This is the list of all 86 books I read to completion in Calendar Year 2020.

I started the year focusing on short fiction, as detailed in other posts. Then the lockdown hit in March, and I was put on a crazy work project in April which had me working 50+ hour weeks, second and third shift until the end of July. In order to stay sane and balanced I switched to long-form fiction, and specifically fantasy fiction.

This was driven in no small part by a decision to write a fantasy novel. At ConFusion 2020 I spent a lot of time talking to a number of self-published authors, who have found varying degrees of success in their craft. All of them, however, were quite happy with the self-publishing route, and in reading their work I discovered for myself that which many people have known for a long time: Self-published work can be just as good, or even better, than work published through more traditional means.

These authors introduced me to the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, the winners and runners-up of which are equal (at least!) in quality to the best of traditionally published fantasy.

I have been well aware of this with reference to poetry, but for some reason the blind spot around self-published prose was more difficult to, well, see.

So I read a lot of fantasy, including the first nineteen books in R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt sequence set in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons. There are 36 books in the series, but after 19 the boundary between reality and not-reality was beginning to blur.

In October I participated in the Sealey Challenge and read 31 poetry books in 31 days, which did wonderful things for my state of mind.

In November and December I read many of the novellas I have accrued from Subterranean Press. This also did wonderful things for my state of mind.

Anyway, here is the list. Next year I will break the long-form reading list up and combine it with the short fiction lists I have posted at the end of each month.

2020.03.05: Valencia, Sayak – Gore Capitalism

2020.04.06: Gibson, William – Neuromancer
2020.04.08: Walton, David – The Genius Plague
2020.04.09: Indiana, Rita – Tentacle
2020.04.11: Mieville, China – The Last Days of New Paris
2020.04.12: Bacigalupi, Paolo – The Alchemist
2020.04.16: Steinmetz, Ferrett – The Sol Majestic
2020.04.28: Jemisin, N.K. – The City We Became

2020.05.05: Salvatore, R.A. – Homeland
2020.05.08: Salvatore, R.A. – Exile
2020.05.10: Salvatore, R.A. – Sojourn
2020.05.12: Rowland, Diana – My Life as a White Trash Zombie
2020.05.23: Wang, M.L. – The Sword of Kaigen
2020.05.26: Eichenlaub, Anthony W. – Justice in an Age of Metal and Men

2020.06.01: McGuire, Seanan – Every Heart a Doorway
2020.06.07: Shel, Mike – Aching God
2020.06.18: Pike, J. Zachary – Orconomics
2020.06.28: Hayes, Rob J. – Where Loyalties Lie

2020.07.05: Künsken, Derek – The Quantum Magician
2020.07.06: Salvatore, R.A. – The Crystal Shard
2020.07.10: Salvatore, R.A. – Streams of Silver
2020.07.14: Salvatore, R.A. – The Halfling’s Gem
2020.07.15: Hossain, Saad Z. – The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
2020.07.16: Salvatore, R.A. – The Legacy
2020.07.17: Salvatore, R.A. – Starless Night
2020.07.18: Salvatore, R.A. – Siege of Darkness
2020.07.23: Salvatore, R.A. – Passage to Dawn
2020.07.30: Salvatore, R.A. – The Silent Blade

2020.08.03: Salvatore, R.A. – The Spine of the World
2020.08.06: Salvatore, R.A. – Sea of Swords
2020.08.08: Salvatore, R.A. – The Thousand Orcs
2020.08.10: Salvatore, R.A. – The Lone Drow
2020.08.12: Salvatore, R.A. – The Two Swords
2020.08.18: Salvatore, R.A. – The Orc King
2020.08.22: Salvatore, R.A. – The Pirate King
2020.08.28: Salvatore, R.A. – The Ghost King

2020.09.03: Ward, Jesmyn – Sing, Unburied, Sing
2020.09.17: Alexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow
2020.09.24: Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: War of Gods

2020.10.01: Rogin-Roper, Leah – Two Truths and a Lie
2020.10.02: Danos, Stephen – Missing Slides
2020.10.03: Mandelstam, Osip – Voronezh Notebooks
2020.10.04: Almeida, Alexis – I Have Never Been Able to Sing
2020.10.05: Kaneko, W. Todd – This Is How the Bone Sings
2020.10.06: Coolidge, Sarah (ed.) – Home: New Arabic Poetry
2020.10.07: Cooper, Wyn – Chaos Is the New Calm
2020.10.08: ortiz, mónica teresa – autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist
2020.10.09: Brace, Kristin – The Farthest Dreaming Hill
2020.10.10: de Alba, Cassandra – habitats
2020.10.11: Le Guin, Ursula – Wild Angels
2020.10.12: Matthews, Airea D. – Simulacra
2020.10.12: Meltzer, David – San Francisco Beat: Talking With the Poets
2020.10.13: Rogal, Lisa – Feed Me Weird Things
2020.10.14: Amezcua, Eloisa– On Not Screaming
2020.10.15: Stafford, William – My Name is William Tell
2020.10.16: Stack, Garrett – Yeoman’s Work
2020.10.17: Brandt, Emily – Sleeptalk or Not At All
2020.10.18: Olszewska, Daniela – Answering Machine
2020.10.18: Sizemore, Jason – For Exposure
2020.10.19: Marinovich, Filip – Wolfman Librarian
2020.10.20: Harris, Joseph – Logically Thinking
2020.10.21: Harrison, Jim – Collected Ghazals
2020.10.22: Bettis, Christine – Burnout Paradise
2020.10.23: Gleason, Rachel – New Kind of Rebellion
2020.10.24: Khayyam, Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
2020.10.25: Cáceres, Omar – Defense of the Idol
2020.10.26: Chang, Kristin – Past Lives, Future Bodies
2020.10.27: Goff, Nichole – Aluminum Necropolis
2020.10.28: Gurton-Wachter, Anna – Blank Blank Blues
2020.10.29: Porter, Bill – Road to Heaven
2020.10.29: Burns, Megan – Sleepwalk With Me
2020.10.30: Trier-Walker, Amy Jo – Trembling Ourselves Into Trees
2020.10.31: Harrison, Jim – Letters to Yesenin

2020.11.10: Gevers, Nick (ed.) – The Book of Dreams
2020.11.15: Palmatier, Joshua (ed.) Apocalyptic
2020.11.25: Wendig, Chuck – Damn Fine Story
2020.11.28: Vance, Jack – The Kragen

2020.12.02 – de Bodard, Aliette – On a Red Station, Drifting
2020.12.04 – Baker, Kage – Rude Mechanicals
2020.12.06 – Desmond, Matthew – Evicted
2020.12.06 – Armstrong, Kelley – Lost Souls
2020.12.16 – Bear, Elizabeth – Book of Iron
2020.12.17 – Bear, Elizabeth – Ad Eternum
2020.12.19 – Grant, Mira – Final Girls
2020.12.25 – Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, volume 6
2020.12.28 – Kittredge, Caitlin – The Curse of Four

The following is a list of all the books I read in calendar year 2019. Despite it being an extremely busy year, I still managed to squeeze in reading time, mostly by avoiding distractions like sleep. I only listed the books I completed.

In this list are 26 fiction titles, 19 poetry collections, and 5 books of nonfiction. On a five point scale, almost all of these were in the 3 to 5 range. I only scored two books lower than 3. I’m not including scores here because I included them in GoodReads and, less consistently, LibraryThing.

What this list doesn’t show is all of the short fiction and individual poems I read in mailing lists, magazines, websites, literary journals and the like. Those together would probably equal around a thousand pages, or say four additional books.

I can say that it was the poetry books that got me to 50 titles for the year. Not that poetry is trite or easier to read than prose; it is simply that poetry books (the works of Evan S. Connell notwithstanding) are in the main shorter than prose works.

Though each of these books was in some way remarkable, I want to specifically call out five of them for sticking with me well after reading:

• Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (fiction)
• Here: Poems for the Planet, edited by Elizabeth Coleman (poetry)
• Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang (nonfiction)
• The Language of Saxophones by Kamau Daaood (poetry)
• Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski (memoir)

For 2020 I will track my reading a little differently: I will keep two lists, one for books and the other for short prose. As I ramp up my writing practice I will be reading A LOT of short stories as study for my own work. Keeping an account of this reading will help me figure out my own skills and shortcomings in the art.

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)

39. Granta #142
40. Stein, Melissa – Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press)
41. George, Jenny – The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press)
42. Nezhukumatathil, Aimee – Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press)
43. Campbell, Bill and Hall, Edward Austin (eds) – Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Publishing)
44. Goh, Jaymee and Chng, Joyce (eds) – The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium Publishing)
45. Karetnyk, Bryan (ed.) – Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
46. Triantafyllou, Petros (ed.) – Art of War (Booknest.eu)
47. Jemisin, N.K. – The Obelisk Gate
48. VanderMeer, Jeff – Authority
49. Jacobin Magazine, Issue 28 (Winter 2018)
50. Nielsen, Madame – The Endless Summer (Open Letter Books)
51. Kopf, Alicia – Brother in Ice (And Other Stories)

March (25)

52. Okorafor, Nnedi – Binti
53. Sullivan, Susan Abel – Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories (World Weaver Press)
54. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Fae (World Weaver Press)
55. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Sirens (World Weaver Press)
56. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Equus (World Weaver Press)
57. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Corvidae (World Weaver Press)
58. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric’s Mission, signed, #433 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
59. Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, signed, #588 or 750 (Subterranean Press)
60. Reaves, Mallory and Reaves, Michael – Eternity’s Wheel, signed, #485 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
61. Armstrong, Kelley – Lost Souls (Subterranean Press)
62. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #970 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
63. Silverberg, Robert – The Millennium Express (Subterranean Press)
64. Spencer, William Browning – The Unorthodox Dr. Draper, signed, #382 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
65. Straub, Peter – Perdido (Subterranean Press)
66. Silverberg, Robert – The Emperor and the Maula (Subterranean Press)
67. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #436 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
68. Lumley, Brian – The Compleat Crow (Subterranean Press)
69. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #0, December 2017
70. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018
71. Schutt, Christine – Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories)
72. James, D.R. – If God Were Gentle (Dos Madres Press)
73. Bray, Mark – Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House Publishing)
74. Kemper, Donna – Forgive and Forgotten (Credo House Publishers)
75. Apex Magazine #106 (March 2018)
76. Joshi, S.T. (ed.) – Black Wings 6 (PS Publishing)

April (21)

77. Winn, Howard – Acropolis (Propertius Press)
78. Jemisin, N.K. – The Stone Sky
79. Coates, Ta-Nehisi – A Nation Under Our Feet 1
80. Brakefield, Russell – Field Recordings (Wayne State University Press)
81. VanderMeer, Jeff – Acceptance
82. Cleave, Sarah (ed.) – Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations (Deep Vellum Publishing)
83. Ganieva, Alisa – Bride & Groom (Deep Vellum Publishing)
84. Apex Magazine #107 (April 2018)
85. Harris, Joseph – Logically Thinking (chapbook)
86. Harris, Joseph – Speak Up! (chapbook)
87. McSweeney’s #52
88. Ugresic, Dubravka – Fox (Open Letter Books)
89. Bat-Ami, Miriam – Measuring the Marigolds (Caffeinated Press)
90. Ono, Masatsugu – Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
91. Two Lines #28
92. Scalzi, John – Head On
93. Willis, Connie – I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (Subterranean Press)
94. Lovecraft, H.P. – The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk Publications)
95. Mignola, Mike – Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Studio Edition (Flesk Publications)
96. Peninsula Poets #75.1 (Spring 2018)
97. Vodolazkin, Eugene – Laurus (Oneworld Publications)

May (8)

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

June (28)

106. Voices 2018
107. Shishkin, Mikhail – Calligraphy Lessons (Deep Vellum Publishing)
108. VanderMeer, Ann and VanderMeer, Jeff (eds) – Sisters of the Revolution (PM Press)
109. Vollmann, William T. – No Good Alternative
110. Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
111. Russian Literature Triquarterly #9 (Spring 1974)
112. Carruth, Hayden – Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (Copper Canyon Press)
113. Le Guin, Ursula – Sixty Odd (Shambhala Publications)
114. Gaiman, Neil – Fragile Things
115. Gaiman, Neil – Sandman: Overture (Vertigo Comics)
116. de Jesus, Noelle Q. and Katigbak-Lacuesta, Mookie (eds.) – Fast Food Fiction Delivery (Anvil Publishing, Inc)
117. Realuyo, Bino – The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press)
118. Malonzo, Mervin – Tabi Po #1 (Visprint, Inc)
119. Malonzo, Mervin – After Lambana (Vistaprint, Inc)
120. Chacon, Sasha Pimentel – Insides She Swallowed (West End Press)
121. Donoso, Isaac (ed.) Boxer Codex – Vibal Foundation
122. Hagedorn, Jessica – The Gangster of Love
123. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne – Loaded (City Lights Books)
124. Giroux, Henry A. – American Nightmare (City Lights Books)
125. Reyes, Barbara Jane – Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books)
126. Meltzer, David (eds) – San Francisco Beats: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books)
127. Lewis, Penelope and Page, Ra (eds.) – Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Comma Press)
128. Depestre, Rene – Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books)
129. Bakewell, Sarah – At the Existentialist Cafe (Other Press)
130. Abdurraqib, Hanif – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio)
131. Sax, Sam – Madness
132. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – A Coney Island of the Mind, 50th Anniversary Edition (New Directions Publishing)
133. Coval, Kevin, Lansana, Quraysh Ali, and Marshall, Nate (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books)

