UNLIMITED

The Millions

A Year in Reading: Hannah Gold

This is my year of reading organized roughly by author and not in any kind of chronological order. I chose the books that made the biggest impact on my own writing/life. For the sake of not having too much to write about I stuck to fiction and excluded books I wrote about elsewhere. I feel truly happy to have mostly published literary criticism this year, but I used to be an avid blogger and old habits die hard, hence The List.

Finally Finishing D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow After 2.5 Years

Lovely, like walking a marathon to zero fanfare. Fond memories of reading it at

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Millions

The Millions5 min read
A Year in Reading: Jeremy Gordon
I have long made lists of my favorite cultural artifacts of the year—as a college blogger blathering about movies to a single-digit readership, as a Pitchfork voter trying to advocate for Fred Thomas’s “Cops Don’t Care Pt. II” for the Best of 2010s L
The Millions2 min read
A Year in Reading: John Lee Clark
When I moved to Montreal last August to begin doctoral studies, I gave myself a personal assignment to sift through Canadian literature. Elizabeth Hay’s 2006 novel Late Nights on Air stopped me, just like how a voice on the radio stops a character na
The Millions4 min read
A Year in Reading: Lidia Yuknavitch
An Emerging Cosmos I read books is small clusters. Sometimes I pretend I’m reading and naming new constellations, new myths to live and die by. After all, isn’t that what humans have always done? The year 2024 brought with it brutalities and calamiti

Related Books & Audiobooks