William Gay – The Lost Country
Joe Meno – How the Hula Girl Sings
Jaquira Diaz – Ordinary Girls
Bill Moody – Fade to Blue
Joe R Lansdale – Rumble Tumble
Bill Moody – Looking for Chet Baker
Joe R Lansdale – Mucho Mojo
Daniel Jose Older – The Book of Lost Saints
Jacqueline Woodson – Red to the Bone
Ron A Austin – Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar
Margarita Garcia Robayo – Fish Soup
Joe R Lansdale – The Two Bear Mambo
Joe Meno – Blue Birds Used to Croon in the Choir
Raymond Benson – Blues in the Dark
Teresa Dovelpage – Queen of Bones
Chris L Terry – Black Card
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Mercedes Lambert – Ghosttown
Joe R Lansdale – The Elephant of Surprise
Joe R Lansdale – Captains Outrageous
Samuel Selvon – The Housing Lark
Cyprian Ekwensi – People of the City
Joe R Lansdale – Rusty Puppy
Ivonne Lamazares – The Sugar Island
Mercedes Lambert – Dogtown
Joe R Lansdale – Honky Tonk Samurai
Tiphanie Yanique – Land of Love and Drowning
Attica Locke – Heaven, My Home
Leigh Camacho Rourks – Moon Trees and other Orphans
Travis Atria – Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs
Jasmon Drain – Stateway’s Garden
John Williams – Nothing but the Night
Zora Neale Hurston – Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Delia Owns – Where the Crawdads Sing
Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah – Friday Black
Solon Timothy Woodward – Cadillac Orpheus
Cab Calloway/Bryant Rollins – Of Minnie the Moocher and Me
Damon Young – What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
William Kennedy (rereads) –
Iron Weed
Legs
Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game
James McBride – Deacon King Kong
Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys
Bryan McCann – Hello, Hello Brazil
Nicholas Butler – Shotgun Lovesongs
Otessa Moshfegh – My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Colson Whitehead – John Henry Days
James McBride – Song Yet Sung
James Sallis – Cypress Grove
Walter Thurman – Infants of the Spring
Roben Jones – Memphis Boys/The Story of American Studios
Mercedes Lambert – Soultown
Maxine Beneba Clarke – Foreign Soil and Other Stories
James Lee Burke – A Private Cathedral
Walter Mosley – Trouble Is What I Do
Paulo Coelho – Veronika Wants to Die
Joe Bonomo – Field Recordings from the Inside
Joe R Lansdale – A Fine Dark Line
Jace Clayton – Uproot / Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture
Joe R Lansdale – Blood and Lemonade
Adger Cowans – Personal Vision/Photographs
Joe R Lansdale – The Bottoms
Michael Connelly – Angel’s Flight
Walter Mosley – The Awkward Black Man
Toni Morrison – Love
Ross MacDonald w/Tom Nolan – The Archer File
Alex Segura – Miami Midnight
Bill Moody – Bird Lives!
William Goyen (reread) – The House of Breath
Chris Frantz – Remain in Love
Mark Radcliffe – Crossroads
Amy Rigby – Girl to City
Rob Johnson – Did Beatniks Kill John F Kennedy?
Isabel Wilkerson – Caste