Books I Read in 2018
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Sweet Tomb by Trinie Dalton
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Women and Power by Mary Beard
A History of the Wife by Margaret Yalom
The Faithful Servants by Margery Sharp
Blud by Rachel McKibbens
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Fables by Sarah Goldstein
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Bestiary by Donika Kelly
A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Feathers, Claws, Fins, and Paws by Jennifer Schacker
Strike A Prose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire by Tim Jones-Yelvington
Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sanchez
Look by Solmaz Sharif
Essential Shakespeare Handbook by Leslie Dunton-Downer
Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
The Future by Neil Hilborn
MACNOLIA by A. Van Jordan
Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley
Autopsy by Donte Collins
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
Someone’s Dead Already by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraquib
Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips
Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes
Betwixt-and-Between by Jenny Boully
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson
The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky
The White Book by Han Kang
Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process edited by Joe Fassler
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy
The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
Contemplation by Franz Kafka
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen
Margaret Atwood by Margaret Atwood
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk
Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
Here by Richard McGuire
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel
The Miniature Wife by Manuel Gonzales
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
Drifting House by Krys Lee
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Boat by Nam Le
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine by Kevin Wilson
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Meeting with My Brother by Yi Mun-Yol
Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron
All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones
The Case of Peter Pan: Or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction by Jacqueline Rose
How Winter Began by Joy Castro
