Reading Log


2024

1. Scanlines by Todd Keisling
2. Straight to Hell: 10 Art Suicides by Namida King
3. Rothko: The Color Field Paintings by Christopher Rothko
4. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
5. God in a Can by Robert Scotellaro
6. All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads (33 1/3) by Santi Elijah Holley
8. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
9. Hex by Jenni Fagan
10. Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
11. The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat by Amelia Martens
12. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
13. The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
14. Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
15. Molly by Blake Butler
16. Dear Damage by Ashley Farmer
17. Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
18. New Bad News by Ryan Ridge
19. The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt



2023

1. View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier
2. The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
3. Little Sister Death by William Gay
4. Twilight by William Gay
5. Shaving by Stephen Berg
6. Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald
7. Wittgenstein's Lolita by William Gay
8. The Line That Held Us by David Joy
9. Fuckface and Other Stories by Leah Hampton
10. Allegheny Font by Matthew Neill Null
11. The Aleatory Abyss by Evelyn Hampton
12. Night Train by Thom Jones
13. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
14. This is Not a Novel by David Markson
15. Vanishing Point by David Markson
16. Shiver by Junji Ito
17. Blackwater Saga: The Ladies of Perdido by Michael McDowell
18. Saints at the River by Ron Rash
19. Shrink Wraps and Oddities by Wilson Koewing
20. The Last Novel by David Markson
21. Blackwater Saga: The Levee by Michael McDowell
22. Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
23. From the Bottom Up by Leigh Allison Wilson
24. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
25. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick House
26. Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
27. Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams
28. Blackwater Saga: The House by Michael McDowell
29. The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
30. Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson
31. Neutral Evil))) by Lee Klein
32. Blackwater Saga: Rain by Michael McDowell
33. The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoffrey Dyer 
34. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
35. Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon
36. Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
37. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
38. Close Range by Annie Prouxl
39. The Vessel by Adam Nevill
40. The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
41. Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
42. Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
43. Bad Dirt by Annie Prouxl
44. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
45. Swedish Cults by Anders Fager
46. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michael Houellebecq
47. Hell House by Richard Matheson
48. Floating Notes by Babak Lakghomi
49. Pomegranates by Priya Sharma
50. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth by Ron Rash
51. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
52. Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger
53. Steps by Jerzy Kosinski



2022

1. Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead
2. The Office: The Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Green
3. The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott
4. Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors
5. I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad
6. Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
7. The Push by Tommy Caldwell
8. Devil House by John Darnielle
9. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
10. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg
11. Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron
12. boysgirls by Katie Farris
13. Literary Life by Larry McMurtry
14. Wise Blood by Flannery O' Conner
15. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O' Conner
16. The Croning by Laird Barron
17. The Plains by Gerald Murnane
18. Geek Love by Kathrine Dunn
19. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
20. Witggenstiein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
21. Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
22. These Days by Frederick Siedel
23. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
24. Pereat Mundus by Leena Krohn
25. Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
26. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
27. Slower Bear by Anthony Neil Smith
28. The Dainty Monsters by Michael Ondaatje
29. Storm for the Living and the Dead by Charles Bukowski
30. The Box Man by Kobo Abe
31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
32. Rat Jelly by Michael Ondaatje
33. Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret
34. Varieties of Disturbances by Lydia Davis
35. Merrick by Anne Rice
36. The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough
37. Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
38. Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
39. Pronto by Elmore Leonard
40. Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
41. Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
42. Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
43. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
44. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
45. Predator by Ander Monson
46. The Judge's List by John Grisham
47. Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
48. Novelist as Vocation by Haruki Murakami
49. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
50. There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do by Michael Ondaatje
51. More Alive and Less Lonely by Jonathan Lethem
52. Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons by Keith Rosson
53. Out There by Kate Folk



2021

1. Kimonos in the Closet by David Shumate
2. Fjords Vol. 1 by Zachary Schomburg
3. Pekaloh Stories by Amanda Bales
4. Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
5. Bad Motel by Robert Scotellaro
6. Gunmetal Sky by Howie Good
7. Tiny Nightmares edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
8. The Zoo, A Going by J.A. Tyler
9. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
10. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
11. Cronopio and Famas by Julio Cortazar
12. Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
13. Cows by Matthew Stokoe
14. Writers and Their Cats by Alison Nastasi
15. Speculate by Eugen Bacon and Dominique Hecq
16. If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany
17. Correction by Thomas Bernhard
18. Why Is It So Hard To Kill You? by Barrett Warner
19. Night Cradle by Sy Hoahwah
20. Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride by Sy Hoahwah
21. Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace
22. The Fire Eater by Jose Hernandez Diaz
23. The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction edited by Larry Dark
24. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
25. Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
26. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
27. Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
28. The Fiends in the Furrows II edited by David T. Neal
29. Devolution by Max Brooks
30. I Remember You by Yrsa Siguroardottir
31. The Hole by Hye-young Pyun
32. Tell Me How It End by Valeria Luiselli
33. Into the Forest and All the Way Through by Cynthia Pelayo
34. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
35. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
36. Come Closer Sara Gran
37. Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
38. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
39. The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson
40. Elimination Dance by Michael Ondaatje
41. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
42. Daughters of the State by Leigh Chadwick
43. Lasher by Anne Rice
44. Taltos by Anne Rice
45. Walkman by Michael Robbins
46. A Walk in a Darker Wood edited by Duane Pesice
47 The Warren by Brian Evenson
48. In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
49. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
50. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
51. I Looked Alive by Garielle Lutz
52. Rules of Prey by John Sandford
53. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others by Howie Good
54. Famous Long Ago by Howie Good
55. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
56. Selected Stories by Troy James Weaver
57. Partial List of People to Bleach by Garielle Lutz
58. Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
59. A Woman Named Drown by Padgett Powell
60. Assisted Living by Garielle Lutz
61. Divorcer by Garielle Lutz
62. Blind Man's Bluff by James Tate Hill
63. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
64. Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
65. The Idiot by Elif Batuman
66. Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold
67. The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir
68. Mortality Birds by Steve Lambert and Timothy Dodd
69. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
70. The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
71. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
72. Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
73. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan



2020

1. Songs for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
2. The Atlas by William T. Vollman
3. The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
4. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction edited by Judith Kitchen
5. This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw 
6. Growing Things by Paul Tremblay
7. The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
8. theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh
9. Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy Robert Johnson
10. What Shines from It by Sarah Rauch 
11. Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard 
12. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 
13. A Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah edited by Neil White 
14. The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
15. Anatomy of a Gambler by Jonathan Lethem
16. Elizabeth: A Novel of the Unnatural by Ken Greenhall
17. The Book of Flight by José Angel Araguz
18. The Persistence of Bonyleg: Annotated by Sarah Minor
19. Curious Atoms: A History with Physics by Susanne Antonetta Paola
20. The Esther Stories by Peter Orner
21. The Bone Trees by Shane Lake
22. A Living Chattel by Anton Chekhov
23. Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
24. The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson 
25. Bad Poet by Brian Alan Ellis 
26. If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home by John Jodzio
27. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
28. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
29. White Dialogues by Bennett Sims
30. The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
31. Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtromer
32. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
33. My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
34. Orange Juice and Other Stories by Timothy Willis Sanders
35. Seria and Other Betrayals by John Langan
36. Consider This: Moments in My Writing After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
37. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
38. Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner
39. AM/PM by Amelia Gray
40. Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 by Julio Cortázar
41. The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly by Denis Johnson
42. The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
43 Static/Orgone by Jamie Grefe
44. Hot Young Stars by Sophie Jennis
45. Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler
46. The Book I Will Write by John Henry Fleming
47. The Others by Matthew Rohrer
48. Good, Brother by Peter Markus
49. Apocalypse All the Time by David S. Atkinson
50. Wallop by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins
51. Essays One by Lydia Davis
52. Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
53. I Like Turtles by G. Arthur Brown
54. Knots by Gunnhild Oyehuag
55. Looking for Jake by China Mieville
56. Tainaron by Leena Krohn
57. The Cipher by Kathe Koja
58. Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
59. Hostage to the Devil by Malachi Martin
60. In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
61. Dona Quixote and Other Citizens by Leena Krohn
62. 99 Stories of God by Joy Williams
63. Dear Wolfmother by Matthew Burnside
64. The Tunnel: Selected Poems by Russell Edson
65. The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
66. High Water Mark: Prose Poems by David Shumate
67. Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
68. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
69. Gold of Ophir by Leena Krohn
70. Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
71. The Floating Bridge by David Shumate



2019

1. Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
2. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
3. Fugue State by Brian Evenson
4. Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
5. Hank by Abraham Smith
6. The Overstory by Richard Powers
7. Waiting Tide by Ryan W. Bradley
8. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
9. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis
10. The Thing About Great White Sharks by Rebecca Adams Wright
11. Last Days by Brian Evenson
12. Karmic Traces by Eliot Weinberger
13. All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
14. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
15. Asunder by Robert Lopez
16. The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
17. Black Friday by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
18. Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
19. Into Captivity They Will Go by Noah Milligan
20. Sing To It by Amy Hempel
21. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
22. Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
23. Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
24. There There by Tommy Orange
25. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
26. Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
27. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
28. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
29. Essays and Fictions by Brad Phillips
30. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
31. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
32. Let the Old Dreams Die by John Lindqvist
33. A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
34. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
35. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison

36. pungent dins concentric by Vanessa Couto Johnson
37. Songs for the Deaf: Stories by John Henry Fleming
38. The Fisherman by John Langan
39. Ina-Baby: A Love Story in Reverse by Benjamin Drevlow
40. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
41. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
42. Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
43. House of Windows by John Langan
44. Some Will Not Sleep by Adam Nevill
45. Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
46. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
47. The Obese by Nick Antosca
48. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud
49. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
50. Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite
51. Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
52. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by David T. Neal
53. $50,000 by Andrew Weatherhead
54. The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
55. Fly Already by Etgar Keret
56. The Reddening by Adam Nevill



2018

1. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret
2. May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks
3. Stygiophilia by Nathan Tyree
4. Unpacking the Boxes by Donald Hall
5. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
6. Jesus in the Ghost Room by Rusty Barnes
7. Broke by Rusty Barnes
8. I Am Not Ariel by Rusty Barnes
9. Tales of Falling and Flying by Ben Loory
10. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
11. Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
12. Almost No Memory by Lydia Davis
13. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
14. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
15. I'll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey Mesler
16. Emporium by Adam Johnson
17. Windeye by Brian Evenson
18. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
19. Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang
20. Single-Bit Error by Ken Liu
21. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
22. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
23. Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto
24. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
25. Fox 8 by George Saunders
26. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
27. It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction edited by Desirina Boskovich
28. Future Missionaries of American by Matthew Vollmer
29. Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
30. Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
31. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
32. Within a Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 by Marcel Proust
33. Double Wide by Leo W. Banks
34. The Castle by Franz Kafka
35. The Humans by Matt Haig
36. Unruly Creatures by Jennifer Caloyeras
37. Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner
38. Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell
39. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
40. Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
41. Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions by Robert Coover
42. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
43. Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
44. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
45. Name by Joseph Young
46. Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson
47. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
48. Redeployment by Phil Klay
49. Tinkers by Paul Harding
50. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
51. My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt
52. Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
53. Country Dark by Chris Offutt
54. The Pulse between the Dimensions and the Desert by Rios de la Luz
55. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
56. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
57. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
58. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake
59. While They Were In the Field by Adam Van Winkle
60. Nightwolf by Willie Davis
61. Porthos Pizza by Wesley Browne
62. West Virginia by Joe Halstead
63. The Blue Fox by Sjon
64. Many-Stories House by George Ella Lyon
65. Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
66. The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
67. Scoundrels Among Us by Darrin Doyle
68. An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
69.The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
70. South and West: Notebooks by Joan Didion
71. Carry Me Father No More by Lee Klein
72. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Had Madame de Warens by Williem Myra
73. The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
74. On Moral Fiction by John Gardener
75. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
76. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
77. Oranges & Peanuts for Sale by Eliot Weinberger
78. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
79. The Explorer & Other Stories by Jyrki Vainonen
80. Fen by Daisy Johnson
81. Bird Box by Josh Malerman



2017

1. Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
2. The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
3. Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
4. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
5. Saw Strokes My Father Taught Me by G. Arthur Brown
6. Root and Shoot by Nathan Leslie 
7. United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas 
8. Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral
9. Visions by Troy James Weaver
10. Naked Friends by Justin Grimbol
11. Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox by Lee Klein
12. Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
13. Nothing is Strange by Mike Russell 
14. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
15. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley
16. Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
17. On Broad Sound by Rusty Barnes
18. The Second Sex by Michael Robbins 
19. Whim Man Mammom by Abraham Smith
20. EOB: Earth Out of Balance by John Minichillo
21. Paris Blues by Charles Baudelaire 
22. The Devil’s Trill by Ron Houchin 
23. Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
24. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
25. Jorges Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges 
26. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino 
27. Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh
28. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
30. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges 
31. The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
32. The Lucky Body by Kyle Coma-Thompson
33. Best Experimental Writing 2014 edited by Cole Swenson
34. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
35. North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
36. Bad Faith by Theodore Wheeler
37. Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate
38. Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
39. Darkness Visible by William Styron
40. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
41. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
42. Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
43. Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
44. Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
45. Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
46. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
47. Gisela by Marcus Speh
48. Waiting for an Answer by Heather Sullivan 
49. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
50. Chief Jay Strongbow is Real by Timothy Gager
51. Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
52. Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
53. Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel
54. Father of Lies by Brian Evenson
55. Best Small Fictions 2017 guest edited by Amy Hempel
56. Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story on a Postcard by Michael Kimball
57. The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
58. Facing the Music by Larry Brown
59. The Spooking of Mavens by Tim Earley
60. This Clumsy Living by Bob Hicok
61. Pastoralia by George Saunders
62. The Long Home by William Gay
63. Break It Down by Lydia Davis
64. Linthead Stomp by Tim Earley
65. Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins
66. Field Guide by Robert Hass
67. The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
68. I Am Flying Into Myself by Bill Knott
69. Final Solutions by Frederick Seidel
70. Sunrise by Frederick Seidel 
71. I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say by Anthony Madrid 
72. Twentieth Century Pleasures by Robert Hass
73. Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
74. Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
75. Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
76. Stephen King Stephen King by William Walsh
77. Provinces of Night by William Gay
78. Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel
79. Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
80. Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
81. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
82. The Inevitable June by Bob Schofield
83. Man Bites Cloud by Bob Schofield
84. JRZDVLZ by Lee Klein
85. Caramel Floods by Fin Sorrel
86. The Cosmos Poems by Frederick Seidel
87. Nothing but the Dead and Dying by Ryan W. Bradley
88. Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler
89. The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones



2016

1. Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young
2. Best Small Fictions 2015 edited by Tara L. Masih and Robert Olen Butler
3. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction edited by Tara L. Masih
4. Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons by Tara Laskowski
5. Hint Fiction edited by Robert Smartwood
6. Metal Gear Solid by Ashley and Anthony Burch
7. The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
8. Micro Fiction edited by Jerome Stern
9. Rashomon and other Stores by Ryünosuke Akutagawa
10. Severance by Robert Olen Butler
11. Slade House by David Mitchell
12. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthleme by Tracy Daughtery
13. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
14. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 guest edited by Guillermo del Toro
15. Studies in Hybrid Morphology by Matt Tompkins
16. Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories edited by James Thomas
17. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
18. Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks
19. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
20. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
21. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
22. Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert
23. The Humble Assessment by Kris Saknussemm
24. Gil the Nihilist: A Sitcom by Sean Kilpatrick
25. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
26. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations by Mónica Maristain
27. Underworld by Don DeLillo
28. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Tables Without Chairs by Brian Alan Ellis and Bud Smith
30. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
31. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
32. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
33. Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
34. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
35. Souvenirs and Other Stories by Matt Tompkins
36. In Case We Die edited by Aaron Dietz and Bud Smith
37. The Color Master by Aimee Bender
38. Split Rail by Mark Welborn
39. Relax, You’re Going to Die by Tai Sheridan
40. Hoopty Time Machines by Christopher DeWan
41. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
42. Marigold by Troy James Weaver
43. The Insufferable Goucho by Roberto Bolaño
44. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
45. Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Tara L. Masih and Stuart Dybek
46. He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time by Jack Isenhour
47. The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
48. Jeff Bridges by Donora Hillard
49. 13 by David Tomaloff
50. Failing This by Alec Niedenthal
51. Kitty by Lindsay Hunter
52. The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox
53. I’ll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey Mesler
54. Our Hearts Are Power Ballads by J. Bradley
55. Daniel Fights a Hurricane by Shane Jones
56. Philip K. Dick: The Last Interviews and Other Conversations
57. The Equation of Constants by b.l. pawelek
58. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
59. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
60. A Death in the Family by James Agee
61. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
62. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
63. Horror Film Poems by Christoph Paul
64. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
65. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
66. Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
67. Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Cordoba Sosa
68. Not Quite So Stories by David S. Atkinson 



2015

1. Tampa by Alissa Nutting
2. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
3. The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods
4. Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
5. Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
6. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
7. Sinners of Sanction County by Charles Dodd White
8. Hell and Ohio by Chris Holbrook
9. The Cove by Ron Rash
10. Burning Bright by Ron Rash
11. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
12. Straight to Hell and Astrology by Danielle Etienne
13. American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
14. Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
15. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
16. Gap Greek by Robert Morgan
17. Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver
18. Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
19. Big World by Mary Miller
20. The National Virginity Pledge by Barry Graham
21. When You Cross That Line by Sam Slaughter
22. Fourteen Stories and None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel
23. Gutshot by Amelia Gray
24. The Marble Orchard by Alex Taylor
25. Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley
26. Haints Stay by Colin Winnette
27. Trampoline by Robert Gipe
28. In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
29. Blurb by Ravi Mangla
30. Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
31. Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon by Cameron Pierce
32. The Way the World Is by Michael Henson
33. Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean edited by Karen Salyer McElmurray and Adrian Blevins
34. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
35. The Meadow by James Galvin
36. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
37. Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
38. Beloved by Toni Morrison
39. Ridgerunner by Rusty Barnes
40. Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
41. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
42. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
43. The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes
44. Is That You, John Wayne by Scott Garson
45. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
46. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
47. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
48. The Trial by Franz Kafka
49. The Stranger by Albert Camus
50. The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
51. V by Thomas Pynchon
52. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
53. Lucky Alan and other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
54. Suddenly, a Knock On the Door by Etgar Keret
55. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
56. Taipei by Tao Lin



2014

1. Nightwork by Christina Schutt
2. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
3. Tenth of December by George Saunders
4. Galaga by Michael Kimball
5. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
6. Hill William by Scott McClanahan
7. Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt
8. Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
9. Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan
10. The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
11. The Uncertainty Principle by Rob McLennan
12. The Day the Cloud Stood Still by Patrick Trotti
13. In the Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown
14. Billie the Bull by xTx
15. Pathologies by William Walsh
16. Baptism and Dogs by B.L. Tucker
17. The Least of My Scars by Stephen Graham Jones
18. Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler
19. The Fun We’ve Had by Michael Seidlinger
20. Backswing by Aaron Burch
21. Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
22. Alone with Other People by Gabby Bess
23. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
24. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
25. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
26. Panic, USA by Nate Slawson
27. Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
28. A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’ Conner
29. Jeff, One Lonely Guy by Jeff Ragsdale
30. Baby Babe by Ana Carrete
31. Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
32. I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses
33. I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic by Jamie Iredell
34. Colony Collapse by J.A. Tyler
35. Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David Osborne
36. Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz
37. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
38. Witch Piss by Sam Pink
39. The Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso
40. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
41. Addicts and Basements by Robert Vaughan
42. The Tommy Plans by Cooper Reener
43. Bark by Lorrie Moore
44. Drinking Until Morning by Justin Grimbol
45. High as the Horse’s Bridle by Scott Cheshire
46. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
47. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata 
48. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
49. My Salinger Years by Joanna Rakoff
50. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
51. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
52. Annihilation by Jeff VandeMeer
53. Lost in Space by Ben Tanzer
54. King Shit by Brian Alan Ellis
55. 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living by Brian Alan Ellis
56. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
57. Misadventure by Nicholas Grider


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