XANDER MARRO
READING LIST
Keeping a reading-list log on my website was something that I started on my old site in 2015. My friend Mark Baumer encouraged me and linked his reading list to mine. In 2017 Mark tragically passed away while walking across America barefoot talking about climate change. I guess there are other apps or things for this now, but if you also keep a list on your website, lmk, I’d probably be pumped to link to it. In the spirit of Mark’s list, the list must be truthful: no leaving off embarrassing self help or trashy pulp fiction.
2025
Woo Woo - Ella Baxter
The Evening Hero - Marie Myung-Ok Lee
LATE 2024
Idoru - William Gibson
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Free Billy - Don Winslow
The Pump House Gang - Tom Wolf
The History of Surfing - Matt Warshaw
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
Welcome to Paradise, Now go to Hell - Chas Smith
Deep Hole - Don Winslow
The Garden Against Time - Olivia Laing
Barbarian Days - William Finnegan
The History of White People - Nell Irvin Painter
Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton
The Liars' Club - Mary Karr
Brown Neon - Raquel Gutiérrez
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Every Day is for the Thief - Teju Cole
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