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 Thursday Murder Club – 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

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
27. The Son’s War – Elwin Cotman
28. Alien Virus Love Disaster – Abbey Mei Otis

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