Luis Alberto Correa

Gay guy and bookseller living in Pittsburgh, PA. This is my social media.

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Books I've read

In order of which they were read

2026

  1. The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Mara, Ramona Glazov (trans.)
  2. On the Calculation of Volume, Book 1 by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (trans.)
  3. The Silver Book by Olivia Liang
  4. The Lonely City by Olivia Liang
  5. Super Nintendo by Kreza McDonald
  6. El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig
  7. Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
  8. John of John by Douglas Stuart
  9. Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
  10. American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald

2025

  1. Dayspring by Anthony Olivera
  2. Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt by Brontez Purell
  3. To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen
  4. Ixelles by Johannes Anyuru
  5. Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
  6. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
  7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
  8. Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores
  9. Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva
  10. Palavar by Bryan Washington
  11. Guatemala Rhapsody by Jared Lemus
  12. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
  13. Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez
  14. Audition by Katie Kitamura
  15. Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ (Lin King trans.)
  16. From Savagery by Alejandra Banca
  17. Nothing Vast by Moshe Zvi Marvit
  18. Amphibian by Tyler Wetherall
  19. Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
  20. Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki
  21. Speak/Stop by Noémi Lefebvre
  22. Lowest Common Denominator by Prikko Siasio
  23. Superbloom by Nicholas Carr
  24. Prétend by Arielle Burgdorf
  25. Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle
  26. Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
  27. The Discarded by Colin Hamilton
  28. Obligations to the Wounded by Mubanga Kalimamukwento
  29. Vague Predictions & Prophecies by Daisuke Shen
  30. Before the Mango Ripens by Afabwaje Kurian
  31. The World With Its Mouth Open by Zahid Rafiq
  32. Char’s Counterattack: Beltochika’s Children
  33. Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
  34. Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro
  35. Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo
  36. Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
  37. Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland
  38. The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeny (trans.)
  39. Sacrament by Susan Straight
  40. The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
  41. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
  42. Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela
  43. Heart the Lover by Lily King
  44. Tell Them if Battles, Kings, & Elephants by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandela (trans.)
  45. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  46. Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli
  47. Convent Wisdom by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita
  48. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

2024

  1. All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
  2. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  3. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
  4. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
  5. Nuclear Family by Joseph Han
  6. Hades, Argentina by Daniel Lodel
  7. South to America by Imani Perry
  8. Fury by Clyo Mendoza
  9. Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
  10. Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
  11. Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan
  12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
  14. Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
  15. James by Perceval Everett
  16. Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
  17. Exhibit by R. O. Kwon
  18. Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
  19. A Magical Girl Retired by Park Seolyeon
  20. There’s Always Next Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
  21. Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez
  22. The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
  23. YR DEAD by Sam Sax
  24. A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
  25. Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück
  26. Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine
  27. Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  28. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraquib
  29. All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz
  30. The Notebook by Agota Kristof
  31. The Proof by Agota Kristof
  32. The Third Lie by Agota Kristof
  33. All Fours by Miranda July
  34. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  35. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  36. May Our Joys Endure by Kev Lambert
  37. Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
  38. Open Throat by Henry Hoke
  39. Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera
  40. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
  41. Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
  42. The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
  43. Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
  44. In Tongues by Thomas Grattan
  45. Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
  46. Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
  47. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
  48. A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
  49. Overstaying by Ariane Koch
  50. The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva
  51. Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek
  52. Tidal Lock by Lindsay Hill
  53. Aram’s Notebook by Maria Àngles Anglada
  54. Melville by Rodrigo Fresán
  55. The Lodgers by Holly Pester
  56. River’s Edge by Kyoko Okazaki
  57. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
  58. Norma by Sarah Mintz
  59. Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
  60. Lesser Ruins by Mark Harber
  61. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  62. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
  63. Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
  64. Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki
  65. Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovik
  66. Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim by Jacob Wren
  67. Us Fools by Nora Lange
  68. Mammoth by Eva Baltasar