What I’m Reading
2024 Reading List
Fiction
The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay
The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves, China Miéville
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman
Girls Against God - Jenny Hval
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente
The Black Dahlia - James Elroy
Our Hideous Progeny - C.E. McGill
An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
Annihilation (series) - Jeff VanderMeer
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lucky Red - Claudia Cravens
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
The Collected Regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer
Jewel Box - E. Lily Yu
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Fourth Wing (part 1 and 2) - Rebecca Yarros
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Mister Magic - Kiersten White
Revelator - Daryl Gregory
A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher
Ascension - Nicholas Binge
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
The School for Good & Evil (series) - Soman Chainani
Non-Fiction
Rough Sleepers - Tracy Kidder
Consider The Lobster -David Foster Wallace
The Truths We Hold - Kamala Harris
Cinema Speculation - Quentin Tarantino
Jane Austen at Home - Lucy Worsley
Poetry
Where I Dry the Flowers - Ollie Schminkey
I'd Rather Be Destroyed - Zach Goldberg
On Craft
Draft No. 4 - John McPhee
NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen Weldon
2023 Reading List
Fiction
The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
The World We Make - N.K. Jemisin
The Stand - Stephen King
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets - J.K. Rowling
The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
Sleep Donation - Karen Russell
Poetry
An American Sunrise - Joy Harjo
How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) - Barbara Kingsolver
The Complete Poetry - Maya Angelou
Sugar House Review Vol 14 Issue 2 Winter 2022
Screenplays
Get Out (film) - Jordan Peele
Fleabag (series) - Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Chewing Gum (series) - Michaela Coel
Book Smart (film) - Katie Silberman, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel
On Craft
Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself - Chuck Wendig
From Where You Dream - Robert Olen Butler
Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
Craft in the Real World - Matthew Salesses
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama - Bob Odenkirk
Finding Your Comedic Voice - Upright Citizens Brigade
The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr
Story - Robert McKee
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
The Screenwriter’s Bible (Sixth Edition) - David Trottier
So You Want to Start a Podcast - Kristen Meinzer
Non-Fiction
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
Deep Work - Cal Newport
2022 Reading List
Fiction
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Potted Meat - Steven Dunn
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
The Tensorate Series (The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, The Descent of Monsters, The Ascent to Godhood) – JY Yang
The Memory Police: A Novel – Yoko Ogawa (Translated by Stephen Snyder)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – Erika L. Sánchez
The Emperor’s Soul – Brandon Sanderson
Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar – Ron A. Austin
The Ones We’re Meant to Find – Joan He
Leviathan Falls – James S.A. Corey
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu
Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories - Leigh Newman
Anne of Windy Poplars - L.M. Montgomery
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Tiamat’s Wrath - James S.A. Corey
Book Lovers - Emily Henry
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Poetry
Dead Dad Jokes – Ollie Schminkey
Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Metaphor (Volume 41) - Multiple Authors
Dear Weirdo - Abraham Smith
Zoonotic - Cindy King
Non-Fiction
Notes on Grief – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Damage - Ashley Marie Farmer
The Sum of Her Parts - Siân Griffiths
Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll
On Craft
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel : The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need - Jessica Brody
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing - Elena Ferrante