My Year in Books, 2019
Novels, Literary Fiction
- Mostly Dead Things (2019), by Kristen Arnett
- Trust Exercise (2019), by Susan Choi
- The Book of X (2019), by Sarah Rose Etter
- How to Set Yourself On Fire (2018), by Julia Dixon Evans
- My Brilliant Friend (2011), by Elena Ferrante
- Cleanness (2020), by Garth Greenwell
- What Belongs to You (2016), by Garth Greenwell
- The Fortunes (2016), by Peter Ho Davies
- A River of Stars (2018), by Vanessa Hua
- Goodbye, Vitamin (2017), by Rachel Khong
- The Golden State (2018), by Lydia Kiesling
- The Education of Margot Sanchez (2017), by Lilliam Rivera
- No One Can Pronounce My Name (2017), by Rakesh Satyal
- Winter (2017), by Ali Smith
- Real Life (2020), by Brandon Taylor
Novels & Novellas, Speculative Fiction
- The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018), by Brooke Bolander
- Tiamat’s Wrath (2019), by James S. A. Corey
- This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019), by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Lilies of the Dawn (2016), by Vanessa Fogg
- Magic for Liars (2019), by Sarah Gailey
- Three Parts Dead (2012), by Max Gladstone
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), by Patricia A. McKillip
- Binti: Home (2017), by Nnedi Okorafor
- Dealing in Dreams (2019), by Lilliam Rivera
- Trail of Lightning (2018), by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Ascent to Godhood (2019), by JY Yang
- The Book of Joan (2017), by Lidia Yuknavitch
Story Collections
- Felt in the Jaw (2017), by Kristen Arnett
- White Dancing Elephants (2018), by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
- Feathered Serpent / Dark Heart of Sky (2018), by David Bowles
- Exhalation (2019), by Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), by Ted Chiang
- Her Body and Other Parties (2017), by Carmen Maria Machado
- Nosy White Woman (2019), by Martha Wilson
Poetry
- A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019), by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017), by Kaveh Akbar
- If They Come for Us (2018), by Fatimah Asghar
- They Call Me Güero (2018), by David Bowles
- Soft Science (2019), by Franny Choi
- Your Strange Fortune (2019), by Chloe N. Clark
- Our Debatable Bodies (2019), by Marisa Crane
- When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), by Natalie Diaz
- Unyielding (2019), by Karl Gilman
- Deaf Republic (2019), by Ilya Kaminsky
- Whereas (2017), by Laylee Long Soldier
- Oceanic (2018), by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Feed (2019), by Tommy Pico
- Junk (2018), by Tommy Pico
- Nature Poem (2017), by Tommy Pico
- Why Can’t It Be Tenderness (2018), by Michelle Brittan Rosado
- My Private Property (2016), by Mary Ruefle
- The Year of Blue Water (2019), by Yanyi
- The Pedestrians (2014), by Rachel Zucker
Graphic Novels
- The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited (2019), by the McElroys and Carey Pietsch
- Saga, Vol. 2 (2013), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Vol. 3 (2014), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Vol. 4 (2014), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Vol. 5 (2015), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Vol. 6 (2016), by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
Nonfiction & Other
- Go Ahead in the Rain (2019), by Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Pretty One (2019), by Keah Brown
- God Land (2019), by Lyz Lenz
- Gmorning, Gnight! (2018), by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Bluets (2009), by Maggie Nelson
- The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), by Esmé Weijun Wang
Read Aloud with My Kids
- Ramona and Her Father (1977), by Beverly Cleary
- The Dark Is Rising (1973), by Susan Cooper
- Greenwitch (1974), by Susan Cooper
- The Grey King (1975), by Susan Cooper
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2009), by Grace Lin
- Esperanza Rising (2000), by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- The Sea of Monsters (2006), by Rick Riordan
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999), by J. K. Rowling
- When You Reach Me (2009), by Rebecca Stead