Reading Log
Updated: April 25th, 2024
2024
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton
NOON 2024
Stricture by Isabelle Nicou
Be Holding by Ross Gay
Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen
I Love Information by Courtney Bush
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Witch Hunt & Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria
Every Book Is About The Same Thing by Courtney Bush
Septology by Jon Fosse
what a heaven could feel like by md wheatley
If I Close My Eyes by Ben Fama
Fudge by Andrew Weatherhead
2023
Participation by Anna Moschovakis
Spurious by Lars Iyer
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
The One on Earth by Mark Baumer
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
Summer by Karl Ove Knausgård
Trilogy by Jon Fosse
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee by Megan Boyle
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Molly by Blake Butler
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgård
Winter by Karl Ove Knausgård
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgård
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
Six-Legged Spider by Coleman Bomar
South by Babak Lakghomi
Alice Knott by Blake Butler
Show Me Your Face by Danielle Chelosky
A Kind of In-Between by Aaron Burch
Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks by Joshua Beckman
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
The Guest by Emma Cline
Deliver Me by Elle Nash
Proxies by Brian Blanchfield
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria
Americanitis by Doug Paul Case
The Emissary by Yōko Tawada
!!! by Mike Andrelczyk
How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
Nitro Mountain by Lee Clay Johnson
The Hermit by Lucy Ives
God’s Green Earth by Noelle Kocot
Florida by Christine Schutt
The Firebird Poems by Gerald Locklin
Supremacist by David Shapiro
Echo Chamber by Claire Hopple
The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai
Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch
Do Every Thing Wrong!!: XXXTentacion Against the World by Jarett Kobek
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
VIO-LETS by EJ Kneifel
Picture Window by Danny Caine
Forever Imperfect (Forever Magazine Pocket Bible 3)
orz by Troy James Weaver
Flagged and Removed by Darcie Wilder
The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
2022
Accept / Reject by Erin Dorney
Funeral by Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao
Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman
Considering how exaggerated music is by Leslie Scalapino
Literally Show Me a Healthy Person by Darcie Wilder
Letters to Emma Bowlcut by Bill Callahan
Characters by Derek Maine
The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury
Hallelujah, Giant Space Wolf by Daniel Bailey
Feds on Vacation by Big Bruiser Dope Boy
Name and Noun by Stephanie Yue Duhem
Blindness by José Saramago
Some of Them Will Carry Me by Giada Scodellaro
I Hope You Enjoy the Food by Zac Smith
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
Genesis 0 by Isabelle Nicou
Animal Days by Joshua Beckman
The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic
Donald Goines by Calvin Westra
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
Little Engines Issue 7
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy
Kanley Stubrick by Mike Kleine
Our Last Year by Alan Rossi
Leave Society Cookbook (Forever Magazine Pocket Bible 2) by Tao Lin
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
Dunce by Mary Ruefle
There Has Been a Murder by Evan Nicholls, Evan Williams, and Benjamin Niespodziany
A Picture-Feeling by Renee Gladman
SCANNNDY by KKUURRTT and Barracuda Guarsico
Time as a Sort of Enemy by Tyler Dempsey
Cheat by Danielle Chelosky
You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South
Inferno by Eileen Myles
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cheat by Danielle Chelosky
Agitation by Alexandrine Ogundimu
You’ll Like It Here by Ashton Politanoff
Modern Massacres by Timothy Willis Sanders
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
College Novel by Blake Middleton
Floating Notes by Babak Lakghomi
Avoka by Elle Nash
NOON 2022
The Red Truck by Rudy Wilson
The Cows by Lydia Davis
Sellout by Dan Ozzi
Until It Feels Right Book by Emily Costa
A Picture Held Us Captive by Danielle Dutton
The Vacation by Garth Miró
Dave: poems volume 2: I AM DAVE_HELLO #2 by Dave Poems
June by Daniel Brenner
Cheap Yellow by Shy Watson
Duplex by Mike Nagel
Teenager by Bud Smith
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim
The Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body by Bjørn Rasmussen
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
Salmon by Sebastian Castillo
everything will be alright in the end by Alexandrine Ogundimu
Tell Me I’m an Artist by Chelsea Martin
Memorial by Bryan Washington
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
People from My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami
Mercury Retrograde by Emily Segal
Liver Mush by Graham Irvin (2)
Malcolm by James Purdy
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Small Moods by Shane Kowalski
The End (My Struggle 6) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Gag Reflex by Elle Nash
Norwood by Charles Portis
Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco
My Mind is Not a Billboard///What’s Your Favorite TV Show by Sam Pink
Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin
Even Though I Don’t Miss You by Chelsea Martin
What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life by Marie Calloway
Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Marigold by Troy James Weaver
Bad Bad by Chelsey Minnis
Zirconia by Chelsey Minnis
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis
Potted Meat by Steven Dunn
Some Food I Ate in 2021 by Graham Irvin
Sad Sad Boy by Michael O’Brien
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
2021
GRIEFNOVA by Katherine Osborne
Away Status by Shy Watson
Autoportrait by Édouard Levé
Begat Who Begat Who Begat by Marcus Pactor
Double Bird by Bud Smith
Desperate by Alexandrine Ogundimu
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
The Inevitable June by Bob Schofield
Raking Leaves by Joseph Grantham
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
Some Rain Must Fall (My Struggle 5) by Karl Ove Knausgård
*Tom Sawyer by Joseph Grantham
bleach tooth by catch breath
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Only Living Girl in Chicago by Mallory Smart
Darryl by Jackie Ess
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Alone by Thomas Moore
Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano
*Ray by Barry Hannah
*Salad Days by Laura Theobald
The Poet Confronts Bukowski’s Ghost by Kat Giordano
*I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Claustrophobia, Surprise! by Evan Williams
Interrogating the Abyss by Chris Kelso
CC by BN
Harrow by Joy Williams
*Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
*It’s Hard to Say by Claire Hopple
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
*Leave Society by Tao Lin
*Liveblog by Megan Boyle
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
*Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner
hehehehe by gg roland
Looney by Dave Housley
Hurricane Season by Kelby Losack
How High? — That High by Diane Williams
Preparations for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
I am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink
Venice by T.J. Larkey
Temporal by Troy James Weaver
A Better Word for the World by Daniel Bailey
Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe” by Sarah Lyn Rogers
Human Tetris by Vi Khi Nao & Ali Raz
Rontel by Sam Pink
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together by Mira González
Nature Documentary by Noah Cicero
Person by Sam Pink
Everything is Totally Fine by Zac Smith (2)
*Bob the Gambler by Frederick Barthelme
Frail Shrines by Derick Dupre
Hot Young Stars by Sophie Jennis
Taipei by Tao Lin
Young Americans by Jordan Castro
If I Really Wanted to Feel Happy I’d Feel Happy Already by Jordan Castro
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
Crisis Vacation by Danielle Chelosky
*Family Annihilator by Calvin Westra
Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian
Light-Up Swan by Tom Snarsky
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
An Actual Person in a Concrete Historical Situation by Blake Middleton
Parking Lot Poems by Mila Jaroniec
Flaw by Magdalena Tulli
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
*Hardcore by Mik Grantham
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
The Neon Hollywood Cowboy by Matt Mitchell
Best Behavior by Noah Cicero
Nudes by Elle Nash
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return by Martin Riker
Latex, Texas by Shane Jesse Christmass
Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
*Body High by Jon Lindsey
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
*Purple Perilla by Can Xue
*Something Gross by Big Bruiser Dope Boy
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Street Cop by Robert Coover
Paresis by Isabelle Nicou
Bath House by Hans Henny Jahn
The Improper Use of Plates by Angelo Maneage
Bobby DiGiorno Will Fucking Die by Zac Smith
Horror Vacui by Shy Watson
fkn cheese steak by Cavin Bryce Gonzalez
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey by Craig Morgan Teicher
Visions by Troy James Weaver
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dancing in the Dark (My Struggle 4) by Karl Ove Knausgård
I’m From Nowhere by Lindsay Lerman
Anatomizing Uncanny Alley by Daniel Beauregard
A Completely Nonexistent Carnival by Cavin Bryce Gonzalez
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
Watertown by Daniel Eastman
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Azadi by Arundhati Roy
Ruthless Little Things by Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
The Ancient Hours by Michael Bible
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
*Amygdalatropolis by B. R. Yeager
Everything Happens Next by Will Stanier
Last Things by Jenny Offill
Miss Subways by David Duchovny
Two Million Shirts by Giacomo Pope and Zac Smith
My Mind is Not a Billboard by Sam Pink
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
*Worsted by Garielle Lutz
True Love by Sarah Gerard
Vincent and Alice and Alice by Shane Jones
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
Baseless by Nicholson Baker
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
*Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth
*Pew by Catherine Lacey
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Ultraviolet Torus by Dale Brett
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Best Small Fictions 2017 ed. Amy Hempel
After Denver by Big Bruiser Dope Boy
2020
Daddy by Emma Cline
*Welfare by Steve Anwyll
Deliverance by James Dickey
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
*Backswing by Aaron Burch
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Ecstatic Cahoots by Stuart Dybek
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee
*Selected Stories by Troy James Weaver
*Vertical Motion by Can Xue
*The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton
Charity by Mark Richard
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Claire Hopple
Boyhood Island (My Struggle 3) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Gateway 2000 & Other Poems by Mike Andrelczyk
49 Venezuelan Novels by Sebastian Castillo
Contemporary Aesthetics by Doug Paul Case
*Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash
A Man in Love (My Struggle 2) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Mayflies for Trout Fishing by Tyler Dillow
The Cipher by Molly Brodak
The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
*The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Sam Pink
*No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Cherry by Nico Walker
Work by Bud Smith
Dave: poems volume 1: I AM DAVE_HELLO by Dave Poems
everything is totally fine by Zac Smith
*Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
I Could Be Your Neighbor, Isn’t That Horrifying? by Cavin Bryce Gonzalez
Chainsaw Blurbs & Other Blurbs by Zac Smith
Chainsaw Poems & Other Poems by Giacomo Pope
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Not I by Sebastian Castillo
Dissolving by Mike Andrelczyk
Newspaper Drumsticks by Tyler Dempsey
50 Barn Poems by Zac Smith
Horizon by Barry Lopez
50 Barn Blurbs by Giacomo Pope
*Weed Monks by Chris Dankland
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
Life is Short — Art is Shorter ed. David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman
Three New Fictions by Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller, and Elle Nash
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
*The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Normal People by Sally Rooney
*Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
NOON 2019
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior
Julia and the Bazooka by Anna Kavan
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
*AUG 9–FOG by Kathryn Scanlan
Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
*The Dominant Animal by Kathryn Scanlan
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
With Teeth by Natanya Ann Pulley
*Sing to It by Amy Hempel
American Housewife by Helen Ellis
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
*Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin [BE]
*Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
*The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter [NB/MAS]
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney [Twitter]
And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks [Twitter]
Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory [Twitter]
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson [Library]
*Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan
Every Day is for the Theif by Teju Cole [Library]
The Art of Living by Thích Nhất Hạnh [Mom/Josiah/Paula]
*Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay [BE]
Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis [JTH]
The Plains by Gerald Murnane [SN]
Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade [Mom]
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
*Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
The New Testament by Jericho Brown [Bennington]
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens [AB]
*A Little Middle of the Night by Molly Brodak
*Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz [BE]
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner [CVW]
Raw by Lamont “U-God” Hawkins [Library]
The Quiet Part Loud by Tyler Barton
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
The Guardians by Sarah Manguso [CH]
The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti [CVW]
*Indelicacy by Amina Cain
*The Trembling Answers by Craig Morgan Teicher [Bennington]
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stoner by John Williams [MG]
My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta [CH]
*Imaginary Museums by Nicolette Polek [MAS]
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley [Bennington]
No Bad Kids by Janet Lansbury
Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker
*Person/a by Elizabeth Ellen [Hobart]
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon [Library]
Go Set a Watchman by Lee Harper [Library]
2019
Watchmen by Alan Moore [HBO]
*$50,000 by Andrew Weatherhead
The Secret History by Donna Tartt [Library]
Transit by Rachel Cusk [DP]
Severance by Ling Ma [Library]
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein [The Dig]
Tumble Home by Amy Hempel [Bennington]
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño [Library]
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson [DP]
The Earth Avails by Mark Wunderlich [Bennington]
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner [Library]
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino [Bennington]
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza [Dorothy]
*Proxies by Brian Blanchfield [MW/Bennington]
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
All Things, All At Once by Lee K. Abbott [DP]
*Nightwork by Christine Schutt [DP]
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong [Library]
*The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan [CH]
*Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee [Bennington]
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
*Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
How to Disappear by Frank M. Ahearn [Library]
*At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel [Bennington]
What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff
Rock Springs by Richard Ford [DP]
*Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith [Bennington]
*Outline by Rachel Cusk [DP]
The New Me by Halle Butler [JTH/Library]
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah [Library]
The Vegetarian by Kang Han [Library]
*Morelia by Renee Gladman
Selected Stories by Robert Walser
Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene [Bennington]
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs [Bennington]
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
*Milkman by Anna Burns
Indictus by Natalie Eilbert [Twitter]
*Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson [Bennington]
Killing and Dying: Stories by Adrian Tomine [MAS]
Final Vinyl Days by Jill McCorkle [MAS]
Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem [Library]
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez [Library]
*Juice by Renee Gladman
They and We Will Get into Trouble for This by Anna Moschovakis [RG]
Meow by Mark Baumer
*Calm Face by Bud Smith
*Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison [MAS]
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
*Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark [Dorothy]
Soft Science by Franny Choi [Brown]
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
French Exit by Patrick deWitt [Library]
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Between Them by Richard Ford [Library]
Oranges by John McPhee [Library/Bennington]
*Eleanor, or the Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
*Train Dreams by Denis Johnson [SN]
White Nights in Split Town City by Annie Dewitt [MAS]
*Altmann’s Tongue by Brian Evenson
The Book of Life by Stuart Nadler [Bennington]
*How to Shake the Other Man by Derek Palacio [Bennington]
2018
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
South and West by Joan Didion
We the Animals by Justin Torres [Bennington]
The Inseparables by Stuart Nadler [Bennington]
How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [The Dig]
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli [Library]
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg [Library]
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Be With by Forrest Gander
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Pops by Michael Chabon
The Immigrant’s Refrigerator by Elena Georgiou
Between Grammars by Danielle Vogel
The Battle For Paradise by Naomi Klein
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Vacationland by John Hodgman
There There by Tommy Orange
What it Feels Like to Cry With Your Brain by Mark Baumer
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
Todd by Andrew James Weatherhead
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Brian Evenson
Canada by Richard Ford
Reports by Brian Evenson
Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel
Open City by Teju Cole
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
The Girls by Emma Cline
Betwixt-and-Between by Jenny Boully
Dark Deleuze by Andrew Culp
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
In the Still of the Night by Dara Wier
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Freebird by Jon Raymond
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
Experimental Animals by Thalia Field
2017
Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C.D. Wright
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Houses of Ravicka by Renee Gladman
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Deaths of Henry King by Jesse Ball and Brian Evenson
The Selfishness of Others by Kristin Dombek
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Eat and Run by Scott Jurek
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Red Barn by Nat Baldwin
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Daniel’s Running Formula by Jack Daniels
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
thoghuts by Mark Baumer
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Soft Cheese that had a Cold Heart by Mark Baumer
The Global Struggle for Dead Milk by Mark Baumer
The Emotional Animal Within All of Us by Mark Baumer
Assisted Living by Gary Lutz
The Boy with One Good Lip by Mark Baumer
You Are Very Beautiful When You Watch Me Sleep by Mark Baumer
Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies by Lee Livingood
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
2016
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George
The Warren by Brian Evenson
Calamities by Renee Gladman
The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Roommate Missed Connections by Mark Baumer and W. Keller
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Holiday Meat by Mark Baumer
Two Small Birds by Dave Newman
Enter Your Initials For Record Keeping by Brian Oliu
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
How to Be a Dirt-Smart Buyer of Country Property by Curtis Seltzer
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict of Nursia
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Just Kids by Patti Smith
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård
2015
Goodbye to All That edited by Sari Botton
A Vision of Fire by Gillian Anderson
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
Vertigo by Joanna Walsh
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Women With Men by Richard Ford
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Varamo by César Aira
Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Speedboat by Renata Adler
2014
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
To Live Is Christ to Die is Gain by Matt Chandler
Dan by Joanna Ruocco
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
So You Know It’s Me by Brian Oliu
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Memento Mori by Murel Spark
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Collectors by Matt Bell
Dear Depressive by Jimmy Chen
MFA vs. NYC edited by Chad Harbach
Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody
Fugue State by Brian Evenson
The Boy Kings by Katherine Losse
Cosmos and Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge by Renee Gladman
U and I by Nicholson Baker
30 Under 30 edited by Blake Butler and Lily Hoang
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo
Lovely, Raspberry by Aaron Belz
Creature by Amina Cain
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
2013
Wonderful Town edited by David Remnick
Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers
Threats by Amelia Gray
The Ravickians by Renee Gladman
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Unlucky Lucky Tales by Daniel Grandbois
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
I Don’t Know I Said by Matthew Savoca
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Promising Young Women by Suzanne Scanlon
Fox 8 by George Saunders
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Carrie by Stephen King
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Sky Saw by Blake Butler
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Tenth of December by George Saunders
2012
Fra Keeler by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
In My Home There Is No More Sorrow by Rick Bass
I Married You by Walter Trobisch
Immobility by Brian Evenson
Self-Portrait as Jerry Quarry by Vito Aiuto
In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Draeger
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
I Loved a Girl by Walter Trobisch
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2011
Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Preston Falls by David Gates
Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Love in the Time of Choler by Gabriel García Márquez
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
There is No Year by Blake Butler
What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going by Damion Searls
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Moors by Ben Marcus
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
2010
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Livability by Jon Raymond
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bird Lovers, Backyard by Thalia Field
SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart
Him With His Foot in His Mouth by Saul Bellow
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Dune by Frank Herbert
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Dark Property by Brian Evenson
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
How Fiction Works by James Wood
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Some Sexual Success Stories by Diane Williams
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
2009 & before
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
Take It by Joshua Beckman
Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully
Baby Leg by Brian Evenson
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Memnoir by Joan Retallack
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
JR by William Gaddis
The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Of Love and Dust by Ernest Gaines
The Cotillion by John Oliver Killens
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Sallinger
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Note of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Light in August by William Faulkner
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mrs. Bridge by Evan Connell
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Waiting for Gobot by Samuel Beckett
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
The Temple of Gold by William Goldman
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Dracula by Bram Stoker
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Nets by Jen Bervin
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Grand Hotels (Of Joseph Cornell) by Robert Coover
The City & the City by China Miéville
1984 by George Orwell
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Ring of Fire by Lisa Jarnot
The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa