2024
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
A Calendar is a Snakeskin by Kristine Langley Mahler
Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Daughters of Chaos by Jen Fawkes
Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escofferey
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Outlyers and Ghazals by Jim Harrison
Plain Song by Jim Harrison
The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Something I Might Say by Lucy Sky
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Things I Can’t Tell Amma by Sudha Balagopal
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
2023
1491 by Charles C. Mann
The Amber Enchantress by Troy Denning
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Any Person is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Tara Ison
The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing by Phillip Maffetone
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (II)
Blue Skies by T.C. Boyle
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
Bunyan and Henry by Mark Cecil
Castle Death by Joe Dever
The Cauldron of Fear by Joe Dever
The Captives of Kaag by Joe Dever
The Caverns of Kalte by Joe Dever
The Cerulean Storm by Troy Denning
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
The Chasm of Doom by Joe Dever
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
Cleaner by Brandi Wells
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Coyote and Crow by Connor Alexander
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
The Curse of Naar by Joe Dever
Curse of the Reaper by Brian McAuley
The Darke Crusade by Joe Dever
Dartmouth Park by Rupert Thompson
Dawn of the Dragons by Joe Dever
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
The Deathlord of Ixia by Joe Dever
Dialect by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu
The Dungeons of Torgar by Joe Dever
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie
Elsewhere by Yan Ge
Embassytown by China Miéville
Embassytown by China Mieville (II)
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Endure by Alex Hutchinson
Extended Stay by Juan Martinez
The Faithless by C.L. Clark
The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hanson
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Field Guide to Ultrarunning by Hal Koerner
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (II)
Fire on the Water by Joe Dever
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever
Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg
Gangster Nation by Tod Goldberg
Gangsters Don’t Die by Tod Goldberg
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
Ghost Music by An Yu
Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter
How to Disappear and Why by Kyle Minor
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Jungle of Horror by Joe Dever
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
A Kind of In-Between by Aaron Burch
The Kingdoms of Terror by Joe Dever
The Legacy of Vashna by Joe Dever
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (II)
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Núñez
Losing Music by John Cotter
Lupine by Jenny Irish
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Masters of Darkness by Joe Dever
Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Monsters by Claire Dederer
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Obsidian Oracle by Troy Denning
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber
The Plague Lords of Ruel by Joe Dever
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Predator by Ander Monson
The Prisoners of Time by Joe Dever
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
The Reign of the Kingfisher by T.J. Martinson
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Shadow on the Sand by Joe Dever
Shoot the Horses First by Leah Angstman
Sift by Alissa Hartman
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Solo Faces by James Salter
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
This Story Will Change by Elizabeth Crane
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Training Essentials for Ultrarunning by Jason Koop
Twenty Stories by Jack Driscoll
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Underland by Robert McFarlane
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
Wolf’s Bane by Joe Dever
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch
2022
The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugo Ono
At the End of Every Day by Arianna Reiche
Autoportrait by Jesse Ball
Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters by Maya Sonenberg
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Berserk, vol. 1 by Kentaro Miura
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Border Less by Namrata Poddar
The Boy With a Bird in His Chest by Emme Lund
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
The Cartographers by Peng Shepard
The Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The Circle That Fits by Kevin Lichty
Clean Air by Sarah Blake
Contagion by Brian Evenson
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Coyote America by Dan Flores
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
The Crimson Legion by Troy Denning
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
Dark Property by Brian Evenson
Debt by David Graeber
Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy
Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis
Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
The Effort by Claire Holroyde
Elsewhere by Yan Ge
End of the World House by Adrienne Celt
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Fire Season by Leyna Krow
Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell
Girl Country by Jacqueline Vogtman
Goodnight Stranger by Miciah Bay Gault
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat by Chris Gonzalez
The Ice Harp by Norman Lock
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
Illuminations by Alan Moore
Infomocracy by Malka Older
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton
Last Days by Brian Evenson
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
Luster by Raven Leilani
Machine by Susan Steinberg
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
The Method by Isaac Butler
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
My Passion by Annie Ernaux
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Nobody's Magic by Destiny O. Birdsong
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
Only & Ever This by J.A. Tyler
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
Patterns of Orbit by Chloe N. Clark
Perdido Street Station By China Miéville
Phase Six by Jim Shepard
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
The Possibility of Life by Jaime Green
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
Punks by John Keene
Pure Life by Eugene Marten
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Shadows of Pecan Hollow by Caroline Frost
Shifting Earth by Cecil Castellucci
Shōgun by James Clavell
The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier
Sinking Bell by Bojan Louis
Spear by Nicola Griffith
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howrey
Thinning Blood by Leah Myers
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Tooth Box by Jenny Irish
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
When the Earth Had Two Moons by Erik Ian Asphaug
When We Were Sisters by Fatima Ashgar
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
Your Favorite Poet by Leigh Chadwick
2021
All That Fall by Samuel Beckett
Always Crashing in the Same Car by Matthew Specktor
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman
The Annual Migration Of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
Appropriate by Paisley Rekdal
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
Bright’s Passage by Josh Ritter
Build Bridges, Not Walls by Todd Miller
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Cavanaugh by Joshua Kornreich
Child Zero by Chris Holm
The Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Critical Response Process by Liz Lerman
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
DIE, vol. 3-4 by Kieron Gillen
Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere by Robert Lopez
Doom Town by Gabriel Blackwell
Dreamsnake by Vonda M. McIntyre
A Drink of Red Mirror by Kim Hyesoon
Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Female Furies by Cecil Castellucci
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers by Matthew Gavin Frank
Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh
Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
The Gold Persimmon by Lindsay Merbaum
The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All by Josh Ritter
Hemingway’s France by Winston Conrad
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
In the Quick by Kate Hope Day
The Iron Council by China Miéville
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Lima::Limon by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck
Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski
Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn
Network Effect by Martha Wells
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Ninth Metal by Benjamin Percy
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss
One Person Away From You by Andrew Bertaina
The Other Ones by Dave Housley
Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Petersen
Processed Meats by Nicole Walker
The Quantum Thief by Hanna Rajaniemi
Quotients by Tracy O’Neill
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
Saga, vol. 1-2 by Brian K. Vaughn
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
Scales of the Ouroboros by Mark Jednaszewski
The Scar by China Miéville
Second Nature by Nathaniel Rich
Seep by Chana Porter
Sentient by Jeff Lemire
Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
Steal the Sky by Megan E. O’Keefe
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
A Stranger in the Citadel by Tobias Buckell
The Sturgeon’s Heart by Amy E. Casey
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman
Suicide by Edouard Levé
Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
Valleyesque by Fernanda A. Flores
The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning
Wayward by Dana Spiotta
White Blood by Kiki Petrosino
The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
2020
Agency by William Gibson
American Histories by John Edgar Wideman
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks
The Antipodes by Annie Baker
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
The Blade Between by Sam J. Miller
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender
Caffeine by Michael Pollan
Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers by Trent Hergenrader
Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments by Jackson Bliss
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Deep by Rivers Solomon (II)
Die, Vol. 2 by Kieron Gillen
The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of West by Jonathan Hickman
Embassytown by China Miéville
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers by Matthew Gavin Frank
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
The Heart Keeps Faulty Timing by Siân Griffiths
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Interference by Sue Burke
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera
Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M. Martin
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
The Last Emperox by John Sclazi
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Look Look Look by Solmaz Sharif
Love Stories by Justin Brouckaert
Machines of Another Era by Bess Winter
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Merciful by John Sealy
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Middletown by Will Eno
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi
My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Piranesi by Susannah Clarke
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Quotients by Tracy O’Neill
Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro
Riding with the Ghost by Justin Taylor
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
The Seep by Chana Porter
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
Song of Susannah by Stephen King
Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez
Tender by Sofia Samatar
Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
The Waste Lands by Stephen King
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
In 2020, I set a goal to read at least one short story every day. I’ll record those here as well, updating the list every month:
“Lot” by Bryan Washington
“Two Men Arrive in a Village” by Zadie Smith
“Trivial Pursuit” by Jac Jemc
“Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” by Jamil Jan Kochai
“These Bad Things” by Danielle Dutton
“David Sherman, the Last Son of God” by Rion Amilcar Scott
“Always Happy Hour” by Mary Miller
“Carriers” by Gary Lutz
“Love is the Plan the Plan is Death” by James Tiptree, Jr.
“Now Wait for this Week” by Alice Sola Kim
“Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone” by Sequoia Nagamatsu
“The Drowned Giant” by J.G. Ballard
“Make Me Do Things” by Victoria Redel
“The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston
“Song for the Unraveling of the World” by Brian Evenson
"The Wretched and the Beautiful" by E. Lily Yu
“The Horse Lord” by Lisa Tuttle
“Pelt” by Carol Emshwiller
“Growing Things” by Paul Tremblay
"Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman" by Lydia Davis
“The Finkelstein 5” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz” by George Saunders
“The Town of Cats” by Hagiwara Sakutarō
“End of the Line” by Aimee Bender
"Please Hold" by Peter Kispert
“The Story of the Mosquito” by Lily Hoang
“The Witcher” by Andrzej Sapkowski
“Harvest” by Rebecca Roanhorse
“You Will Never Be Forgotten” by Mary South
“Ghosts and Empties” by Lauren Groff
“The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell
“Tower of Babylon” by Ted Chiang
"Sussex, Essex, Wessex, Northumbria" by Brandon Taylor
"What the Fuck is an Electrolyte?" by Mike Young
“Ambiguity Machines: An Examination” by Vandana Singh
“if a book is locked there’s probably a good reason for that don’t you think” by Helen Oyeyemi
“I’m Slavering” by Sam Lipsyte
“You Drive” by Christine Schutt
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
“The Solutions to Brian’s Problem” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
“The Weather Killer” by Ben Marcus
“The Eyes of Saint Lucy” by Amber Sparks
“Ark of Light” by Victor LaValle
“Believing in the Future with the Torturer’s Apprentice” by Ander Monson
"Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology" by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
“Tiny Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill
“Pet” by Deb Olin Unferth
“The History of Girls” by Ayşe Papatya Bucak
“Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt Ellen” by Dorthe Nors
“Down the Road” by Stephen Dixon
“Cure” by Kathy Fish
“You Can Kiss All of That Bye-Bye” by Renee Simms
“Williamsburg Bridge” by John Edgar Wideman
“The Circle” by Cixin Liu
“The Distance of the Moon” by Italo Calvino
“The Deepest Sea” by Claire-Louise Bennett
“The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
“Bog Girl” by Karen Russell
“Cat Person” by Kristen Rouperian
“The Gown from Mother’s Stomach” by Blake Butler
“Starver” by Daisy Johnson
“The Bones” by Ceridwen Dovey
“What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
“Terror Birds” by Abby Geni
“Bobcat” by Rebecca Lee
"Call at Corazón" by Paul Bowles
“The Moon” by Mieko Kanai
“The IED” by Arna Bontemps Hemenway
“The Archetype’s Girlfriend” by Elizabeth Crane
“Blue Yodel” by Scott Snyder
“Vulvodynia” by Cat Ingrid Leeches
“Bounty” by Charles Yu
“Anne Boleyn Could Drink You Under the Table” by Jules Archer
“Scar from a trick with a knife” by Josephine Rowe
“Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day” by JD Scott
“The Albanians Live On and On, and Never Die” by Ornela Vorpsi
“Work” by Denis Johnson
“All American” by Diane Williams
"Collective Nouns for Mammals: A Bestiary" by William Todd Seabrook
“Jazz” by Dylan Landis
“The Dogs of Seoul” by R.O. Kwon
“The Moon is a Star” by Peter Markus
“These are the Fables” by Amelia Gray
“Harbor” by Garth Greenwell
“Extinction Events Proposed by My Father” by Liz Breazeale
“Why Visit America” by Matthew Baker
"The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll," collected by Jørgen Moe
“The Essentials of Acceleration” by Jessica Francis Kane
“The Older the Ginger” by Vanessa Hua
“Doom Town” by Wendell Mayo
“F*a*i*r*y F*i*n*g*e*r” by Rikki Ducornet
“Wearing a Meat Shirt and Killing a Snake” by Padgett Powell
“Love Letter” by George Saunders
“For the Safety of Our Country” by Sabrina Orah Mark
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement” by Jamie Quatro
“Florence” by Charles Yu
“Wing” by Amal El-Mohtar
“Bio-Bag” by Melissa Ragsly
“Supernova” by Susan Steinberg
“The Last of the Minotaur Wives” by Brooke Bolander
“Hill of Hell” by Laura van den Berg
“Fable” by Kathryn Scanlana
“Wants” by Grace Paley
“I Am Faithful” by Jenny Irish
“Bespoke” by Zachary Doss
“The Phoenix on the Sword” by Robert E. Howard
“Being the Murdered Professor” by Cathy Ulrich
“Terminal Avenue” by Eden Robinson
“Bloodchild” by Octavia E. Butler
“Gorgonoids” by Leena Krohn
“In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade” by L.A. Hall
“The Flower” by Louise Erdrich
"Et in bellicus lunarum medicalis" by Leonora Carrington
“How to Pronounce Knife” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
“Getting Ready” by Barry Hannah
“The Rose in Twelve Petals” by Theodora Goss
“The Dress With Girl Not in It” by Peter Markus
“A Man Like Him” by Yiyun Li
“Church Van” by Aaron Burch
“Good Girl” by Holly Goddard Jones
“Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin
“Meat Tower” by Matthew Derby
“Alice’s Last Adventure” by Thomas Ligotti
“The Gardens of Babylon” by Hassan Blasim
“The Dot Sisters” by Christine Schutt
"The Animals of the Budapest Zoo, 1944-1945" by Tamas Dobozy
“Without Inspection” by Edwidge Danticat
“Prairie” by Brian Evenson
“Birdsong from the Radio” by Elizabeth McCracken
“Crossing into Cambodia” by Michael Moorcock
"Lions" by Bernardo Fernández
“Afterglow” by Allegra Hyde
“Pregnant with Peanut Butter” by Michael Czyzniejewski
“Hydrogen Even in a Bubble Chamber” by Aubrey Hirsch
“The Dowager of Bees” by China Miéville
“Nevertheless” by Joy Williams
“Standing Room Only” by Karen Joy Fowler
“A Gift from the Culture” by Iain M. Banks
“The Wilds” by Julia Elliott
“Kilroy” by Ryan Ridge
“A Story for Your Daughters, a Story for Your Sons” by Rebecca Makkai
“The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
“The Musical Illusionist” by Alex Rose
“Diary of a Country Mouse” by Jesse Ball
“Killing the Beast” by Christina Rosso
“The Man They Threw Out of Jets” by Bruce Jay Friedman
“The Lesson” by Kelly Link
"An Outtake from the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" by John Keene
“Dark Matter” by John Edgar Wideman
“JB & FD” by John Edgar Wideman
“Cold” by John Keene
“The Siege” by Shruti Swamy
“Tour of the Cities We Have Lost” by Amber Sparks
“Fannin” by Bryan Washington
“End-Game” by J.G. Ballard
“Witness” by Jamel Brinkley
“Lusca” by Soleil Knowles
“The Little Sisters of Eluria” by Stephen King
“Children of the Sea” by Rati Mehrota
“When Scarabs Multiply” by Nnedi Okorafor
“A Bright Green Field” by Anna Kavan
"Nobody's Gonna Sleep Here Honey" by Danielle Evans
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson
"Omegahelm" by Samuel R. Delany
“Assumption” by Emma Bolden
"Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany
"Men Sell Not Such in Any Town" by Nalo Hopkinson
"Paper Clips Are Not Biodegradable" by Lucy Zhang
“Tapestry” by Samuel Delany
"the river" by adrienne maree brown
“The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time” by Franz Kafka
“Will Willams” by Namwali Serpell
“The Evolution of Human Science” by Ted Chiang
“Access Fantasy” by Jonathan Lethem
“The Terms” by Mike McCormack
“The Dictator” by Kellie Wells
“A Terminal Kind of Love” by Octavia E. Butler
“Counterfeit Bills” by Richard Matheson
“A Terminal Kind of Love” by Veronica Henry
“[Infestation!]” by Rion Amilcar Scott
“The Beast, Watered” by Sam Michel
"Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons" by Amanda Davis
“He Lived on Lover’s Peak” by Rob Walsh
“Covert Joy” by Clarice Lispector
"Slingshot" by Souvankham Thammavongsa
“The Concentration City” by J.G. Ballard
“John Wayne” by Kate Zambreno
“Noon” by Brad Watson
“Recognition” by Victor LaValle
“Three Sisters” by Ryan Call
“The Hole” by Brian Evenson
“Eau de Toilette” by Ariel Saramandi
“Packed White Spaces” by Chris Gonzalez
“Fuckface” by Leah Hampton
“Heart of a Bear” by Benjamin Percy
“Emperors of Jinn” by Usman T. Malik
“Emergency” by Denis Johnson
“The Language of the Stars” by Amber Sparks
"Lead Street, Albuquerque" by Lucia Berlin
"The Mole King" by Marie Hermanson
“What Maya Found There” by Daniel José Older
“The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” by Tamsyn Muir
“The Arc Bends” by Kieron Gillen
“Horatio and Clodia” by Charlie Jane Anders
“The Prospectors” by Karen Russell
“The Collective Gravity of Stars” by Chloe N. Clark
“Redbone” by Virginia Pye
“Hong Kong” by David Mitchell
“The Problem of Susan” by Neil Gaiman
“Each of Us Killers” by Jenny Bhatt
“Opossum” by Michael Czyzniejewski
“How to Burden the Girl” by Yukiko Motoya
“Unicorns” by Joanna Ruocco
“Haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk
“The People of Music” by Hannah Lillith Assadi
“Pursed” by Amina Gautier
“A Poetics for Bullies” by Stanley Elkin
“Mucker” by Elizabeth Mikesch
“Foxes” by Kimberly King Parsons
“The Barbarian” by Joanna Russ
“The House is a Body” by Shruti Swamy
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
"Blood Country" by Noy Holland
“One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep and Had What I Thought Was a Million-Dollar Idea to Write the Definitive Tell-all Book About Glam Rock Based on My Own Personal Experience But This Is as Far as I Got" by Dennis Cooper
“Pretend We’re Dead” by Anne Valente
“The Lucky Ones Get to Be People” by Rachel Haley Himmelheber
“The Dogs of Detroit” by Brad Felver
“The Faces in the Trees” by Brandon Hobson
“Up North” by Charles D’Ambrosio
“Interlocking Pieces” by Molly Glass
“Sur” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Killer” by Sarah Gerard
“Wait” by Roy Kesey
“A Brief History of Nonduality Studies” by Sofia Samatar
“Rabbit Island” by Elizabeth Navarro
“If You Lived Here, You’d Be Evicted By Now” by Abbey Mei Otis
“Ancestor Money” by Maureen F. McHugh
“Machines of Another Era” by Bess Winter
“And the Moon Be Still As Bright” by Ray Bradbury
“The Iron Moon” by Richard M. Elam, Jr.
“Ruins” by Samuel R. Delany
“The Silence Here Owns Everything” by Kirsten Clodfelter
“Wait for Night” By Stephen Graham Jones
“Doors” by Anna Vangala Jones
“Johnny Mnemonic” by William Gibson
“Burning Chrome” by William Gibson
“Selkie Stories Are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar
“Cities of Emerald, Deserts of Gold” by Sofia Samatar
“An Account from the Land of Witches” by Sofia Samatar
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson
“The Pollinator” by Richard Mirabella
“Following Signs” by D.T. Robbins
“Gas Head Tells All” by Joseph Bates
“Land’s End” by Delia Sherman
"How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary" by Tochi Onyebuchi
"The Devil Swims across the Anacostia River" by Edward P. Jones
“One White Deer” by Kara Vernor
“Men of the Woods” by Kathryn Scanlan
“To Everything, Tern Tern Tern” by Birna Anna Björnsdóttir
"How the Grizzly Came to Hang in the Royal Oak Hotel" by J.R. McConvey
“Windeye” by Brian Evenson
“Quail with a Topknot” by Sudha Balagopal
“Great American Interview” by Aaron Burch
“Runaround” by Isaac Asimov
"Notes on the Architecture of Hell" by Elvira Navarro
“Sungold” by Justin Taylor
"The Three Kingdoms,” collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev
“The Comet” by W. E. B. Du Bois
“At Life’s Limits” by Kiini Ibura Salaam
“The Age of the Cuttlefish” by Lawrence Coates
“Sister Lilith” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Parasites in Paradise” by Kirin Khan
“Advice for the Haunted” by Rachel Swearingen
“What I Have Been Doing Lately” by Jamaica Kincaid
“We Are Preparing Every Day to Die” by Sarah Jane Cody
“Unfettered and Alive” by Kathy Fish
“It’s German for ‘The Trump, The’” by Mark Doten
“A Cageling Tale” by Kate Bernheimer
“How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales” by Kate Bernheimer
“Evensong” by Lester del Rey
"How I Began to Bleed Again After Six Alarming Months Without" by Helen Phillips
“Auto-Da-Fé” by Roger Zelazny
“The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven
“The Son’s War” by Elwin Cotman
“Deal” by K-Ming Chang
“I Change You” by Dana Diehl
“Xuthal of the Dusk” by Robert E. Howard
“Save Me From the Pious and the Vengeful” by Lynne Tillman
“Iconography” by Ayşe Papatya Bucak
“The Touches” by Brenda Peynado
“Odd Attachment” by Iain M. Banks
“Human Moments in World War III” by Don DeLillo
“Killer” by Diane Williams
“The Penis Had Been Plenty Decent” by Diane Williams
"Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List" by Michael Martone
"Hot" by Patricia Lear
“The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers” by Jeremy Packert Burke
“Sex Dungeons for Sad People” by Abbey Mei Otis
“The Tungsten Record” by Tim Horvath
“Sea Girls and Men with Hands” by Jennifer Allen
“Music Our Mothers Made” by Ani King
“Son of Paul Bunyan” by Robert James Russell
"The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves" by Rachel Swearingen
“Ghoul” by George Saunders
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
“The Barn at the End of Our Term” by Karen Russell
“Unpresidented!” By Eric Schlich
“1776” by Kevin Maloney
“Little Expressionless Animals” by David Foster Wallace
“Katya” by Noa Covo
“We are the 300-year-old big bois of the sea and we did not come to play" by Emrys Donaldson
“Happily Ever After” by Danielle Evans
“A Field in Winter” by Gabriel Blackwell
“The Moon Fairy” by Sofia Samatar
“There and There and There and There” by Alexander Lumans
“Surgeon” by Justin Noga
"Why Won't Women Just Say What They Want" by Danielle Evans
“One of Us Will Be Happy; It’s Just a Matter of Which One” by Helen Phillips
“Game” by Helen Phillips
“Be Conscious of Form” by Myliyah Hanna
“Tarquin’s Party” by Emma Sloley
“Gathering” by David Naimon
“The Men Who Flew Away” by Justin Brouckaert
“Piggy Among the Elders” by Anne Pyne
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Charles Johnson
“Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” by Deesha Philyaw
“Volcano” by Bojan Louis
“Diluvium” by Christiane Vadnais
“Gryphon” by Charles Baxter
“Animal Wife” by Lara Ehrlich
“The Boucherie” by Stephanie Soileau
“The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang
“Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” by Wells Tower
“The Parts That Make Us Monsters” by Sheree Renée Thomas
"Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out!" By Nino Cipri
“Girls I No Longer Know” by Nicolette Polek
"The Ballad of Mother Teresa of Calcutta" by Julián Herbert
"Dog Rose in the Wind, the Rain, the Earth" by Farkhondeh Aghaei
“H748-K” by Tenea D. Johnson
“New Rose Hotel” by William Gibson
"Novostroïka" by Maria Reva
“Going Places” by Leonard Michaels
“Spare Room” by Chris Haven
"The Village with All the Boyfriends" by Zachary Doss
"The Nothing Spots Where Nobody Wants to Stay" by Julian K. Jarboe
“The Royal Californian” by Tod Goldberg
“The Souvenir Museum” by Elizabeth McCracken
“Two Dimes” by Wendell Mayo
“Plot” by Joy Williams
“Girl on Girl” by Diane Cook
“Cowboy Pile” by Andy Mozina
“Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts” by Anthony Veasna So
"A Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda's Garden" by Christine Schutt
“Last Night” by James Salter
"The Corpse Exhibition" by Hassan Blasim
"Good Grief: An Oral History of The Northfield Christmas Play Special, Brought to You by Coca Cola, 1965" by Dave Housley
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
“I Left My Heart in Skaftafell” by Victor LaValle
“Rabbit by Rabbit” by Amber Sparks
“Writing Teacher" by John Edgar Wideman
"A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals" by Sofia Samatar
“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” by Denis Johnson
2019
And So We Die, Having First Slept by Jennifer Spiegel
Arcade Seventeen by Megan Giddings
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Batman, vol. 1 by Tom King
Batman: The Dark Knight: The Master Race by Frank Miller
Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy
The Black Monday Murders, vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Black Movie by Danez Smith
The Book of Speculation by Erica Swyler
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Bookends by Michael Chabon
The Boy in his Winter by Norman Lock
Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
Broken Places & Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
Brown Black White by Nishta J. Mehra
The Core of Johnny Appleseed by Ray Silverman
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Count Zero by William Gibson
Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac, translated by Roy Kesey
The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, vol. 1-3 by Brian Froud
Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Desert Sky Before Us by Anne Valente
Destroyer by Victor LaValle
The Devoted by Blair Hurley
Die, Vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
The Dogs of Detroit by Brad Felver
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
Dubliners by James Joyce
Dungeons and Dragons: Arts and Arcana
East of West, vol. 7-9 by Jonathan Hickman
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Falter by Bill McKibben
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess
Fiber by Rick Bass
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The Government Lake by James Tate
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renée Nault
Hark by Sam Lipsyte
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick by Christophe Chabouté
Hold Sway by Sally Ball
Honeypot by Brenna Womer
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman
How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
If, Then by Kate Hope Day
Isola, vol. 1 by Karl Keschl and Brendan Fletcher
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Lecture by Chase Burke
Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
Little by Edward Carey
Liminal Domestic by Zach VandeZande
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
Look by Solmaz Sharif
Look Look Look by Callista Buchen
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
The Made-Up Man by Joseph Scapellato
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
Mister Miracle by Tom King
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The Municipalists by Seth Fried
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Naamah by Sarah Blake
New Avengers, vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
No Good for Digging by Dustin M. Hoffman
The Omega Men by Tom King
Orange World by Karen Russell
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Peripheral by William Gibson
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Realms by Tony DiTerlizzi
Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
Severance by Ling Ma
Shade, the Changing Girl, vol. 1 by Cecil Castellucci
Short Talks by Anne Carson
Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
Unnatural, vol. 1 by Mirka Andolfno
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Barry
Vision, Vol. 1-2 by Tom King
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
White Flights by Jess Row
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2018
Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
American War by Omar El Akkad
Analog by Gerry Duggan
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Apocalypse How? by Adrienne Celt
ApocalyptiGirl: an Aria for the End Times by Andrew MacLean
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Beowulf, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best American Short Stories 2016, edited by Junot Diaz
Betwixt-and-Between by Jenny Boully
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Bitch Planet vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
The Blast by David Ohle
Blasted by Sarah Kane
Bloodborne: The Death of Sleep by Ales Kot
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
Book of Interludes by Grace Shuyi Liew
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Census by Jesse Ball
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Circe by Madeline Miller
The City and the City by China Miéville
The City and the City by China Miéville (II)
City of Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimon
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
The Courier's Archive & Hymnal by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
The Curse of Brimstone, vol. 1 by Justin Jordan
Dark Knights: Metal/The Nightmare Batmen/Road to Metal by Scott Snyder
Dayglo by James Meetze
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Divinity, vol. 1-4 by Matt Kindt
A Dog Between Us by Duncan Barlow
East of West, vol. 1-6 by Jonathan Hickman
Egg by Nicole Walker
Embassytown by China Miéville
Eminent Domain by Justin Petropoulos
The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Exit Interview by Paul Guest
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better by Pema Chödrön
Fante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver
Fante Bukowski Two by Noah Van Sciver
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
Feeling Upon Arrival by Saretta Morgan
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (II)
Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk
Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman
Fox 8 by George Saunders
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson
Goliath by Tom Gauld
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Hospitalogy by David Wolach
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly
I KIlled Adolf Hitler by Jason
Idiophone by Amy Fusselman
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Invocation by Jennifer S. Cheng
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
It Will All Hurt by Farel Dalrymple
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Jetlag by Etgar Keret
The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
The Ladies in Waiting by Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares
Land Beast by Kate Wyer
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Light No More by Robert Kloss
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Literary Libations by Amira Makansi
Little Sister Death by William Gay
The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
The Lost Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
Low vol. 1 by Rick Remender
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
Make Trouble by John Waters
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Mary's Monster by Lita Judge
Mem by Bethany C. Morrow
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
Michael Chabon's The Escapists by Brian K. Vaughan
A Midsummers Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Mindful Writer by Dinty W. Moore
Mine by Sarah Viren
The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch
Monster Portraits by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar
Monstress vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu
The Moon’s Jaw by Rauan Klassnik
[m]otherhood by Anna Lea Jancewicz
Motorman by David Ohle
Ms. Marvel vol. 1-2 by G. Willow Wilson
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus
The New Atlantis by Ursula K. Le Guin
1984 by George Orwell
New Order by Fay Wolf
No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
North by Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek
Not Everyone is Special by Josh Denslow
Notes on my Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball
The Oblivion Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
Odette by Sara Gelston
Old Man Logan by Mark Millar
Once Upon Wing Lake by Andrea Scarpino
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Paper Girls: Book One by Brian K. Vaughan
Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
Railsea by China Miéville
Rat Queens, vol. 1-2 by Kurtis J. Wiebe
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Refresh Refresh by Benjamin Percy and Danica Novgorodoff
The Resurrectionist by E.B. Hudspeth
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Room for a Counter Interior by Saretta Morgan
Saga vol. 1-9 by Brian K. Vaughan
The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Semiosis by Sue Burke (II)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Slow Professor by Barbara K. Seeber and Maggie Berg
So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin
Solo Faces by James Salter
Song for his Disappeared Love by Raúl Zurita
The Sorcerer of the WIldeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
The Sphinx at Dawn by Madeleine L'Engle
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, presented by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante WIlson
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman
There There by Tommy Orange
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Tiny Crimes, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
This Census-Taker by China Miéville
Thrill Me by Benjamin Percy
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Transhuman by Jonathan Hickman
True West by Sam Shepard
Tumor by Anna Leahy
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
The Unnatural World by David Biello
Valerian & Laureline, vol. 1 by Pierre Christin
Verax by Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil
Waiting for the Punch by Marc Maron
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
Whittling a New Face in the Dark by DJ Dolack
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Wild Angels by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (II)
Words are my Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Your Face In Mine by Jess Row
2017
The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
Angels by Denis Johnson
Archangel by William Gibson
The Art of History by Christopher Bram
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Bakkhai by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet vol. 1-3 by Ta-Nehesi Coates
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
The Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Calamities by Renee Gladman
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
Common Ancestor by Jenny Irish
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
Currents by Bojan Louis
Daddy Issues by Alex McElroy
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview
The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
Every Living Species by Erin Stalcup
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Family Arcana by Jedediah Berry
The Farmacist by Ashley Farmer
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky
Four Futures by Peter Frase
A Garlic Testament by Stanley Crawford
The Grand Design by Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The Holy Firm by Annie Dillard
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Isadora by Amelia Gray
It by Stephen King
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Johnny Appleseed by Howard Means
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard by William Kerrigan
Kidland by Paul Kingsnorth
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton
The Long Walk by Stephen King
March: Book One by John Lewis
Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Modernist Novel by Stephen Kern
My Happy Life by Lydia Millet
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Notes on My Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball
Nox by Anne Carson
On Trails by Robert Moor
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
One No, Many Yeses by Paul Kingsnorth
One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel
Once Upon Wing Lake by Andrea Scarpino
One Wild Bird at a Time by Bernd Heinrich
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Pickle Index by Eli Horowitz
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road to Sparta by Dean Karnazes
Seed by Joanna Walsh
Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Short Talks by Anne Carson
The Slow Professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi
The Static Herd by Beth Steidle
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
This Day by Wendell Berry
The Trail Runner's Companion by Sarah Lavender Smith
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The Tree by Colin Tudge
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas
Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Danielewski
What are People For? by Wendell Barry
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödron
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals by Robert Kloss
The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo
Wooly by Ben Mezrich
2016
A Bestiary by Lily Hoang
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments by Jennifer Militello
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
a/0 by Laura Bylenok
Adventures in Property Management by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
Angels by Denis Johnson
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
At Night by Lisa Ciccarello
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin
Battle Rattle by Brandon Davis Jennings
Between Grammars by Danielle Vogel
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Big Lonesome by Joseph Scapellato
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Confessions from a Dark Wood by Eric Raymond
Contrary Motion by Andy Mozina
Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
Dreamlives of Debris by Lance Olsen
Eat and Run by Scott Jurek
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
Field Guide to Ultrarunning by Hal Koerner
Finding Ultra by Rick Roll
Fleshgraphs by Brynne Rebele-Henry
Float by Anne Carson
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
Georgia by Dawn Tripp
Good Clean Fun by Nick Offerman
Good People by Robert Lopez
Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Horse Latitudes by Morris Collins
Hospice by Gregory Howard
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Kind One by Laird Hunt
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
Little Nothing by Marisa Silver
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
Marrow Island by Alexis Smith
Mastering Homebrew by Randy Mosher
Mistah Kurtz by James Reich
Movieola! by John Domini
My Year of Running Dangerously by Tom Foreman
Natural Wonders by Angela Woodward
No More Milk by Karen Craigo
Of This New World by Allegra Hyde
On Heights & Hunger by Josh MacIvor-Anderson
Our Dreams Might Align by Dana Diehl
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
Red by John Logan
Reel by Tobias Carroll
Relentless Forward Progress by Bryon Powell
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Satin Island by Tom McCarty
Seam by Tarfia Faizullah
Solo Faces by James Salter
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The After Party by Jana Prikryl
The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
The Art of Fiction by James Salter
The Art of Perspective by Chris Castellini
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Last Novel by David Markson
The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
The Revelator by Robert Kloss
The Sadness by Benjamin Rybeck
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
The Unfinished World by Amber Sparks
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Warren by Brian Evenson
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Time Travel by James Gleick
Tough Shit by Kevin Smith
Truths, Half Truths, and Little White Lies by Nick Frost
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
We the Animals by Justin Torres
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
What the willow said as it fell by Andrea Scarpino
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
White Nights in Split Town City by Annie Dewitt
Why We Came to the City by Kris Jansma
Works by Edouard Leve
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Zero K by Don DeLillo
80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald
2015
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
Body Thesaurus by Jennifer Militello
Month of Big Hands by Andrew Morgan
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
California by Edan Lepucki
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Bombshell by James Reich
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
The Infernal by Mark Doten
B & Me by J.C. Hallman
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Ball by Tara Ison
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Thrown by Kerry Howley
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
Mao II by Don DeLillo
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Neverhome by Laird Hunt
In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte
The Sound on the Page by Ben Yagoda
The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Burning Down George Orwell’s House by Andrew Ervin
Mislaid by Nell Zink
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Bible Adventures by Gabe Durham
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Waiting for the Enemy by Brandon Davis Jenning
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates
Kind One by Laird Hunt
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
A Book So Red by Rachel Levy
Little Wolves by Thomas Maltman
Into the Valley by Ruth Galm
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch (II)
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
The Assassin’s Gate by George Packer
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard (II)
One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist by Dustin M. Hoffman
Terra Firma Triptych by J.M. Ledgard
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James (II)
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Gumption by Nick Offerman
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins (II)
2014
Mistake by Meredith Stricker
The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men by Gabriel Blackwell
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin
The Black Ocean by Brian Barker
How to Carry Bigfoot Home by Chris Tarry
The Weaklings (XL) by Dennis Cooper
The Virgins by Pamela Erens
Monolithos by Jack Gilbert
Short Talks by Anne Carson
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
The Rise and Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic by Christopher Merkner
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
Made to Break by D. Foy
Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
Big Ray by Michael Kimball
Once, Then by Andrea Scarpino
Someone Else’s Wedding Vows by Bianca Stone
Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente
Rockaway by Tara Ison
Palmerino by Melissa Pritchard
Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Foxes on the Trampoline by Charlotte Boulay
Wish You Were Here by Matthew Dickman
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky by David Connerley Naum
Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams
Backswing by Aaron Burch
The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil
The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis
Young God by Katherine Faw Morris
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Europeana by Patrik Ouředník
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting
ZZT by Anna Anthropy
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
Neverhome by Laird Hunt
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore
The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson
Grief Lessons by Anne Carson
I Look Divine by Christopher Coe
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
[there] by Lance Olsen
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Wynne’s War by Aaron Gwyn
Galaga by Michael Kimball
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein (II)
Short Talks by Anne Carson (II)
The Modernist Novel by Stephen Kern
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Sexing of the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Women by Chloe Caldwell
Heroines by Kate Zambreno
Caribou Island by David Vann
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
We Will Listen for You by Nick Ripatrazone
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Solo Faces by James Salter
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Dubliners by James Joyce
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter
Sula by Toni Morrison
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Flings by Justin Taylor
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Revenance by Cynthia Hogue
Darker by Mark Strand
The Impossibly by Laird Hunt
Sleeping With One Eye Open by Mark Strand
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Reasons for Moving by Mark Strand
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo
This is the Water by Yannick Murphy
BoysGirls by Katie Farris
Works by Edouard Levé
Life Drawing by Robin Black
And I’m Not Jenny by Tara Rebele
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire by Allison Titus
2013
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau
Glaciers by Alexis Smith
The Law of Strings by Steven Gillis
The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
allegiance by Francine J. Harris
Wally by Don Peteroy
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
The Schoolmaster’s Daughter by John Smolens
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Flight of Brothers by Jonathan Baumbach
Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
Lungs Full of Noise by Tessa Mellas
Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics, edited by Mary Biddinger and John Gallaher
Layman’s Report by Eugene Marten
Light Years by James Salter
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
An Elegy for Mathematics by Anne Valente
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer
The Writer’s Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
The Complete Tales of Merry Gold by Kate Bernheimer
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold by Kate Bernheimer
Our Rarer Monsters by Noel Sloboda
Mezzanines by Matthew Olzmann
The Old Reactor by David Ohle
The Anchor Book of New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus
Spectacle by Susan Steinberg
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
Neighbors of Nothing by Jason Ockert
99 Stories of God by Joy Williams
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Accelerated by Bronwen Hruska
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
The Fish and the Not Fish by Peter Markus
Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black
The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
A Philosophy of Fear by Lars Svendsen
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
The Water Cure by Percival Everett
The Half-Known World by Robert Boswell
Kind One by Laird Hunt
The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt
Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
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The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss
What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life by Marie Calloway
Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
Drive by James Sallis
The Virgins by Pamela Erens
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
The Ravickians by Renee Gladman
Ana Patova Crossed a Bridge by Renee Gladman
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Don’t Kiss Me by Lindsay Hunter
Libra by Don DeLillo
Kind One by Laird Hunt (II)
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
Misadventure by Nicholas Grider
Families Among Us by Blake Kimzey
Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin Frank
Division Street by Helen Mort
Too Bright to See by Linda Gregg
Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta (II)
Spectacle by Susan Steinberg (II)
The Counselor by Cormac McCarthy
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
You Good Thing by Dara Wier
proxy by R. Erica Doyle
Hymn Book for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino
Meat Heart by Melissa Broder
Hold It Down by Gina Myers
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Robing of the Bride by Aditi Machado
Funerals & Thrones by JD Scott
Antidote by Corey Van Landingham
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
This is What They Say by M. Bartley Seigel
Arousing Notoriety by A. Minetta Gould
The Man Among the Seals by Denis Johnson
How to Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Goat Mountain by David Vann
Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen
Antigonick by Anne Carson
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
Florida by Christine Schutt
Nightwork by Christine Schutt
I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
All Souls by Christine Schutt
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer by Christine Schutt
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli
Lightning Field by Dana Spiotta
The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau
2012
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Ravickians by Renee Gladman
Things Come On by Joseph Harrington
I Remember by Shane Allison
The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture by Charles Jensen
Threats by Amelia Gray
Understories by Tim Horvath
Girl with Oars & Man Dying by J.A. Tyler
Stray Decorum by George Singleton
Swell by Corwin Ericson
The Freak Chronicles by Jennifer Spiegel
While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty
Ayiti by Roxane Gay
The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer
One Time All I Wanted by Nicolle Elizabeth
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Motorman by David Ohle
The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail by Gregory Sherl
Night Swim by Jessica Keener
Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams
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Damascus by Joshua Mohr
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Naked Summer by Andrew Scott
The Guardians by Sarah Manguso
American Poet by Jeff Vande Zande
Halls of Fame by John D’Agata
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
A Cloth House by Joseph Riippi
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Nine Months by Paula Bomer
Treesisters by Joseph Riippi
Level End by Brian Oliu
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert Coover
Big Ray by Michael Kimball
The Bastard Pleasure by Sean McGrady
Carry Each His Burden by James Goertel
Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Sea of Trees by Robert James Russell
May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks
The Critique of Reason by Gabriel Blackwell
Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo
I Have Blinded Myself Writing This by Jess Stoner
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
The Maggot People by Henning Koch
Skin Horse by Olivia Cronk
Could You Be With Her Now by Jen Michalski
Waste by Eugene Marten
Zombie by J.R. Angelella
We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane
Fjords Vol. 1 by Zachary Schomburg
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Angels by Denis Johnson
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
The Gardener’s Son by Cormac McCarthy
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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
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The Dying Horse by Jason Jordan
The Zoo, a Going by J.A. Tyler
The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Oversoul by Mitchell S. Jackson
Every Laundromat in the World by Mel Bosworth
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Last Call in the City of Bridges by Salvatore Pane
Collected Poems by David Markson
All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon
Pot Farm by Matthew Gavin Frank
Mao II by Don DeLillo
The Hysterectomy Waltz by Merrill Joan Gerber
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormick
Correspondence by Kristina Marie Darling
The Anchor Book of New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus
The Names by Don DeLillo
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Valparaiso by Don DeLillo
Cannonball by Joseph McElroy
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
Players by Don DeLillo
Light-Headed by Matt Hart
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
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2011
Middletown by Will Eno
The Moors by Ben Marcus
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Grim Tales by Norman Lock
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Richard Yates by Tao Lin
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, edited by Ash Bowen and Johnathon Williams
Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet
We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry
Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
Revolution by Deb Olin Unferth
The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature, edited by Ben Segal and Erinrose Mager
The Wilding by Benjamin Percy
Tongue Party by Sarah Rose Etter
An Island of Fifty by Ben Brooks
The Rooster’s Wife by Russell Edson
Steambath by Bruce Jay Friedman
Telling It and Telling It Again by Bruce Kawin
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The Hieroglyphics by Michael Stewart
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Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
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Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder
Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate by Johannes Göransson
The Girl With Brown Fur by Stacey Levine
Dreams of Molly by Jonathan Baumbach
In the Year of Long Division by Dawn Raffel
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
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Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor
Fiction and the Figures of Life by William H. Gass
The Stonemason by Cormac McCarthy
Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti
Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Stories V! by Scott McClanahan
Based on a True Story by Hesh Kestin
The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell
These Strangers She’d Invited In by Jac Jemc
Us by Michael Kimball
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
In the Devil’s Territory by Kyle Minor
We Make Mud by Peter Markus
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Elephants in our Bedroom by Michael Czyzniejewski
Forecast by Shya Scanlon
The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter
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There is No Year by Blake Butler
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish
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Other People We Married by Emma Straub
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The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover by Mark Leidner
Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez
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From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet by Patrick Michael Finn
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A Tendency to Be Gone by Pamela Ryder
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God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
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I am a Very Productive Entrepreneur by Mathias Svalina
A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara
In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Draeger
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Festival of Earthly Delights by Matt Dojny
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
Gospel by Samiya Bashir
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin
The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young
A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
A True History Of The Captivation, Transport To Strange Lands, & Deliverance Of Hannah Guttentag by Josh Russell
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle
The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
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Embodied by Keith Nathan Brown
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2010
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Old Men, Girls, and Monsters by Peter Schwartz
Phantoms by Chad Simpson
We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now by Adam Gallari
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor
Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern
Killing Kanoko by Hiromi Ito
Where I Stay by Andrew Zornoza
Our Noise by John Cook, Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance
Pretty by Kim Chinquee
Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis
On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
Tongue by Rachel Contreni Flynn
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain by Tamler Sommers
Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu
Nox by Anne Carson
The River Gods by Brian Kiteley
The Disappointment Artist: Essays by Jonathan Lethem
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer
Art Without Compromise by Wendy Richmond
when all our days are numbered marching bands will fill the streets and we will not hear them because we will be upstairs in the clouds by Sasha Fletcher
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Point Omega: A Novel by Don DeLillo
The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall
Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Laskey
i am here And You Are Gone by Shome Dasgupta
Pee on Water by Rachel Glaser
How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew by Aaron Burch
Life of a Star by Jane Unrue
Firework by Eugene Marten
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel
I Look Divine by Christopher Coe
Some instructions by Stanley G Crawford
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Love Doesn’t Work by Henning Koch
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
The Young Girl’s Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments by Pierre Louys
Out Of Work by Greg Mulcahy
How to Predict the Weather by Aaron Burch
Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman
Preacher by Garth Ennis
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley
From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith
I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
Pacazo by Roy Kesey
The Orange Suitcase by Joseph Riippi
End of the Fire Cult by Angela Woodward
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
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Dangerous Emotions by Alphonso Lingis
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
Asunder by Robert Lopez
Theology of the Body by Donora Hillard
2009
Omega: The Unknown by Jonathan Lethem
Less Shiny by Mary Miller
The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary Mason
Electric Flesh: A Novel by Claro
How Much of Us There Was by Michael Kimball
In the Blind by Eugene Marten
Ever by Blake Butler
A Better Angel: Stories by Chris Adrian
The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, The Video Game As Existential Metaphor by Christopher Monks
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Tomorrowland by Howie Good
Mad to Live by Randall Brown
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson
Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life by Rob Roberge
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Elephants in Our Bedroom by Michael Czyzniejewski
The National Virginity Pledge by Barry Graham
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Big World by Mary Miller
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
The Disappointment Artist: Essays by Jonathan Lethem
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich
Theres Something Wrong With Sven by Greg Gerke
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
Things That Pass for Love by Allison Amend
Trio by Norman Lock
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
The Exquisite by Laird Hunt
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Questionstruckn by William Walsh
The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman
Drift and Swerve: Stories by Samuel Ligon
Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
Ray by Barry Hannah
All the Day’s Sad Stories by Tina May Hall
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
Motorman by David Ohle
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
In the Devil’s Territory by Kyle Minor
In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsythe
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The Age of Sinatra (Soft Skull ShortLit) by David Ohle
MLKNG SCKLS by Justin Sirois
Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim Cooper
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 by R. M. Berry
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction by Tara L. Masih
Typewriter by Jimmy Chen
Phantasmagoria by Thomas Cooper
Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois
Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories by Jim Tomlinson
Trouble with the Machine: Prose Poems by Christopher Kennedy
The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
Airships by Barry Hannah
The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death by Christopher Kennedy
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others by Stephanie Johnson
Home Land: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
Fugue State by Brian Evenson
The Crimson Legion by Troy Denning
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Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi
Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers by David Madden
On the Winding Stair by Joanna Howard
Invisible Monsters: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Changing by Lily Hoang
Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems by Karyna McGlynn
How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace
Prose. Poems. A Novel. by Jamie Iredell
Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Shadowplay by Norman Lock
The Failure Six by Shane Jones
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett
Nightwork by Christine Schutt
SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
The Complete Butcher’s Tales by Rikki Ducornet
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
One Hour of Television by Kristina Born
Baby Leg by Brian Evenson
Babyfucker by Urs Allemann
Testament of Daedalus by Michael Ayrton
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso
2008
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
The Left Bank Gang by Jason
U.S.!: Songs and Stories by Chris Bachelder
Temporary People by Steven Gillis
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Ryan Seacrest is Famous by Dave Housley
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
November 22, 1963 by Adam Braver
The Boat by Nam Le
Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret, Asaf Hanuka
Our Aperture by Ander Monson
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim Cooper
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger
The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon by Charles Jensen
Conjoined Twins by Christine Quigley
In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus
Hush by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee
In a Bear’s Eye by Yannick Murphy
Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays by Ander Monson
Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality by John Darnielle
The Gunslinger Born by Stephen King
A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith
You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane
Without Wax: A Documentary Novel by William Walsh
The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose
Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry by Kim Chinquee
Crowe’s Requiem by Mike McCormack
Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder
I Am Death by Gary Amdahl
Arkansas by John Brandon
I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
Double Header by Suzanne Burns
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck
The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas by Davy Rothbart
Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffrey Brown
Miniature Sulk by Jeffrey Brown
Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me by Jeffrey Brown
AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy by Jeffrey Brown
Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes
A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, Claudia Smith
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Creamy Bullets by Kevin Sampsell
The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate
Awesome by Jack Pendarvis
Hunger by Elise Blackwell
Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus
Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball
Apologies Forthcoming by Xujun Eberlein
Of Whiskey and Winter by Peter Conners
I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These by Anthony Tognazzini
The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Who Can Save Us Now? by John McNally
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
Kissed by by Alexandra Chasin
Waste by Eugene Marten
The Elfish Gene by Mark Barrowcliffe
Last Days by Brian Evenson
Father of Lies by Brian Evenson
Dark Property by Brian Evenson
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Guide by Dennis Cooper
The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands by Shane Jones
The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
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2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Before You She Was a Pit Bull by Elizabeth Ellen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
The Flatness and Other Landscapes by Michael Martone
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Can’t Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
Emerald City by Jennifer Egan
Clown Girl by Monica Drake
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
Giraffes by Steven Gillis
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy
Jesus’ Son by by Denis Johnson
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Winter of Different Directions by Steven J. McDermott
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Voices of the Lost and Found by Dorene O’Brien
The Women Were Leaving the Men by Andy Mozina
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
All Over by Roy Kesey
I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger
2006
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
The Best American Short Stories 2005
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 by Dave Eggers
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Other Electricities by Ander Monson
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Only What Is by Richard Lawrence Cohen
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Heart Is Also a Furnace by Magdalen Powers
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fondling Your Muse by John Warner
The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook by Tom Kealey
Best New American Voices 2006
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes
No Country for Old Men by Cormac Mccarthy
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret
Jetlag by Etgar Keret
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
1984 by George Orwell
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
Visigoth by Gary Amdahl
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Into the Desperate Country by Jeff Vande Zande
Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
Nothing in the World by Roy Kesey
McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
This Shape We’re In by Jonathan Lethem
The Pharmacist’s Mate by Amy Fusselman
The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
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Terrorist by John Updike
Fat Pig: A Play by Neil LaBute
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Circling the Drain: Stories by Amanda Davis
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D’Ambrosio
Wonder When You’ll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
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The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
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Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
Michael Martone by Michael Martone
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The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
The Sicily Papers by Michelle Orange
Unconventions by Michael Martone
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Letters to Wendy’s by Joe Wenderoth
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson
How we Got Insipid by Jonathan Lethem
Vacationland by Ander Monson
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
Super Flat Times by Matthew Derby