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WHAT I'M READING

January 2022

Currently reading Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Will be posting a short review here once I'm done! 

ALL-TIME
FAVORITE AUTHORS

Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Jhumpa Lahiri, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote

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Nonfiction and Essays: David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Tim O'Brien, James Baldwin, Rebecca Solnit, Leslie Jamison, Zadie Smith, Michel de Montaigne, E.B. White, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway

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Poetry: Rainier Rilke

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FAVORITE BOOKS

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace

Consider The Lobster and Other Essays, David Foster Wallace

Antifragile, Nassim Taleb

Evicted, Matthew Desmond

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Jeff Chang

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other StoriesFlannery O'Connor

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Excellent SheepWilliam Deresiewicz

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote

White Noise, Don DeLillo

CURRENT READING LIST

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Marcia Chatelain

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