“2020 Reading List: Going To Be a Great Year” by Laine Derr

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin
Tiriel, The Book of Thel (the prophetic books) – William Blake
Blacksad (Vols. 1-5) – Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido
Lies, Inc. – Philip K. Dick
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Lighthead – Terrance Hayes

The Weary Blues – Langston Hughes

Diving into the Wreck – Adrienne Rich
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
This Immortal, Permafrost, and Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror – John Ashbery
The Book of Nightmares – Galway Kinnell
The Incal (Vol. 1–6) Alexandro Jodorowsky & Mœbius (trans. Justin Kelly)
Bright Dead Things – Ada Limón
Vampires in the Lemon Grove – Karen Russell
Last Night of the Earth Poems – Charles Bukowski
Will O’ the Wisp – Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (trans. Martin Robinson)

Black Hole (Issues 1-12) – Charles Burns

Views of Jeopardy, Monolithos: Poems 1962 and 1982, and The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992
– Jack Gilbert
Y: The Last Man (Vols. 1-10) – Bryan K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, & Jose Marzan
The Lunatic, The World Doesn’t End, Come Closer and Listen, and Scribbled in the Dark
– Charles Simic
Preacher (Issues 1-66 plus 5 specials and a 4-issue miniseries) – Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke (trans. Michael Roloff)

Live or Die – Anne Sexton

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey – Hayden Carruth
The Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin
Lunch Poems – Frank O’Hara
95 Poems, is 5 – E. E. Cummings
Erratic Facts – Kay Ryan
Incarnadine – Mary Szybist
Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories – Robert Walser (trans. Tom Whalen et al.)
The Undressing – Li-Young Lee
“Night Flier” (short story) – Stephen King
The Invisibles (Vols. 1-3) – Grant Morrison and various artists
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories – Delmore Schwartz
Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel – Martha Wells
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Song for Lya – George R. R. Martin

This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

The Notebook – Ágota Kristóf (trans. Alan Sheridan)
The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
Her Body and Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado

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Image: “Dark Times” by Nicole Monroe

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