July (14)

134. Lange, Norah – People in the Room (And Other Stories)
135. Apex Magazine #109, June 2018
136. Hong, Xiao – Ma Bo’Le’s Second Life (Open Letter Books)
137. PEN America #21 – Mythologies
138. Stephenson, Neal and Galland, Nicole – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
139. Gleason, Rachel – New Kind of Rebellion (chapbook)
140. Yang, Jy – The Black Tides of Heaven
141. Yang, Jy – The Read Threads of Fortune
142. Singh, Vandana – Ambiguity Machines (Small Beer Press)
143. Erdrich, Heid E (ed.) – New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
144. Womack, Ytasha L. – Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture (Lawrence Hill Books)
145. Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov
146. Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
147. Poirer, Agnès – Left Bank

August (14)

148. Yesenin, Sergei – Selected Poems
149. Mandelstam, Osip – Voronezh Notebooks (New York Review Books)
150. Turgenev, Ivan – First Love and Other Stories (Oxford University Press)
151. Mayakovsky, Vladimir – Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press)
152. Watts, Peter – The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon Publishing)
153. Haight, Ian – Celadon (Unicorn Press)
154. Roanhorse, Rebecca – Trail of Lightning
155. Granta #144
156. Apex Magazine #110
157. Salvage Magazine #5
158. Brace, Kristin – Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin (Finishing Line Press)
159. Ólafsson, Bragi – Narrator (Open Letter Books)
160. Twitty, Michael W. – The Cooking Gene
161. Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential

September (19)

162. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 17: Kings and Wizards (Airship Entertainment)
163. The Paris Review #226
164. Amazing Stories 76.1 (Fall 2018/WorldCon Issue)
165. Rucker, Rudy – Return to the Hollow Earth (Transreal Books)
166. Sagwa, Kim – Mina (Two Lines Press)
167. Two Lines #29
168. Ulibarri, Sarena (ed.) – Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press)
169. Trabucco Zerán, Alia – The Remainder (And Other Stories)
170. Sigurðsson, Ófeigur – Oraefi: The Wasteland (Deep Vellum Publishing)
171. Llansol, Maria Gabriela – The Geography of Rebels Trilogy (Deep Vellum Publishing)
172. Berti, Eduardo – The Imagined Land (Deep Vellum Publishing)
173. Matthieussent, Brice – Revenge of the Translator (Deep Vellum Publishing)
174. Jones, Scott R. (ed.) – Cthulhusattva (Martian Migraine Press)
175. Brenda, Libia (ed.) – A Larger Reality (Cumulo de Tesla)
176. Ugrešić, Dubravka – American Fictionary (Open Letter Books)
177. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods
178. Albahari, David – Checkpoint (Restless Books)
179. Hernandez, Catherine – Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press)
180. Wagner, Phoebe and Wieland, Brontë Christopher (eds.) – Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

October (28)

181. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #3
182. Vourvoulias, Sabrina – Ink (Rosarium Publishing)
183. Arnold, Amy – Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
184. Indiana, Rita – Tentacle (And Other Stories)
185. Apex Magazine #112, September 2018
186. Morgan, Saretta – Feeling Upon Arrival (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
187. Fitterman, Robert – This Window Make Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)
188. Cáceres, Omar – Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse)
189. White, Simone – Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse)
190. Marinovich, Filip – Wolfman Librarian (Ugly Duckling Presse)
191. Herzer, Christine – Orange (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
192. Storm Cellar 7.1
193. Nordenhof, Asta Olivia – the easiness and the loneliness (Open Letter Books)
194. Larsen, Nella – Passing (Restless Books)
195. Le Guin, Ursula – Wild Angels (Copper Canyon Press)
196. Le Guin, Ursula – So Far, So Good (Copper Canyon Press)
197. Poetry 213.1, October 2018
198. Locus Magazine, October 2018
199. Stoneboat Literary Journal 8.2
200. Almeida, Alexis – I Have Never Been Able to Sing (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
201. Rogal, Lisa – Feed Me Weird Things (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
202. Ostrups, Artis – Gestures (Ugly Duckling Presse)
203. Patterson, Zahara – Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse)
204. Gdenov, Vasilik – Alphabet for the Entrants (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
205. Vitale, Anna – Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse)
206. Hamilton, Diana – God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse)
207. Sugar House Review 10.1
208. Apex Magazine #113

November (31)

209. Reikki, Ron (ed.) – The Way North (Wayne State University Press)
210. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1 (Apex Publications)
211. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2 (Apex Publications)
212. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3 (Apex Publications)
213. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Apex Publications)
214. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5 (Apex Publications)
215. Leib, Bart R. and Holt, Kay T. (eds.) – Resist Fascism (Crossed Genres Publications)
216. Kasper, M (ed., trans.) – Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets (Ugly Duckling Presse)
217. Anderson, Darran – Imaginary Cities (University of Chicago Press)
218. Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years (Restless Books)
219. Butcher, Jim – Turn Coat, signed, #360 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
220. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #247 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
221. Schow, David J – DJStories, signed, #568 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
222. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Mira’s Last Dance, signed, #242 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
223. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #379 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
224. Armstrong, Kelly – Amityville Horrible, signed, #961 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
225. Anders, Charlie Jane – Rock Manning Goes for Broke, signed, #393 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
226. Lansdale, Joe R. and Mertz, Stephen – M.I.A. Hunter, signed, #177 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
227. Resnick, Mike – Voyages, signed, #703 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
228. Leckie, Ann – Provenance, signed, #259 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
229. McSweeney’s #54: The End of Trust
230. Monk, Ian and Becker, Daniel Levin (eds.) – All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 (McSweeney’s)
231. Peninsula Poets, Fall 2018 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
232. Palmer, Ada – Too Like the Lightning
233. Dickinson, Seth – The Monster Baru Cormorant
234. Yang, JY – The Descent of Monsters
235. Poetry CCCXIII.3, December 2018
236. Sanchez, Pablo Martin – The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Deep Vellum)
237. Granta #145
238. Jemisin, N.K. – How Long ’til Black Future Month?
239. Rodoreda, Mercè – Camellia Street (Open Letter Books)

December (9)

240. Salvage #2
241. Salvage #3
242. Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Females (Two Lines Press)
243. Apex Magazine #114 (November 2018)
244. Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, vol. 4 (Diabolical Plots L.L.C.)
245. The Paris Review #227
246. Salvage #6
247. Poetry #213.4, January 2019
248. Girondo, Oliverio – Decals (Open Letter Books)

Same as the 2016 reading list. This are all of the books and journals acquired/read by Yours Truly in the 2017 calendar year.

January (11)

1. Suah, Bae – Recitation (Deep Vellum)
2. Klougart, Josefine – Of Darkness (Deep Vellum)
3. Manson, Mark – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
4. Blasim, Hassan (ed). – Iraq + 100 (Comma Press UK)
5. The Long List Anthology vol. 2 (Diabolical Plots LLC)
6. More, Thomas – Utopia
7. Harrison, Jim – Republican Wives (novella)
8. Žižek, Slavoj – Event
9. Volodine, Antoine – Radiant Terminus (Open Letter Books)
10. Chopra, Serena – IC (Horse Less Press)
11. Anderson, Stephanie – Lands of Yield (Horse Less Press)

February (16)

12. Athitakis, Mark – The New Midwest (Belt Publishing)
13. Atkinson, Scott (ed) – Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology (Belt Publishing)
14. Wolin, Sheldon S. – Democracy Incorporated
15. Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail ’72
16. Thompson, Hunter S. – The Great Shark Hunt
17. Thompson, Hunter S. – Generation of Swine
18. Thompson, Hunter S. – Songs of the Doomed
19. Thompson, Hunter S. – Better Than Sex
20. Granta #138: Journeys
21. Du Bois, W.E.B. – The Souls of Black Folk (Restless Books)
22. Weir, Andy – The Martian
23. Aira, César – The Proof (And Other Stories)
24. Dick, Philip K. – The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
25. Noll, João Gilberto – Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press)
26. Two Lines, Issue 26
27. Harrison, Jim – A Really Big Lunch

March (13)

28. Eco, Umberto – The Name of the Rose
29. Xue, Can – Frontier (Open Letter Books)
30. England, Andrea – Other Geographies (Creative Justice Press)
31. Robinson, Kim Stanley – New York 2140
32. Hines, Jim C. – Revisionary
33. Sterling, Bruce – Pirate Utopia (Tachyon Publications)
34. Castillo, Ana – Peel My Love Like an Onion
35. Castillo, Ana – Black Dove (Feminist Press)
36. Blackburn, Paul – The Collected Poems (Persea Books)
37. Castillo, Ana – Watercolor Women Opaque Men (Northwestern University Press)
38. Li He – Goddesses, Ghosts and Demons: The Collected Poems of Li He
39. Kicknosway, Faye – Who Shall Know Them?
40. Vallejo, César – Poemas Humanos

April (13)

41. Condrescu, Andrei – Alien Candor (Black Sparrow Press)
42. Cope, David (ed) – Song of the Owashtanong (Ridgeway Press)
43. May, Jamaal – Hum (Alice James Books)
44. Wright, C.D. – The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press)
45. Poetry Magazine, April 2017
46. Pitol, Sergio – The Magician of Vienna (Deep Vellum Publishing)
47. Gnarr, Jón – The Outlaw (Deep Vellum Publishing)
48. Adams, John Joseph (ed.) – Cosmic Powers
49. Conversations with Paul Bowles (University Press of Mississippi)
50. Conversations with Chinua Achebe (University Press of Mississippi)
51. Patterson, Jorge Zepeda – Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World (Restless Books)
52. Fresán, Rodrigo – The Invented Part (Open Letter Books)
53. Garréta, Anne – Not One Day (Deep Vellum Publishing)

May (11)

54. VanderMeer, Jeff – Borne
55. Springer, Filip – History of a Disappearance (Restless Books)
56. Jaeggy, Fleur – I Am the Brother of XX (And Other Stories)
57. Segaloff, Nat – A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison (NESFA Press) #165 of 500
58. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
59. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Demons
60. Jussawalla, Feroza and Dasenbrock, Reed Way (eds) – Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (University Press of Mississippi)
61. Granta #139
62. Miéville, China – October
63. James, D.R. – Split Level (Finishing Line Press)
64. McGookey, Kathleen – Heart in a Jar (White Pine Press)

June (11)

65. Carroll, Jim – Living at the Movies
66. Rulfo, Juan – The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings (Deep Vellum Publishing)
67. Nowicki, Wojciech – Salki (Open Letter Books)
68. Glossolalia, Issue 3
69. Jodorowsky, Alejandro – Where the Bird Sings Best (Restless Books)
70. Martin, George R.R. – The World of Ice and Fire
71. Hopler, Jay – The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
72. Walsh, Joanna – Worlds from the Word’s End (And Other Stories)
73. Laurel, Juan Tomás Ávila – The Gurugu Pledge (And Other Stories)
74. NDiaye, Marie – My Heart Hemmed In (Two Lines Press)
75. The 3288 Review, Issue 2.4 (Caffeinated Press)

July (17)

76. Schafer, William (ed.) – Best of Subterranean (Subterranean Press)
77. Alexie, Sherman – The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
78. Alexie, Sherman – Reservation Blues
79. Alexie, Sherman – You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
80. Oliver, Mary – Why I Wake Early
81. Open Palm Print #7
82. Eggers, Dave – Zeitoun
83. Hammond, Rose L. – Just a Poor Country Girl (Run With It)
84. LeBel, Steve – The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Lost Girl (Argon Press)
85. LeBel, Steve – The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Putty (Argon Press)
86. Davis, Jean – The Last God
87. McClure, Patricia M. – Losing a Hero to Alzheimer’s
88. Payne, J. Scott – The Green Hell (Argon Press)
89. Compton, Deanna J. – Freecurrent: The Legacy (In God’s Hands Publishing)
90. The Best of McSweeney’s (McSweeney’s)
91. Torres, Fernanda – The End (Restless Books)
92. Bergsson, Guðbergur – Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller (Open Letter Books)

August (11)

93. Dickie, Tenzin – Old Demons, New Deities (O/R Books)
94. Carroll, Jonathan – The Crow’s Dinner (Subterranean Press)
95. Sterling, Bruce – Heavy Weather
96. Sterling, Bruce – Globalhead
97. Russell, Mary Doria – The Sparrow
98. Blas de Roblès, Jean-Marie – Island of Point Nemo (Open Letter Books)
99. Kenny, Timothy – Far Country (Bottom Dog Press)
100. Steadman, Ralph – Extinct Boids
101. Steadman, Ralph – Nextinction
102. Shrestha, Romio – Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery (Mandala Publishing)
103. Yoss – A Planet for Rent (Restless Books)

September (20)

104. Hernández, Carlos – The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium Publishing)
105. Merwin, W.S. – The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press)
106. Merwin, W.S. – The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
107. Two Lines, issue 27
108. The Paris Review, issue 222
109. Powers, Tim – Medusa’s Web; signed #462 of 474 (Subterranean Press)
110. Gallagher, Stephen – The Authentic William James; signed #279 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
111. Carroll, Jonathan – The Crow’s Dinner; signed #312 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
112. Egan, Greg – The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred; signed #669 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
113. Grant, Mira – Final Girls; signed #1161 of 1250 (Subterranean Press)
114. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric and the Shaman  (Subterranean Press)
115. Kiernan, Caitlin R. – Dear Sweet Filthy World (Subterranean Press)
116. Resnick, Mike – Voyages; signed #911 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
117. Reynolds, Alastair – Beyond the Aquila Rift (Subterranean Press)
118. Shepard, Lucius – Five Autobiographies and a Fiction (Subterranean Press)
119. Silverberg, Robert – Early Days; signed #626 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
120. Pugliese, Nicola – Malacqua (And Other Stories)
121. Boullosa, Carmen – Heavens on Earth (Deep Vellum Publishing)
122. Lahens, Yanick – Moonbath (Deep Vellum Publishing)
123. Brandt, Per Aage – If I Were a Suicide Bomber (Open Letter Books)

October (39)

124. Suah, Baeh – North Station (Open Letter Books)
125. Neruda, Pablo – Book of Twilight (Copper Canyon Press)
126. Chamoiseau, Patrick – Texaco
127. Bishop, K.J. – The Etched City
128. Akhmatova, Anna – Selected Poems
129. Navarro, Elvira – A Working Woman (Two Lines Press)
130. Unnikrishnan, Deepak – Temporary People (Restless Books)
131. Cruz, Victor Hernandez – Red Beans (Coffee House Press)
132. Michigan Quarterly, vol. 56 No. 2
133. McSweeney’s #50
134. Jemisen, N.K. – The Fifth Season
135. VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation
136. Oomen, Anne-Marie – Pulling Down the Barn (Wayne State University Press)
137. Cooper, Wyn – Postcards from the Interior (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
138. Cooper, Wyn – Chaos is the new Calm (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
139. Holden, Craig – The Jazz Bird
140. The Sutra of Hui Neng (H.K. Buddhist Book Distributor)
141. Dobbs, David & Ober, Richard – The Northern Forest
142. Watts, Alan – Psychotherapy East & West
143. Kapleau, Philip – The Three Pillars of Zen
144. Lopez, Donald S. (ed.) – Religions of Tibet in Practice
145. Baghramian, Maria (ed.) – Modern Philosophy of Language
146. Liu, Ken (ed.) – Invisible Planets
147. Ward, Jesmyn – Sing, Unburied, Sing
148. Schnurr, Ryan – In the Watershed (Belt Publishing)
149. McLelland, Edward – How to Speak Midwestern (Belt Publishing)
150. Nickels, Ashley and Vilella, Dani (eds) – Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology (Belt Publishing)
151. Sedegy, Jason (ed.) The Akron Anthology (Belt Publishing)
152. Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing)
153. Piiparinen, Richey and Trubek, Anne (eds.) – The Cleveland Anthology (Belt Publishing)
154. Atkinson, Scott (ed.) – Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology (Belt Publishing)
155. Boyd, Eric (ed.) – The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing)
156. Clark, Anna (ed.) – A Detroit Anthology (Belt Publishing)
157. Foley, Aaron – The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing)
158. Foley, Aaron – How to Live In Detroit Without Being a Jackass (Belt Publishing)
159. Bayne, Martha (ed.) – Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology (Belt Publishing)
160. McQuade, Zan (ed.) – The Cincinnati Anthology (Belt Publishing)
161. Biehl, Jody K. (ed.) – Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology (Belt Publishing)
162. Marino, Jacqueline and Miller, Will (eds.) – Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology (Belt Publishing)

November (13)

163. Abani, Chris – The Face: Cartography of the Void (Restless Books)
164. Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, Formative Years (Restless Books)
165. Keni, Niyati – Esperanza Street (And Other Stories)
166. Quin, Ann – The Unmapped Country (And Other Stories)
167. McDermott, John J (ed). – The Writings of William James (University of Chicago Press)
168. McPhee, John – Draft No. 4
169. Subterranean Press Bibliography 1995 – 2015 (Subterranean Press)
170. Hilbig, Wolfgang – Old Rendering Plant (Two Lines Press)
171. Nielsen, Joanes – The Brahmadells (Open Letter Books)
172. Diaz, Junot (ed.) – Global Dystopias (Boston Review)
173. Long List Anthology vol. I
174. McClung, Laren (ed.) – Inheriting the War
175. Stoppard, Tom – Plays 5

December (3)

176. Naivo – Beyond the Rice Fields (Restless Books)
177. Silveira, Maria Jose – Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters (Open Letter Books)
178. McSweeney’s #51

The 2015 reading list was so much fun that I have decided to do it again! I am making a couple of minor changes to the criteria here. First, this list will include books I have read, books I have purchased but not read, and literary journals which I purchase and/or read, all in the 2016 calendar year. With any luck I will have an even dozen from Caffeinated Press at the end of the year. Since 2016 is a leap year this may give me just enough time to reach that goal. Why not only list books I actually read? Because feck is over-rated.

Helping to fill this list are the subscriptions I have to the catalogs of independent publishers Open Letter Books, Restless Books, And Other Stories, Deep Vellum and Horse Less Press, as well as subscriptions to The Paris Review, Granta and Zyzzyva. These should get me, at minimum, 35 things to read this year. Just shy of three a month. So without further ado, here is the list.

January (65)

1. Zyzzyva, issue 31.3
2. The Paris Review, issue 215
3. Rodoreda, Mercè – War, So Much War (Open Letter Books)
4. Anderson, Benedict – Imagined Communities
5. Rattle, issue 50
6. Piketty, Thomas – Capital in the Twenty-First Century
7. Clark, Patricia – Sunday Rising
8. Harrison, Jim – Dead Man’s Float
9. Mecklenburg, Virginia – Modern Masters: American Abstraction at Midcentury
10. n+1, issue 24
11. Labbé, Carlos – Loquela (Open Letter Books)
12. Comola, Jessica – Everything We Met Changed Form & Followed the Rest (Horse Less Press)
13. Bettis, Christine – Burnout Paradise (Horse Less Press)
14. Burns, Megan – Sleepwalk With Me (Horse Less Press)
15. Midwestern Gothic, issue 20
16. Dunes Review, issue 19.2
17. Mieville, China – Three Moments of an Explosion (Subterranean Press, signed, number 268/400)
18. Michigan’s Voices, issue 3.2, Spring 1963
19. The Noble Savage, issue 1, February 1960
20. Gulf Coast, issue 20.2, Fall 2008
21. Bamber, Linda – Metropolitan Tang
22. Wakoski, Diane – Argonaut Rose (Black Sparrow Press)
23. Meltzer, David – No Eyes: Lester Young (Black Sparrow Press)
24. Kashin, Oleg – Fardwor, Russia! (Restless Books)
25. Velázquez, Carlos – The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories (Restless Books)
26. Clark, Anna (ed) – A Detroit Anthology (Rust Belt Chic Press)
27. The Tishman Review, issue 1.4
28. Michigan Quarterly Review, issue 54.4
29. Taylor, Jonathan Jay and Neill, Foster – The Michigan Poet
30. O’Brien, Colleen – Spool in the Maze (New Michigan Press)
31. Krieg, Brandon – Invasives (New Rivers Press)
32. El-Mohtar, Amal – The Honey Month (Papaveria Press, signed)
33. Klaver, Christian – The Adventure of the Lustrous Pearl (signed)
34. Klaver, Christian – The Adventure of the Innsmouth Whaler (signed)
35. Kalver, Christian – The Adventure of the Solitary Grave (signed)
36. Klaver, Christian – Shadows Over London (signed)
37. McClellan, Brian – Servant of the Crown (signed)
38. McClellan, Brian – Forsworn (signed)
39. McClellan, Brian – Murder a the Kinnen Hotel (signed)
40. McClellan, Brian – In the Field Marshal’s Shadow (signed)
41. Steinmetz, Ferret – Flex (signed)
42. Steinmets, Ferret – The Flux (signed)
43. O’Keefe, Megan – Steal the Sky (signed)
44. Underwood, Michael R. – Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution (signed)
45. Underwood, Michael R. – Genrenauts: The Absconded Ambassador (signed)
46. Collins, Brigid – The Southern Dragon (signed)
47. Bennett, Robert Jackson – City of Blades (signed)
48. Olson, Melissa – Boundary Crossed (signed)
49. Toyama, Kentaro – Geek Heresy (signed)
50. Duncan, Andy and Klages, Ellen – Wakulla Springs
51. Wilson, Kai Ashante –The Devil in America
52. Smale, Alan – Clash of Eagles
53. Swanson, Jay – Into the Nanten (signed)
54. Kloos, Marko – Terms of Enlistment (signed)
55. Brown, Pierce – Red Rising
56. Hurley, Kameron – Mirror Empire (signed)
57. Hurley, Kameron – God’s War (signed)
58. Gnarr, Jon – The Pirate (Deep Vellum Publishing)
59. The Gateway Review Issue 2.1
60. Eastern Iowa Review, Spring/Summer 2015
61. Tenev, Georgi – Party Headquarters (Open Letters Books)
62. Rajaniemi, Hannu – Collected Fiction
63. Dickinson, Seth – The Traitor Baru Cormorant
64. Wojtaszek, Kristina – Opal (World Weaver Press, signed)
65. Parrish, Rhonda (ed) – Scarecrow (World Weaver Press, signed)

February (30)

66. River Styx issue 95
67. Granta issue 132
68. Farooqi, Musharraf Ali – Between Clay and Dust (Restless Books)
69. Harrison, Jim – The Ancient Minstrel (signed)
70. How Do I Begin? A Hmong-American Literary Anthology (Heyday Books)
71. Barr, Terry – Don’t Date Baptists: and Other Warnings from My Alabama Mother (Red Dirt Press)
72. Sternin, Grigori and Kirillina, Jelena – Ilya Repin
73. Rucker, Rudy and Sterling, Bruce – Transreal Cyberpunk (Transreal Books)
74. Bell, Cristalyne (ed.) Rebel Reporting: John Ross Speaks to Independent Journalists
75. Meruane, Lina – Seeing Red (Deep Vellum)
76. Eco, Umberto – Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
77. Granta issue 134
78. Estes, Phil – High Life (Horse Less Press)
79. Olszewska, Daniela – Answering Machine (Horse Less Press)
80. Eco, Umberto – How to Travel with a Salmon
81. Eco, Umberto – Travels in Hyperreality
82. Eco, Umberto – Kant and the Platypus
83. Eco, Umberto – Misreadings
84. Eco, Umberto – Serendipities
85. Eco, Umberto – The Search for the Perfect Language
86. Leckie, Ann – Ancillary Justice
87. Tomaszewski, Z.G. – All Things Dusk
88. Dillard, Annie – The Annie Dillard Reader
89. Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Short Stories
90. Melville, Herman – Great Short Works of Herman Melville
91. Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Illych & Other Stories
92. Campbell, James – The Ghost Mountain Boys
93. Least Heat-Moon, William – PrairyErth
94. Eco, Umberto – The Prague Cemetery
95. Eco, Umberto – Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

March (27)

96. Abani, Chris – The Face: Cartography of the Void (Restless Books)
97. Aw, Tash – The Face: Strangers on a a Pier (Restless Books)
98. Ozeki, Ruth – The Face: A Time Code (Restless Books)
99. Lynch, Sean – The City of Your Mind (Whirlwind Press)
100. Whirlwind, issue 5
101. Whirlwind, issue 6
102. Whirlwind, issue 7
103. Sinister, Bucky – Black Hole: A Novel (Soft Skull Press)
104. Ali, Taha Muhammad – So What (Copper Canyon Press)
105. Hô Xuân Huong – Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong (Copper Canyon Press)
106. The Paris Review #216
107. Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard – La Superba (Deep Vellum)
108. VanderMeer, Ann (ed.) The Bestiary (Centipede Press)
109. Chambers, James – The Engines of Sacrifice (Dark Regions Press)
110. Meikle, William – The Plasm (Dark Regions Press)
111. Pugmire, W.H. & Thomas, Jeffrey – Encounters with Enoch Coffin (Dark Regions Press)
112. Sammons, Brian M & Barrass, Glynn Owen (eds.) – World War Cthulhu (Dark Regions Press)
113. Jamneck, Lynne (ed.) – Dreams from the Witch House (Dark Regions Press)
114. Accola, Rosie – So That Tonight I Might See (chapbook)
115. Lake, Brandon – Something Lacking, vol. 1 (Split Filter Press, chapbook)
116. Brace, Kristen – The Farthest Dreaming Hill (chapbook)
117. Austin, Melissa B. – Keys (chapbook)
118. The Bandit Zine – Issue 3, Alt Fashion and D.I.Y.
119. The Bandit Zine – Love + Heart Break issue
120. de Alba, Cassanda – Habitats (Horse Less Press)
121. Schapira, Kate – Handbook for Hands That Alter as We Hold Them Out (Horse Less Press)
122. Porter, Bill (Red Pine) – Finding Them Gone (Copper Canyon Press)

April (36)

123. Fanning, Robert – Sheet Music (Three Bee Press, chapbook)
124. Fanning, Robert – American Prophet (Marick Press)
125. Zyzzyva 32.1
126. Volodine, Antoine – Bardo or Not Bardo (Open Letter Books)
127. Hirsch, Edward – A Poet’s Glossary
128. Rich, Adrienne – Later Poems
129. Pederson, Miriam – This Brief Light (Finishing Line Press, chapbook)
130. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – Writing Across the Landscape
131. Custer, Nic (La©luster) – Nothing Works, Everyone Labors
132. Secret Bully, issue 1 (chapbook)
133. Stairs in the Middle of the Street – Creative Youth Center of Grand Rapids
134. Under the Sun – Creative Youth Center of Grand Rapids
135. Green a Table, Green an Elephant – Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center
136. Pratchett, Terry and Baxter, Stephen – The Long Utopia
137. Bat-Ami, Miriam – Two Suns in the Sky
138. Pushcart Prize VIII (1983-1984)
139. Stoppard, Tom – The Invention of Love
140. Startling Sci-Fi (New Lit Salon Press)
141. Haight, Ian – Magnolia and Lotus (White Pine Press)
142. Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2015 (Vine Leaves Press)
143. Topology Magazine (Spring 2016 issue)
144. Hariharan, Githa – Almost Home (Restless Books)
145. Tin House issue 61
146. Rastall, Janeen, et al – Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications)
147. Magoon, Mark – The Upper Peninsula Misses You (ELJ Publications)
148. Hamilton, Carol – Umberto Eco Lost His Gun (Pudding House Publications)
149. Winn, Howard – Four-Picture Sequence of Desire and Love (Front Street Publishers)
150. Bridges: Poets of Dutchess and Ulster Counties (Springtown Press)
151. Hamilton, Carol – Such Deaths (Purple Flag)
152. Cope, David – Turn the Wheel (The Humana Press)
153. Big Scream, issue 51
154. Big Scream, issue 54
155. Hinrichsen, Dennis – Skin Music (Southern Indiana Review Press)
156. Rappleye, Greg – Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press)
157. Atkins, Priscilla – The Cafe of Our Departure (Sibling Rivalry Press)
158. Granta issue 135

May (10)

159. Villoro, Juan – God is Round (Restless Books)
160. Zhadan, Serhiy – Voroshilovgrad (Deep Vellum Publishing)
161. Audin, Michèle – One Hundred Twenty-one Days (Deep Vellum Publishing)
162. Neruda, Pablo – Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
163. Gross, Terry – All I Did Was Ask
164. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – Collected Novellas
165. Barker, Clive – The Scarlet Gospels
166. Martin, George R.R. and Dozois, Gardner – Rogues
167. Pratchett, Terry – Raising Steam
168. Saer, Juan Jose – The Clouds (Open Letter Books)

June (20)

169. Gablik, Suzi – Conversations Before the End of Time
170. Pavlov, Konstantin – Cry of a Former Dog
171. Burrows, E.G. – Man Fishing
172. Kooser, Ted – Local Wonders
173. Tvedten, Brother Benet – The View From a Monastery
174. Duras, Marguerite – Abahn Sabana David (Open Letter Books)
175. Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press)
176. Conversations with Henry Miller (University Press of Mississippi)
177. Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (University Press of Mississippi)
178. The Paris Review, issue 217
179. Jodorowsky, Alejandro – Albina and the Dog-Men (Restless Books)
180. Enjoy! (826michigan)
181. Vigus, Rebecka – Rivers Edge (Lilac Publishing)
182. Edwards, Zev Lawson – The New Punk
183. Glaysher, Frederick – The Parliament of Poets (Earthrise Press)
184. Clay, Anissa – The God Conception (Red Engine Press)
185. Third Wednesday, Vol. IX, No. 2
186. Reynolds, Alastair – Beyond the Aquila Rift (Subterranean Press)
187. Moon, Jung Young – Vaseline Buddha (Deep Vellum)
188. Laroui, Fouad – The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers (Deep Vellum)

July (12)

189. Klougart, Josefine – One of Us Is Sleeping (Open Letter Books)
190. Chu, Wesley – Time Siege
191. Yoss (Gomez, Jose Miguel Sanchez) – Super Extra Grande (Restless Books)
192. Colasacco, John – Two Teenagers (Horse Less Press)
193. Jordan, Ahmunet Jessica – Black and Blue Prints
194. Granta 136
195. Boullosa, Carmen – Before (Open Letter Books)
196. Devi, Ananda – Eve Out of Her Ruins (Deep Vellum)
197. Lawrence, Stephon – Nervs (Horse Less Press)
198. Miller, Frank – 300
199. McGuane, Thomas – Gallatin Canyon
200. Salter, James – All That Is

August (17)

