Rachel is Reading… is a weekly newsletter sharing my thoughts on what I have been reading that week (the good, the bad, and everything in between). You can subscribe here, or read from the archive below.

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The trouble is, this is trouble that you welcome | Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

It's gluten-free pasta, this | Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

A Woman but Not, A Father but Not | Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

What I Want and What I Fear | Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion

Tiny Permanents, Gigantic Permanents | The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

At the Height of a Potential Catastrophe | Memorial by Bryan Washington

It's a Harsh Form, the Short Story | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

Truthful Emotions in False Circumstances | Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Real Life—But Just a Little Bit Better | I'll Be There For You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller

there are some numbered lilac days | How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany by Jamie Hood

A Chaotic Willingness | The Ocean House by Mary-Beth Hughes

London's A Lot Closer than 17th Street | 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Not the Worst Way to Begin to Forget | Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Scarred and Scared and Horny and Tired and In Love | Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The Reading Year in Review

A Display of Careless Perfect | In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

If Nothing's Changing, You're Not Living | This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens

Missed Opportunites and Second Chances | We Met in December by Rosie Curtis

The Illusion of Comfort, Broken Forever | The Harpy by Megan Hunter

To Struggle with Feeling Ordinary | And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood by Rachel Friedman

It wasn't love/I suffered | Romance or The end: Poems by Elaine Kahn

The Artist Manifesting a Political View | The Body Politic by Brian Platzer

A Critical Distance, A Life-Saving Perspective | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

The Pain of the Present, the Unhappiness of the Past | Death Comes to Pemberley by E.L. James

The Great Sorrow of Being a Horny Loser in Brooklyn | Going Dutch by James Gregor

An Advantageous Form of Sanity | Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism by Elizabeth Tallent

What Is At Stake in the Invetion of Self | The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Which moves faster: Love or Death? | This Really Isn't About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein

Love Shows Up Along the Way | The Marriage Game by Sara Desai

When Home Breaks You Open | Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

Yikes, Yes Please | Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby

Tales From a Tragic Summer | Private Means: A Novel by Cree LeFavour

Life in the Attention Economy | Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Sarah Weiner

Being Disbelieved or Bearing it Alone | What Red Was: A Novel by Rosie Price

Tell me a love story...or two...or forty-two | Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption Edited by Daniel Jones

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