
TO BE READ 2008
January 2025
- Time of the Child by Niall Williams (novel)
December 2024
- Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rythm by Laura Warrell (debut novel)
November 2024
- Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt (novel)
October 2024
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (novel)
- Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin (novel)
- All Fours by Miranda July (novel)
September 2024
- Cargill Falls by William Lychack (novel)
- Without Exception by Pam Houston (memoir/essay)
- The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer (debut novel)
August 2024
- Like Family by Michele M. Feeney (debut novel)
- The Sunken Town by Karen Nelson (debut novel)
- Sandwich by Catherine Newman (novel)
July 2024
- Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur (memoir)
- Jackie by Dawn Tripp (novel)
June 2024
- Framing a Life by Roberta S. Kuriloff (debut memoir)
- Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella (debut novel)
- The Anna Papers by Ellen Gilchrist (novel / reread)
May 2024
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (memoir)
- Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur (novel)
- The Truth About Horses by Christy Cashman (debut novel)
April 2024
- Falling Through Space by Ellen Gilchirst (nonfiction/essays/ reread)
- The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti (debut novel)
March 2024
- Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing that is Happening by Laurie Stone (hybrid collection)
- Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist (story collection/reread)
- Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (story collection/reread)
February 2024
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (novel)
- In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist (debut story collection/reread)
- The Annunciation by Ellen Gilchrist (debut novel/reread)
January 2024
- Juniper Street by Joan Frank (novel)
- Because You Have To: A Writing Life by Joan Frank (nonfiction)
- Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (memoir)
December 2023
- Day by Michael Cunningham (novel)
- Last Bets by Mary Carroll Moore (novel/galley)
- The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin (novel)
November 2023
- All of Us by Esther Cohen (stories and poems)
- Lech by Sara Lippmann (debut novel)
- Child by Judy Goldman (memoir)
October 2023
- Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham (debut novel)
- Amiss by Gina Ferrara (poetry)
- Words for House Story by JoAnn Balingit (poetry)
- That Time I Got Cancer by Jim Zervanos (debut memoir)
- First Comes Marriage by Huda Al-Marashi (debut memoir)
September 2023
- The Heartbreak Years by Minda Honey (debut memoir)
- Geographies of the Heart by Caitlin Hamilton Summie (debut novel)
- It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories by Ramona Reeves (debut story collection)
- Where the Angels Lived by Margaret McMullan (memoir/reread)
August 2023
- And You May Find Yourself… by Sari Botton (debut memoir-in-essays)
- They Could Live With Themselves by Jodi Paloni (debut story collection / reread)
- The Sunken Town by Karen Nelson (manuscript/reread)
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (novel)
July 2023
- Blithedale Canyon by Michael Bourne (debut novel)
- A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux (memoir)
- The Puppeteer’s Daughter by Heather Newton (novel)
- Midnight Lemonade by Ann Goethe (novel/ reread)
June 2023
- Walking Barefoot by Vicki Graham (poetry)
- A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J. Stephens (debut novel/galley)
- Sirens by Joshua Mohr (memoir/reread)
- The Leaving Season by Kelly McMasters (memoir)
May 2023
- Murder in Bel-Air by Cara Black (novel)
- Homestead by Melinda Moustakis (debut novel)
April 2023
- The Meeting Place by Dede Cummings (poetry)
- Still Life at 80 by Abigail Thomas (memoir)
- The Half-White Album by Cynthia J. Sylvester (debut story collection)
March 2023
- The Lost Archive by Lynn C. Miller (story collection)
- At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Tara Ison (novel)
- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai (novel)
- Mourner’s Bench by Sanderia Faye (novel)
- Where Wicked Starts by Elizabeth Stuckey-French and Patricia Henley (novel)
February 2023
- A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson (novel)
- Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley (novel)
- Rejoice the Head of Paul McCartney by Adam Braver (novel)
January 2023
- Free Love by Tessa Hadley (novel)
- The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (debut novel)
- We Are Bridges by Cassandra Lane (debut memoir)
December 2022
- The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser (memoir in essays)
- Twenty-Six Seconds by Alexandra Zapruder (nonfiction/memoir)
November 2022
- Cora’s Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown (debut novel)
- The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken (novel)
October 2022
- Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro (novel)
- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (novel)
September 2022
- The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh (novel)
- The Stone Sister by Caroline Patterson (novel)
August 2022
- What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy J. Fox (story collection)
- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom (debut novel)
- How to Walk on Water by Rachel Swearingen (debut story collection)
July 2022
- Bells for Eli by Susan Beckham Zurenda (debut novel)
- Paddling to Winter by Julie Buckles (debut memoir)
June 2022
- Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin (novel)
- Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen (debut novel)
- They Can Take It Out by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen (debut poetry)
May 2022
- The Nature of Remains by Ginger Eager (debut novel)
- Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway by Robin Black (nonfiction/craft/memoir)
April 2022
- Calabash Stories by Jeffrey J. Higa (debut story collection)
- The League of Wives by Heath Hardage Lee (narrative nonfiction)
March 2022
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (novel)
- Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs (debut poetry)
February 2022
- The Good Son by Jacqueline Mitchard (novel)
- What a Wonderful World This Could Be by Lee Zacharias (novel)
January 2022
- The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (novel)
- Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta (story collection)
- The Art of Revision by Peter Ho Davies (writing craft)
December 2021
- Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark (debut novel)
- Mississippi Barking: Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs by Chris McLaughlin (debut memoir)
November 2021
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham (debut memoir)
- Living Easy by Katherine Malmo (manuscript)
October 2021
- Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa (debut novel)
- Sharp as a Serpent’s Tooth: Eva and Other Stories by Mandy Haynes (stories)
September 2021
- Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (novel)
- Intimacies by Katie Kitamura (novel)
August 2021
- Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (narrative nonfiction)
- The Paper Palace by Miranda C. Heller (debut novel)
July 2021
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (writing craft)
- The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson (debut memoir)
- Edna & Luna by Gleah Powers (debut novel)
June 2021
- Beneficence by Meredith Hall (novel)
- Landslide by Susan Conley (novel)
- Monogamy by Sue Miller (novel)
- Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (novel)
May 2021
- Beauty by Christina Chiu (novel)
- Rewrite the Stars by Christina Consolino (debut novel)
- Jack by Marilynne Robinson (novel)
April 2021
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion (nonfiction)
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (nonfiction/reread)
March 2021
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo (novel)
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (novel)
- Shape of the Sky by Shelagh Connor Shapiro (debut novel)
February 2021
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (novel)
- We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (debut novel)
January 2021
- The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall (debut novel)
- Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen (memoir)
December 2020
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (debut novel)
- Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes (memoir/reread)
November 2020
- Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi (novel)
- An Unexpected Guest by Anne Korkeakivi (debut novel)
October 2020
- Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing and Longing by Elissa Altman (memoir)
- Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices by Katherine Alford and Kathy Gunst (cookbook)
- Father of the Rain by Lily King (novel)
September 2020
- Euphoria by Lily King (novel)
- The English Teacher by Lily King (novel)
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor (nonfiction)
- The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse (nonfiction debut)
August 2020
- The Second Home by Christina Clancy (debut novel)
- Summer Longing by Jamie Brenner (novel)
- Catarina’s Ring by Lisa McGuinness (debut novel)
- The Infinite Pieces of Us by Rebekah Crane (novel)
July 2020
- Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill (poetry)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler with art by Maira Kalman (novel)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
- Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (novel)
June 2020
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (novel)
- A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (novel)
- This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (essays)
May 2020
- Actress by Anne Enright (novel)
- The Book of V. by Anna Solomon (novel)
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (debut novel)
- The Memory Room by Mary Rakow (debut novel)
April 2020
- To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts by Caitlin Hamilton Sumie (debut story collection)
- Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (novel)
- The Sunken Town by Karen Nelson (manuscript/reread)
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (novel)
March 2020
- Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (novel)
- My Chinese America by Allen Gee (essays)
- Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard (novel)
February 2020
- The Ladder by Alan Michael Parker (poetry)
- Christmas in July by Alan Michael Parker (novel)
- Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm (novel)
January 2020
- News of Our Loved Ones by Abigail DeWitt (novel)
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (novel)
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King (novel/ARC)
December 2019
- The Art of Daring by Carl Phillips (craft)
- I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck (novel)
November 2019
- A Girl Goes into the Forest by Peg Alford Pursell (stories)
- Across the Deep by Lisa McGuinness (novel/galley)
October 2019
- Made Holy by Emily Arnason Casey (debut essays)
- Gravel and Hawk by Nick Norwood (poetry)
- Eagle & Phenix by Nick Norwood (poetry)
- Desperate Characters by Paula Fox (novel)
September 2019
- Sara Berman’s Closet by Maira Kalman and Alex Kalman (art plus life)
- I Am Peace by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds (children’s book)
- The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess (debut novel)
August 2019
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (novel)
- As a River by Sion Dayson (debut novel)
July 2019
- The Sunken Town by Karen Nelson (manuscript)
- Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman (novel)
- Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III (novel)
June 2019
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (memoir)
- Where the Angels Lived by Margaret McMullan (memoir)
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (debut novel)
May 2019
- What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About edited by Michele Filgate (debut essay collection)
- Mary and O’Neil by Justin Cronin (novel)
April 2019
- Notes Towards Recovery by Louise Ells (debut story collection)
- Inheritance by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
March 2019
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (novel/reread)
- In My Mother’s House by Margaret McMullan (novel)
February 2019
- Deep Creek by Pam Houston (memoir)
- Becoming by Michele Obama (debut memoir)
- Land of Fire by Mario Chard (debut poetry)
January 2019
- The Anna Papers by Ellen Gilchrist (novel/reread)
- The Anna Papers by Ellen Gilchrist (novel/reread/yes I read it twice in January : )
- The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine (debut memoir)
December 2018
- Nightwoods by Charles Frazier (novel)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch (memoir)
- Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa (debut novel)
November 2018
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (novel)
- Dream House by Catherine Armsden (debut novel)
October 2018
- The Death of Fred Astair by Leslie Lawrence (essays)
- Daybook by Anne Truitt (memoir)
September 2018
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (novel)
August 2018
- The Family Tabor by Cherise Wolas (novel)
July 2018
- There, There by Tommy Orange (debut novel)
- Starting With Goodbye by Lisa Romeo (debut novel)
June 2018
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (novel)
- Bad Kansas by Becky Mandelbaum (debut stories)
May 2018
- The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas (debut novel)
April 2018
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (novel)
- Entire Dilemma by Michael Burkard (poetry)
March 2018
February 2018
- The Untouched Minutes by Donald Morrill (nonfiction)
- What My Last Man Did by Andrea Lewis (debut stories)
January 2018
- Devotion by Patti Smith (memoir)
December 2017
- Kinds of Love by May Sarton (novel)
November 2017
- The Rest of Life by Mary Gordon (novellas/reread)
- The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (fiction)
October 2017
- The Natural by Bernard Malamud (debut novel)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (novel)
September 2017
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (debut novel)
- An Absorbing Errand by Janna Malamud Smith (nonfiction)
August 2017
- Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (novel)
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (novel)
July 2017
- The Last Laugh by Lynn Freed (novel)
- Harbors by Donald Quist (essays/memoir)
- The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor (novel)
June 2017
- Vanishing Point by E.V. Legters (novel)
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (novel)
may 2017
- The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti (novel)
april 2017
- Hourglass by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
- Things Like the Truth by Ellen Gilchrist (essays)
- Lost Wax by Jericho Parms (debut essays)
march 2017
- The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty by Carolyn G. Heilbrun (essays)
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (novel)
- Mercy Songs by Kai Carlson-Wee and Anders Carlson-Wee (poetry)
february 2017
- Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller (stories)
- Not Even Close to What She Planned On by Sandy Gingras (poetry)
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim (novel)
january 2017
- The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop (novel)
- Felicity by Mary Oliver (poetry)
december 2016
- M Train by Patti Smith (memoir)
- Her, Infinite by Sawnie Morris (debut poetry)
- The Ranch by Pam Houston (memoir in manuscript)
- The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown (novel)
november 2016
- The Book of Laney by Myfanwy Collins (novel)
- Echolocation by Myfanwy Collins (debut novel)
- I Am Holding Your Hand by Myfanwy Collins (stories)
october 2016
- The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb (debut novel)
- Deep Lane by Mark Doty (poetry)
september 2016
- Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum (essays)
- Preliminary Report by Jon Davis (poetry)
august 2016
- I Mary You by John Ciardi (poetry)
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (novel)
- Half Wild by Robin MacArthur (debut stories)
july 2016
- Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon edited by Joyce Peseroff (essays)
- The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (debut novel)
- The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida (novel)
- Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma (novel)
june 2016
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (novel)
- The Boys of my Youth by Jo Ann Beard (memoir)
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare (play)
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (novel)
may 2016
- What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (debut novel)
- Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson (debut novel)
april 2016
- A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion (novel)
- They Could Live With Themselves by Jodi Paloni (debut stories)
- Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps (debut novel)
- The Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (nonfiction)
march 2016
- A Well-Made Bed by Abby Frucht and Laurie Alberts (novel)
- The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee (novel)
february 2016
- The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky (memoir)
- Marriage & Personal Development by Rubin Blanck and Gertrude Blanck (nonfiction)
january 2016
- The Fragile Bond by Augustus Y. Napier (nonfiction)
- Casualties by Elizabeth Marro (debut novel)
december 2015
- Aftermath by Rachel Cusk (memoir)
november 2015
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen (essays)
- The True Secrets of the Nile by Sarah Stone (debut novel)
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare (play)
october 2015
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (essay)
- Citizen by Claudia Rankine (essays)
september 2015
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (novel)
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (nonfiction)
august 2015
- The Green Road by Anne Enright (novel)
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (play)
- Nom de Plume by Carmela Ciuraru (nonfiction)
july 2015
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (novel 736 pages!)
- A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver (poetry)
june 2015
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (debut novel)
- The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit (nonfiction)
- The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach (novel)
may 2015
- The First Bad Man by Miranda July (debut novel)
- Henry V by William Shakespeare (play)
april 2015
- The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell (poetry)
- Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (novel)
- What Comes Next and How to Like it by Abigail Thomas (memoir)
march 2015
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (play)
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir by Katrina Kenison (memoir)
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (children’s book/reread)
- Winter Hours by Mary Oliver (prose, prose poems, & poems/reread)
- The Unvanquished by William Faulkner (novel)
february 2015
- Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare (play)
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (essays)
- Dream Work by Mary Oliver (poetry)
- Island of Bones by Joy Castro (essays)
- Our World by Mary Oliver (prose/poetry) and Molly Malone Cook (photographs)
january 2015
- History of the Rain by Niall Williams (novel)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (play)
- Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis (novel)
december 2014
- Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (novel)
- Someone by Alice McDermott (novel)
- Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare (play)
november 2014
- Animal, Mineral, Radical by BK Loren (essays)
- Theft by BK Loren (debut novel)
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (play)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild and other stories by Doris Betts (stories)
october 2014
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (novel)
- The New Valley by Josh Weil (debut novellas)
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis (novel)
september 2014
- Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes (young adult novel)
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (novel)
august 2014
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (play)
- Bound by Antonya Nelson (novel)
- Shepherd by Richard Gilbert (debut memoir)
july 2014
- Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon (novel)
- Acts of God by Ellen Gilchrist (stories)
- The Anna Papers by Ellen Gilchrist (novel/reread)
june 2014
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (play)
- Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (memoir)
- Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson (novel in stories)
may 2014
- Richard II by William Shakespeare (play)
- Sparta by Roxana Robinson (novel)
- King John by William Shakespeare (play)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tart [771 pages!] (novel)
april 2014
- Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare (play)
- The Pat Boone Fan Club by Sue William Silverman (memoir)
- Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson (novel)
march 2014
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (play)
- Train Shots by Vanessa Blakeslee (debut stories)
february 2014
- Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III (linked novellas)
- Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell (novel/reread)
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (play)
january 2014
- The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (play)
- The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (novel)
- The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (debut novel)
december 2013
- Silverchest by Carl Phillips (poetry)
- Small Change by Elizabeth Hay (linked stories)
- Still Writing by Dani Shapiro (nonfiction)
- Tumbledown by Robert Boswell (novel)
november 2013
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (play)
- Life Drawing by Robin Black (novel)
october 2013
- Return to Oakpine by Ron Carlson (novel)
september 2013
- Richard III by William Shakespeare (play)
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (novel)
- Fobbit by David Abrams (debut novel)
- The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman (debut novel)
august 2013
- Westerly by Will Schutt (poetry)
- The Saddest Music Ever Written by Thomas Larson (nonfiction)
- Henry VI, Part Three by William Shakespeare (play)
july 2013
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (debut novel)
- Henry VI, Part One by William Shakespeare (play)
- Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare (play)
june 2013
- Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt (novel)
- The Season of Open Water by Dawn Tripp (novel)
- The Paper Anniversary by Joan Wickersham (novel)
may 2013
- Moon Tide by Dawn Tripp (debut novel)
- This is Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt (novel)
- The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier (debut novel)
april 2013
- All This Talk of Love by Christopher Castellani (novel)
- All That Is by James Salter (novel)
march 2013
- Tenth of December by George Saunders (stories)
- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (novel)
february 2013
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (debut novel)
- The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (debut novel)
- Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwrtz (novel)
- Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt (novel)
january 2013
- Seasons in Love by Dave Malone (poetry)
- Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (debut novel)
- The News from Spain by Joan Wickersham (stories)
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (novella)
december 2012
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich (novel)
- May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes(novel)
november 2012
- Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young (debut memoir)
- Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous (essays)
- The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (novel/debut)
october 2012
- A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (novel)
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (letters)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (debut novel)
- Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories)
september 2012
- The Physics of Sunset by Jane Vandenburgh (novel)
- Winter Journal by Paul Auster (memoir)
- My Call to the Ring by Deirdre Gogarty & Darrelyn Saloom (memoir/debut)
- The Stations of Solitude by Alice Koller (journal)
- Game of Secrets by Dawn Tripp (novel)
- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton (memoir/journal)
august 2012
- The Riders by Tim Winton (novel)
- A Vacation on the Island of Ex-boyfriends by Stacy Bierlein (stories/debut)
- Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber (stories/debut)
- In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist (stories/reread)
- The Annunciation by Ellen Gilchrist (novel/reread)
july 2012
- Straight Man by Richard Russo (novel)
- The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (nonfiction)
- The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer (novel/debut)
- Unconventions by Michael Martone (craft)
- Four for a Quarter by Michael Martone (book)
- The Burning House by Paul Lisicky (novel)
- Florida by Christine Schutt (novel)
june 2012
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese [658 pages!] (novel/debut)
- Nobody Wakes Up Pretty by Diane Lefer (novel)
- Into This World by Sybil Baker (novel)
- Michael Martone by Michael Martone (fiction)
- Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns (essays)
- When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams (essays)
- After This by Alice McDermott (novel)
- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (novel/debut)
may 2012
- Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis (stories/debut)
- The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton (novel)
- The Art Lover by Carole Maso (novel)
- The Bradshaw Variations (novel)
- The Bradshaw Variations [nope, not a mistake–finished the last page and turned to the first to read it again] (novel/reread)
- The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin (novel)
april 2012
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (novel)
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed (memoir)
march 2012
- Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston (novel/reread)
february 2012
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (novel)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (novel)
january 2012
- Volt by Alan Heathcock (stories/debut)
- Torch by Cheryl Strayed (novel/debut)
december 2011
- So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (novel)
- The Empty Family by Colm Toibin (stories)
november 2011
- An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski (nonfiction)
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)
- We The Animals by Justin Torres (novel/debut)
october 2011
- Notes Home From a Prodigal Son by Douglas Glover (essays)
- The Court of Common Pleas by Alexandra Marshall (novel/reread)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (novel/reread)
september 2011
- No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf (novel)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (novel)
august 2011
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (novel)
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (novel/reread)
- Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (novel/reread)
july 2011
- Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (novel)
- Natural Causes by Mark Cox (poetry)
june 2011
- Elle by Douglas Glover (novel)
- The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen (novel/debut)
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow (novel/debut)
may 2011
- The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch (memoir)
- Reality Hunger by David Shields (nonfiction)
april 2011
- This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey by Steve Almond (essays and stories)
- The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera (craft)
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (essays)
- Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston (novel)
- Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (stories)
march 2011
- The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley (stories and a novella)
- Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (craft)
- How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler (novel)
february 2011
- Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton (novel/debut)
- Wrecker by Summer Wood (novel)
january 2011
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (novel/reread)
- The Gathering of My Name by Cornelius Eady (poetry/reread)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (novel)
- Showing & Telling by Laurie Alberts (craft)
december 2010
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (novel)
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (novel/did not finish)
november 2010
- Old Border Road by Susan Froderberg (novel/debut)
- Evocative Objects edited by Sherry Turkle (essays)
- Coming to Writing and Other Essays by Helene Cixous (essays)
- By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (novel)
- Journeyman’s Wages by Clemens Starck (poetry)
- Shakespearean Design by Mark Rose (craft)
- Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (novel/reread)
october 2010
- Jesus’ Son by Dennis Johnson (stories/reread)
- Words Overflown by Stars edited by David Jauss (craft essays from the Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty)
- The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (novel)
september 2010
- Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (memoir)
- The Art of Time in Fiction by Joan Silber (craft)
- Rhythm in the Novel by E. K. Brown (craft)
- A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (stories)
august 2010
- The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (novel/debut)
- Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight (biography)
- Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (novel/debut)
- Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (novel)
- A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (novella)
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (short novel)
july 2010
- Alone With All That Could Happen (craft) by David Jauss
- Last Rites by David Jauss (novella)
- You Are Not Here by David Jauss (poetry)
- Black Maps by David Jauss (stories)
- My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (novel/debut)
june 2010
- Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn (stories/debut)
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike (novel)
- Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom (stories)
may 2010
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel/reread)
- Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (novel)
- Verging on the Pertinent by Carol Emshwiller (stories)
april 2010
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel)
- If I loved you, I would tell you this by Robin Black (stories/debut)
