- Wild, Cheryl Strayed
- Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
- The Final Solution, Michael Chabon
- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014, ed. Laura Furman
- Slave Moth, Thylias Moss
- A Pale View of the Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Run, Ann Patchett
- The Sellout, Paul Beatty
- Inheritance, Natalie Danford
- Drown, Junot Díaz
- The Strays, Emily Bitto
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
- The Mothers, Brit Bennett
- Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny
- Swing Time, Zadie Smith
- Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Sula, Toni Morrison
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Sydney Hartle 
Have you gotten to reading The Sellout yet? It was one of my early 2017 reads, which I thoroughly enjoyed…in almost a sadistic way. The same sentences could make me laugh as much as they made me want to throw up and burn down the world. Thoughts on race at its finest.
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Yes! I loved it!! (In that embarrassed, uncomfortable way that’s especially good for me as a white lady.) It seemed like something so absurd couldn’t possibly be so poignant, yet the absurdity was the only way for it to make perfect sense?
Send more book recs my way — I feel like you always pick good ones.
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