Reading List for 2023

1. No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte

2. Defending Jacob, William Landay

3. What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez

4. The Magician, Colm Toibin

5. The Aspern Papers, Henry James

6. The Dead Lagoon, Michael Didbin

7. The Midcoast, Adam White

8. Life is Everywhere, Lucy Ives

9. This Other Eden, Paul Harding

10. The Quiet Tenant, Clemence Michallon

11. Man of the Year, Caroline Louise Walker

12. Nobody Move, Denis Johnson

13. My Last Innocent Year, Daisy Alpert Florin

14. In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes

15. Pet Sematary, Stephen King

16. The Writing Retreat, Julie Bartz

17. Hell of a Book, Jason Mott

18. Those Who Walk Away, Patricia Highsmith

19. Users, Colin Winnette

20. An Expendable Man, Dorothy B. Hughes

21. Biography of X, Catherine Lacey

22. The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy

23. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan

24. The Blinds, Adam Sternbergh

25. The Paper Men, William Golding

26. Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou

27. Trust, Hernan Diaz

28. The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

29. The Body Lies, Jo Baker

30. Shovel Ready, Adam Sternbergh

31. The Guest, Emma Cline

32. The Liars Game, Catherine Ryan Howard

33. A Country Road, A Tree, Jo Baker

34. Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak

35. The Accident, Chris Pavone

36. Libra, Don DeLillo

37. Among the Thugs, Bill Buford

38. The Other People, CJ Tudor

39. Molloy, Samuel Beckett

40. Directions to Myself, Heidi Julavits

41. Warlight, Michael Ondaatje

42. A Far Cry From Kensington, Muriel Spark

43. A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay

44. Notes From the Fog, Ben Marcus

45. The Dark Half, Stephen King

46. Going Native, Stephen Wright

47. The England Experience, Julie Schumacher

48. Sliver, Ira Levin

49. Free Love, Tessa Hadley

50. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

51. In Memoriam, Alice Winn

52. The Back of Beyond, Peter Stamm

53. Carnality, Lina Wolff

54. Hawk Mountain, Conner Habib

55. Little Eyes, Samantha Schweblin

56. Ravelstein, Saul Bellow

57. I’ll Never Tell, Philippa East

58. Pages From a Cold Island, Frederick Exley

59. The Red Arrow, William Brewer

60. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

61. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee

62. The Italian Teacher, Tom Rachman

63. My Death, Lisa Tuttle

64. The Invited, Jennifer McMahon

65. The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes

66. How Can I Help You, Laura Sims

67. Half Moon Street, Paul Theroux

68. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M Cain

69. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

70. Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth

71. Naples, ‘44, Norman Lewis

72. Same Bed, Different Dreams, Ed Park

73. The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor

74. The Anniversary, Stephanie Bishop

75. The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan

76. Prophet Song, Paul Lynch

77. Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon

78. Bed-Stuy is Burning, Brian Platzer

79. Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez

80. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

81. Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton

82. Yellowface, R.F. Kuang

83. Dartmouth Park, Rupert Thomson

84. Malone, Samuel Beckett