201. Saccomanno, Guillermo – Gesell Dome (Open Letter Books)
202. Poetry (July/August 2016)
203. Gaiman, Neil – The View From the Cheap Seats
204. Year’s Best Science Fiction #32
205. New American Writing #34
206. Amezcua, Eloisa – On Not Screaming (Horse Less Press)
207. De Rojas, Agustin – The Year 200 (Restless Books)
208. Volksmode 2014 (Issue Press)
209. Campbell, Anna – Ever Your Friend (Issue Press)
210. Curry, Erin – Poems to the Sea (Issue Press)
211. Johnson, Cathy G – Thank God, I Am In Love (Issue Press)
212. Wietor, George – Past Lives (Issue Press)
213. Batt, J. Daniel – Keaghan in the Tales of Dreamside (Story Jitsu)
214. Genius Loci – Tales of the Spirit of Place (Ragnarok Publications)
215. Eastern Iowa Review issue 2
216. Vuong, Ocean – Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press)
217. Zyzzyva #107

September (21)

218. Neuman, Andres – How to Travel Without Seeing (Restless Books)
219. Stephenson, Neal – The Diamond Age (Subterranean Press; signed – 292 of 500)
220. Benford, Gregory – The Best of Gregory Benford (Subterranean Press)
221. McCammon, Robert – Blue World (Subterranean Press)
222. Chu, Wesley – The Days of Tao (Subterranean Press; signed – 321 of 1000)
223. Kuznia, Yanni (ed.) – A Fantasy Medley II (Subterranean Press)
224. Powers, Tim – Down and Out In Purgatory (Subterranean Press)
225. Lansdale, Joe and Lansdale, Kasey – The Case of the Bleeding Wall (Subterranean Press; signed – 278 of 500)
226. Armstrong, Kelley – Driven (Subterranean Press; signed – 502 of 1000)
227. Armstrong, Kelley – Forsaken (Subterranean Press; signed – 372 of 1000)
228. Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
229. Levy, Ariel (ed.) – The Best American Essays 2015
230. N+1 #26
231. Pagano, Emmanuelle – Trysting (&  Other Stories)
232. Raud, Rein – The Brother (Open Letter Books)
233. The Paris Review #218
234. Browne, Colin – I Had an Interesting French Artist to Visit Me This Summer (Figure 1 Publishing)
235. Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll – Red – A Haida Manga
236. Scott, Walter – Wendy (Koyama Press)
237. Bell, Marc – Stroppy (Drawn & Quarterly Press)
238. Bernard, Bruce (ed.) – Vincent by Himself

October (9)

239. Hines, Jim – Libriomancer
240. Allfrey, Ellah Wakatama – Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
241. Passages: Africa (PEN America)
242. Glossolalia Issue 2 (PEN America)
243. Suah, Bae – A Greater Music (Open Letter Books)
244. Montes, Lara Mimosa – The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press)
245. Powell, AJ – Grayson Rising (Caffeinated Press)
246. Brewed Awakenings II (Caffeinated Press)
247. Joshi, S.T. (ed) – Black Wings V (PS Publishing)

November (24)

248. Fonseca, Carlos – Colonel Lagrimas (Restless Books)
249. Sanchez-Andrade, Christina – The Winterlings (Restless Books)
250. Spencer, Cynthia – Girl Tramp (Horse Less Press)
251. Danos, Stephen – Missing Slides (Horse Less Press)
252. Okorafor, Nnedi – The Book of Phoenix
253. Geiger, Arno – The Old King In His Exile (& Other Stories)
254. Loeb, Paul Rogat – The Impossible Will Take a Little While
255. Byatt, A.S. – Babel Tower
256. Earley, Tim – Linthead Stomp (Horse Less Press)
257. Jimenez, Claudia Salazar – Blood of the Dawn (Deep Vellum Publishing)
258. Jaffe, Noemi – What are the Blind Men Dreaming? (Deep Vellum Publishing)
259. Rabasa, Eduardo – A Zero-Sum Game (Deep Vellum Publishing)
260. Poetry magazine CCIX:2 November 2016
261. Lehman, David (ed.) – Best American Poetry 2016
262. Burton, Richard Francis (trans.) – Tales from the Arabian Nights
263. Millidge, Gary Spencer – Alan Moore: Storyteller
264. Campbell, Hayley – The Art of Neil Gaiman
265. Zaleski, Philip and Zaleski, Carol – The Fellowship
266. Crowley, John – The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencruetz (Small Beer Press)
267. Crowley, John – Lord Byron’s Novel
268. Mondrup, Iben – Justine (Open Letter Books)
269. Davis, Jean – Sahmara
270. Kaag, John – American Philosophy
271. Pushkin, Alexander – Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

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272. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 1: Back on the Street
273. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 2: Lust for Life
274. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 3: Year of the Bastard
275. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 4: The New Scum
276. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 5: Lonely City
277. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 6: Gouge Away
278. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 7: Spider’s Thrash
279. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 8: Dirge
280. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 9: The Cure
281. Ellis, Warren – Transmetropolitan 10: One More Time
282. Pratchett, Terry – Discworld Companion
283. Zyzzyva #108
284. Tea, Michelle – Black Wave (And Other Stories)
285. Calvino, Italo – If On a Winter’s Night A Traveler
286. Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities
287. Hines, Jim C. – Codex Born
288. Hines, Jim C. – Unbound
289. Borges, Jorge Luis – Selected Non-fictions
290. Paris Review #219
291. Eir, Oddny – Land of Love and Ruins (Restless Books)
292. Granta #137
293. Shah, Bullhe – Sufi Lyrics
294. Cardoso, Lucio – Chronicle of the Murdered House (Open Letter Books)
295. Chambers, Robert W. – The King in Yellow (Book Revivals Press)
296. Reppion, John (ed.) – Spirits of Place (Daily Grail Publishing)
297. Dillard, Annie – The Abundance
298. Marshall, Tim – Prisoners of Geography
299. Marx, Karl – Das Kapital
300. Bakunin, Mikhail – God and the State
301. Kropotkin, Peter – Anarchism
302. Herman, Edward S. and Chomsky, Noam – Manufacturing Consent
303. Hedges, Chris – Wages of Rebellion
304. Hedges, Chris – American Fascists
305. Hedges, Chris and Sacco, Joe – Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
306. Hedges, Chris – Empire of Illusion
307. Ismailov, Hamid – The Underground (Restless Books)
308. Goff, Nichole – Aluminum Necropolis (Horse Less Press)
309. Gurton-Wachter, Anna – Blank Blank Blues (Horse Less Press)
310. Snyder, Gary – The Great Clod
311. Coates, Ta-Nehisi – Between the World and Me
312. Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao