Interested in what a writer reads?
Please note, I’m only including story collections, novels, novellas, and longer creative nonfiction 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.
Keep checking back for updates!
2026 READS
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
FAVORITE READS IN 2025
The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin
FAVORITE READS IN 2024
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Green Mile (complete serial novel) by Stephen King
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
Needful Things by Stephen King
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
I read a lot of essays, short fiction, and short creative nonfiction. Here are a few of my favorite places to get good reads.
Electric Literature (including Recommended Reading and The Commuter)