books I've read
“Lists are a form of collecting, an inventory of what is available at least to the imagination, and sometimes a reaching for assurance that there is some kind of abundance beyond the privation at hand.”
— Rebecca Solnit
Devotions, Molly Malone Cook
Lampedusa, Julia Gleiser
2025 favorite books
BEWILDERMENT
Richard Powers
DEVOTIONS
Mary Oliver
JACARANDÁ
Gaël Faye (translated by Mirella Botaro, Raquel Camargo)
NOTAS PARA UM NAUFRÁGIO
Davide Enia (translated by Wander Melo Miranda)
ORDINARY NOTES
Christina Sharpe
ORWELL'S ROSES
Rebecca Solnit
PENSAR COM AS MÃOS
Marília Garcia
SOVIETISTÃO
Erika Fatland (translated by Leonardo Pinto Silva)
TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (translated by Lin King)
THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW
Yiyun Li
Mushroom, Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-Chien, 1899-1983)
Orbital, Aino-Maija Metsola
2024 favorite books
A INTUIÇÃO DA ILHA
Pilar del Rio
AS VIRA-LATAS
Arelis Uribe (translated by Silvia Massimini Felix)
THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Anna Tsiang
DMZ COLONY
Don Mee Chi
DOPPELGÄNGER
Naomi Klein
MONIQUE SE LIBERTA
Édouard Louis (translated by Marília Scalzo)
ORBITAL
Samantha Harvey
REAL ESTATE
Deborah Levy
MR. LOVERMAN
Bernardine Evaristo
WE DO NOT PART
Han Kang
No vestígio, Grada Kilomba
A leste dos sonhos, Gueorgui Pinkhassov
2023 favorite books
A LESTE DOS SONHOS
Nastassja Martin (translated by Camila Boldrini)
A MAIS RECÔNDITA MEMÓRIA DOS HOMENS
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (translated by Diogo Cardoso)
CARTAS A UMA NEGRA
Françoise Ega (translated by Vinícius Carneiro and Mathilde Moaty)
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
Bernardine Evaristo
HEIMAT
Nora Krug (translated by André Czarnobai)
IN THE WAKE
Christina Sharpe (translated by Jess Oliveira)
PERMISSION TO COME HOME
Jenny Wang
THOSE WHO FORGET
Géraldine Schwarz (translated by Ana Martini)
UNDISCOVERED
Gabriela Wiener (translated by Sérgio Molina)
WHO ATE UP ALL THE SHINGA?
Wan-Suh Park (translated by Young-Nan Yu and Stephen Epstein)
Gerardo De Souza et la Mort sur la plage de Ouidah, Nicola Lo Calzo
Luster, Na Kim
2022 favorite books
SISTER OUTSIDER: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES
Audre Lorde (translated by Stephanie Borges)
THE HEART OF A WOMEN
Maya Angelou
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY INEXISTENCE: A MEMOIR
Rebecca Solnit
A PEDRA DA LOUCURA
Benjamín Labatut (translated by Mariana Sanchez)
VIVER ENTRE LÍNGUAS
Sylvia Molloy (translated by Mariana Sanchez and Julia Tomasini)
THE WAITING
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (translated by Yun Jung Im)
LUSTER
Raven Leilani
COSMOPOÉTICAS DO REFÚGIO
Dénètem Touam Bona (translated by Milena P. Duchiade)
MANUFACTURING HAPPY CITIZENS: HOW THE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY OF HAPPINESS CONTROL OUR LIVES
Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz (translated by Humberto do Amaral)
UM TESTE DE RESISTORES
Marília Garcia
Xadrez, Fabrizio Lenci
Aos Prantos No Mercado, Ing Lee
2021 favorite books
IN THE EYE OF THE WILD
Nastassja Martin (translated by Camila Boldrini and Daniel Lühmann)
MAYBE ESTHER
Katja Petrowskaja (translated by Sergio Tellaroli)
GIOVANNI'S ROOM
James Baldwin
CRYING IN H MART
Michelle Zauner
NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS
Ocean Vuong
TRANSIT
Rachel Cusk
THE YEARS
Annie Ernaux (translated by Marília Garcia)
A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: IN WHICH FOUR. RUSSIANS GIVE A MASTER CLASS ON WRITING, READING, AND LIFE
George Saunders
CHESS STORY
Stefan Zweig (translated by Silvia Bittencourt)
HALF A YELLOW SUN
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pachinko, Patrick Leger
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
2020 favorite books
MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN-AMERICAN RECKONING
Cathy Park Hong
PACHINKO
Min-Jin Lee
THE BEST WE COULD DO: AN ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR
Thi Bui
THE LOST SOUL
Olga Tokarczuk
THE ORIGIN OF OTHERS
Toni Morrison
BAD FEMINIST
Roxane Gay
TRICK MIRROR: REFLECTIONS ON SELF-DELUSION
Jia Tolentino
TORNAR-SE PALESTINA
Lina Meruane
MEMÓRIAS DA PLANTAÇÃO
Grada Kilomba
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
Ta-Nehisi Coates