2024 Supplemental Reading

the One with All the Books That Didn't Make Our Syllabus

Although next year, we’ll be taking a different approach to dishing out supplemental (i.e., theme-enhancing) reading, we developed this list (somewhat blindly) as we worked on our 2024 ovesters. While these books didn’t quite make the cut, if you want more of one (or all) of our themes, we off the following selections.

WINTER'S RAGE: Don’t Call Me Kid, Don’t Call Me Baby

• Heart Breaker by Claudia Dey

• Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

• Writers & Lovers by Lily King

• Circe by Madeline Miller

• Creep by Myriam Gurba

• Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny

• Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford (Edna St. Vincent Millay bio)

• Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

• The Shame by Makenna Goodman

• Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

SPRING'S BOND: And Isn't It Just So Pretty to Think

• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (will be on the syllabus for 2025)

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

• The Book of Love by Kelly Link

• The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore

SUMMER'S MAGIC: Clear Blue Water, High Tide Came and Brought You In

• The Pisces by Melissa Broder

• The Young Man by Annie Ernaux

• Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

• Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

• Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea by Hannah Stowe

FALL'S SPOOK: My Mind Is Alive

• My Husband by Maud Ventura, translated by Emma Ramadan

• Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe

• Rouge by Mona Awad

• Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

• Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enríquez

• Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

• Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter