Selected 2022 Reading – I’ve put ** next to my absolute favorites

Fiction/Novels/Novellas

• Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades 
• The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold 
• Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold
• One Foot in the Fade by Luke Arnold
• Persuasion by Jane Austen 
• Hunger by Elise Blackwell**
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close** 
• The Smart One by Jennifer Close
• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook**
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras 
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• The Upstairs House by Julia Fine**  
• Desperate Characters by Paula Fox**
• Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh 
• Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh
• Tinkers by Paul Harding**
• Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
• Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones**
• Post Traumatic by Chantal V Johnson**
• Intimacies by Katie Kitamura **
• Submergence by J.M. Ledgard**
• Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi 
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood**
• Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
• Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 
• Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
• Sylvia by Leonard Michaels**
• The Men by Sandra Newman
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik**
• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
• His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
• The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi**
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters**
• I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart**
• The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade**
• Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt**
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells**
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• Exist Strategy by Martha Wells 
• Network Effect by Martha Wells 
• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
• Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton**
• White Horse by Erika Wurth

Short Story Collections

• The Predatory Animal Ball by Jen Fliss
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty**  

Nonfiction/Essays

• The Book of Atlantis Black by Betsy Bonner
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras**
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• How To Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace 
• Body Work by Melissa Febos**
• What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché**  
• The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser**
• The Unwritten Book by Sam Hunt**
• Bastards by Mary Anna King** 
• Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse** 
• The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie** 
• Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee 
• And Now We Have Everything by Meaghan O’Connell 
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo**

Poetry

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer**
• I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer
• And Yet by Kate Baer
• The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché  
• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon**
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Maria Rilke
• Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets
• What to Miss When by Leigh Stein

Zines/Chapbooks/Graphic Novels

• An Ecotone Almanac
• In the Fifth World: Portrait of the Navajo Nation by Adriel Heisey and Kenji Kawano 
• Community Chest by Natalie Serber
• James McNeill Whistler by Robin Spencer
• Georgia O’Keeffe A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz