Quarto Staff’s 2019 Winter Reading List

Illustration by Charlie Blodnieks and Mita Sharma

Illustration by Charlie Blodnieks and Mita Sharma

Every winter, right before we leave for break, the Quarto Staff has a holiday book exchange. We swap books that we already love, in hopes of finding new books that we will love. Here are all of the wonderful books we swapped! We hope you find an interesting title on here that you can read and enjoy over break.

  1. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu 

  2. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

  3. The Leavers by Lisa Ko

  4. Demian by Hermann Hesse 

  5. Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

  6. Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong 

  7. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  8. The lais of Marie de France

  9. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 

  10. The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell

  11. Zong! by M. NourbSe Philip

  12. Cleaning Up New York by Bob Rosenthal

  13. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  14. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

  15. I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman

  16. Cane by Jean Toomer

  17. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 

  18. Lot by Bryan Washington 

  19. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James L. Loewen

  20. Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

  21. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen