Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Another reading vlog from California: a novel from the Women's Prize longlist, a backlist academic text, recent & new nonfiction while performing Philip Glass in Berkeley
books:
Heart the Lover by Lily King (2025)
Writers & Lovers by Lily King (2020)
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop (2024)
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen (1991)
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell (2026)
socials:
insta: @ sdelphis
tiktok: @ sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
storygraph: @ sdelphis
Another reading vlog from California: a novel from the Women's Prize longlist, a backlist academic text, recent & new nonfiction while performing Philip Glass in Berkeley
books:
Heart the Lover by Lily King (2025)
Writers & Lovers by Lily King (2020)
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop (2024)
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen (1991)
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell (2026)
socials:
insta: @ sdelphis
tiktok: @ sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
storygraph: @ sdelphis
![travel, a reading vlog, a book haul
I went on a brief sunny vacation in the Caribbean! I read [a little]! I got some new books!
books:
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing by Polly Barton (2022)
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (trans. Benjamin Moser & Magdalena Edwards) (1946)
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson)
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters (2025)
Universality by Natasha Brown (2025)
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (trans. Sean Cotter) (2015)
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem (trans. Sinan Antoon) (2019)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970)
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (trans. Angela Rodel) (2020)
Les Mandarins (The Mandarins) by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
Lheure de Clarice Lispector (The Hour of Clarice Lispector) by Hélène Cixous (1989)
Le Livre de Promethea (The book of Promethea) by Hélène Cixous (1983)
Domaine Musical: Écrits d’Alban Berg (1957)
Eine Lehre oder Das Buch der Lüste (An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Sarita Brandt) (1969)
Soleil du soleil: Anthologie du sonnet français de Marot à Malherbe ed. by Jacques Roubaud
Mitsou: Forty Images by Balthus, preface by Rainer Maria Rilke (1921)
other mentions:
a reading life by Petya K. Grady: https://petya.substack.com/
my most recent reading diary: https://bibliosophie.substack.com/p/march-reading-diary-no-1
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: https://bibliosophie.substack.com travel, a reading vlog, a book haul](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L9_pWWfy-8E/mqdefault.jpg)







![the best books I read in 2024
My favorite books of the year, lets go!
1:42 backlist fiction:
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
Moi qui nai pas connu les hommes by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
— I Who Have Never Known Men (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
— Orlanda (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)
Le mur invisible by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)
— The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Shaun Whiteside) (1963)
Le Livre de lintranquillité by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Françoise Laye) (1982)
— The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Richard Zenith) (1982)
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)
9:09 new fiction releases in English:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Liars by Sarah Manguso (2024)
12:45 new[ish] translated fiction:
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
The Details by Ia Genberg (trans. Kira Josefsson) (2022)
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2023)
My Work by Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2020)
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2022)
19:00 poetry:
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (2023)
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido (2013)
21:05 nonfiction:
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024)
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty (2001)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: https://bibliosophie.substack.com the best books I read in 2024](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NCcEq-85OT4/mqdefault.jpg)
![October reading wrap-up
Lotsa [pretty short] goodies in the past month, mes petits choux: essay collections about reading & writing, Italian fiction, two different sea-related novels about loss with magical/horror elements, mother-child relationships...
Books:
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré (2020)
Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au (2022)
Five Tuesdays in Winter, Lily King (2021)
Translating Myself and Others, Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
Body Work, Melissa Febos (2022)
How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo (2022)
Palomar, Italo Calvino (1983)
Our Wives under the Sea, Julia Armfield (2022)
Oh, to Be a Painter!, Virginia Woolf (2021)
Upstream: Selected Essays, Mary Oliver (2016)
L’amore molesto, Elena Ferrante (1992)
The Seas, Samantha Hunt (2004)
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
People:
@CJReads
@literaryiggy
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com October reading wrap-up](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NGfi4XdEkfA/mqdefault.jpg)
