2020 Book List
January
Be Recorder by Carmen Jiminez Smith
Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
It Chooses You by Miranda July
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
In Waves by A.J. Dungo
Hybrida by Tina Chang
I Will Take the Answer by Ander Monson
February
The Essential Emily Dickenson
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Someone Who Will Love You in all Your Damaged Glory by Rafael-Bob Walksburg
March
The Deep by Alma Katsu
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jaw by Albert Albonado
Vessel by Parnishia Jones
April
The Gnome Stories by Ander Monson
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
May
This Is How We Leave by Joanne Nelson
Our Foreigner by Nance Van Winkel
Patient Zero by Tomás Morín
Vivarium by Natasha Saje
Everything There Was to Tell by Ben Schwartz
June
Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Sand Opera by Philip Metres
A Larger Country by Tomás Morín
July
Assembling California by John McPhee
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee
Crossing the Craton by John McPhee
Action Park by Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rosen
How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco
Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield
Fragment of the Head of the Queen by Cate Marvin
Wolf Centos by Simone Meunch
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
August
The Parade by Dave Eggars
Ode to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante
Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers
Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
Basin and Range by John McPhee
Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
September
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason
Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno
Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets Jacob, Ponge, Follain
Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason
Becoming Lady Goldblatt by ???
Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealy
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors
October
Homie by Danez Smith
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Faithful and Virtuous Nights by Louise Glück
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
Rocket Fantastic by Gabriella Calvocoressi
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
November
There, There by Tommy Orange
The Suicide's Son by James Arthur
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Report from a Besieged City by Zbignew Herbert
Oracle by Cate Marvin
Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han
December
Unearth (the Flowers) by Thea Matthews
There Are Things More Beautiful than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
My Daily Actions or The Meteorites by S. Brook Corfman