2023

1. Gone, Baby, Gone – Dennis Lehane

2022

1. The Me You Love in the Dark – Skottie Young
2. Nocterra Vol. 1: Full Throttle – Scott Snyder
3. The Burning Room – Michael Connelly
4. Madame Two Swords – Tanith Lee
5. The Walls of the Castle – Tom Piccirilli
6. First Blood – David Morrell
7. Appleseed – Matt Bell
8. Suicide – Edouard Leve
9. The Crossing – Michael Connelly
10. Last Days – Brian Evenson
11. The Object-Lesson – Edward Gorey
12. The Doubtful Guest – Edward Gorey
13. The Unstrung Harp – Edward Gorey
14. Caffeine – Michael Pollan
15. The Removed – Brandon Hobson
16. The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
17. The Wrong Side of Goodbye – Michael Connelly
18. Cold Skin – Albert Sanchez Pinol
19. Savage Season – Joe Lansdale
20. Bunny – Mona Awad
21. Two Kinds of Truth – Michael Connelly
22. You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun: A Strand Essay – J. David Osborne
23. Thor: God of Thunder, Vol 1: The God Butcher – Jason Aaron
24. Thor: God of Thunder, Vol 2: Godbomb – Jason Aaron
25. Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
26. Elizabeth – Jessica Hamilton
27. Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley
28. Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century – John Higgs
29. The Divers’ Game – Jesse Ball
30. Dark Sacred Night – Michael Connelly
31. Hangsman – Shirley Jackson
32. Poor Things – Alisdair Gray
33. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
34. The Chaos Protocols – Gordon White
35. The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds – John Higgs
36. Scalped Vol. 2: Casino Boogie – Jason Aaron
37. Shella – Andrew Vachss
38. Armageddon House – Michael Griffin
39. Helpmeet – Naben Ruthnum
40. Gods’ Man: A Novel in Woodcuts – Lynd Wand
41. Falling Angel – William Hjortsberg
42. Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett
43. Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir – Anatole Broyard
44. Come with Me – Ronald Malfi
45. American Monsters – Adam Jortner
46. Grim Tales – Norman Lock
47. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
48. North Border – Benjamin Percy
49. Wereworld – Benjamin Percy
50. Experimental Film – Gemma Files
51. Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
52. The Drowning Pool – Ross MacDonald
53. The Two Bear Mambo – Joe Lansdale
54. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror – Scott W. Poole
55. Thirty-Two Words for Field – Manchán Magan
56. This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
57. The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Twenty-First Century – John Higgs
58. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
59. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
60. The Third Man – Graham Greene
61. The Front Seat Passenger – Pascal Garmier

2021

1. The Butterfly Lampshade – Aimee Bender
2. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
3. Notes from a Coma – Mike McCormack
4. Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker – Kieron Gillen
5. You Let Me In – Camilla Bruce
6. Thrill Me – Benjamin Percy
7. Far Sector #2 – N.K. Jemisin
8. Devil’s Highway #3 – Benjamin Percy
9. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Craig Clevenger
10. The Black Echo – Michael Connelly
11. Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead – Sara Gran
12. Kill Creek – Scott Thomas
13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
14. The Cipher – Kathe Koja
15. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
16. Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing – Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem
17. In the River – Jeremy Robert Johnson
18. Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power – Pam Grossman
19. Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
20. A Dream About Lightning Bugs – Ben Folds
21. Daytripper – Fabio Moon
22. The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman
23. The Seep – Chana Porter
24. Criterium – Tyler Jones
25. Scream Deconstructed: An Unauthorized Analysis – Scott Kessinger
26. We Are All Completely Fine – Daryl Gregory
27. Standalone – Paul Michael Anderson
28. Young Slasher – S. Elliot Bendis
29. William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever – John Higgs
30. A Choir of Ill Children – Tom Piccirilli
31. City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
32. The Drowning Girl – Caitlin R. Kiernan
33. The Winter Box – Tim Waggoner
34. Count Karlstein – Philip Pullman
35. William Blake vs the World – John Higgs
36. The Colossus and Other Poems – Sylvia Plath
37. Bad Chili – Joe Lansdale
38. Mucho Mojo – Joe Lansdale
39. How to Write One Song – Jeff Tweedy
40. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
41. Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 – James Tynion IV
42. Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
43. The Beautiful Bureaucrat – Helen Phillips
44. Angle of Investigation – Michael Connelly
45. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
46. Batman Volume 1: The Court of Owls – Scott Snyder
47. Gone South – Robert R. McCammon
48. Nothin’ But a Good Time – Tom Beaujour
49. Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction
50. Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh
51. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot – Charles Baxter
52. To Drown in Dark Water – Steve Toase
53. Strange is the Night – S.P. Miskowski
54. Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
55. The Ghost Sequences – A. C. Wise
56. The Art of Revision: The Last Word – Peter Ho Davies

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.

1. The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon – Mori Ogai
2. Nine Headed Birds – K-Ming Chang
3. Solution – Brian Evenson
4. Ghosts and Empties – Lauren Groff
5. The Barber’s Unhappiness – George Saunders
6. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
7. The Gas Station – Souvankham Thammavongsa
8. North American Lake Monsters – Nathan Ballingrud
9. Emergency – Denis Johnson
10. Hotel Monteleone – Elise Blackwell
11. Men Paid Me to Eat – Natalie Lima
12. A Case for De-Extinction at the End of the World – Lyndsie Manusos
13. Xiaogui / 小鬼 & “Arcadia” – K-Ming Chang
14. Across the Rooftops – Kevin Barry
15. In a House Besieged – Lydia Davis
16. The Best a Man Can Get – Steve Arcieri
17. Siren Song – Kent H. Dixon
18. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower
19. I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter – Isabel Fall
20. Faeces in My Airbnb – Gavin Corbett
21. In the Cart – Anton Chekhov
22. The Singers – Ivan Turgenev
23. Heart’s Blood – Jasmine Sawers
24. The Cold Boy – Benjamin Percy
25. Psychobabble – Caoilinn Hughes
26. The Beginning of the Summation of Our Dead – Blake Butler
27. The Son’s War – Elwin Cotman
28. Alien Virus Love Disaster – Abbey Mei Otis
29. Foreigners – Sam Shepard
30. Girl – Jamaica Kincaid
31. Isabelle – George Saunders
32. A Small Fable – Franz Kafka
33. Fishboy – Mark Richard
34. Vapor Trail – Craig Clevenger
35. I Let You Out – Desirina Boskovich
36. Little Widow – Maria Dahvana Headley
37. Sightings – John Edgar Wideman
38. Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island – Nibedita Sen
39. November 1993 – Jennifer Fliss
40. The Darling – Anton Chekhov
41. The Music of Erich Zann – H.P. Lovecraft
42. One Last Transformation – Josh Malerman
43. Oranger – Megan Martin
44. In Process – Megan Martin
45. A Benediction of Corpses – Stephanie Wytovich
46. Hairy Legs and All – Stephen Graham Jones
47. The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft
48. Talking in the Dark – Dennis Etchison
49. Vastarien – Thomas Ligotti
50. Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament – Clive Barker
51. Bug House – Lisa Tuttle
52. Night Surf – Stephen King
53. The Fog Horn – Ray Bradbury
54. How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles – Lord Dunsany
55. Dollburger – Lisa Tuttle
56. A Song for Wounded Mouths – Kristi Demeester
57. Don’t Come Looking – Jake Westlake
58. Postcards from Natalie – Carrie Laben
59. Red Light – David J. Schow
60. Blood Rape of the Lust Ghouls – David J. Schow
61. Laughter Among the Trees – Suzan Palumbo
62. The New Rays – M. John Harrison
63. The Night Wire – H.F. Arnold
64. Teratisms – Kathe Koja
65. That Which Crawls from Dark Soil – Michael Kelly
66. Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition Regarding the Departed – Stewart C. Baker
67. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains – Neil Gaiman
68. Heat – Steve Rasnic Tem
69. The Circle Curse – Fritz Leiber
70. The Jewels in the Forest – Fritz Leiber
71. There Will Come Soft Rains – Ray Bradbury
72. A.G.A. – S.P. Miskowski
73. Not From Around Here – David J. Schow
74. The Neglected Garden – Kathe Koja
75. The Crevasse – Nathan Ballingrud
76. The Damned Thing – Chad Lutzke
77. The Age of Reason – Will Christopher Baer
78. Black Bark – Brian Evenson
79. A Report – Brian Evenson
80. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
81. Black Hole – Alicia Hilton
82. The Second Floor – S.P. Miskowski
83. The Shawl – Louise Erdrich
84. White Rabbits – Leonora Carrington
85. In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos – John Langan
86. Long Live the Girl Detective – Meg Pillow
87. The Punish – Brian Evenson
88. These Are The Tools God Gave Us – Mike McCormack
89. A Collapse of Horses – Brian Evenson
90. Three Indignities – Brian Evenson
91. The Spindly Man – Stephen Graham Jones
92. Alligator Point – S.P. Miskowski
93. The Dead Are Not – Stephen Graham Jones
94. Lawns – Mona Simpson
95. The Fat Girl – Andre Dubus
96. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
97. You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings – Philip Roth
98. Advanced World Problems in Portal Math – Aimee Picchi
99. Flypaper – Robert Musil
100. Upland Wildlife – Rhonda Pressley Veit
101. It Pours – Sarena Ulibarri
102. These Birdhouses Are Empty Now – Jo Kaplan
103. Delivery – Tyler Keevil
104. Of Wrath – Zandra Renwick
105. Images – Dermot Healy
106. Flower Wild – Shane Tivenan
107. Call Out – Steve Toase
108. The Pine Arch Collection – Michael Wehunt
109. Streuobstwiese – Steve Toase
110. Earworm – Julian Gough
111. On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog – Adam R. Shannon
112. The Kromlau Gambit – Steve Toase
113. Chauve Souris or (Chirotera the Bat) – John Palisano
114. The Age of Hasty Retreats – Stephen Graham Jones
115. Hell on the Homefront Too – Stephen Graham Jones
116. The Cardiacs – Brian Evenson
117. Gooseberries – Anton Chekhov
118. The 400 Pound CEO – George Saunders
119. The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima – Japanese folklore
120. Saturday, Boring – Lisa McInerney
121. The Good Husband – Nathan Ballingrud
122. Dry Land – Steve Toase
123. The Wandering City – Usman T. Malik
124. Why the Sea Tastes of Salt and Why the Moon Always Looks Towards Us – Steve Toase
125. Janice – Shirley Jackson
126. Tootie in Peonage – Shirley Jackson
127. The Chimney – Ramsey Campbell
128. Dead Witch’s Hair – Josh Malerman
129. The Bog Girl – Karen Russell
130. Touch Me. Like This. – Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
131. In the Bag – Ramsey Campbell
132. Euphemia Christie – Cat Cavendish
133. Warding – Kev Harrison
134. Bunny Didn’t Tell Us – David J. Schow
135. Not Eradicated In You – Bracken MacLeod
136. Halloween Street – Steve Rasnic Tem
137. Masks of Me – Steve Rasnic Tem
138. Tricks – Steve Rasnic Tem
139. Butcher Paper – Steve Rasnic Tem
140. Cult – Brian Evenson
141. Miguel Prays While His Mother Cries – Steve Rasnic Tem
142. Out of Copyright – Ramsey Campbell
143. Again – Ramsey Campbell
144. Spectral Evidence – Victor LaValle
145. Rawhead Rex – Clive Barker
146. The Frog King – Garth Greenwell
147. A Redress for Andromeda – Caitlin R. Kiernan
148. Smoke Ghost – Fritz Leiber
149. Same Time, Same Place – Mervyn Peake
150. The Hospice – Robert Aickman

2020

1. Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias
2. A Human Stain – Kelly Robson
3. The Midnight Disease – Alice W. Flaherty
4. Consider This – Chuck Palahniuk
5. The X-Files: Cold Cases – Joe Harris
6. In the Valley of the Sun – Andy Davidson
7. Midnight Son – James Dommek Jr.
8. Heartburn – Nora Ephron
9. All Systems Red – Martha Wells
10. Far Sector #1 – N.K. Jemisin
11. Understanding Marxism – Richard Wolff
12. October – China Mieville
13. Starve Better – Nick Mamatas
14. How NOT to Write Female Characters – Lucy V. Hay
15. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
16. True Crime – Samatha Kolesnik
17. Calypso – David Sedaris
18. The Invisibles Vol. 1 – Grant Morrison
19. Reading Comics – Douglas Wolk
20. The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
21. The Amulet – Michael McDowell
22. A Basketful of Heads – Joe Hill
23. Light – M. John Harrison
24. Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI – Jonathan Raab
25. Moonlight, Gunshot, Mallet, Flame – Alicia Hilton
26. China Mieville: Critical Essays
27. Dark Passage – David Goodis
28. Baltimore: The Plague Ships – Mike Mignola
29. Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Brian Evenson
30. Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
31. The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley
32. The Snow Collectors – Tina May Hall
33. The Gifts of Reading – Robert McFarlane
34. The City & The City – China Mieville
35. Not for Nothing – Stephen Graham Jones
36. Skullcrack City – Jeremy Robert Johnson
37. Rant – Chuck Palahniuk
38. Attack of the Fifty Foot Indian – Stephen Graham Jones
39. The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1 – Jonathan Hickman
40. Black Wind – Cody Goodfellow
41. Angels – Denis Johnson
42. Nameless – Grant Morrison
43. The Dead Lands – Benjamin Percy
44. Devil’s Highway – Benjamin Percy & Brent Schoonover
45. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
46. The Tin House Writer’s Notebook
47. Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 – ed. by Carmen Maria Machado
48. The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
49. V – Thomas Pynchon
50. Southern Bastards: Gridiron – Jason Aaron
51. The Low, Low Woods – Carmen Maria Machado
52. The Devil’s Highway #2 – Benjamin Percy
53. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carre
54. The Switch House – Tim Meyer
55. In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
56. Intimations – Zadie Smith
57. The Invention of Sound – Chuck Palahniuk
58. Loss – Tom Piccirilli
59. Devil’s Night – Richard Chizmar
60. Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
61. Paperbacks from Hell – Grady Hendrix
62. Sandman (Audible adaptation) – Neil Gaiman
63. Monster, She Wrote – Lisa Kroger
64. The Collected Schizophrenias – Esme Weijun Wang
65. The Painter, The Creature, and the Father of Lies – Clive Barker
66. The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter
67. Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
68. Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
69. The Night of the Mannequins – Stephen Graham Jones
70. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
71. The Loop – Jeremy Robert Johnson
72. Ghastle & Yule – Josh Malerman
73. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
74. Daemon Voices – Philip Pullman
75. The Sparrow – Mary Dory Russell
76. Suicide Woods – Benjamin Percy
77. The Brain of Rats – Michael Blumlein