2019

  • “Watchmen” – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  • “The Dark Forest” – Cixin Liu
  • “The War of Art” – Steven Pressfield
  • “Dept. of Speculation” – Jenny Offill
  • “Good Talk” – Mira Jacob
  • “There There” – Tommy Orange
  • “Severance” – Ling Ma
  • “Little Fires Everywhere” – Celeste Ng
  • “Exhalation” – Ted Chiang
  • “Sing To It” – Amy Hempel
  • “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” – Karen Russell
  • “Working” – Robert Caro
  • “Everything I Never Told You” – Celeste Ng
  • “Orange World” – Karen Russell
  • “Normal People” – Sally Rooney
  • “Conversations With Friends” – Sally Rooney
  • “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” – Ben Horowitz
  • “Beverly” – Nick Drnaso
  • “Moderan” – David R. Bunch
  • “Foundation” – Isaac Asimov
  • “Fever Dream” – Samanta Schweblin
  • “What is Not Yours is Not Yours” – Helen Oyeyemi
  • “Discipline Equals Freedom” – Jocko Willink
  • “Alias the Kat” – Kim Deitch
  • “Sabrina” – Nick Drnaso
  • “What I Didn’t See” – Karen Joy Fowler
  • “The Incendiaries” – R.O. Kwon
  • “Imagine Wanting Only This” – Kristen Radtke
  • “Florida” – Lauren Groff

2018

  • “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” – Emil Ferris
  • “The Collected Stories” – Grace Paley
  • “The Collected Stories” – Lydia Davis
  • “Batman” Vol. 1 – Ed Brubaker
  • “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” – Alexander Chee
  • “The Space Merchants” – Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth
  • “The Iron Dragon’s Daughter” – Michael Swanwick
  • “Black Glass” – Karen Joy Fowler
  • “Triumph of the City” – Edward Glaeser
  • “The Gone World” – Tom Sweterlitsch
  • “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky”– Lesley Nneka Arimah
  • “Krazy & Ignatz Vol. 1” – George Herriman
  • “Lord of Light” – Roger Zelazny
  • “Thrill Me” – Benjamin Percy
  • “Stories of Your Life and Others” – Ted Chiang
  • “Man’s Search For Meaning” – Viktor Frankl
  • “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” – Tom Stoppard
  • “Digital Gold” – Nathaniel Popper
  • “Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life” – Yiyun Li
  • “The Leavers” – Lisa Ko
  • “Dollars and Sense” – Dan Ariely
  • “A Wrinkle in Time” – Madeleine L’Engle
  • “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” – Marie Kondo
  • “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P” – Adelle Waldman
  • “All Our Wrong Todays” – Elan Mastai