Read List (Unsorted)
- Waterlog — Roger Deakin
- Nina Simone’s Gum — Warren Ellis
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — David Foster Wallace
- Junky — William S Burroughs
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Fiction
- Paradiso 17 — Hannah Lillith Assadi
- Red Ants — Kimberly Blaeser
- Dèy — Edwidge Danticat
- Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You — Julián Delgado Lopera
- Python’s Kiss — Louise Erdrich
- The Disappearers — Marlon James
- Beginning Middle End — Valeria Luiselli
- Passengers — Alexander Maksik
- The Renovation — Kenan Orhan
- Mad Eden — Morgan Thomas The New Yorker
Nonfiction
- Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America — Rozina Ali
- The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music — Colin Asher
- Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground — Zayd Ayers Dohrn
- Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming — Abdelrahman ElGendy
- Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom — Camonghne Felix
- The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home — Wil Haygood
- Mother Tongue — Sara Nović
- Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood — Joseph Osmundson
- The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming — Angela Pelster
- A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint — Wendy S. Walters The New Yorker
Poetry
- Tree of Knowledge — Victoria Chang
- Hide — Carolina Ebeid
- Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation — Brenda Hillman
- The Bronze Arms — Richie Hofmann
- Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza — Fady Joudah
- We — Layli Long Soldier
- Promise/Threat — Jonah Mixon-Webster
- JOAN — Jake Rose
- Horses — Jake Skeets
- Bramble — Susan Stewart The New Yorker
Translated Literature
- My Dreadful Body — Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden
- Now I Surrender — Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer
- Eden at Dawn — Karim Kattan, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
- The School of Night — Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken
- To the East of the East — Ping Lu, translated by Jeremy Tiang
- Centroeuropa — Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul Bery
- Night of a Thousand Hells — Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao
- Pure Men — Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Lara Vergnaud
- The Disappearing Act — Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
- Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza — Samar Yazbek, translated by Leri Price The New Yorker
Young People’s Literature
- The Free Verse Society — Delali Adjoa
- Holloway — Elana K. Arnold
- The Celestial Seas — T. A. Chan
- When Tomorrow Burns — Tae Keller
- That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic — Keala Kendall
- The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America — David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels
- The Moon Without Stars — Chanel Miller
- Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams — Eric Darnell Pritchard
- Shook — Julian Randall
- Life on the Moon — Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr The New Yorker
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