Peter Guralnick – Looking to Get Lost
Billy Miller/Michael Hurtt – Mind Over Matter: The Myths and Mysteries of Detroit’s Fortune Records
Alice Randall – Black Bottom Saints
Bill Flanagan – Fifty in Reverse
Cynthia Shearer – The Celestial Jukebox
Ed McBain – The Gutter and the Grave
Fred Chappell – The Gaudy Place
Nick Tosches – Cut Numbers
Alice Randall – Ada’s Rules
P. Djeli Clark – Ring Shout
Alice Randall – The Wind Done Gone
Suzzy Roche – The Town Crazy
Walter Mosley – Blood Grove
Alexis Schaitkin – Saint X
Jacqueline Woodson – Before the Ever After
Patricia Smith – Big Towns, Big Talk
Maisy Card – These Ghosts are Family
Mark Richard – The Ice at the Bottom of the World (re-read)
Albert French – I Can’t Wait on God
Nat Hentoff – Jazz Country
Jim Thompson- The Golden Gizmo
Gabriela Garcia – Of Women and Salt
Jim Thompson – A Hell of a Woman
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Paco Ignacio Taibo III – The Shadow of a Shadow
Ed.Julie Shaper & Steven Horwitz – Amplified
Elmore Leonard – When the Women Come Out to Dance
Valerie Martin – Property
Larry McMurtry – The Desert Rose
Richard Thompson – Beeswing
Chanel Cleeton – The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
Deesha Philyaw – The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Andrea Lee – Red Island House
Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco
Nick Pizzolato – Galveston
Natalie Baszile – Queen Sugar
Chanel Cleeton – The Last Train to Key West
Dawnie Walton – The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
Mark Ribot – Unstrung
Shani Mootoo – Cereus Blooms at Night
Allen Gurganus – The Uncollected Stories
Leonardo Padura – The Transparency of Time
Michael Elliot – Have a Little Faith: the John Hiatt Story
S.A. Cosby – Blacktop Wasteland
Lauren Groff – Florida
Louis Edwards – Ramadan Ramsey
S.A. Cosby – Razorblade Tears
Caroline Randall Williams – Lucy Negro Redux
Steve Earle- I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive
Todd Lazarski – Spend it All
Nathan Harris – The Sweetness of Water
Joe Meno – Tender as Hellfire
Kaitlyn Greenidge -Libertie
Gavin Lambert – The Slide Area (re-read)
Roxane Gay – An Untamed State
Erik Morse – Bluff City Underground
Dr Moo-Moo – Snippets
Edward Telles Ribeiro – I Would Have Loved Him If I Had Not Killed Him
Jerry Tisserand / Michael Tisserand – My Father When Young