Reading (2011-2021)!

December 2021
  • Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
  • The Saturday Night Ghost Club - Craig Davidson
  • The Genius of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
  • She Kills Me - Jennifer Wright
  • Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen - H. Beam Piper
  • The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - Arik Kershenbaum
  • Frog and Toad All Year - Arnold Lobel (children)
  • Days with Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel (children)
November 2021
  • Black Wings Has My Angel - Elliott Chaze
  • A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
  • The Humans - Matt Haig
  • Frog and Toad Together - Arnold Lobel (children)
  • Frog and Toad Are Friends - Arnold Lobel (children)
  • War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
  • The Cricket in Time Square - George Selden
  • The Vagina Bible - Jen Gunter
  • The Trees in My Forest - Bernd Heinrich
  • Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler 
  • Mickey7- Edward Ashton
October 2021
  • Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
  • Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
  • Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers
  • There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
  • The River Has Teeth - Erica Waters
  • The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin
  • My Sweet Orange Tree - José Mauro de Vasconcelos
September 2021
  • Watership Down - Richard Adams
  • The Wood Wife - Terri Windling
  • The Philosopher's War - Tom Miller
August 2021
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
  • Alabaster - Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
  • Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession
  • Everything Matters - Ron Currie, Jr.
July 2021
  • The John Cheever Audio Collection - John Cheever
  • This Is Your Mind on Plants Book - Michael Pollan
  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
  • Skidding Into Oblivion - Brian Hodge
  • John Dies at the End - David Wong
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  • Night Came with Many Stars - Simon Van Booy
June 2021
  • The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
  • The Book of Joy - 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
  • Skunk and Badger - Amy Timberlake
  • The Guest List - Lucy Foley
  • Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
May 2021
  • The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
  • Alien Oceans - Kevin Peter Hand
  • Instinct - Rebecca Heiss
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
April 2021
  • The Sellout - Paul Beatty
  • Later - Stephen King
  • NPCs - Drew Hayes
  • The Story of Doctor Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
  • Hummingbird Salamander - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Supersurvivors - David B. Feldman, Lee Daniel Kravetz
  • And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer - Fredrik Backman
  • A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
  • Moan - Emma Koenig
  • Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
  • Into a Strange Land - Jennifer D. McDaid (thesis paper)
  • I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen (children's)
  • The Rock from the Sky - Jon Klassen (children's)
March 2021
  • The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
  • The Lost Words - Robert Macfarlane
  • Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
  • Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
  • The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  • Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu
  • News of the World - Paulette Jiles
  • The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  • Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
  • The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
February 2021
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire
  • The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
  • Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  • The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
  • You - Caroline Kepnes
  • Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
  • The Girls I've Been - Tess Sharpe
  • Vicious - V.E. Schwab 
  • The High Mountains of Portugal - Yann Martel
  • The Politics Industry - Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter
  • After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Tower of Mud and Straw - Yaroslav Barsukov
  • The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga.
January 2021
  • The Cold Cold Ground - Adrian McKinty
  • Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The Hustler - Walter Tevis
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  • Gun, with Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
  • Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
  • The Great & the Small - A.T. Balsara
  • Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti (poetry)
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December 2020
  • His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
  • Finding F*ck Yes - Clare Edgeman
  • Normal People - Sally Rooney
  • The Stand - Stephen King
  • It Ended Badly - Jennifer Wright
  • Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
  • His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
  • The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
  • Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
  • Tintin #1 : Land of The Soviets - Hergé (graphic novel)
November 2020
  • A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  • The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
  • Armada - Ernest Cline 
  • The Imaginary Corpse - Tyler Hayes
  • Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark
  • My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
  • Bad Penny - John D. Brown
  • Wallbanger - Alice Clayton
October 2020
  • Gwendy's Button Box - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar 
  • Priest of Bones - Peter McLean
  • Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden
  • Arabel's Raven - Joan Aiken
  • Uprooted - Naomi Novik
  • Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  • No Time to Spare - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Gunslinger - Stephen King
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
September 2020
  • From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  • The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
  • The Green Mile - Stephen King
August 2020
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  • Caste -  Isabel Wilkerson
  • Finding Chika - Mitch Albom
  • In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
  • Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
  • After Dark - Haruki Murakami
  • Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) - Lee Child
  • The Night Market - Jonathan Moore
  • Rootwork - Veronica Golos (poetry)
July 2020
  • The Power of the Dog - Don Winslow
  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens,
  • Know My Name - Chanel Miller
  • On Fairy-Stories - J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
  • Spoonbenders - Daryl Gregory
  • Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Gideon Falls - Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino (graphic novel)
June 2020
  • Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
  • No Tomorrow: Villanelle #2 - Luke Jennings
  • Codename Villanelle: Villanelle #1 - Luke Jennings
  • Monster Blood Tattoo #3: Factotum - D.M. Cornish
  • Monster Blood Tattoo #2: Lamplighter - D.M. Cornish
  • The Institute - Stephen King
  • A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
May 2020
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • Monster Blood Tattoo #1: Foundling - D.M. Cornish
  • The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  • The Moth Presents Occasional Magic - Catherine Burns (editor)
April 2020
  • The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore
  • H is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald
  • Gratitude - Oliver Sacks
  • The True Meaning of Smekday - Adam Rex
March 2020
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • The Color Out of Space - H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • Harleen (Harleen #1-3) - Stjepan Šejić (graphic novel)
February 2020
  • The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
  • A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin
  • Lost Cat - Caroline Paul
  • The Boys - Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson (graphic novel)
  • New Kid - Jerry Craft (graphic novel)
  • Here - Richard McGuire (graphic novel)
January 2020
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 
  • The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Octavia Butler
  • Bloodchild - Octavia Butler
  • Dragon Age: Hard in Hightown - Varric Tethras & Mary Kirby
  • Juna's Jar - Jane Bahk & Felicia Hoshino (children's)
  • In a Jar - Deborah Macero (children's)
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December 2019
  • A Dream About Lightning Bugs - Ben Folds
  • Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow
  • White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
  • How To - Randall Munroe
  • The Crucible - Arthur Miller
November 2019
  • The Moth Presents All These Wonders - Catherine Burns
  • Electric Dreams - Philip K. Dick
  • A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
  • Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin
  • Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • Hollow Kingdom - Kira Jane Buxton 
  • The Dead Zone - Stephen King
  • Doomsday Clock - Book 1 - Johns & Frank (graphic novel)
October 2019
  • The Throwback Special - Chris Bachelder
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Sarah Pinsker
  • The Truth About Animals - Lucy Cooke
  • Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
September 2019
  • The Shining - Stephen King
  • Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey
  • Recursion - Blake Crouch
  • Dog Man - Dav Pilkey (graphic novel)
  • Dog Man Unleashed - Dav Pilkey (graphic novel)
  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 - David Petersen (graphic novel)
  • Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 - David Petersen (graphic novel)
  • Scarlet - Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev (graphic novel)
  • Saga of the Swamp Thing - Vol. 1 - Moore, Bissette & Totleben (graphic novel)
August 2019
  • Island Despair - Marlow Mewborn
  • Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Brilliance - Marcus Sakey
  • David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Wild Robot - Peter Brown
  • River of Teeth - Sarah Gailey
  • Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
  • A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
  • A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
July 2019
  • Evicted - Matthew Desmond
  • Under the Jolly Roger - L.A. Meyer
  • A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Oseki
  • All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
  • Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds - George Singleton
  • V for Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd (graphic novel)
June 2019
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • Dreamsongs, Volume I - George R.R. Martin
  • Cherry - Nico Walker
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
  • The Farthest Shore – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Tombs of Atuan – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
  • It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini 
  • Scythe - Neal Shusterman
  • Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities - Luke Dixon
  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal
May 2019
  • The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
  • Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay-Abaire
  • The Curse of the Blue Tattoo - L.A. Meyer
  • The Best of Joe R. Lansdale - Joe R. Lansdale
  • Bellwether - Connie Willis
  • Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Bloody Jack - L.A. Meyer
  • Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert (graphic novel)
April 2019
  • Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
  • Beloved - Toni Morrison
  • The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
  • The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain.
  • Shane - Jack Schaefer
  • Underground - Will Hunt
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  • Wolverine, The Long Night - Ben Percy
  • I Killed Adolf Hitler - Jason (graphic novel)
  • Almost Silent - Jason (graphic novel)
March 2019
  • The Rift - Brit Graham
  • A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Heavy - Kiese Laymon
  • Blackwing - Ed McDonald
  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street - Herman Melville
  • The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
  • Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
  • Liquid Rules - Mark Miodownik
  • Saga - Volume #1-9 - B. Vaughan & F. Staples (graphic novel)
  • Doom Patrol, Vol. #1: Brick by Brick - Gerard Way & Nick Derington (graphic novel)
February 2019
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
  • Bomb - Steve Sheinkin
  • North American Lake Monsters - Nathan Ballingrud
  • Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
  • The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
  • The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Infidel - Pichetshote & Campbell (graphic novel)
  • Scott Pilgrim, Vol. #1 - Bryan Lee O'Malley (graphic novel)
  • Descender, Vol. #1 - Lemire & Nguyen (graphic novel)
  • Chew, Vol. #1 - Layman & Guillory (graphic novel)
  • The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite - Way & Bá (graphic novel)
  • Strong Female Protagonist - Vol. #2 - Mulligan & Ostertag (graphic novel)
  • Citizen Illegal - Josẽ Olivarez (poetry)
January 2019
  • The Seventh Most Important Thing - Shelley Pearsall
  • O Pioneers - Willa Cather
  • Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough
  • The House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne
  • A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
  • Radiolab - Season 1 - Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
  • Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
  • The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
  • Batman: Hush - Loeb, Lee and Williams (graphic novel)
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December 2018
  • Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance - Ruth Emmie Lang
  • The Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
  • We the Animals - Justin Torres
  • The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
  • Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames
  • Get Well Soon - Jennifer Wright
  • Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
  • Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong
  • Adulthood Is a Myth - Sarah Andersen (graphic novel)
  • The Trouble With Poetry - Billy Collins (poetry)
November 2018
  • I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
  • Bird Box - Josh Malerman
  • Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames
  • Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Ben Sáenz
  • The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge - M.T. Anderson & E. Yelchin
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • The Theory of Almost Everything - Robert Oerter
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
  • Sleepless, Vol. #1 - Sarah Vaughn & Leila del Duca (graphic novel)
  • My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies - Ed Brubaker (graphic novel)
  • Deadly Class - Vol. #7 - Remender & Murphy (graphic novel)
October 2018
  • Dubliners - James Joyce
  • Candide - Voltaire
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl
  • The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
  • Pinball, 1973 - Haruki Murakami
  • Jagannath - Karin Tidbeck
  • A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
  • The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Quantum Mechanics - Jeff Weigel (graphic novel)
  • Dumb: Living Without A Voice - Georgia Webber (graphic novel)
  • Upgrade Soul - Ezra Claytan Daniels (graphic novel)
  • Sabrina - Nick Drnaso (graphic novel)
  • The Fade Out, Vol. #1 - Brubaker & Phillips (graphic novel)
September 2018
  • Blindsight - Peter Watts
  • A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
  • Hear the Wind Sing - Haruki Murakami
  • Fringe-ology - Steve Volk
  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
  • George's Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl
  • Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  • Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (graphic novel)
  • The Witch Boy - Molly Ostertag (graphic novel)
  • Deadly Class - Vol. #6 - Remender & Murphy (graphic novel)
  • Tokyo Ghost - Vol. #1 - Remender & Murphy (graphic novel) 
  • Grass Kings - Vol. #1 - Matt Kindt & Tyler Jenkins (graphic novel)
  • Reborn - Vol. #1 - Millar, Capullo, & Glapion (graphic novel)
  • Strong Female Protagonist - Vol. #1 - Mulligan & Ostertag (graphic novel)
August 2018
  • The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Freeze-Frame Revolution - Peter Watts
  • Feed - Mira Grant
  • The Refrigerator Monologues - Catherynne M. Valente
  • Borderline - Mishell Baker
  • The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
  • Hotshot - Peter Watts
  • Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
  • Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
  • Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
  • You Were Never Really Here - Jonathan Ames
  • Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
  • All Systems Red - Martha Wells
  • The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
  • Drugs Without the Hot Air - David J. Nutt
  • Trinity - Matt Wagner (graphic novel)
  • Coyotes - Sean Lewis & Caitlin Yarsky (graphic novel)
  • Dark Fang Miles Gunter & Kelsey Shannon (graphic novel)
  • Deadly Class - Volume #1-5 - Remender & Craig (graphic novel)
July 2018
  • The Strange Bird: A Borne Story - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
  • Heirs of Grace - Tim Pratt
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • Sailor on the Seas of Fate - Michael Moorcock
  • Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
  • Elric of Melniboné - Michael Moorcock
  • No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
  • How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
  • Mage: The Hero Discovered - Matt Wagner (graphic novel)
  • Batman & the Monster Men - Matt Wagner (graphic novel)
June 2018
  • The City & the City - China Miéville
  • The Dry - Jane Harper
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  • Short Stories, Essays - Alyssa Wong
May 2018
  • Senlin Ascends - Josiah Bancroft
  • The Obesity Code - Jason Fung
  • A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Caesar's Last Breath - Sam Kean
  • Erased - Kei Sanbe (graphic novel)
  • Runaways Vol. #1- Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka (graphic novel)
April 2018
  • Iron Gold - Pierce Brown
  • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli 
  • Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
  • The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
  • Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  • Taproot - Keezy Young (graphic novel)
  • Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker - Joe Casey (graphic novel)
  • Shirtless Bear-Fighter, Vol. 1 - LeHeup, Girner, Vendrell (graphic novel)
March 2018
  • Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  • Mastering Stand-Up - Stephen Rosenfield
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson 
  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  • The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  • Knuckleheads: Fist Contact - Brian Winkeler (graphic novel)
  • Happy! - Grant Morrison & Darick Robertson (graphic novel)
  • Glitterbomb #1 - Zub & Morissette-Phan (graphic novel)
  • Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
February 2018
  • Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  • A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab
  • His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
  • Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
  • Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly
  • Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet #1 - Coates, Stelfreeze (graphic novel)
January 2018
  • The Great Santini - Pat Conroy
  • The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Artemis - Andy Weir
  • The Fire in Fiction - Donald Maass
  • Writing a Novel Using the Snowflake Method - Randy Ingermanson
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December 2017
  • Story Genius - Lisa Cron
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  • Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
  • The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Final Empire: Mistborn #1 - Brandon Sanderson
  • The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Everything Is Teeth - Evie Wyld, Joe Sumner (graphic novel)
  • Battle Angel Alita, Rusty Angel - Yukito Kishiro (graphic novel)
November 2017
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
  • Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective - Donald J. Sobol
  • All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
  • Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
  • The Philosopher's Flight - Tom Miller
  • Boy's Life - Robert McCammon
  • Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
  • Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
  • The High King - Lloyd Alexander
  • Magic City Gospel - Ashley M. Jones (poetry)
  • Royal City 1: Next of Kin - Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)
  • Lady Killer - Jamie S. Rich & Joëlle Jones (graphic novel)
  • Last Day In Vietnam - Will Eisner (graphic novel)
October 2017
  • The Last Town - Blake Crouch
  • Autonomous - Annalee Newitz
  • The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found - Mary Beard
  • Pines - Blake Crouch
  • Wayward - Blake Crouch
  • Taran Wanderer - Lloyd Alexander
  • A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
  • Secret Weapons - Eric Heisserer & Raul Allen (graphic novel)
September 2017
  • They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
  • Refugee - Alan Gratz
  • Origins: 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
  • 2012 Hugo Short Story Finalists - Various Artists
  • 2012 Hugo Short Story Finalists - Various Artists
  • 2012 World Fantasy Award Short Story Finalists - Various Artists
  • Lio, Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod - Mark Tattulli (comic)
  • Stray Bullets, Vol. 1 - David Lapham (graphic novel)
August 2017
  • Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
  • The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
  • The Castle of Llyr - Lloyd Alexander
  • Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Authority - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
  • The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Hilary Campbell (graphic novel)
  • Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (graphic novel)
July 2017
  • Tender - Sofia Samatar
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
  • The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
  • Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Wide Window (S.of.U.E. #3) - Lemony Snicket
  • That Salty Air - Tim Sievert (graphic novel)
June 2017
  • World, Chase Me Down - Andrew Hilleman
  • Borne - Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Bad Beginning (S.of.U.E. #1) - Lemony Snicket
  • The Reptile Room (S.of.U.E. #2) - Lemony Snicket
  • S·Town - Brian Reed (podcast)
  • Wolverine: Not Dead Yet - Warren Ellis, Leinil  Yu (graphic novel)
  • I Am a Hero - Kengo Hanazawa (graphic novel)
  • Claymore - Norihiro Yagi - V.1-2 (graphic novel)
  • Roughneck - Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)
  • Bitch Planet V.1 - DeConnick and De Landro (graphic novel)
  • Ghost in the Shell - Shirow Masamune (graphic novel) 
May 2017
  • As You Wish - Cary Elwes
  • Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor
  • Distilled Knowledge - Brian D. Hoefling
  • Beartown - Fredrik Backman
  • Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
  • Dark Money - Jane Mayer
  • The Round House - Louise Erdrich
  • Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane
  • The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks, Jordie Bellaire (graphic novel)
  • Spill Zone - Scott Westerfeld (graphic novel)
April 2017
  • Data and Goliath - Bruce Schneier
  • Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick
  • I, Claudius - Robert Graves
  • Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle
  • Goodnight, Punpun - Inio Asano (graphic novel)
March 2017
  • The Blackthorn Key - Kevin Sands
  • The Nature Fix - Florence Williams
  • Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
  • Breasts - Florence Williams
  • When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
  • Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
  • Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock
  • Morning Star - Pierce Brown
  • Carter and Lovecraft - Jonathan L. Howard 
  • To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • Ada's Violin - Susan Hood (children's)
February 2017
  • Rejected Princesses: History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics - Jason Porath
  • The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
  • The Short-Timers - Gustav Hasford
  • The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood
  • Underground Airlines - Ben H. Winters
  • Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
  • Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" - Miles Hyman (graphic novel)
  • Encyclopedia of Early Earth - Isabel Greenberg (graphic novel)
  • The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito (graphic novel)
January 2017
  • Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
  • Save the Cat - Blake Snyder
  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
  • Red Rising - Pierce Brown
  • Golden Son - Pierce Brown
  • Rosalie Lightning - Tom Hart (graphic novel)
  • The One Hundred Nights of Hero - Isabel Greenberg (graphic novel)
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December 2016
  • A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
  • Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  • Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
  • The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
  • Dream of a Common Language - Adrienne Rich
  • Irmina - Barbara Yelin (graphic novel)
  • The Nightmare Factory - Lieb, MacDonald, Ligotti (graphic novel)
November 2016
  • The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
  • The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
October 2016
  • Be Frank With Me - Julia Claiborne Johnson 
  • The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
  • The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) - Jonathan Stroud
  • Time Travel - James Gleick
  • The Voices - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Hours of Prayer - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5) - Jonathan Stroud
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - North & Henderson (graphic novel)
September 2016
  • The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson
  • What If? - Randall Munroe
  • The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
  • Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
  • Ill Met in Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber
  • Starve Better - Nick Mamatas
  • Wytches, Vol. 1 - Scott Snyder (graphic novel)
  • Southern Bastards, Vol. 1 - Aaron & Latour (graphic novel)
August 2016
  • The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
  • Graven Images - Paul Fleischman
  • Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
  • Syrup - Maxx Barry
  • Wild - Cheryl Strayed
  • Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
  • The Grownup - Gillian Flynn
  • Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle
July 2016
  • Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
  • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Better and More - Rachel Aaron
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next - Ken Kesey
  • The Player of Games - 
  • Travels With Charlie - John Steinbeck 
  • Tribe - Sebastian Junger
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love - Cheryl Strayed
June 2016
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  • Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  • Take Your Pants Off!: Outline Your Books... - Libbie Hawker
  • Two Brothers - Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá (graphic novel)
  • Paper Girls, Vol. 1 - Vaughan, Chiang & Wilson (graphic novel)
May 2016
  • Stuff Matters: Exploring Marvelous Materials - Mark Miodownik
  • Marcelo in the Real World - Francisco X. Stork
  • Delicious Foods - James Hannaham
  • Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
  • The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  • Rat Queens - Vol. #1-2 - Wiebe, Upchurch & Sejic (graphic novel)
April 2016
  • Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  • Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
  • Calamity - Brandon Sanderson
  • The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
  • Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
  • Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  • Stumptown - Volume #1 - Greg Rucka (graphic novel)
March 2016
  • Invisible Ink - Brian McDonald
  • Landlines - Rainbow Rowell
February
  • Room - Emma Donoghue
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke
  • Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (graphic novel)
  • Saga - Volume I-III - B. Vaughan & F. Staples (graphic novel)
  • The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft / Culbard (graphic novel)
January 2016
  • The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
  • Tenth of December - George Saunders
  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects - Ted Chiang
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry
  • The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - Ted Chiang
  • The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip - George Saunders
  • Amulet - Kazu Kibuishi (graphic novel)
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December 2015
  • Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
  • Firefight - Brandon Sanderson
  • The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
  • Legion - Brandon Sanderson
  • Monster on the Hill #1 - Rob Harrell (graphic novel)
  • Smash! Trial by Fire – Chris & Kyle Bolton (graphic novel)
  • Tommysaurus Rex - Doug TenNapel (graphic novel)
  • Sweet Tooth - Out of the Deep Woods - Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)
  • X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga - Claremont, Duffy, Byrne & Collins (graphic novel)
November 2015
  • The Clothes They Stood Up In & The Lady In the Van - Alan Bennett
  • Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'Brien
  • The House on the Borderlands - William Hope Hodgson
October 2015
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Killing Floor - Lee Child
September 2015
  • The Magicians - Lev Grossman
  • The Magician King - Lev Grossman
  • The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman
August 2015
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • Antiquities & Tangibles - Tim Pratt
  • An Astronaut's Guide to Earth - Chris Hadfield
  • The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
July 2015
  • The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
  • In the Woods - Tana French
  • Every Day - David Levithan
  • Hart & Boot & Other Stories - Tim Pratt
June 2015
  • Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
  • The Amulet of Samarkand - Stroud, Donkin, Sullivan & Chapuis (graphic novel)
  • The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
  • The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild - Doris Betts
  • Cherry - Mary Karr
  • Pasture Art - Marlin Barton
May 2015
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
  • The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
  • The Underwater Welder - Jeff Lemire (graphic novel)
  • The Sculptor - Scott McCloud (graphic novel)
  • El Deafo - Cece Bell (graphic novel)
  • Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
  • The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson 
  • Through the Woods - Emily Carroll (graphic novel)
  • Tunneling to the Center of the Earth - Kevin Wilson
April 2015
  • Worshiping Small Gods - Richard Parks
  • Invincible Vols. #1 - #14 - Robert Kirkman (graphic novel compilations)
  • What I Came to Tell You - Tommy Hays
  • I Kill Giants - Joe Kelly & J.M. Ken Niimura (graphic novel)
March 2015
  • A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  • Ubik - Philip K. Dick
  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories - H.P. Lovecraft
  • The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
  • The Nobody - Jeff LeMire (graphic novel)
  • Kick-Ass 3 - Mark Millar / John Romita, Jr. (graphic novel)
February 2015
  • Redshirts - John Scalzi
  • The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
  • Machine Man - Max Barry
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • My Heart and Other Black Holes - Jasmine Warga
  • Kick - John L. Monk
  • Old Man's War - John Scalzi
  • The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
  • Attachments - Rainbow Rowell
January 2015
  • The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  • Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
  • Redemption in Indigo - Karen Lord
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October- December 2014
  • The Rook - Daniel O'Malley
  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  • Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
  • The Games - Ted Kosmatka
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
  • Devil in the Grove - Gilbert King
  • Winter's Tale - Mark Helperin
September 2014
  • Jhereg - Steven Brust
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed
  • Jennifer Government - Max Barry
January - August 2014
  • A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
  • The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Rithmatist - Brandon Anderson
  • Lexicon - Max Barry
  • Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
  • The Cross Garden - Marlin Barton
  • Slouching Toward Bethlehem - Joan Didion
  • Shoofly Pie - Tim Downs
  • All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  • Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • The Year of the Gadfly - Jennifer Miller
  • Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  • Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
  • Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
  • Five Novels for the South Carolina Arts Commission First Novel Competition
June, July, August 2013
  • A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
  • Amped - Daniel H Wilson
  • Horns - Joe Hill
  • Fire in the Hole - Elmore Leonard
  • The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
  • After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall - Nancy Kress
  • Adrift - Steven Callahan
  • The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
  • Countless short stories - Hugo & Nebula Award Winners
January 2012 - December 2013 : MFA
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Sherman Alexie
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
  • Hunger - Elise Blackwell
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  • Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  • I Am One of You Forever: A Novel - Fred Chappell
  • The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  • The Lie That Tells a Truth - John Dufresne
  • The Lover - Marguerite Duras
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
  • The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  • The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers - John Gardner
  • On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
  • The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
  • Legends of the Fall - Jim Harrison
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Essential Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Cider House Rules: A Novel - John Irving
  • The Best American Short Stories 2011 - Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor
  • The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  • Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
  • The Language of the Night - Ursula K LeGuin
  • Wildwood - Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: A Novel - Lorrie Moore
  • After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami
  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
  • The Little Disturbances of Man - Grace Paley
  • The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
  • Nine Stories - J D Salinger
  • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - J D Salinger
  • The Mosquito Coast: A Novel - Paul Theroux
  • This Boy's Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff
  • Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  • Black Boy - Richard Wright
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December 2011
  • LOTS of Short Stories for 2012 MFA Creative Writing Residency
  • How to Say Goodbye in Robot - Natlie Standiford 
  • The Cardturner - Louis Sachar
November 2011
  • Schooled - Gordon Korman
  • Healthy at 100 - John Robbins 
  • A Fly For the Prosecution - M. Lee Goff
  • Flush - Carl Hiaasen
  • Monster Zoo - Doug TenNapel
  • Born to Rock - Gordon Korman
  • The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
October 2011
  • Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
  • Behemoth - Scott Westerfeld
  • Whitewash - Joseph Keon
  • Along For the Ride - Sarah Dessen
  • Surviving the Extremes - Kenneth Kamler
September 2011
  • Ex-Heroes - Peter Clines
  • 13 Days to Midnight - Patrick Carman
  • Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature - Robin Brande
August 2011
  • Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
  • Servant of a Dark God - John Brown
  • LOTS of Short Stories at Uncle Orson's Literary Boot Camp
  • The Death Collector - Justin Roberts
  • The Alchemyst -Michael Scott
 July 2011
  • 13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher
  • The Straw Men - Michael Marshall
 June 2011
  • Characters & Viewpoints - Orson Scott Card
  • The Scar - China Miéville
  • The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey
  • The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
May 2011
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
  • The Paris Wife - Paula McClain
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
April 2011
  • The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
  • The Power of Small - Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
March 2011
  •  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
  • Theodora Goss - In the Forest of Forgetting
  • The Children of Cthulhu -  edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
February 2011
  • Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
  • Looking For Jake - China Miéville
  • When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
  • The Black Book of Secrets - F.E. Higgins
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
  • Superfreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • Factotum - D.M. Cornish
  • Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King

January 2011
  • Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan

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