Favorite books

(presented in no particular order)

• Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

• California by Eden Lepucki

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

• The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

• Grand Union by Zadie Smith

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

• Word by Word by Kory Stamper

• Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White

• Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

• Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• Aimless Love by Billy Collins

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman

• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

• On Writing by Stephen King

• The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller