Donald Brackett – Long, Slow Train: The Soul Music of Sharon Jones
Jennifer Baker, Editor – Everyday People, The Color of Life, a Short Story Anthology
Langston Hughes/Roy DeCarava – The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Guillermo Cabrera Infante – Map Drawn By a Spy
Art Shay – Chicago’s Nelson Algren
Denis Johnson – The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Amparo Davila – The Houseguest
Robin Robertson – The Long Take
Earle Stanley Gardner – The Knife Slipped
Earle Stanley Gardner – The Count of 9
Christina Rivera Garza – The Taiga Syndrome
Jim Thompson – The Getaway
Padgett Powell – You and Me
Wendy Guerra – Revolution Sunday
Naomi Jackson – The Star Side of Bird Hill
Bianca Marais – Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Esi Edugyan – Washington Black
Timothy Hallinan – Nighttown
Jeff Tweedy – Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)
Michael Ondaatje – Warlight
Caryl Philips – The Final Passage (re-read)
Stephanie Powell Watts – We Are Taking Only What We Need
Charles Williams – The Hot Spot
James Lee Burke – New Iberia Blues
Louis Alberto Urrea – The House of Broken Angels
Otessa Moshfegh – McGlue
Kiese Laymon – Heavy
Per Oldaeus – Professor Longhair-A Scrapbook
Camille Ackerman – Training School for Negro Girls
Lawrence Block – A Time To Scatter Stones
Claire Adam – Golden Child
Patricia Smith – Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Lawrence Osborne – On To Sleep
Otessa Moshfegh – Eileen
Preston Lauterbach – Bluff City
Patrick Chamoiseau – Slave Old Man
James M. Cain – The Cocktail Waitress (re-read)
Kwame Davis – Bivouac
Timothy Halinan – A Nail Through the Heart
Lauren Wilkinson – American Spy
Mark Howard – Listen Up
Otessa Moshfegh – Homesick for Another World
Leonardo Padua – Grab a Snake by the Tail
Amaud Jamal Johnson – Darktown Follies
Dominic Smith – The Electric Hotel
Chanel Cleeton – When We Left Cuba
Eve Babitz – Slow Days, Fast Company
De’Shawn Charles Winslow – In West Mills
Geovani Martins – The Sun on My Head
David Ritz – The God Groove
Pablo Medina – The Cuban Comedy
Amanda Marbais – Claiming a Body
Nafissa Thompson-Spires – Heads of the Colored People
Jaime Manrique – Like This Afternoon Forever
Chanelle Benz – The Gone Dead
Walter Mosley – Elements of Fiction
Randy Boyagoda – Original Prin
Myla Goldberg – Feast Your Eyes
Bill Moody – Solo Hand
Emily St. John Mandel – The Lola Quartet
Clairice Lispector – The Besieged City
Regina Porter – The Travelers
Christopher Hall – Our Man Down in Havana
Graham Greene – The Comedians
Bill Moody – Shades of Blue
Karla F. C. Holloway – A Death in Harlem
Karen Russell – Orange World
Zadie Smith – Grand Union
Bill Moody – The Sound of the Trumpet
Aaron Cohen – Move On Up
Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House
Earle Lovelace/Robert Antoni, Editors – Trinidad Noir the Classics
Will Birch – Cruel To Be Kind
Edwidge Danticat – Every Thing Inside
Alexandra Fuller – Travel Light, Move Fast
Fernanda Torres – Glory and Its Litany of Horrors
Joe R. Lansdale – Jackrabbit Smile
Booker T. Jones – Time Is Tight