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Reading

2024

• Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
• Norwood by Charles Portis
• The Pisces by Melissa Broder
• James by Percival Everett
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Filth by Irvine Welsh
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
• The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen
• The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll
• Pronto by Elmore Leonard
• Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
• Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• A Splendid Conspiracy by Albert Cossery
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

2023

• Tresspass by Rose Tremain
• The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán
• Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin
• The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
• Rush by Kim Wozencraft
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason
• While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
• Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• Transmission by Hari Kunzru
• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
• Captivity by György Spiró
• La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl by David Huddle
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• More Than This by Patrick Ness
• Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
• Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
• You'd Be A Stranger, Too by Weston Cutter
• Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade
• No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette
• Moon Music by Faye Kellerman
• Company K by William March
• Babel by R. F. Kuang
• Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
• Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason
• Winkie by Clifford Chase
• French Exit by Patrick deWitt
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
• Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• It by Stephen King

2022

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• The Portage to San Christóbal of A. H. by George Steiner
• The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
• Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• Tuff by Paul Beatty (abandoned)
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
• Utu by Caryl Férey (abandoned)
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Lê Thi Diem Thúy
• War Porn by Roy Scranton
• My Lobotomy: A Memoir by Howard Dully
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• Germinal by Émile Zola
• Savage Conversations by Leanne Howe
• The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
• Radiant Cool by Dan Lloyd
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• The Comforters by Muriel Spark
• Darkness Visible by William Styron
• Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• Something Happened by Joseph Heller (abandoned)
• Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
• Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
• Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
• A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
• The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
• The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Babs H. Deal
• Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• American Gangbang by Sam Benjamin

2021

• Diary Of An Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
• Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
• Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
• A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
• Norte by Edmundo Paz Soldán
• One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
• Version Control by Dexter Palmer
• Hunger by Knut Hamsun
• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
• Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
• Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
• City of Glass by Paul Auster
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• Swallowing Stones by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
• Symptomatic by Danzy Senna
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
• White Tears by Hari Kunzru
• The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán
• Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
• Catboy by Benji Nate
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

2020

• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
• Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Firestarter by Stephen King
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Lesabéndio by Paul Scheerbart
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (abandoned)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
• The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls by Andrew Katz
• Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Black Boy by Richard Wright (abandoned)
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (abandoned)
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
• Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Bird Box by Josh Malerman
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
• A Cure For Suicide by Jesse Ball
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

2019

• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Ruffhouse by Chris Schwartz
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Ghosts by Cesar Aira
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Already Dead by Denis Johnson
• Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Find Me by Laura van den Berg
• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
• Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich
• Rendezvous With Rama by Authur C. Clarke
• Shear by Tim Parks
• Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
• Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
• The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
• The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Getting Mother’s Body by Susan-Lori Parks
• Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
• Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Salaryman by Meg Pei
• Comemadre by Roque Larraquy

2018

• The Prank by Anton Chekhov
• Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #2) by Douglas Adams
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (abandoned)
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Jonah Sees Ghosts by Mark Sullivan
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• L’Assommoir by Émile Zola
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
• The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
• Kill the Next One by Federico Axat
• Pop! by Mark Polanzak
• The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
• Ill Will by Dan Chaon
• Hystopia by David Means
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (misprinted copy)
• The Adventures of a Bed Salesman by Michael Kumpfmuller (abandoned)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lang
• Zeroville by Steve Erickson
• NW by Zadie Smith
• Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
• Mislaid by Nell Zink
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
• Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
• The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2017

• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
• The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
• To Die for the People by Huey Newton
• The Glamshack by Paul Cohen
• On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg
• Unrequited by Jenny Drummey
• Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
• This Day Ends Like Any Day by Timothy Ogene
• The End by Fernanda Torres
• Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannigan
• Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
• A Dilemma by Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
• Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
• Compulsion by Meyer Levin
• Bombardiers by Po Bronson
• Cigarettes by Harry Matthews
• Testament by Vickie Gendreau
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• The Summer She Was Under Water by Jen Michalski
• When The De La Cruz Family Danced by Donna Miscolta
• I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
• Animal Magnet by Gary Anderson
• Brothers by David Clerson
• Arcade by Drew Nellins Smith
• Come From Nowhere by Ellen Greenfield

2016

• The Tattooed Heart by Jezra Kaye
• The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell
• The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar
• Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• The Shapes of Dogs’ Eyes by Harry Gallon
• A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
• Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
• Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
• Hula by Lisa Smith
• Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun
• Crooked by Austin Grossman
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
• Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
• Under The Small Lights by John Cotter
• Waveland by Simone Zelitch
• Salamanders of the Silk Road by Christopher Smith
• The Underground by Hamid Ismailov
• Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• Square Wave by Mark de Silva
• Sleight by Kirsten Kaschock
• Among The Living by Jonathan Rabb
• Charmed Particles by Chrissy Kolaya
• How Fast Can You Run by Harriet Levin Millan
• Country Life by Ken Edwards
• Mr. Boardwalk by Louis Greenstein
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Bug by Ellen Ullman
• The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (abandoned)
• City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallsberg
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth

2015

• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
• Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb
• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
• How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
• How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
• The Familiar: Volume 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (abandoned)
• Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson
• In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
• Crazy Cock by Henry Miller
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
• Summer House With Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
• Pink by Gus Van Sant
• Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• V. by Thomas Pynchon
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• (R)evolution by PJ Manney (abandoned)
• Wreckage by Emily Bleeker
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
• Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

2014

• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
• Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• VALIS by Philip K. Dick
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
• Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
• The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings
• This Book Is Full Of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It by David Wong
• Letters To A Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Prehistory/Unknown

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Buck by MK Asante
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
• The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
• Junky by William S. Burroughs
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Bordersnakes by James Crumley
• Ubik by Philip K. Dick
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffin
• The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Misery by Stephen King
• The Mist by Stephen King
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
• Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
• The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
• Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
• The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
• Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
• Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
• Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
• Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
• Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
• Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
• Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
• Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
• Ceremony by Leslie Silko
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Mo' Meta Blues by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Candide by Voltaire
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
• Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• John Dies at the End by David Wong
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley