2021

2021

*Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin (12/21)

The Wedding Group, Elizabeth Taylor (12/21)

Revelator, Daryl Gregory (12/21)

Ring Shout, P. Djéli Clarke (12/21)

*Piranesi, Susannah Clarke (12/21)

The Second, Carol Anderson (12/21)

The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox (12/21)

Billy Summers, Stephen King (11/21)

The Beth Book, Sarah Grand (11/21)

Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher (11/21)

Take a Hint, Dani Brown!, Talia Hibbert (11/21)

Sunshine Enemies, K.C. Constantine (11/21)

*How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee (11/21)

A Spindle Splintered, Alix Harrow (11/21)

We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (11/21)

Rachel Ray, Anthony Trollope (11/21)

Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy (10/21)

*A Long Way From Verona, Jane Gardam (10/21)

When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté (10/21)

Zazie dans le Métro, Raymond Queneau (10/21)

Travesties, Tom Stoppard (10/21)

*East of Eden, John Steinbeck (10/21)

Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer (DNF)

The Beautiful and the Chosen, Nghi Vo (9/21)

*Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (9/21)

Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay (9/21)

*Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (9/21)

*The Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joudhakar (9/21)

The Salt Path, Raynor Winn (9/21)

Mister Impossible, Maggie Stiefvater (9/21)

Flowers in the Mirror, Li Ju-Chen (9/21)

Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (9/21)

Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan Maguire (8/21)

Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott (re-read, 8/21)

Land Above the Trees, Ann Zwinger and Beatrice Willard (8/21)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng (8/21)

The Luck of Barry Lyndon, William Thackeray (8/21)

*The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone (8/21)

Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (8/21)

Eight Perfect Murders, Peter Swanson (8/21)

Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg (8/21)

Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (8/21)

The Collected Short Stories, Eudora Welty (8/21)

Castle Shade, Laurie King (7/21)

*A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (7/21)

*Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (7/21)

Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu (7/21)

Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (7/21)

The Invited, Jennifer McMahon (7/21)

*As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (7/21)

*The Sin of Father Amaro, Eça de Queirós (7/21)

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (7/21)

Summerwater, Sarah Moss (6/21)

Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young (6/21)

Later, Stephen King (6/21)

The Whole Story and Other Stories, Ali Smith (6/21)

The Fisherman, John Langan (6/21)

*Long Bright River, Liz Moore (6/21)

Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (6/21)

The Sixties, Jenny Diski (6/21)

The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (5/21)

*Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot (5/21)

A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov (5/21)

Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall (5/21)

Black Narcissus, Rumer Godden (5/21)

Burial Rites, Hannah Kent (5/21)

Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie (5/21)

The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (5/21)

How the South Won the Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson (5/21)

Waverley, Walter Scott (5/21)

Jack, Marilynne Robinson (4/21)

Blindness, Jose Saramago (DNF, 4/21)

The Sin Eater, Alice Thomas Ellis (4/21)

Jane: A Murder, Maggie Nelson (4/21)

Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden (4/21)

Real Life, Brandon Taylor (4/21)

*Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran (4/21)

Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (4/21)

Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart (4/21)

*News of the World, Paulette Jiles (4/21)

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S. Lewis (re-read, 4/21)

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng (4/21)

Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam (3/21)

*My Real Children, Jo Walton (3/21)

*The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans (3/21)

One Good Story, That One, Thomas King (3/21)

The Cold Millions, Jess Walter (3/21)

*Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (3/21)

The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown (DNF, 3/21)

The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal (3/21)

Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf (3/21)

The Martian, Andy Weir (3/21)

Thin Air, Ann Cleeves (3/21)

*The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin (3/21)

*Vertigo, W. G. Sebald (2/21)

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler (2/21)

Sylvia’s Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell (2/21)

*Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugresic (2/21)

The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier (2/21)

If It Bleeds, Stephen King (2/21)

Rob Roy, Walter Scott (2/21)

In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware (1/21)

Public Library and other stories, Ali Smith (1/21)

*The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich (1/21)

Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris-Perry (1/21)

*Corregidora, Gayl Jones (1/21)

Anxious People, Fredrik Backman (1/21)

Dead Water, Ann Cleeves (1/21)

The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton (1/21)

*The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (1/21)

This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (1/21)

I Remember You, Yrsa Sigurdardottir (1/21)

The Fated Sky, Mary Robinette Kowal (1/21)