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Selected 2016 Reading (alphabetical by author/editor last name by genre)
Short Stories/Collections
- Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Phoenix by Megan Mayhew Bergman
- Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
- Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
- American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Love It When You Come, Hate It When You Go: Stories by Sharon Leach
- A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
- Nobody Ever Gets Lost by Jess Row
- The Train to Lo Wu by Jess Row
Fiction
- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
- Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
- Xenogenesis series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) by Octavia E Butler
- Women by Chloe Caldwell
- The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forester
- What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Euphoria by Lily King
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
- A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
Nonfiction
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- Catching Homelessness by Josephine Ensign
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Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science by Tom S. Garrison
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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
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Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
- Big Dead Place by Nicholas Johnson
- The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
- The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
- A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
- Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do edited by Meredith Maran
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Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender by Mia McKenzie
- Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life by Dani Shapiro
- The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City by Laura Tillman
- The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
- Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
- Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf
Poems
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Las Afueras by Pablo Garcia Casado
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The Three Einsteins by Sarah Galvin
Zines/Graphic Novels/Other:
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OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient
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Burn Collector 1-15 by Al Burian
- The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms
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BFF by Sarah Gerard
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster