My favorite books of the year so far

A mid-year list 🧡 more about Art Monsters:    • Week in my life vlog: books on art, freedo...   more about Is Mother Dead/Martyr!    • Week in my life vlog: reading about mother...   more about Martyr!/Art Monsters/Dictée:    • February things   more about Say Nothing/Ordinary Notes/My Face for the World to See:    • Week in my life vlog: the eclipse, complex...   more about The Hearing Test:    • 48 hours of reading   books: My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004) Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020) Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024) Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar (2021) Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, Lauren Elkin (2023) Dictée, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982) The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987) (reread) Jazz, Toni Morrison (1992) A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years, Carolyn Abbate & Roger Parker (2012) My Face for the World to See, Alfred Hayes (1958) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe (2018) Say Translation is Art, Sawako Nakayasu (2020) Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe (2023) All Fours, Miranda July (2024) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, Olivia Laing (2024) Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti (2024) A Burst of Light, Audrey Lorde (1988) Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton (2024) Liars, Sarah Manguso (2024) The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan (2024) The Red Tenda of Bologna, John Berger (2007) Love, Clarice Lispector (trans. Katarina Dodson) (1960) socials: insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: https://bibliosophie.substack.com