Books Read, 2019
January
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Eye Level by Jennie Xie
The Woman at Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams
Love, an Index by Rebecca Lindenberg
February
Silk Road by Katherine Ford
Bestiary by Donika Kelly
Occulus by Sally Wen Mao
Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
March
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
Thank Your Lucky Stars by Sherrie Flick
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Gulf by Belle Boggs
April
Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes
Wild Life by Kathy Fish
Outline by RachelCusk
Transit by Rachel Cusk
Pentimento by Allysse Kathleen McCanna
Night by Edal Adnan
May
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Slur Oeuvre by James D'Agostino
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
June
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
Good Talk by Mira Jacobs
Beneath the Ice: a Compendium of Contemporary Icelandic Poetry Helem Mitsios, ed.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
July
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
A Girl Goes into the Forest by Peg Alford Pursell
Maggie Brown and Others by Peter Orner
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason
Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
The Wind that Lays Waste by Selma Almada
August
Mobius Strip Club of Grief by Bianca Stone
Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason
Black Skies by Arnaldur Indridason
Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
Godland by Lyz Lenz
August 9 - Fog by Kathryn Scanlan
Milk & Filth by Carmen Giminez Smith
Junior College by Gary Soto
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Lincoln at the Bardo by George Saunders
September
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Edge of America by Jon Sealy
Machine by Susan Steinberg
The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone by Nancy Pearson
Bury What We Cannot Take by Kristen Chen
October
Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
November
Brute by Emily Skaja
Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Unexploded Ordnance Bin by Rebecca Foust
Best American Poetry 2018
December
A Nation of Immigrants John F. Kennedy
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
Why I Write by George Orwell
The Last Mastodon by Christina Olson
Space Invaders by Nona Fernández
The Complete Gary Lutz by Gary Lutz
The Body by Bill Bryson
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Frail Sister by Karen Green