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Reading

2025

Poetry

January

  • Forgiven Submarine by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu

February

  • Curdled Skulls by Bernard Bador
  • Spar by Karen Volkman

March

  • The Blood Countess by Robert Peters
  • Still My Father's Son by The Wires System/Nora Hikari

July

  • Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Nonfiction

May

  • Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane

Fiction

January

  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

February

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

March

  • Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
  • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  • If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
  • Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)

May

  • Red Elk: The Wildest City in the USA by Jordan Pastor
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)
  • Martyr! by Raveh Akbar
  • Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)
  • Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (again)
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
  • Groupmind by Mike Conner
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • Doppelgangers by H.F. Heard
  • Misery by Stephen King

July

  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • Elephantasm by Tanith Lee

2024

Poetry

January

  • Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
  • nick virgilio: a life in haiku by Nick Virgilio, edited and introduced by Raffael de Gruttola and afterward by Kathleen O'Toole
  • the slow horizon that breathes by Dimitra Kotoula and translated by Maria Nazos

February

  • tiller north by Rosa Lane

March

  • the twelfth of never by Ciaran Carson
  • they feed they lion by Philip Levine

April

  • the phonemes by Frances Richard
  • the magic my body becomes by Jess Rizkallah

June

  • horses where the answers should have been by Chase Twichell

July

  • the multiple by Calvin Bedient

August

  • landed natures by George Economou

September

  • making the skeleton dance by Patricia Garfinkel
  • the green girls by John Blair

December

  • lyrics of earth by Archibald Lampman
  • Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

Nonfiction

February

  • hood feminism by Mikki Kendall

March

  • human + machine by Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson

May

  • consider the fork by Bee Wilson
  • salt, fat, acid, heat by Samin Nosrat

December

  • The Art of Plain Talk by Rudolf Flesch

Fiction

March

  • house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

May

  • jurassic park by Michael Crichton
  • borne by Jeff Vandermeer

June

  • piranesi by Susanna Clarke

July

  • the tommyknockers by Stephen King

August

  • twin peaks: the final dossier by Mark Frost
  • project hail mary by Andy Weir

September

  • IT by Stephen King
  • sirens of titan by Kurt Vonnegut

October

  • the haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
  • Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer

December

  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

Games

September

  • Player's Handbook (5th edition) by Wizards of the Coast
  • Dungeon Master's Guide (5th edition) by Wizards of the Coast

October

  • Out of the Abyss by Wizards of the Coast

Manga

December

  • Shigurui by Takayuki Yamaguchi
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2023

Poetry

  • how to cure a ghost by Fariha Roisin
  • you better be lightning by Andrea Gibson
  • night sky with exit wounds by Ocean Vuong
  • the autobiography of red by Anne Carson
  • tender buttons (objects) by Gertrude Stein
  • life on mars by Tracy K Smith
  • summer snow by Robert Sass
  • freedom house by KB Brookins
  • bad poetry night by E. Christopher Clark
  • nox by Anne Carson
  • journey to the sun by Brent Cunningham
  • the hexagon by Robert Kelly
  • selected haiku by Nicholas A. Virgilio
  • tomorrow's living room by Jason Whitmarsh
  • a camouflage of specimens and garments by Jennifer Militello
  • the stranger manual by Catie Rosemurgy
  • annonciade by Elizabeth Spires
  • lyric sexology vol. 1 by Trish Salah
  • slow lightning by Eduardo C. Corral
  • parts and other parts by Charles Stein
  • good, clean mania: collected poems 2020-2022 by Jasper Ezekiel

Nonfiction

  • other minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • otherlands by Thomas Halliday
  • the art of language invention by David Peterson
  • the art of fiction by John Gardner

Fiction

  • Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
  • authority by Jeff Vandermeer
  • acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
  • freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
  • illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah by Richard Bach