Here is a list of what I’m reading at the moment and from the past couple of years. I’m open to any suggestions!
Currently Reading
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Last Jr
Book List 2024
The Likeness by Tara French
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
The Carrying by Ada Limon
The Gathering Dark, Edited by Tori Bovalina
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Wintering the Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Nonfiction: A Novel by Julie Myerson
All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings by Gayle Boss
Winter Garden Poems by Pablo Neruda
Stories for a Winter Night, edited by Maurice Kenney
Rilke’s Book of Hours Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Book List 2023
Sun House by David James Duncan
This World by Teddy Macker
Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham
Gold by Rimu translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson
Refuse to be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey
Willful Creatures by Amiee Bender
Deamon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Seven Drafts: Self Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book by Allison K Williams
What Is Not Your Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
A Cat Café Christmas Codi Gary
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Book List 2022
House of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Kanthapura by Raja Rao
Waiting for Mahatma by R.K. Narayan
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis edited by Picador
Crown Jewel by Ralph De Boissiere
The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson edited by Thomas H Johnson
God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter
Children of a New World by Assia Djebar
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thoing’o
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Reading In the Dark by Seasum Deane
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
Grace Paley’s Life Stories: A Literary Biography by Judith Arcana
Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences by Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl
Essays One by Lydia Davis
Some other frequency: Interviews with innovative American authors by L. McMafferey
More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style by Lee Clark Mitchell
A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
America: A Prophecy: A Sparrow Reader by Sparrow and Marcus Boon
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
Natural History: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
Wild Quiet Roisin O’Donnell
Human Blues by Elisa Albert
Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vas
There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community edited by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris
The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
The Science of Lost Futures by Ryan Habermeyer
Book List 2021
The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans
Breaking the Silence by Nancy King
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J.M. Coetzee
Love by Angela Carter
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus
All Souls by Javier Marias
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Bad Sister by Emma Tennant (my review)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (my review)
The Emerald Light in The Air by Donald Antrim
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
Creatures by Crissy Van Meter (my review)
Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
Victoria Park by Gemma Reeves (my review)
What It Means When a Man Falls from The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (my review)
Conversations With a Moonflower by Christine T Hall
Exemplary Tales by Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen (translated by Alexis Levitin)
Journaling Power by Mari McCarthy (my review)
Christmas Cupcake Murders by Joanne Fluke
Murder At an Irish Christmas by Carlene O’Connor
The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
The Castle Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Private Memoir and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Secret History; or The Horrors of St Domingo by Leonora Sansay
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Sketch-Book of Geoffery Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
Hobomok by Lydia Marie Francis Child
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
The Creation of the World or Globalization by Jean Luc Nancy
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (my review)
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler