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2018 Reading List

2018-01-032023-03-24 John Winkelman

Welcome to the fourth year of the Reading List. These are all of the books I have purchased and/or read in calendar year 2018. My full list of books can be found on LibraryThing (books I own) and GoodReads (books I have read).

January (38)

  1. McKean, Dave and Schafer, William – The Weight of Words (Subterranean Press)
  2. Nguyen, Viet Than – The Refugees
  3. Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
  4. Walton, David – The Genius Plague
  5. Sterling, Phillip – And Then Snow (Main Street Rag)
  6. Mitchell, David – Slade House
  7. Peninsula Poets #74.1, Spring 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  8. Peninsula Poets #74.2, Fall 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  9. D’Rivera, Paquito – Letters to Yeyito (Restless Books)
  10. Simo, Ana – Heartland (Restless Books)
  11. Khan, Ausma Zehanat – The Bloodprint
  12. Liu, Ken – The Man who Ended History, signed, #462 of 500 (WSFA Press)
  13. Chakraborty, S.A. – The City of Brass
  14. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus
  15. Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Alliance
  16. Law, Lucas K. and Mak, Derwin (eds.) – Where the Stars Shine (Laksa Media Groups, Inc)
  17. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – The Ark (Angry Robot Books)
  18. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Trident’s Forge (Angry Robot Books)
  19. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Children of the Divide (Angry Robot Books)
  20. Sizemore, Jason – For Exposure (Apex Publications)
  21. Sizemore, Jason – Irredeemable (Seventh Star Press)
  22. Apex Magazine #104
  23. Gates, Jaym and Valentinelli, Monica (eds.) – Upside Down (Apex Publications)
  24. Townsend, Tracy – The Nine (Prometheus Books)
  25. Ness, Mari – Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press)
  26. Wolfe, Navah and Parisien, Dominik (eds.) – Robots vs. Fairies (Saga Press)
  27. Hirshfield, Jane – Nine Gates
  28. Brown, Adrienne Marie and Imarisha, Walidah (eds.) – Octavia’s Brood (AK Press)
  29. Karastoyanov, Hristo – The Same Night Awaits Us All (Open Letter Books)
  30. Music & Literature #7
  31. Music & Literature #8
  32. Freedman, Carl (ed.) – Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (University Press of Mississippi)
  33. Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Found and the Lost (Saga Press)
  34. Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Unreal and the Real (Saga Press)
  35. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 16: The Incorruptible Library (Airship Entertainment)
  36. Claybourne, Zig Zag – The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan (Narmer’s Palette)
  37. Eastern Iowa Review #3
  38. Johns, Andreas – Baba Yaga (Peter Lang Publishing)

February (13)

  1. Granta #142
  2. Stein, Melissa – Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press)
  3. George, Jenny – The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press)
  4. Nezhukumatathil, Aimee – Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press)
  5. Campbell, Bill and Hall, Edward Austin (eds) – Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Publishing)
  6. Goh, Jaymee and Chng, Joyce (eds) – The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium Publishing)
  7. Karetnyk, Bryan (ed.) – Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
  8. Triantafyllou, Petros (ed.) – Art of War (Booknest.eu)
  9. Jemisin, N.K. – The Obelisk Gate
  10. VanderMeer, Jeff – Authority
  11. Jacobin Magazine, Issue 28 (Winter 2018)
  12. Nielsen, Madame – The Endless Summer (Open Letter Books)
  13. Kopf, Alicia – Brother in Ice (And Other Stories)

March (25)

  1. Okorafor, Nnedi – Binti
  2. Sullivan, Susan Abel – Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories (World Weaver Press)
  3. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Fae (World Weaver Press)
  4. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Sirens (World Weaver Press)
  5. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Equus (World Weaver Press)
  6. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Corvidae (World Weaver Press)
  7. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric’s Mission, signed, #433 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
  8. Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, signed, #588 or 750 (Subterranean Press)
  9. Reaves, Mallory and Reaves, Michael – Eternity’s Wheel, signed, #485 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  10. Armstrong, Kelley – Lost Souls (Subterranean Press)
  11. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #970 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  12. Silverberg, Robert – The Millennium Express (Subterranean Press)
  13. Spencer, William Browning – The Unorthodox Dr. Draper, signed, #382 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  14. Straub, Peter – Perdido (Subterranean Press)
  15. Silverberg, Robert – The Emperor and the Maula (Subterranean Press)
  16. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #436 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  17. Lumley, Brian – The Compleat Crow (Subterranean Press)
  18. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #0, December 2017
  19. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018
  20. Schutt, Christine – Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories)
  21. James, D.R. – If God Were Gentle (Dos Madres Press)
  22. Bray, Mark – Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House Publishing)
  23. Kemper, Donna – Forgive and Forgotten (Credo House Publishers)
  24. Apex Magazine #106 (March 2018)
  25. Joshi, S.T. (ed.) – Black Wings 6 (PS Publishing)

April (21)

  1. Winn, Howard – Acropolis (Propertius Press)
  2. Jemisin, N.K. – The Stone Sky
  3. Coates, Ta-Nehisi – A Nation Under Our Feet 1
  4. Brakefield, Russell – Field Recordings (Wayne State University Press)
  5. VanderMeer, Jeff – Acceptance
  6. Cleave, Sarah (ed.) – Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  7. Ganieva, Alisa – Bride & Groom (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  8. Apex Magazine #107 (April 2018)
  9. Harris, Joseph – Logically Thinking (chapbook)
  10. Harris, Joseph – Speak Up! (chapbook)
  11. McSweeney’s #52
  12. Ugresic, Dubravka – Fox (Open Letter Books)
  13. Bat-Ami, Miriam – Measuring the Marigolds (Caffeinated Press)
  14. Ono, Masatsugu – Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
  15. Two Lines #28
  16. Scalzi, John – Head On
  17. Willis, Connie – I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (Subterranean Press)
  18. Lovecraft, H.P. – The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk Publications)
  19. Mignola, Mike – Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Studio Edition (Flesk Publications)
  20. Peninsula Poets #75.1 (Spring 2018)
  21. Vodolazkin, Eugene – Laurus (Oneworld Publications)

May (8)

  1. Ward, Jesmyn (ed.) – The Fire This Time
  2. Vollmann, William T. – No Immediate Danger
  3. Bacigalupi, Paolo – The Alchemist (Subterranean Press)
  4. Kuznia, Yanni (ed.) – A Fantasy Medley 3 (Subterranean Press)
  5. Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Tidings of the Trees (Two Lines Press)
  6. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018
  7. Mandanipour, Shahriar – Moon Brow (Restless Books)
  8. Fresán, Rodrigo – The Bottom of the Sky (Open Letter Books)

June (28)

  1. Voices 2018
  2. Shishkin, Mikhail – Calligraphy Lessons (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  3. VanderMeer, Ann and VanderMeer, Jeff (eds) – Sisters of the Revolution (PM Press)
  4. Vollmann, William T. – No Good Alternative
  5. Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
  6. Russian Literature Triquarterly #9 (Spring 1974)
  7. Carruth, Hayden – Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (Copper Canyon Press)
  8. Le Guin, Ursula – Sixty Odd (Shambhala Publications)
  9. Gaiman, Neil – Fragile Things
  10. Gaiman, Neil – Sandman: Overture (Vertigo Comics)
  11. de Jesus, Noelle Q. and Katigbak-Lacuesta, Mookie (eds.) – Fast Food Fiction Delivery (Anvil Publishing, Inc)
  12. Realuyo, Bino – The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press)
  13. Malonzo, Mervin – Tabi Po #1 (Visprint, Inc)
  14. Malonzo, Mervin – After Lambana (Vistaprint, Inc)
  15. Chacon, Sasha Pimentel – Insides She Swallowed (West End Press)
  16. Donoso, Isaac (ed.) Boxer Codex – Vibal Foundation
  17. Hagedorn, Jessica – The Gangster of Love
  18. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne – Loaded (City Lights Books)
  19. Giroux, Henry A. – American Nightmare (City Lights Books)
  20. Reyes, Barbara Jane – Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books)
  21. Meltzer, David (eds) – San Francisco Beats: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books)
  22. Lewis, Penelope and Page, Ra (eds.) – Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Comma Press)
  23. Depestre, Rene – Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books)
  24. Bakewell, Sarah – At the Existentialist Cafe (Other Press)
  25. Abdurraqib, Hanif – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio)
  26. Sax, Sam – Madness
  27. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – A Coney Island of the Mind, 50th Anniversary Edition (New Directions Publishing)
  28. Coval, Kevin, Lansana, Quraysh Ali, and Marshall, Nate (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books)

July (14)

  1. Lange, Norah – People in the Room (And Other Stories)
  2. Apex Magazine #109, June 2018
  3. Hong, Xiao – Ma Bo’Le’s Second Life (Open Letter Books)
  4. PEN America #21 – Mythologies
  5. Stephenson, Neal and Galland, Nicole – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
  6. Gleason, Rachel – New Kind of Rebellion (chapbook)
  7. Yang, Jy – The Black Tides of Heaven
  8. Yang, Jy – The Read Threads of Fortune
  9. Singh, Vandana – Ambiguity Machines (Small Beer Press)
  10. Erdrich, Heid E (ed.) – New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
  11. Womack, Ytasha L. – Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture (Lawrence Hill Books)
  12. Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov
  13. Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
  14. Poirer, Agnès – Left Bank

August (14)

  1. Yesenin, Sergei – Selected Poems
  2. Mandelstam, Osip – Voronezh Notebooks (New York Review Books)
  3. Turgenev, Ivan – First Love and Other Stories (Oxford University Press)
  4. Mayakovsky, Vladimir – Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press)
  5. Watts, Peter – The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon Publishing)
  6. Haight, Ian – Celadon (Unicorn Press)
  7. Roanhorse, Rebecca – Trail of Lightning
  8. Granta #144
  9. Apex Magazine #110
  10. Salvage Magazine #5
  11. Brace, Kristin – Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin (Finishing Line Press)
  12. Ólafsson, Bragi – Narrator (Open Letter Books)
  13. Twitty, Michael W. – The Cooking Gene
  14. Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential

September (19)

  1. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 17: Kings and Wizards (Airship Entertainment)
  2. The Paris Review #226
  3. Amazing Stories 76.1 (Fall 2018/WorldCon Issue)
  4. Rucker, Rudy – Return to the Hollow Earth (Transreal Books)
  5. Sagwa, Kim – Mina (Two Lines Press)
  6. Two Lines #29
  7. Ulibarri, Sarena (ed.) – Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press)
  8. Trabucco Zerán, Alia – The Remainder (And Other Stories)
  9. Sigurðsson, Ófeigur – Oraefi: The Wasteland (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  10. Llansol, Maria Gabriela – The Geography of Rebels Trilogy (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  11. Berti, Eduardo – The Imagined Land (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  12. Matthieussent, Brice – Revenge of the Translator (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  13. Jones, Scott R. (ed.) – Cthulhusattva (Martian Migraine Press)
  14. Brenda, Libia (ed.) – A Larger Reality (Cumulo de Tesla)
  15. Ugrešić, Dubravka – American Fictionary (Open Letter Books)
  16. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods
  17. Albahari, David – Checkpoint (Restless Books)
  18. Hernandez, Catherine – Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  19. Wagner, Phoebe and Wieland, Brontë Christopher (eds.) – Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

October (28)

  1. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #3
  2. Vourvoulias, Sabrina – Ink (Rosarium Publishing)
  3. Arnold, Amy – Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
  4. Indiana, Rita – Tentacle (And Other Stories)
  5. Apex Magazine #112, September 2018
  6. Morgan, Saretta – Feeling Upon Arrival (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  7. Fitterman, Robert – This Window Make Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  8. Cáceres, Omar – Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  9. White, Simone – Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  10. Marinovich, Filip – Wolfman Librarian (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  11. Herzer, Christine – Orange (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  12. Storm Cellar 7.1
  13. Nordenhof, Asta Olivia – the easiness and the loneliness (Open Letter Books)
  14. Larsen, Nella – Passing (Restless Books)
  15. Le Guin, Ursula – Wild Angels (Copper Canyon Press)
  16. Le Guin, Ursula – So Far, So Good (Copper Canyon Press)
  17. Poetry 213.1, October 2018
  18. Locus Magazine, October 2018
  19. Stoneboat Literary Journal 8.2
  20. Almeida, Alexis – I Have Never Been Able to Sing (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  21. Rogal, Lisa – Feed Me Weird Things (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  22. Ostrups, Artis – Gestures (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  23. Patterson, Zahara – Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  24. Gdenov, Vasilik – Alphabet for the Entrants (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  25. Vitale, Anna – Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  26. Hamilton, Diana – God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  27. Sugar House Review 10.1
  28. Apex Magazine #113

November (31)

  1. Reikki, Ron (ed.) – The Way North (Wayne State University Press)
  2. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1 (Apex Publications)
  3. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2 (Apex Publications)
  4. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3 (Apex Publications)
  5. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Apex Publications)
  6. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5 (Apex Publications)
  7. Leib, Bart R. and Holt, Kay T. (eds.) – Resist Fascism (Crossed Genres Publications)
  8. Kasper, M (ed., trans.) – Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  9. Anderson, Darran – Imaginary Cities (University of Chicago Press)
  10. Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years (Restless Books)
  11. Butcher, Jim – Turn Coat, signed, #360 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  12. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #247 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  13. Schow, David J – DJStories, signed, #568 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  14. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Mira’s Last Dance, signed, #242 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
  15. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #379 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  16. Armstrong, Kelly – Amityville Horrible, signed, #961 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
  17. Anders, Charlie Jane – Rock Manning Goes for Broke, signed, #393 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
  18. Lansdale, Joe R. and Mertz, Stephen – M.I.A. Hunter, signed, #177 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  19. Resnick, Mike – Voyages, signed, #703 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  20. Leckie, Ann – Provenance, signed, #259 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  21. McSweeney’s #54: The End of Trust
  22. Monk, Ian and Becker, Daniel Levin (eds.) – All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 (McSweeney’s)
  23. Peninsula Poets, Fall 2018 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  24. Palmer, Ada – Too Like the Lightning
  25. Dickinson, Seth – The Monster Baru Cormorant
  26. Yang, JY – The Descent of Monsters
  27. Poetry CCCXIII.3, December 2018
  28. Sanchez, Pablo Martin – The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Deep Vellum)
  29. Granta #145
  30. Jemisin, N.K. – How Long ’til Black Future Month?
  31. Rodoreda, Mercè – Camellia Street (Open Letter Books)

December (9)

  1. Salvage #2
  2. Salvage #3
  3. Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Females (Two Lines Press)
  4. Apex Magazine #114 (November 2018)
  5. Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, vol. 4 (Diabolical Plots L.L.C.)
  6. The Paris Review #227
  7. Salvage #6
  8. Poetry #213.4, January 2019
  9. Girondo, Oliverio – Decals (Open Letter Books)
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