Fiction highlights were Amelia Gray's new one, Gutshot, which I'm fairly sure I can credit with kicking my ass back into fiction-writing gear, and beginning Karl Ove Knausgaard's opus, My Struggle, which I think most people either love or hate for its painstaking attention to mundane detail. I don't know what it says about me, but I love it and can't wait for the U.S release of all its volumes. Poetry is, as usual, all over the map, but a standout for me was discovering the badass that is Cate Marvin. Similarly, with chapbooks, Amorak Huey's The Insomniac Circus slayed me with its cleverness. I often have a hard time finding nonfiction that blows me away. Jan Bondeson's Buried Alive was great for its subject matter and intrigued me enough to want to read more on the longstanding fear of being buried alive. Five Days at Memorial also drew me in - a good work of journalism that isn't totally without bias, but that doesn't overtly try to lead the reader to one conclusion or another.
Seeing as I did not meet any 2015 reading goals, I'll merely set out to have a literary and fulfilling 2016. :D
Fiction
Three Hundred Million – Blake
Butler
The Poorhouse Fair – John Updike
Umbrella – Will Self
The Strange Library – Haruki
Murakami
My Struggle: Book 1 – Karl Ove
Knausgaard
My Struggle: Book 2 – Karl Ove
Knausgaard
Gutshot – Amelia Gray
Against the Country – Ben Metcalf
Binary Star – Sarah Gerard
Can’t and Won’t – Lydia Davis
The Cure for Suicide – Jesse Ball
The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
Station Eleven – Emily St. John
Mandel
Slade House – David Mitchell
New American Stories – Ben Marcus
In the House Upon the Dirt
Between the Lake and the Woods – Matt Bell
Poetry
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
– Paul Muldoon
Strike/Slip – Don McKay
The Glacier’s Wake – Katy Didden
Twigs and Knucklebones – Sarah
Lindsay
Debt to the Bone-Eating
Snotflower – Sarah Lindsay
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems –
Sharon Olds
The Keys to the Jail – Keetje
Kuipers
Gurlesque – Lara Glenum
Not For Mothers Only – Rebecca
Wolff
[insert] boy – Danez Smith
Heliopause – Heather Christle
Deep Lane – Mark Doty
Count the Waves – Sandra Beasley
The Bone Folders – T.A. Noonan
Confluence – Sandra Marchetti
Stationed Near the Gateway –
Margaret Bashaar
The Lunatic – Charles Simic
Apocryphal – Lisa Marie Basile
Oracle – Cate Marvin
New Exercises – Franck Andre
Jamme
The Last Two Seconds – Mary Jo
Bang
World’s Tallest Disaster – Cate Marvin
Given – Arielle Greenberg
Satellite – Matthew Rohrer
Fragment of the Head of a Queen –
Cate Marvin
Mr. West – Sarah Blake
The Poem She Didn’t Write and
Other Poems – Olena Kalytiak Davis
Erratic Facts – Kay Ryan
Non-Fiction
Deep Down Dark – Hector Tobar
Buried Alive – Jan Bondeson
Gods, Graves, and Scholars – C.W.
Ceram
Yes Please – Amy Poehler
About Town: TNY and the World It
Made: Ben Yagoda
Zine – Pagan Kennedy
Missoula – John Krakauer
The Bone Woman – Clea Koff
The Seven Good Years – Etgar
Keret
Word Nerd – John D. Williams
The Invisible Sex – J.M. Adovasio
The Other Serious – Christy Wampole
Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
Chapbooks
The Hows and Whys of My Failures
– Dan Nowak
The Insomniac Circus – Amorak
Huey
Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm –
Juliet Cook and Robert Cole
Incident Reports – Caitlin
Thomson
Blinded By Clouds – Risa
Denenberg
war/lock – Lisa Marie Basille
wingless, scorched, and beautiful
– Allie Marini Batts
Strangest Sea – Ariana den
Bleyker
The Sheep Stealer – Jenn Blair
Orphans Burning Orphans – Gene
Kwak
My Mother’s Child – Pamela Taylor
Traveling – M. Mack
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