2021
- The Butterfly Lampshade – Aimee Bender
- Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
- Notes from a Coma – Mike McCormack
- Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker – Kieron Gillen
- You Let Me In – Camilla Bruce
- Thrill Me – Benjamin Percy
- Far Sector #2 – N.K. Jemisin
- Devil’s Highway #3 – Benjamin Percy
- The Contortionist’s Handbook – Craig Clevenger
- The Black Echo – Michael Connelly
- Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead – Sara Gran
- Kill Creek – Scott Thomas
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
- The Cipher – Kathe Koja
- The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
- Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing – Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem
- In the River – Jeremy Robert Johnson
- Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power – Pam Grossman
- Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
- A Dream About Lightning Bugs – Ben Folds
- Daytripper – Fabio Moon
- The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
- The Seep – Chana Porter
- Criterium – Tyler Jones
- Scream Deconstructed: An Unauthorized Analysis – Scott Kessinger
- We Are All Completely Fine – Daryl Gregory
- Standalone – Paul Michael Anderson
- Young Slasher – S. Elliot Bendis
- William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever – John Higgs
- A Choir of Ill Children – Tom Piccirilli
In 2021 I’ve set a goal to read a story a day. I’ll keep an ongoing list here.
You can check out the Twitter thread here, too.
- The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon – Mori Ogai
- Nine Headed Birds – K-Ming Chang
- Solution – Brian Evenson
- Ghosts and Empties – Lauren Groff
- The Barber’s Unhappiness – George Saunders
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Gas Station – Souvankham Thammavongsa
- North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud
- Emergency – Denis Johnson
- Hotel Monteleone – Elise Blackwell
- Men Paid Me to Eat – Natalie Lima
- A Case for De-Extinction at the End of the World – Lyndsie Manusos
- Xiaogui / 小鬼 & “Arcadia” – K-Ming Chang
- Across the Rooftops – Kevin Barry
- In a House Besieged – Lydia Davis
- The Best a Man Can Get – Steve Arcieri
- Siren Song – Kent H. Dixon
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower
- I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter – Isabel Fall
- Faeces in My Airbnb – Gavin Corbett
- In the Cart – Anton Chekhov
- The Singers – Ivan Turgenev
- Heart’s Blood – Jasmine Sawers
- The Cold Boy – Benjamin Percy
- Psychobabble – Caoilinn Hughes
- The Beginning of the Summation of Our Dead
- The Son’s War – Elwin Cotman
- Alien Virus Love Disaster – Abbey Mei Otis
2020
- Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias
- A Human Stain – Kelly Robson
- The Midnight Disease – Alice W. Flaherty
- Consider This – Chuck Palahniuk
- The X-Files: Cold Cases – Joe Harris
- In the Valley of the Sun – Andy Davidson
- Midnight Son – James Dommek Jr.
- Heartburn – Nora Ephron
- All Systems Red – Martha Wells
- Far Sector #1 – N.K. Jemisin
- Understanding Marxism – Richard Wolff
- October – China Mieville
- Starve Better – Nick Mamatas
- How NOT to Write Female Characters – Lucy V. Hay
- A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
- True Crime – Samatha Kolesnik
- Calypso – David Sedaris
- The Invisibles Vol. 1 – Grant Morrison
- Reading Comics – Douglas Wolk
- The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
- The Amulet – Michael McDowell
- A Basketful of Heads – Joe Hill
- Light – M. John Harrison
- Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI – Jonathan Raab
- Moonlight, Gunshot, Mallet, Flame – Alicia Hilton
- China Mieville: Critical Essays
- Dark Passage – David Goodis
- Baltimore: The Plague Ships – Mike Mignola
- Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Brian Evenson
- Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
- The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley
- The Snow Collectors – Tina May Hall
- The Gifts of Reading – Robert McFarlane
- The City & The City – China Mieville
- Not for Nothing – Stephen Graham Jones
- Skullcrack City – Jeremy Robert Johnson
- Rant – Chuck Palahniuk
- Attack of the Fifty Foot Indian – Stephen Graham Jones
- The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1 – Jonathan Hickman
- Black Wind – Cody Goodfellow
- Angels – Denis Johnson
- Nameless – Grant Morrison
- The Dead Lands – Benjamin Percy
- Devil’s Highway – Benjamin Percy & Brent Schoonover
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
- The Tin House Writer’s Notebook
- Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 – ed. by Carmen Maria Machado
- The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
- V – Thomas Pynchon
- Southern Bastards: Gridiron – Jason Aaron
- The Low, Low Woods – Carmen Maria Machado
- The Devil’s Highway #2 – Benjamin Percy
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carre
- The Switch House – Tim Meyer
- In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
- Intimations – Zadie Smith
- The Invention of Sound – Chuck Palahniuk
- Loss – Tom Piccirilli
- Devil’s Night – Richard Chizmar
- Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
- Paperbacks from Hell – Grady Hendrix
- Sandman (Audible adaptation) – Neil Gaiman
- Monster, She Wrote – Lisa Kroger
- The Collected Schizophrenias – Esme Weijun Wang
- The Painter, The Creature, and the Father of Lies – Clive Barker
- The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter
- Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
- The Night of the Mannequins – Stephen Graham Jones
- Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
- The Loop – Jeremy Robert Johnson
- Ghastle & Yule – Josh Malerman
- Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
- Daemon Voices – Philip Pullman
- The Sparrow – Mary Dory Russell
- Suicide Woods – Benjamin Percy
- The Brain of Rats – Michael Blumlein