- More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson (stories/debut)
- Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson (novel)
- Evidence by Mary Oliver (poetry)
- A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson (stories)
march 2010
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (nonfiction)
- How Fiction Works by James Wood (craft)
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (stories)
- Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright (novel/debut)
february 2010
- Love and Summer by William Trevor (novel)
- Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (stories)
- Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (novel/debut)
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace (essays)
january 2010
- Devotion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
- California Transit by Diane Lefer (stories)
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (stories)
december 2009
- Mentors, Muses, & Monsters edited by Elizabeth Benedict (essays)
- The Signal by Ron Carlson (novel)
november 2009
- An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (novel/debut)
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (novel)
- Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes (stories)
october 2009
- A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers (poetry)
- Snoop by Sam Gosling (nonfiction)
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel)
- The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
- poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldrigde (craft)
- wildlives by Monique Proulx (novel)
september 2009
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (novel)
- Speak Low by Carl Phillips (poetry)
august 2009
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (novel)
- Fearless Confessions by Sue William Silverman (craft)
- The Music Room by Dennis McFarland (novel/debut/reread)
july 2009
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (essay)
- The Way to Write by John Fairfax and John Moat (craft)
- The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie (story anthology)
june 2009
- Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas (craft)
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (novel)
- The Writer’s Notebook (craft)
- The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (novel/debut)
may 2009
- The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (novel/debut)
- When the Piano Stops by Catherine McCall (memoir)
- Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill (stories)
- Stop-Time by Frank Conroy (memoir)
april 2009
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (novel)
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
- The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King (novel)
march 2009
- House of Light by Mary Oliver (poetry)
- The Secret Currency of Love edited by Hilary Black (essays)
- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (nonfiction)
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (novel/reread)
february 2009
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by YiYun Li (stories)
- An Accidental Light by Elizabeth Diamond (novel/debut)
- Safe Suicide by DeWitt Henry (essays)
- Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton (memoir)
- Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart (poetry)
january 2009
- Dirt Music by Tim Winton (novel)
- The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts (nonfiction)
- Light in August by William Faulkner (reread/novel)
december 2008
- Last Night by James Salter (stories)
- Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (reread/novel)
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (novel)
november 2008
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (autobiography/audio)
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison (novel)
- In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (novel)
- Home by Marilynne Robinson (novel)
october 2008
- To Kill a Mockingbird (novel/audio)
- November 22, 1963 by Adam Braver (novel)
- The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk (novel)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (novel/reread)
- A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (memoir)
september 2008
- The Country Life by Rachel Cusk (novel)
- The Temporary by Rachel Cusk (novel)
- Falling Through Space by Ellen Gilchrist (essays/reread)
- Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk (first novel!)
august 2008
- Why Write? by Paul Auster (essays)
- The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (novel/debut)
- Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro (novel)
july 2008
- Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright (poetry)
- Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet (essays)
- Light in August by William Faulkner (novel)
- Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (poetry)
- Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (novel)
- The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (memoir)
june 2008
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (novel/reread)
- The Problem with Paradise by Lesley Dahl (novel/YA)
- Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos (novel)
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir)
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (novel)
- Flight by Sherman Alexie (novel)
- Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (poetry)
may 2008
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (stories/linked)
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (novel)
- A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist (brand new novel!)
- The Spy who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (novel)
april 2008
- Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti (stories/debut)
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (novel)
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin (novel)
- The Gateway by T. M. McNally (stories)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (novel)
march 2008
- White Noise by Don DeLillo (novel)
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo (novel)
- Playing with Fire by Dani Shapiro (novel)
february 2008
- Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
- Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (novel)
january 2008
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (novel)
- Five Skys by Ron Carlson (novel)
- Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson (craft)
- The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter (craft)
- Fugitive Blue by Dani Shapiro (novel)
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