2019 reading list

What a year I had with all things writing, workshopping, editing, performing, and of course, reading. My top read of 2019 goes to the groundbreaking and utterly delicious Paul takes the form of a mortal girl by Andrea Lawlor. They have created such an intersting, nostalgic, sexy and moving work of fiction that centres itself in an unapologetically queer world.

Here is the complete list of what I read in 2019:

1. The Goldbum Variations – Helen McClory
2. Extra Teeth Magazine – Issue #1
3. The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
4. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
5. A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
6. It’s Not About the Burqa – edited by Mariam Khan
7. Ceremony – various authors + me
8. The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales – Kirsty Logan
9. Escape from Earth – Fraser MacDonald
10. The Seafarers – Stephen Rutt
11. A Superior Spectre – Angela Meyer
12. Stroke – Ricky Monahan Brown
13. Blushing Is For Sinners – Tracy Patrick
14. All the Time We Thought We Had – Gordon Darroch
15. Threads of Life – Clare Hunter
16. Overlander – Alan Brown
17. Nevertheless – Shane Strachan
18. The Doll Factory – Elizabeth Macneal
19. A Code for Carolyn: A Genomic Thriller – V. Anne Smith
20. Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives – Juan Felipe Herrera
21. The Line Becomes a River – Francisco Cantú
22. Amphibian – Christina Neuwirth
23. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
24. The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
25. Gutter Magazine – Issue #18
26. Trout, Belly Up – Rodrigo Fuentes
27. Tokyo Ueno Station – Miri Yu
28. Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz – Ely Percy
29. We Are The End – Gonzalo C. Garcia
30. Far Off Places (literary magazine)
31. I Am A Pretty Circler – Iain Morrison
32. A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
33. The Refugees – Viet Thanh Nguyen
34. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrea Lawlor
35. Memoirs of a Polar Bear – Yoko Tawada
36. Let Me Tell You This – Nadine Aisha Jassat
37. Wain – Rachel Plummer
38. Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
39. Milkman – Anna Burns
40. We Were Always Here – various authors + me