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Please note, I’m only including books or works I got all the way through or briefly read but picked up some really good insight from. I won’t include “DNF” or works I didn’t enjoy here. At the end of each year, I’ll highlight my 5 favorite reads.

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2024 READS

The Call of Poohthulhu edited by Neil Baker

The Green Mile (complete serial novel) by Stephen King

Lesser American Boys by Zach VandeZande

Needful Things by Stephen King

Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work by bell hooks

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer

Twilight Zone: The Original Stories edited by Martin Harry Greenberg, Richard Matheson, and Charles G. Waugh

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings

FAVORITE READS IN 2023

Here in the Night by Rebecca Turkewitz

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko (middle grade)

FAVORITE READS IN 2022

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Age of the Child by Krisen Tsetsi

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

FAVORITE LITERARY MAGAZINES & ONLINE READS

The Atlantic

Cleaver Magazine

Culture Study (by Anne Helen Peterson)

CRAFT

Craft Talk (by Jami Attenberg)

Electric Literature (including Recommended Reading and The Commuter)

Fractured Lit

Gotham Writers (including The Razor)

Necessary Salt (by Joy Sullivan)

Split Lip Magazine

Thread Litmag (Yes, I’m on Threads!)

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

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