And here we are all of a sudden in calendar year 2019. This is the fifth iteration of my reading material acquisition list, and I plan to keep doing it much the same way as I have in previous years. For my complete catalog of books which I own, please visit LibraryThing. For the list of books I have read, with the occasional rating and review (I know, I know. I need to be better about reviewing things I read), please visit GoodReads.
One change from previous years – instead of linking to their pages on GoodReads, I will from now on be linking book titles directly to the appropriate pages on the websites of their publishers or, where publishers do not sell directly to customers, I will link to resources such as IndieBound and the like. Keep the money in the hands of the writers and publishers.
And now, The List.
January (49)
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #38
- Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier – A Life on Paper (Small Beer Press)
- Steinmetz, Ferret – Fix (Angry Robot Books)
- Steinmetz, Ferret – The Uploaded (Angry Robot Books)
- Shalamov, Varlam – Kolyma Stories (New York Review Books)
- Apex Magazine, #115, December 2018
- Palmer, Ada – Seven Surrenders
- Hartmann, Ivor W. (ed.) – AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (StoryTime)
- Smith, Tracy K. – Life on Mars (Graywolf Press)
- Long Soldier, Layli – Whereas (Graywolf Press)
- Groskop, Viv – The Anna Karenina Fix
- Eveland, Erin – Darkness (Selladore Press)
- Andrade, R.A. – The Field Trip (Selladore Press)
- Greylock, T L – The Blood-Tainted Winter (Grass Crown Press)
- Tucker, Phil – Death March
- Reckoning #1
- Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Gate Crashers
- Flohr, Mackenzie – The Rite of Wands (BHC Press – Indigo)
- Eichenlaub, Anthony W. – Justice in an Age of Metal and Men
- Eichenlaub, Anthony W. – Peace in an Age of Metal and Men
- Filak, Stacey – The Queen Underneath (Page Street Publishing Company)
- Hughes, Keith – Timehunt: Borrowed Time
- Kuppers, Petra – Ice Bar (Spuyten Duyvil)
- Künsken, Derek – The Quantum Magician
- Matulich, Josef – Camp Arcanum (Post Mortem Press)
- Matulich, Josef – Power Tools in the Sacred Grove (Post Mortem Press)
- Snyder, Lucy A. – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Snyder, Lucy A. – While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Bán, Zsófia – Night School: A Reader for Grownups (Open Letter Books)
- Poetry #213.5 (February 2019)
- Palmer, D. Thourson – Ours is the Storm
- Broaddus, Maurice – Buffalo Soldier
- Durham, David Anthony – Acacia
- Lowell, Nathan – Quarter Share (Durandus)
- Tucker, Phil – Nightmare Keep
- Tucker, Phil – The Path of Flames
- Greylock, T L – The Hills of Home (Grass Crown Press)
- Greylock, T L – Already Comes the Darkness (Grass Crown Press)
- Sullivan, Michael J. – Age of Myth
- Sullivan, Michael J. – Theft of Swords
- Shel, Mike – Aching God
- Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame – Friday Black
- Sartori, Giacomo – I Am God (Restless Books)
- Arden, Katherine – The Bear and the Nightingale
- Clark, P Djèlí – The Black God’s Drums
- Chakraborty, S.A. – The Kingdom of Copper
- Poniatowska, Elena – Mephisto’s Waltz (Deep Vellum)
- Campbell, Bill (ed.) – Sunspot Jungle, Kickstarter-exclusive 2-volume hardcover set (Rosarium Publishing)
- Rain Taxi 23.4 (Winter 2018)
February (27)
- Duffy, Damian and Jennings, John – The Hole: Consumer Culture (Front Forty Press)
- James, Marlon – Black Leopard, Red Wolf
- LaValle, Victor, and Adams, John Joseph (eds.) – A People’s Future of the United States
- Noll, João Gilberto – Lord (Two Lines Press)
- Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Uprising
- Sullivan, Susan Abel (ed.) – Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories (World Weaver Press)
- Wolford, Kate (ed.) – Skull & Pestle: New Tales of Baba Yaga (World Weaver Press)
- DreamForge #1
- Rosenthal, Olivia – To Leave with the Reindeer (And Other Stories)
- Jacobin #32
- Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix – A Thousand Plateaus (University of Minnesota Press)
- Willow Springs #83 (Spring 2019)
- Poetry #213.6 (March 2019)
- Emergency Index #7 (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Berenguer, Amanda – Materia Prima (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- González, Wingston – No Budu Please (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Ponce, Liliana – Diary (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Montalbetti, Mario – Language Is a Revolver for Two (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Feinstein, Rochelle – Pls. Reply (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Cope, David (ed.) – Song of the Owashtanong: Grand Rapids Poetry of the 21st Century (Ridgeway Press)
- Harris, Bill – Birth of a Notion, or The Half Ain’t Never Been Told (Wayne State University Press)
- Evans, CJ – A Penance (New Issues Press)
- Upton, Lee – Undid in the Land of Undone (New Issues Press)
- Kocher, Ruth Ellen – When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering (New Issues Press)
- Daniels, Jim – Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars (New Issues Press)
- Platt, Donald – Dirt Angels (New Issues Press)
- Huey, Amorak – Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications)
March (13)
- Senkus, Mark – Screaming Like War (Single-Minded Cocktail Press)
- Rahmani, Zahia – “Muslim”: A Novel (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Two Lines Journal #30
- Rambo, Cat (ed.) – If This Goes On (Parvus Press)
- Frank, Meg (ed.) – Hope in This Timeline (Fireside Fiction)
- Saccomanno, Guillermo – 77 (Open Letter Books)
- Paris Review #228
- James, D.R. – Surreal Expulsion (The Poetry Box)
- Ridl, Jack – Saint Peter and the Goldfinch (Wayne State University Press)
- Malte, Marcus – The Boy (Restless Books)
- Poetry #214.1 (April 2019)
- New Ohio Review #25
- Wolff, Lina – The Polyglot Lovers (And Other Stories)
April (16)
- Reckoning #2
- Browne, Mahogany L, Simmonds, Idrissa, Woods, Jamila (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets Vol. II: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books)
- DeMott, Robert (ed.) – Conversations with Jim Harrison (Revised and Updated) (University Press of Mississippi)
- Morey, Chris (ed.) – I Am the Abyss (Dark Regions Press, LLC)
- Oomen, Anne-Marie (ed.) – Elemental (Wayne State University Press)
- Davis, Jean – Trust (Caffeinated Press)
- Pimwana, Duanwad – Bright (Two Lines Press)
- Buckell, Tobias S. – It’s All Just a Draft (Xenowealth LLC, Kickstarter exclusive)
- Poetry #214.2 (May 2019)
- Wellman, Mac – Awe (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Farrell, Nathaniel – Lost Horizon (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Osman, Jena – Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Rodríguez, Reina Maria – The Winter Garden Photograph (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Steck, Ed – An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Fitterman, Robert – Rob’s Word Shop (Ugly Duckling Presse)
- Peninsula Poets #76.1, Spring 2019
May (16)
- Levrero, Mario – Empty Words (And Other Stories)
- Scego, Igiaba – Beyond Babylon (Two Lines Press)
- Van Gelder, Gordon (ed.) – Welcome to the Greenhouse (OR Books)
- Duncombe, Stephen – Dream or Nightmare (OR Books)
- Boyd, Andrew – Beautiful Trouble (OR Books)
- Coleman, Elizabeth J. (ed.) – Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press)
- Pulphouse #5, Winter 2019
- Poetry #214.3, June 2019
- Rasmussen, Bjørn – The Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body (Two Lines Press)
- Rucker, Rudy – Million Mile Road Trip (Night Shade Books)
- Rucker, Rudy – The Big Aha (Night Shade Books)
- Scholes, Robert, Comley, Nancy R., Ulmer, Gregory L. – Text Book
- Kazin, Alfred – The Open Form
- Waugh, Patricia – Metafiction (Methuen & Co.)
- Fernández, Belén – Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books)
- Jacobin #33, Spring 2019
June (39)
- Talusan, Grace – The Body Papers (Restless Books)
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39
- Dreamforge #2
- Ellison, Harlan – Dimensions of Harlan Ellison (Edgeworks Abbey)
- Ellison, Harlan – The Book Needs No Introduction (Edgeworks Abbey)
- Ellison, Harlan – The Ephemeral Ellison (Edgeworks Abbey)
- Ellison, Harlan – The Ellison Treatment (Edgeworks Abbey)
- The 3288 Review 5.1 (Caffeinated Press)
- Riekki, Ron and Scarpino, Andrea (eds.) – Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)
- Klatt, L.S. – The Wilderness After Which (Otis Books)
- Rain Taxi #24.2 (Summer 2019)
- Swanwick, Michael – Dragonskin (Dragon Stairs Press) (signed, #21/50)
- McGookey, Kathleen – Nineteen Letters (BatCat Press), (#11/100)
- Broaddus, Maurice – Pimp My Airship (Apex Book Company)
- Sizemore, Jason and Conner, Lesley (eds.) – Do Not Go Quietly (Apex Book Company)
- Townsend, Tracy – The Fall
- Roanhorse, Rebecca – Storm of Locusts
- Harrison, Jim – The Essential Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
- Asghar, Fatimah and Elhillo, Safia (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets vol. 3: Halal If You Can Hear Me (Haymarket Books)
- Shiner, Lewis – Outside the Gates of Eden (Subterranean Press)
- The Paris Review #229
- Brace, Kristin – Each Darkness Inside (Finishing Line Press)
- Split Lip Magazine #2
- Burn Collector #14 (Microcosm Publishing)
- Gnade, Adam (ed.) – The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6: The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald (Microcosm Publishing)
- Ensminger, David A. – Out of the Basement (Microcosm Publishing)
- Moore, Anne Elizabeth – Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Microcosm Publishing)
- Suren, Bob – Crate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records (Microcosm Publishing)
- Herbert, Alexander – What About Tomorrow? An Oral History of Russian Punk, From the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot (Microcosm Publishing)
