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!
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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 Jest, David 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 Stories, Flannery O'Connor
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt 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