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Selected 2017 Reading (alphabetical by author/editor last name by genre)

Short Stories/Collections

• What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
• The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
• A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
• A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
• The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
• The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
• Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg
• The O. Henry Prize Stories edited by Laura Furman
• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
• The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Send me Work: Stories by Katherine Karlin
• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
• The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
• Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
• Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
• Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munroe
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
• Green Mountains Review edited by Dan Pinkerton
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
• Tenth of December by George Saunders
• Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard

Fiction

• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
• Eileen by Ottessa Mosfegh
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
• The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Writing the Memoir by Judith Barrington
• Mythologies by Roland Barthes
• Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles
• And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• On Writing by Charles Bukowski
• Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton
• The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon
• The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus by Cyril Connolly
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
• My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care edited by Craig M. Klugman
• The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
• Table Talk: From the Threepenny Review edited by Wendy Lesser
• More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
• Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing by Deborah Levy
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Matthew
• Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice by Colum McCann
• Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality edited by Jonathan M. Metzl
• Ventanas de Manhattan by Antonio Muñoz Molina
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
• Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
• God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese
• When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
• Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser

Poetry

• Three Poems by John Ashbery
• On Cats by Charles Bukowski
• Loosestrife by Stephen Dunn
• Ugly Time by Sarah Galvin
• The Temple Gate Called Beautiful by David K. Kirby
• Falling Water by John Koethe
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Plays/Zines/Graphic Novels/Other:

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Wit by Margaret Edson
• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
• The Ring of Fire Anthology by E.T. Russian
• The Bad Doctor by Ian Williams