- Campbell, John W., Jr. – Frozen Hell (Wildside Press)
- Doyle, Aidan – The Writer’s Book of Doubt (Ate Bit Bear)
- Poetry #214.4
- Reckoning #3
- Yong, Jin – A Hero Born (ARC)
- Silver, Steven H. and Palmatier, Joshua (eds.) – Alternate Peace (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
- Coe, David B. and Palmatier, Joshua (eds.) – Temporally Deactivated (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
- Bray, Patricia and Butler, S.C. (eds.) – Portals (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
- Yideum, Kim – Blood Sisters (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – The Golden Goblet (Deep Vellum Publishing)
July (12)
- Amazing Stories 76.4
- Brace, Kristin – Toward the Wild Abundance (Michigan State University Press)
- Jallal, Karim and Zbiciak, Teresa – Mustapha Panda
- Willow Springs #84
- Daáood, Kamau – The Language of Saxophones (City Lights Books)
- Long, Michael G. (ed.) – We the Resistance (City Lights Books)
- Breedlove, Lynn – Forty-Five Thought Crimes (Manic D Press)
- Ivánova, Adelaide – The Hammer (Commune Editions)
- Schatz, Kate and Stahl, Miriam Klein – Rad American Women A-Z (City Lights Books)
- Neidich, Warren (ed.) – The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part Three (Archive Books)
- Zisson, Steve (ed.) – A Punk Rock Future (Zsenon Publishing)
- Torres, Fernanda – Glory and Its Litany of Horrors (Restless Books)
August (3)
- Serna, Rudolfo A. – Snow Over Utopia (Apex Publications)
- Poetry #214.5, September 2019
- Fellous, Colette – This Tilting World (Two Lines Press)
September (11)
- Two Lines #31
- Paris Review #230
- Yang, Neon – The Ascent to Godhood
- Chiang, Ted – Exhalation
- Hossain, Saad Z – The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
- Luff, Cody T. – Ration (Apex Publications)
- Harjo, Joy – She Had Some Horses
- Kendi, Ibram X. – How to Be an Antiracist
- Rain Taxi 14.3, Fall 2019
- Dreamforge #3, September 2019
- Poetry #215.1 (October 2019)
October (20)
- Perlman, Jim, Cooper, Deborah, Hart, Mara and Mittelfehldt, Pamela (eds.) – Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior (Holy Cow! Press)
- Lauchlan, Michael – Trumbull Ave. (Wayne State University Press)
- Lynch, Thomas – Still Life in Milford
- Gerber, Dan – A Last Bridge Home (Clark City Press)
- Liebler, M.L. (ed.) – Brooding the Heartlands: Poets of the Midwest (Bottom Dog Press)
- Hilberry, Conrad – After-Music (Wayne State University Press)
- Hinrichsen, Dennis – Kurosawa’s Dog (Oberlin College Press)
- Clark, Patricia and Jenkins, Jinny (eds.) – Great Lakes: Image & Word (Grand Valley State University)
- Mréjen, Valérie – Black Forest (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Masłowska, Dorota – Honey, I Killed the Cats (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #6, Spring 2019
- Straczynski, J. Michael – Becoming Superman
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe (300th Anniversary Edition) – Restless Books
- Etchells, Tim – Endland (And Other Stories)
- Zafón, Carlos Ruiz – The Labyrinth of the Spirits (Subterranean Press)
- Poetry #215.2 (November 2019)
- Erin, Alexandra – First Dates, Last Calls
- Ono, Masatsugu – Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
- Anyuru, Johannes – They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears (Two Lines Press)
- Peninsula Poets, Fall 2019
November (13)
- Tidhar, Lavie – Hebrew Punk (Apex Publications)
- New Ohio Review #26
- Patel, Shenaz – Silence of the Chagos (Restless Books)
- Conner, Lesley – The Weight of Chains (Sinister Grin Press)
- Burmeister-Brown, Susan and Swanson-Davies, Linda B. (eds) The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction, Vol. I: Building Blocks
- Poetry #215.3 (December 2019)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #7 (Summer 2019)
- Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, vol. 5 (Diabolical Plots LLC)
- Meadors, Melanie R. (ed.) – Scoundrels (Outland Entertainment)
- Meadors, Melanie and Abbott, Alana Joli (eds.) – Brigands (Outland Entertainment)
- Meadors, Melanie and Abbott, Alana Joli (eds.) – Knaves (Outland Entertainment)
- Wang, Jackie – Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e))
- Valencia, Sayak – Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e))
December (12)
- The Paris Review #231, Winter 2019
- Fisher, Mark – Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Zero Books)
- Choi, Franny – Soft Science (Alice James Books)
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40
- Rain Taxi #24.4 (Winter 2019)
- Dreamforge #4 (December 2019)
- A Creative Sojourn, vol. 2
- Burstein, Michael – I Remember the Future (Apex Book Company)
- Jung Young Moon – Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Sentsov, Oleg – Life Went On Anyway: Stories (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Salvage #7 (Autumn/Winter 2019)
- Brown, Luke – Theft (And Other Stories)