2021 Book List
January
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Cardinal by Tyree Daye
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Selected Poems by Gwendolen Brooks
February
The Ghost Wife by Esther Lin
The Unbearable Heart by Kimiko Hahn
Oxyana by William Brewer
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud by Killarney Clary
World's Tallest Disaster by Cate Marvin
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Come Hither, Honeycomb by Erin Belieu
March
Obit by Victoria Chang
Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway
Prodigal Cocktail Umbrella by Jon Riccio
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
April
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors
Edges and Fray by Danielle Vogel
Dream of Water by Kate Ingold
You Should Fell Bad by Laura Cresté
May
One Kind Favor by Kevin McIlvoy
The Voice of Sheila Chandra by Kazim Ali
Theory of Tides by Cherry Pickman
Professional Crybaby by Emily Hunerwadel
It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura
Other Small Histories by Damien Hsu Gee
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy by Amorak Huey
June
Monster Theory by Lytton Smith
First Adventures in Beauty by Lia Purpura
Kin by Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Through the New Body by Isabella DeSendi
A System of Satellites by Nhu Xuan Nguyen
Spring and a Thousand Years (unabridged) by Judy Halebsky
July
Piñata Theory by Alan Chazaro
Indigo by Ellen Bass
Storage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win
Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris
Transformer by Kathleen Winter
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
August
Daybreak by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
Eye, Romanov by Jon Riccio
Through the New Body by Isabella DeSendi
The Essential Haiku, Robert Hass, Ed.
Guild of the Infant Savior by Megan Culhane Gailbraith
Tension: Rupture by Cutter Streetby and Michael Haight
September
Harbors by Donald Quist
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
October
Took House by Lauren Camp
Welcome to Sonnetville, NJ by Craig Morgan Teicher
The Trembling Answers by Craig Morgan Teicher
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Machete by Tomás Morín
November
Book of No Ledge by Nance Van Winkle
Requeening by Amanda Moore
Summertime by Joanne Dugan
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
40 Watts by C.D. Wright
December
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Namagatsu
Our Foreigner by Nance VanWinkle
Night Animals by Josef Komunyakaa
Milk of Dreams by Leonora Carrington
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson