Reading

2026

Poetry

January

  • Dear Darkness by Kevin Young

Fiction

January

  • Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
  • Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

2025

Poetry

January

  • Forgiven Submarine by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu

February

  • Curdled Skulls by Bernard Bador
  • Spar by Karen Volkman

March

  • The Blood Countess by Robert Peters
  • Still My Father's Son by The Wires System/Nora Hikari

July

  • Bluets by Maggie Nelson
  • The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes

September

  • Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan
  • Fits of Concision by X. J. Kennedy
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

October

  • Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
  • The Thin Wall by Martha Rhodes

November

  • The Most Holy Day of the Transsexual Calendar by Nora Hikari

Nonfiction

May

  • Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane

September

  • Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks edited by David Lavery

October

  • The Essential Wrapped in Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks by John Thorne

November

  • On Writing by Stephen King

Fiction

Fiction includes novels, novellas, and complete anthologies.

January

  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

February

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

March

  • Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
  • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  • If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
  • Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)

May

  • Red Elk: The Wildest City in the USA by Jordan Pastor
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)
  • Martyr! by Raveh Akbar
  • Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (again)
  • Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (again)
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
  • Groupmind by Mike Conner
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • Doppelgangers by H.F. Heard
  • Misery by Stephen King

July

  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • Elephantasm by Tanith Lee

August

  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • Sabella by Tanith Lee
  • Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
  • Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (again)

September

  • Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (again)
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

October

  • The Stand by Stephen King (again)
  • Misery by Stephen King (again)

November

  • Misery by Stephen King (again)
  • Riders of the Purple Rage by Philip José Farmer
  • The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

December

  • 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
  • Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
  • Desperation by Stephen King
  • The Long Walk by Stephen King
  • With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama by Richard A. Lupoff
  • Again, Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison

Short Stories

November

  • Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
    • Evensong by Lester del Rey
    • Flies by Robert Silverburg
    • The Day After the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
    • The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord
    • A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch
    • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison
    • The Night that All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss
    • The Man who Went to the Moon—Twice by Howard Rodman

December

  • Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
    • Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick
    • The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven
    • Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber
    • Eutopia by Poul Anderson
    • Incident in Moderan by David R. Bunch
    • The Escaping by David R. Bunch
    • The Doll-House by James Cross
    • Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight
    • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
    • What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg
    • Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman
    • The Happy Breed by John T. Sladek
    • Encounter with a Hick by Johnathan Brand
    • From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville
    • Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty
    • The Recognition by J. G. Ballard
    • Judas by John Brunner
    • Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer
    • Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad
    • Auto-Da-Fé by Roger Zelazny
    • Aye, and Gommorrah by Samuel R. Delany
  • Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
    • The Mist
    • Here There Be Tygers
    • The Monkey
    • Cain Rose Up
    • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
    • The Jaunt
    • The Wedding Gig
    • Paranoid: A Chant
    • The Raft
    • Word Processor of the Gods
    • The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
    • Beachworld
    • The Reaper's Image
    • Nona
    • For Owen
    • Survivor Type
    • Uncle Otto's Truck
    • Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)
    • Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)
    • Gramma
    • The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
    • The Reach
  • Again, Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
    • Counterpoint of View by John Heidenry
    • Ching Witch! by Ross Rocklynne
    • For Value Received by andrew j. offutt
    • Fathoms from the Time Closet by Gene Wolfe
      • Robot's Story
      • Against the Lafayette Escadrille
      • Loco Parentis
    • Time Travel for Pedestrians by Ray Nelson
    • Christ, Old Student in a New School by Ray Bradbury
    • King of the Hill by Chad Oliver
    • The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By by Edward Bryant
    • The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm
    • Harry the Hare by James B. Hemesath
    • When It Changed by Joanna Russ
    • The Big Space Fuck by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    • Bounty by T. L. Sherred
    • Still-Life by K. M. O'Donnell
    • Stoned Counsel by H. H. Hollis
    • Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations by Bernard Wolfe
      • The Bisquit Position
      • The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements
    • With a Finger in My I by David Gerrold
    • In the Barn by Piers Anthony
    • Soundless Evening by Lee Hoffman
    • (Blob) by Gahan Wilson
    • The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward by Joan Bernott
    • And the Sea Like Mirrors by Gregory Benford
    • Bed Sheets are White by Evelyn Lief
    • Tissue by James Sallis
      • at the fitting shop
      • 53rd american dream
    • Elouise and the Doctors of the PLanet Pergamon by Josephine Saxton
    • Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home by Ken McCullough
    • Epiphany for Aliens by David Kerr
    • Eye of the Beholder by Burt K. Filer
    • Moth Race by Richard Hill
    • In Re Glover by Leonard Tushnet
    • Zero Gee by Ben Bova
    • A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village by Dean R. Koontz
    • Getting Along by James Blishn
    • Totenbüch by A. Parra (y Figueredo)
    • Things Lost by Thomas M. Disch
    • Lamia Mutable by M. John Harrison
    • Last Train to Kankakee by Robin Scott
    • Empire of the Sun by Andrew Weiner
    • Ozymandias by Terry Carr
    • The Milk of Paradise by James Tiptree, Jr.

2024

Poetry

January

  • Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
  • nick virgilio: a life in haiku by Nick Virgilio, edited and introduced by Raffael de Gruttola and afterward by Kathleen O'Toole
  • the slow horizon that breathes by Dimitra Kotoula and translated by Maria Nazos

February

  • tiller north by Rosa Lane

March

  • the twelfth of never by Ciaran Carson
  • they feed they lion by Philip Levine

April

  • the phonemes by Frances Richard
  • the magic my body becomes by Jess Rizkallah

June

  • horses where the answers should have been by Chase Twichell

July

  • the multiple by Calvin Bedient

August

  • landed natures by George Economou

September

  • making the skeleton dance by Patricia Garfinkel
  • the green girls by John Blair

December

  • lyrics of earth by Archibald Lampman
  • Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

Nonfiction

February

  • hood feminism by Mikki Kendall

March

  • human + machine by Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson

May

  • consider the fork by Bee Wilson
  • salt, fat, acid, heat by Samin Nosrat

December

  • The Art of Plain Talk by Rudolf Flesch

Fiction

March

  • house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

May

  • jurassic park by Michael Crichton
  • borne by Jeff Vandermeer

June

  • piranesi by Susanna Clarke

July

  • the tommyknockers by Stephen King

August

  • twin peaks: the final dossier by Mark Frost
  • project hail mary by Andy Weir

September

  • IT by Stephen King
  • sirens of titan by Kurt Vonnegut

October

  • the haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
  • Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer

December

  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

Games

September

  • Player's Handbook (5th edition) by Wizards of the Coast
  • Dungeon Master's Guide (5th edition) by Wizards of the Coast

October

  • Out of the Abyss by Wizards of the Coast

Manga

December

  • Shigurui by Takayuki Yamaguchi

2023

Poetry

Nonfiction

Fiction