2023
- Gone, Baby, Gone – Dennis Lehane
2022
- The Me You Love in the Dark – Skottie Young
- Nocterra Vol. 1: Full Throttle – Scott Snyder
- The Burning Room – Michael Connelly
- Madame Two Swords – Tanith Lee
- The Walls of the Castle – Tom Piccirilli
- First Blood – David Morrell
- Appleseed – Matt Bell
- Suicide – Edouard Leve
- The Crossing – Michael Connelly
- Last Days – Brian Evenson
- The Object-Lesson – Edward Gorey
- The Doubtful Guest – Edward Gorey
- The Unstrung Harp – Edward Gorey
- Caffeine – Michael Pollan
- The Removed – Brandon Hobson
- The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye – Michael Connelly
- Cold Skin – Albert Sanchez Pinol
- Savage Season – Joe Lansdale
- Bunny – Mona Awad
- Two Kinds of Truth – Michael Connelly
- You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun: A Strand Essay – J. David Osborne
- Thor: God of Thunder, Vol 1: The God Butcher – Jason Aaron
- Thor: God of Thunder, Vol 2: Godbomb – Jason Aaron
- Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
- Elizabeth – Jessica Hamilton
- Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley
- Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century – John Higgs
- The Divers’ Game – Jesse Ball
- Dark Sacred Night – Michael Connelly
- Hangsman – Shirley Jackson
- Poor Things – Alisdair Gray
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
- The Chaos Protocols – Gordon White
- The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds – John Higgs
- Scalped Vol. 2: Casino Boogie – Jason Aaron
- Shella – Andrew Vachss
- Armageddon House – Michael Griffin
- Helpmeet – Naben Ruthnum
- Gods’ Man: A Novel in Woodcuts – Lynd Wand
- Falling Angel – William Hjortsberg
- Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett
- Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir – Anatole Broyard
- Come with Me – Ronald Malfi
- American Monsters – Adam Jortner
- Grim Tales – Norman Lock
- Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
- North Border – Benjamin Percy
- Wereworld – Benjamin Percy
- Experimental Film – Gemma Files
- Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Drowning Pool – Ross MacDonald
- The Two Bear Mambo – Joe Lansdale
- Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror – Scott W. Poole
- Thirty-Two Words for Field – Manchán Magan
- This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
- The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Twenty-First Century – John Higgs
- Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- The Third Man – Graham Greene
- The Front Seat Passenger – Pascal Garmier
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 Man Who Died Twice – 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
- City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
- The Drowning Girl – Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Winter Box – Tim Waggoner
- Count Karlstein – Philip Pullman
- William Blake vs the World – John Higgs
- The Colossus and Other Poems – Sylvia Plath
- Bad Chili – Joe Lansdale
- Mucho Mojo – Joe Lansdale
- How to Write One Song – Jeff Tweedy
- Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 – James Tynion IV
- Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat – Helen Phillips
- Angle of Investigation – Michael Connelly
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
- Batman Volume 1: The Court of Owls – Scott Snyder
- Gone South – Robert R. McCammon
- Nothin’ But a Good Time – Tom Beaujour
- Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction
- Homesick for Another World – Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot – Charles Baxter
- To Drown in Dark Water – Steve Toase
- Strange is the Night – S.P. Miskowski
- Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
- The Ghost Sequences – A. C. Wise
- 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.
- 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 – Blake Butler
- The Son’s War – Elwin Cotman
- Alien Virus Love Disaster – Abbey Mei Otis
- Foreigners – Sam Shepard
- Girl – Jamaica Kincaid
- Isabelle – George Saunders
- A Small Fable – Franz Kafka
- Fishboy – Mark Richard
- Vapor Trail – Craig Clevenger
- I Let You Out – Desirina Boskovich
- Little Widow – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Sightings – John Edgar Wideman
- Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island – Nibedita Sen
- November 1993 – Jennifer Fliss
- The Darling – Anton Chekhov
- The Music of Erich Zann – H.P. Lovecraft
- One Last Transformation – Josh Malerman
- Oranger – Megan Martin
- In Process – Megan Martin
- A Benediction of Corpses – Stephanie Wytovich
- Hairy Legs and All – Stephen Graham Jones
- The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft
- Talking in the Dark – Dennis Etchison
- Vastarien – Thomas Ligotti
- Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament – Clive Barker
- Bug House – Lisa Tuttle
- Night Surf – Stephen King
- The Fog Horn – Ray Bradbury
- How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles – Lord Dunsany
- Dollburger – Lisa Tuttle
- A Song for Wounded Mouths – Kristi Demeester
- Don’t Come Looking – Jake Westlake
- Postcards from Natalie – Carrie Laben
- Red Light – David J. Schow
- Blood Rape of the Lust Ghouls – David J. Schow
- Laughter Among the Trees – Suzan Palumbo
- The New Rays – M. John Harrison
- The Night Wire – H.F. Arnold
- Teratisms – Kathe Koja
- That Which Crawls from Dark Soil – Michael Kelly
- Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition Regarding the Departed – Stewart C. Baker
- The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains – Neil Gaiman
- Heat – Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Circle Curse – Fritz Leiber
- The Jewels in the Forest – Fritz Leiber
- There Will Come Soft Rains – Ray Bradbury
- A.G.A. – S.P. Miskowski
- Not From Around Here – David J. Schow
- The Neglected Garden – Kathe Koja
- The Crevasse – Nathan Ballingrud
- The Damned Thing – Chad Lutzke
- The Age of Reason – Will Christopher Baer
- Black Bark – Brian Evenson
- A Report – Brian Evenson
- The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
- Black Hole – Alicia Hilton
- The Second Floor – S.P. Miskowski
- The Shawl – Louise Erdrich
- White Rabbits – Leonora Carrington
- In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos – John Langan
- Long Live the Girl Detective – Meg Pillow
- The Punish – Brian Evenson
- These Are The Tools God Gave Us – Mike McCormack
- A Collapse of Horses – Brian Evenson
- Three Indignities – Brian Evenson
- The Spindly Man – Stephen Graham Jones
- Alligator Point – S.P. Miskowski
- The Dead Are Not – Stephen Graham Jones
- Lawns – Mona Simpson
- The Fat Girl – Andre Dubus
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings – Philip Roth
- Advanced World Problems in Portal Math – Aimee Picchi
- Flypaper – Robert Musil
- Upland Wildlife – Rhonda Pressley Veit
- It Pours – Sarena Ulibarri
- These Birdhouses Are Empty Now – Jo Kaplan
- Delivery – Tyler Keevil
- Of Wrath – Zandra Renwick
- Images – Dermot Healy
- Flower Wild – Shane Tivenan
- Call Out – Steve Toase
- The Pine Arch Collection – Michael Wehunt
- Streuobstwiese – Steve Toase
- Earworm – Julian Gough
- On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog – Adam R. Shannon
- The Kromlau Gambit – Steve Toase
- Chauve Souris or (Chirotera the Bat) – John Palisano
- The Age of Hasty Retreats – Stephen Graham Jones
- Hell on the Homefront Too – Stephen Graham Jones
- The Cardiacs – Brian Evenson
- Gooseberries – Anton Chekhov
- The 400 Pound CEO – George Saunders
- The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima – Japanese folklore
- Saturday, Boring – Lisa McInerney
- The Good Husband – Nathan Ballingrud
- Dry Land – Steve Toase
- The Wandering City – Usman T. Malik
- Why the Sea Tastes of Salt and Why the Moon Always Looks Towards Us – Steve Toase
- Janice – Shirley Jackson
- Tootie in Peonage – Shirley Jackson
- The Chimney – Ramsey Campbell
- Dead Witch’s Hair – Josh Malerman
- The Bog Girl – Karen Russell
- Touch Me. Like This. – Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
- In the Bag – Ramsey Campbell
- Euphemia Christie – Cat Cavendish
- Warding – Kev Harrison
- Bunny Didn’t Tell Us – David J. Schow
- Not Eradicated In You – Bracken MacLeod
- Halloween Street – Steve Rasnic Tem
- Masks of Me – Steve Rasnic Tem
- Tricks – Steve Rasnic Tem
- Butcher Paper – Steve Rasnic Tem
- Cult – Brian Evenson
- Miguel Prays While His Mother Cries – Steve Rasnic Tem
- Out of Copyright – Ramsey Campbell
- Again – Ramsey Campbell
- Spectral Evidence – Victor LaValle
- Rawhead Rex – Clive Barker
- The Frog King – Garth Greenwell
- A Redress for Andromeda – Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Smoke Ghost – Fritz Leiber
- Same Time, Same Place – Mervyn Peake
- The Hospice – Robert Aickman
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