A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. (Originally pub. in 1995.)
A Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma, with a foreword by Teju Cole. Abuja – London: Casava Republic, 2018.
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Foreword by Peter D. Kramer. NY: Harper Perennial Classics, 2019. (Originally pub. in 1956.)
Autumn by Ali Smith. London: Pantheon, 2017.
Böcek (Roach) by Erhan Bener. İstanbul: Everest, 2016. (Originally pub. in 1982.)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Joseph Frank. NY: Bantam Classics, 2003. (Originally pub. in Russian in 1866.)
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. Ontario: Biblioasis, 2019 (Originally pub by Galley Beggar Press)
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor. Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. (Originally pub. in 1956.)
Jag vill sätta världen i rörelse: En biografi över Selma Lagerlöf by Anna Karin Palm. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 2019.
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
Girls Against God by Jenny Hval. Translated from the Norwegian by Marjam Idriss. London & NY: Verso, 2020. (Originally pub. in Norwegian in 2018.)
“Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. 16 April 1963
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland. Portland, Oregon: Tin House Press, 2020
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Narrated by Adepero Oduye. New York: Random House Audio, 2018.
Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie. London: Dialogue Books, 2019.
Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Aging by Lynne Segal. London & NY: Verso, 2014. (Originally pub. in 2013.)
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval. Translated from the Norwegian by Marjam Idriss. London & NY: Verso, 2018. (Originally pub. in Norwegian in 2009.)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good written and gathered by Adrienne Maree Brown. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2019.
Protestants: The Faith That Made the World by Alec Ryrie. London: Viking, 2017.
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul. New York: The New York Review of Books, 2019.
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. NY: Penguin Classics, 2019. (Originally pub. in 1984.) Quote from essay “Uses of the Erotic as Power,” p. 48.
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. Introduced by Ali Smith. London: Sort Of Books, 2009. (Originally pub. in Swedish in 1982.)
Wir Wir Begehren by Carolin Emcke. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2013. (English edition: How We Desire. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018. Translated from the German by Imogen Taylor.)
Yeni Hayat (A New Life) by Orhan Pamuk. Istanbul: YKY, 2018. (Originally pub. in 1994.)