sale (Weiland)

Joseph Anton (Rushdie)