Some of these are taken from Electric Literature’s reading lists!
To be updated as we go.
NONFICTION
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wong
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, eds. J. Robert Lennon, Carmen Maria Machado
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein
This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature, eds. Omar Robert Hamilton, Ahdaf Soueif
Minor Detail, Adania Shibli
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet, Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust, Marianne Hirsch
Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany, Esra Özyürek
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Jasbir K. Puar
Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War, Eric Bennett
The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture, Geng Song
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry, Louise Glück
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Oddell
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir, Lidia Yuknavitch
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, Sandra Cisneros
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, Matthew Salesses
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison
Voice of the Fish, Lars Horn
Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H
Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, Cristina Rivera Garza
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era, Donovan X. Ramsey
Eyeliner: A Cultural History, Zahra Hankir
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
The Age of the Deer, Erika Howsare
TBC
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time, Kapka Kassabova
The Radium Girls, Kate Moore
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation, Hannah Gadsby
The Loneliness Files, Athena Dixon
FICTION (multi-form)
Bestiary, K-Ming Chang
Organ Meats, K-Ming Chang
Borne series, Jeff Vandermeer
Ambergris trilogy, Jeff Vandermeer
Acceptance, Jeff Vandermeer
Chlorine, Jade Song
Cain, José Saramago
We Must Not Think Of Ourselves, Lauren Grodstein
An Iliad, Denis O’Hare, Lisa Peterson
Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou
Flux, Jinwoo Chong
Sea Change, Gina Chung
A History of Burning, Janika Oza
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
Lote, Shola von Reinhold
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Someone Who Isn’t Me, Geoff Rickly
The Oresteia, Aeschylus
Electra and Other Plays, Euripides
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
Portrait of a Thief, Grace D. Li
Uzumaki, Junji Ito
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
Fragile Animals, Genevieve Jagger
TBC
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
POETRY
Grand Tour: Poems, Elisa Gonzalez
Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan
Black Pastoral: Poems, Ariana Benson
Judas Goat, Gabrielle Bates
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket, Kinsale Drake
The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems, Sally Wen Mao
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems, Taylor Byas
Pig, Sam Sax
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Peach Pit, eds. Kristel Emma Buckley, Molly Llewellyn (feat. bestie Yah Yah!!)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu
Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson
Just a Little Snack, Yah Yah Scholfield
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour, ed. Nisi Shawl
Innards, Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, Cleo Qian
The Book of Disbelieving, David Lawrence Morse
Temple Folk, Aaliyah Bilal
Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, Kim Bo-Young and Joungmin Lee Comfort
Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung and Anton Hur
Your Utopia: Stories, Bora Chung and Anton Hur
Nine Tails, Sally Wen Mao
Green Frog, Gina Chung
Currently Reading
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings
Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty
What are you guys reading in 2024? Let me know!
tehanu and jane eyre being on here..... i love those !!!