Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro
Brides & Sinners in El Chuco – Christine Granados
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Z.Z. Packer
John Crow’s Devil – Marlon James
Noble Rot – Richard G. Stern
Reasons For And Advantages of Breathing – Lydia Peele
Day Out Of Days – Sam Shepard
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller – Charles Simic
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
What Is What Was – Richard G. Stern
Lost Alphabet – Lisa Olstein
Record Makers and Breakers – John Broven
Perfecting Sound Forever – Greg Milner
Record Palace – Susan Wheeler
See Jack – Russell Edson
Havana Best Friends – Jose LaTour
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City – Nick Flynn
Gringo – Chesa Boudin
The Position Of The Body – Richard G. Stern
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues – David Fulmer
Escaping the Delta – Elijah Wald
Little Richard The Birth of Rock ‘n Roll – David Kirby
The Paper Boy – Pete Dexter
Letters From New Orleans – Rob Walker
The Ticking Is The Bomb – Nick Flynn
More of This World and Maybe Another- Barb Johnson
Where the God of Love Hangs Out – Amy Bloom
God’s Gym – John Edgar Wideman
Three Delays – Charlie Smith
the World In Six Songs – Daniel Levitin
Walking To Guantanamo – Richard Fleming (through a generous loan from John Radanovich)
Lean On Pete – Willie Vlautin
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life – Steve Almond
An Evening At The Club – Christian Gailly
My Life In Heavy Metal – Steve Almond
The Hungered One – Ed Bullins
How To Leave Hialeah – Jennine Capo Crucet
Beautiful Maria of My Soul – Oscar Hijuelos
Ray (re-read in aftermath of Barry Hannah’s untimely demise)
A Language Of Song – Samuel Charters
New Orleans – Samuel Charters
The Return – Roberto Bolano
The Insufferable Gaucho – Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview & Other Conversations (ed. and intro by Marcela Valdes)
Conditions Uncertain & Likely To Pass Away – Frank Stanford
Antwerp – Roberto Bolano
Known As Evil – Walter Mosley
Chicago Blues: A New Collection Of Crime Stories (ed. Libby Fischer Hellman)
The World In Half – Christina Henriquez
Nashville Chrome – Rick Bass
Take One Candle Light a Room – Susan Straight
Lengua Fresca ed.Harold Augenbrum and Ilan Stavans
When that Rough God Goes Riding – Greil Marcus
Further Adventures In The Restless Universe – Dawn Raffel
Hawk Moon (re-read) – Sam Shepard
Kora In hell (re-read) – William Carlos Williams
Los Angeles Stories (re-read) – Ry Cooder
Other Men’s Daughters – Richard G. Stern
Vida – Patricia Engel
What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell
White Bicycles – Joe Boyd
Gandys on The MoPac – Wes Sumptor
In The Year Of long Division – Dawn Raffel
The Light The Dead See – Frank Stanford
Airships (re-read) -Barry Hannah
San Francisco Noir 2 – ed. Peter Maravelis
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara – Ben Fountain