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)
- McKean, Dave and Schafer, William – The Weight of Words (Subterranean Press)
- Nguyen, Viet Than – The Refugees
- Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Walton, David – The Genius Plague
- Sterling, Phillip – And Then Snow (Main Street Rag)
- Mitchell, David – Slade House
- Peninsula Poets #74.1, Spring 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
- Peninsula Poets #74.2, Fall 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
- D’Rivera, Paquito – Letters to Yeyito (Restless Books)
- Simo, Ana – Heartland (Restless Books)
- Khan, Ausma Zehanat – The Bloodprint
- Liu, Ken – The Man who Ended History, signed, #462 of 500 (WSFA Press)
- Chakraborty, S.A. – The City of Brass
- Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus
- Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Alliance
- Law, Lucas K. and Mak, Derwin (eds.) – Where the Stars Shine (Laksa Media Groups, Inc)
- Tomlinson, Patrick S. – The Ark (Angry Robot Books)
- Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Trident’s Forge (Angry Robot Books)
- Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Children of the Divide (Angry Robot Books)
- Sizemore, Jason – For Exposure (Apex Publications)
- Sizemore, Jason – Irredeemable (Seventh Star Press)
- Apex Magazine #104
- Gates, Jaym and Valentinelli, Monica (eds.) – Upside Down (Apex Publications)
- Townsend, Tracy – The Nine (Prometheus Books)
- Ness, Mari – Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press)
- Wolfe, Navah and Parisien, Dominik (eds.) – Robots vs. Fairies (Saga Press)
- Hirshfield, Jane – Nine Gates
- Brown, Adrienne Marie and Imarisha, Walidah (eds.) – Octavia’s Brood (AK Press)
- Karastoyanov, Hristo – The Same Night Awaits Us All (Open Letter Books)
- Music & Literature #7
- Music & Literature #8
- Freedman, Carl (ed.) – Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (University Press of Mississippi)
- Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Found and the Lost (Saga Press)
- Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Unreal and the Real (Saga Press)
- Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 16: The Incorruptible Library (Airship Entertainment)
- Claybourne, Zig Zag – The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan (Narmer’s Palette)
- Eastern Iowa Review #3
- Johns, Andreas – Baba Yaga (Peter Lang Publishing)
February (13)
- Granta #142
- Stein, Melissa – Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press)
- George, Jenny – The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press)
- Nezhukumatathil, Aimee – Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press)
- Campbell, Bill and Hall, Edward Austin (eds) – Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Publishing)
- Goh, Jaymee and Chng, Joyce (eds) – The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium Publishing)
- Karetnyk, Bryan (ed.) – Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
- Triantafyllou, Petros (ed.) – Art of War (Booknest.eu)
- Jemisin, N.K. – The Obelisk Gate
- VanderMeer, Jeff – Authority
- Jacobin Magazine, Issue 28 (Winter 2018)
- Nielsen, Madame – The Endless Summer (Open Letter Books)
- Kopf, Alicia – Brother in Ice (And Other Stories)
March (25)
- Okorafor, Nnedi – Binti
- Sullivan, Susan Abel – Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories (World Weaver Press)
- Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Fae (World Weaver Press)
- Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Sirens (World Weaver Press)
- Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Equus (World Weaver Press)
- Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Corvidae (World Weaver Press)
- Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric’s Mission, signed, #433 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
- Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, signed, #588 or 750 (Subterranean Press)
- Reaves, Mallory and Reaves, Michael – Eternity’s Wheel, signed, #485 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
- Armstrong, Kelley – Lost Souls (Subterranean Press)
- Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #970 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
- Silverberg, Robert – The Millennium Express (Subterranean Press)
- Spencer, William Browning – The Unorthodox Dr. Draper, signed, #382 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
- Straub, Peter – Perdido (Subterranean Press)
- Silverberg, Robert – The Emperor and the Maula (Subterranean Press)
- Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #436 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
- Lumley, Brian – The Compleat Crow (Subterranean Press)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #0, December 2017
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018
- Schutt, Christine – Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories)
- James, D.R. – If God Were Gentle (Dos Madres Press)
- Bray, Mark – Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House Publishing)
- Kemper, Donna – Forgive and Forgotten (Credo House Publishers)
- Apex Magazine #106 (March 2018)
- Joshi, S.T. (ed.) – Black Wings 6 (PS Publishing)
April (21)
- Winn, Howard – Acropolis (Propertius Press)
- Jemisin, N.K. – The Stone Sky
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi – A Nation Under Our Feet 1
- Brakefield, Russell – Field Recordings (Wayne State University Press)
- VanderMeer, Jeff – Acceptance
- Cleave, Sarah (ed.) – Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Ganieva, Alisa – Bride & Groom (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Apex Magazine #107 (April 2018)
- Harris, Joseph – Logically Thinking (chapbook)
- Harris, Joseph – Speak Up! (chapbook)
- McSweeney’s #52
- Ugresic, Dubravka – Fox (Open Letter Books)
- Bat-Ami, Miriam – Measuring the Marigolds (Caffeinated Press)
- Ono, Masatsugu – Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
- Two Lines #28
- Scalzi, John – Head On
- Willis, Connie – I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (Subterranean Press)
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk Publications)
- Mignola, Mike – Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Studio Edition (Flesk Publications)
- Peninsula Poets #75.1 (Spring 2018)
- Vodolazkin, Eugene – Laurus (Oneworld Publications)
May (8)
- Ward, Jesmyn (ed.) – The Fire This Time
- Vollmann, William T. – No Immediate Danger
- Bacigalupi, Paolo – The Alchemist (Subterranean Press)
- Kuznia, Yanni (ed.) – A Fantasy Medley 3 (Subterranean Press)
- Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Tidings of the Trees (Two Lines Press)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018
- Mandanipour, Shahriar – Moon Brow (Restless Books)
- Fresán, Rodrigo – The Bottom of the Sky (Open Letter Books)
June (28)
- Voices 2018
- Shishkin, Mikhail – Calligraphy Lessons (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- VanderMeer, Ann and VanderMeer, Jeff (eds) – Sisters of the Revolution (PM Press)
- Vollmann, William T. – No Good Alternative
- Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
- Russian Literature Triquarterly #9 (Spring 1974)
- Carruth, Hayden – Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (Copper Canyon Press)
- Le Guin, Ursula – Sixty Odd (Shambhala Publications)
- Gaiman, Neil – Fragile Things
- Gaiman, Neil – Sandman: Overture (Vertigo Comics)
- de Jesus, Noelle Q. and Katigbak-Lacuesta, Mookie (eds.) – Fast Food Fiction Delivery (Anvil Publishing, Inc)
- Realuyo, Bino – The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press)
- Malonzo, Mervin – Tabi Po #1 (Visprint, Inc)
- Malonzo, Mervin – After Lambana (Vistaprint, Inc)
- Chacon, Sasha Pimentel – Insides She Swallowed (West End Press)
- Donoso, Isaac (ed.) Boxer Codex – Vibal Foundation
- Hagedorn, Jessica – The Gangster of Love
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne – Loaded (City Lights Books)
- Giroux, Henry A. – American Nightmare (City Lights Books)
- Reyes, Barbara Jane – Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books)
- Meltzer, David (eds) – San Francisco Beats: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books)
- Lewis, Penelope and Page, Ra (eds.) – Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Comma Press)
- Depestre, Rene – Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books)
- Bakewell, Sarah – At the Existentialist Cafe (Other Press)
- Abdurraqib, Hanif – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio)
- Sax, Sam – Madness
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – A Coney Island of the Mind, 50th Anniversary Edition (New Directions Publishing)
- Coval, Kevin, Lansana, Quraysh Ali, and Marshall, Nate (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books)
July (14)
- Lange, Norah – People in the Room (And Other Stories)
- Apex Magazine #109, June 2018
- Hong, Xiao – Ma Bo’Le’s Second Life (Open Letter Books)
- PEN America #21 – Mythologies
- Stephenson, Neal and Galland, Nicole – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- Gleason, Rachel – New Kind of Rebellion (chapbook)
- Yang, Jy – The Black Tides of Heaven
- Yang, Jy – The Read Threads of Fortune
- Singh, Vandana – Ambiguity Machines (Small Beer Press)
- Erdrich, Heid E (ed.) – New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
- Womack, Ytasha L. – Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture (Lawrence Hill Books)
- Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov
- Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Poirer, Agnès – Left Bank
August (14)
- Yesenin, Sergei – Selected Poems
- Mandelstam, Osip – Voronezh Notebooks (New York Review Books)
- Turgenev, Ivan – First Love and Other Stories (Oxford University Press)
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir – Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press)
- Watts, Peter – The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon Publishing)
- Haight, Ian – Celadon (Unicorn Press)
- Roanhorse, Rebecca – Trail of Lightning
- Granta #144
- Apex Magazine #110
- Salvage Magazine #5
- Brace, Kristin – Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin (Finishing Line Press)
- Ólafsson, Bragi – Narrator (Open Letter Books)
- Twitty, Michael W. – The Cooking Gene
- Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential
September (19)
- Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 17: Kings and Wizards (Airship Entertainment)
- The Paris Review #226
- Amazing Stories 76.1 (Fall 2018/WorldCon Issue)
- Rucker, Rudy – Return to the Hollow Earth (Transreal Books)
- Sagwa, Kim – Mina (Two Lines Press)
- Two Lines #29
- Ulibarri, Sarena (ed.) – Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press)
- Trabucco Zerán, Alia – The Remainder (And Other Stories)
- Sigurðsson, Ófeigur – Oraefi: The Wasteland (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Llansol, Maria Gabriela – The Geography of Rebels Trilogy (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Berti, Eduardo – The Imagined Land (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Matthieussent, Brice – Revenge of the Translator (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Jones, Scott R. (ed.) – Cthulhusattva (Martian Migraine Press)
- Brenda, Libia (ed.) – A Larger Reality (Cumulo de Tesla)
- Ugrešić, Dubravka – American Fictionary (Open Letter Books)
- Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods
- Albahari, David – Checkpoint (Restless Books)
- Hernandez, Catherine – Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Wagner, Phoebe and Wieland, Brontë Christopher (eds.) – Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books)
October (28)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #3
- Vourvoulias, Sabrina – Ink (Rosarium Publishing)
- Arnold, Amy – Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
- Indiana, Rita – Tentacle (And Other Stories)
- Apex Magazine #112, September 2018
- Morgan, Saretta – Feeling Upon Arrival (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Fitterman, Robert – This Window Make Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Cáceres, Omar – Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- White, Simone – Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Marinovich, Filip – Wolfman Librarian (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Herzer, Christine – Orange (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Storm Cellar 7.1
- Nordenhof, Asta Olivia – the easiness and the loneliness (Open Letter Books)
- Larsen, Nella – Passing (Restless Books)
- Le Guin, Ursula – Wild Angels (Copper Canyon Press)
- Le Guin, Ursula – So Far, So Good (Copper Canyon Press)
- Poetry 213.1, October 2018
- Locus Magazine, October 2018
- Stoneboat Literary Journal 8.2
- Almeida, Alexis – I Have Never Been Able to Sing (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Rogal, Lisa – Feed Me Weird Things (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Ostrups, Artis – Gestures (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Patterson, Zahara – Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Gdenov, Vasilik – Alphabet for the Entrants (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Vitale, Anna – Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Hamilton, Diana – God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Sugar House Review 10.1
- Apex Magazine #113
November (31)
- Reikki, Ron (ed.) – The Way North (Wayne State University Press)
- Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1 (Apex Publications)
- Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2 (Apex Publications)
- Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3 (Apex Publications)
- Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Apex Publications)
- Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5 (Apex Publications)
- Leib, Bart R. and Holt, Kay T. (eds.) – Resist Fascism (Crossed Genres Publications)
- Kasper, M (ed., trans.) – Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Anderson, Darran – Imaginary Cities (University of Chicago Press)
- Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years (Restless Books)
- Butcher, Jim – Turn Coat, signed, #360 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
- Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #247 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
- Schow, David J – DJStories, signed, #568 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
- Bujold, Lois McMaster – Mira’s Last Dance, signed, #242 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
- Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #379 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
- Armstrong, Kelly – Amityville Horrible, signed, #961 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
- Anders, Charlie Jane – Rock Manning Goes for Broke, signed, #393 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
- Lansdale, Joe R. and Mertz, Stephen – M.I.A. Hunter, signed, #177 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
- Resnick, Mike – Voyages, signed, #703 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
- Leckie, Ann – Provenance, signed, #259 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
- McSweeney’s #54: The End of Trust
- Monk, Ian and Becker, Daniel Levin (eds.) – All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 (McSweeney’s)
- Peninsula Poets, Fall 2018 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
- Palmer, Ada – Too Like the Lightning
- Dickinson, Seth – The Monster Baru Cormorant
- Yang, JY – The Descent of Monsters
- Poetry CCCXIII.3, December 2018
- Sanchez, Pablo Martin – The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Deep Vellum)
- Granta #145
- Jemisin, N.K. – How Long ’til Black Future Month?
- Rodoreda, Mercè – Camellia Street (Open Letter Books)
December (9)