if i wrote poetry:
bookshelf:
2026
- time (Documents of contemporary art) – edited by amelia groom
- the radicant – nicolas bourriaud
- exhibition (Documents of contemporary art) – edited by lucy steeds
- book of mutter – kate zambreno
- relational aesthetics – nicolas bourriaud
2025
- speak still – wing lam tong
- foretokens – sarah howe
- a loop of jade – sarah howe
- flèche – mary jean chan
- pidgin: interrupted transmission – erika tan
- queer phenomenology – sara ahmed
- cat’s cradle – kurt vonnegut
- who are we? and should it matter in the 21st century – gary younge
- minor detail – adaina shibli
- grief is a thing with feathers – max porter
- Citizen: an american lyric – claudia rankine
- exit west – moshin hamid
2024
- the price of life – jenny kleeman
- decolonise multiculturalism – anthony c. alessandrini
- brit(ish): on race, identity and belonging – afua hirsch
- they: what muslims and non-muslims get wrong about each other – sarfraz manzoor
- dmz colony – don mee choi
- china witness 【见证中国】- xinran xue
- decolonise self-care – alyson k. Spurgas, zoë c. meleo-erwin
- stay true – hua hsu
- contemporary art: a very short introduction – julian stallabrass
- manifesto – bernardine evaristo
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows – ai weiwei
- the colour of success: asian americans and the origin of the model minority – ellen wu
- decolonise museums – shimrit lee
- china adorned – prof. deng qiyao
- babel: or the necessity of violence – r. f. kuang
- walk through walls: a memoir – marina abramović
2023
- violets – kyung-sook shin
- the art of losing – alice zeniter
- dictee – theresa hak kyung cha
- the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone – olivia laing
- please look after mother – kyung-sook shin
- the order of time – carlo rovelli
- of fear and strangers: a history of xenophobia – george makari
- fabric: the hidden history of the material world – victoria finlay
- kingdom of characters: a tale of language, obsession and genius in modern china – jing tsu
- minor feelings: an asian american reckoning – cathy park hong
- silence – shusaku endo
- the birthday party – laurent mauvignier
- i burn paris – bruno jasieński
- greek lessons – han kang
- love in a fallen city: and other stories – eileen chang
- funny weather: art in an emergency – olivia laing
- a little life – hanya yanagihara
2022
- women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art – Ferren Gipson
- women, race & class – angela davis
- Reinventing Textiles Vol. 2: Gender & Identity – Janis Jefferies
- the left hand of darkness – ursula k. le guin
- where you come from – saša stanišić
- crossing – pajtim statovci
- the god of small things – arundhati roy
- soul mountain – gao xingjian
- feminism: a very short introduction – margaret walters
- the good women of china – xinran
- free – lea ypi
- Indelicacy – Amina Cain
- Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy – Martin Gayford
- flights – olga tokarczuk
2021
- middlesex – jeffrey eugenides
- drive your plough over the bones of the dead – olga tokarczuk
- a tale for the time being – ruth ozeki
- oryx and crake – margaret atwood
- fahrenheit 451 – ray bradbury
- on earth we’re briefly gorgeous – ocean vuong
- what are you looking at?: 150 years of modern art – will gompertz
2020
- out – natsuo kirino
- the memory police – yoko ogawa
- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- where reasons end – yiyun li
- the white book (흰) – han kang
- the trial – franz kafka
- Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov
other
- human acts – han kang
- hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world – haruki murakami
- pachinko – min ji lee
- ways of seeing – john berger
- 1984 – george orwell
Lisha Zhong 