• God’s Dogs by Mitch Wieland

  • Oil on Water by Helon Habila

  • Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

  • Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

  • Longthroat Memoirs by Yemisi Aribisala

  • Come to Me by Amy Bloom

  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

  • There There by Tommy Orange

  • Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

  • The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  • The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe

  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

  • Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

  • Segu by Maryse Condé

  • A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

  • Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  • A Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma

  • The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

  • Better Never Than Late by Chika Unigwe

  • Learning to Talk to Plants by Marta Orriols

  • Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

  • The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

  • The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

Books

  • The Only One I Have Not Lost by Dennis Mugaa

  • The Ransom Letters of Sisi Eko by Chuma Nwokolo

  • Taking Care by Joy Williams

  • The Language Of Melons by Annie Trinh

  • Room on Fire by Paris Thompson

  • La Pulchra Nota by Molly McNett

  • The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado

  • Contributions by 'Pemi Aguda

  • Everything Is Far From Here by Cristina Henríquez

  • Long Tom Lookout by Nicole Cullen

  • Children of a Careless God by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • My Innocent Uncle by Ch’ae Manshik

  • Boys Go To Jupiter by Danielle Evans

  • What's the Time, Mr. Wolf by Lauren Groff

  • The Fetus by João Melo (Translated by Cliff E. Landers)

  • An Arranged Marriage by Nell Freudenberger

  • Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

  • Remedies by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

  • The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

  • Eden by Uche Okonkwo

  • Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

  • A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Nineteen Photographs from Cuba by Yinka Elujoba

  • An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davies by James Baldwin

  • Maintenance, Hvidovre by Olga Ravn

  • Baptizing the Gun by Umem Akpan

  • A New Kind of Bucket List by Andrea Gibson

  • Office Hours by Ling Ma

  • Free Radicals by Alice Munro

  • twelve minutes past one by Yrsa Daley-Ward

  • Notes on Affliction by Mofiyinfoluwa O.

  • Here in the World by Victoria Lancelotta

  • All About My Mother by Brandon Taylor

  • I Met Fear on the Hill by Leslie Jamison

Short Prose

Poetry

Initiation by Olu Afolabi • If Adam Picked The Apple by D. Coffyn • They Went Home by Maya Angelou • Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Collection) • Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan • We Have Not Long To Love by Tennessee Williams • Good Bones by Maggie Smith • I Stop Writing the Poem by Tess Gallagher • The Raincoat by Ada Limón • Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart isn’t Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Collection) • After the Threesome, They Both Take You Home by Sue Hyon Bae • The Whistler by Mary Oliver • The Casualties by J.P Clark • The Thing Is by Ellen Bass • Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Collection) • Medusa Calls the Rape Crisis Line by Lise Rochefort • Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale by Dan Albergotti • Miss you. Would love to grab that chilled tofu we love by Gabrielle Calvocoressi • Fear of Flying by Jennifer Michael Hecht • If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda • The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost • What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer (Collection) • She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep by Robert Graves • Path of Totality by Niina Pollari (Collection) • Pathways by Rainer Maria Rilke • Fish Year by Kéchi Nne Nomu • After He’s Decided to Leave by Elizabeth Avecedo • The Sensual World by Louise Gluck • [the darkness is spreading earlier and earlier] by Hanif Abdurraqib • Late Fragment by Raymond Carver • I Wrote This for You by Iain S. Thomas (Collection) • Often, We Love Best by Danusha Laméris • Tender by Sophie Klahr • Dress made of flowers / flowers made of dresses by Lyd Havens • As Long As There is Love, There Will Be Grief by Heidi Priebe • Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics (Collection) • Swallowtail by Brenna Twohy • Names by Wendy Cope • Against Death by Noor Hindi • In my next life let me be a tomato by Natasha Rao • Plans for Altering the River by Richard Hugo • Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward (Collection) • Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone by Tarik Dobbs • Second Estrangement by Aracelis Gramy • Postscript by Marie Howe • I knew something was wrong by Dorothea Grossman • How to Kill a Living Thing by Eibhlin Nic Eochaidh • how to be okay during the holidays by Tonya Ingram • Speak to me of My Mother, Who was She by Jasmine Mans • Pain by A.K. Ramanujan • Recovery by Joseph Fanaso • An African Thunderstorm by David Rubadiri • Artistic Statement by Denise Duhamel • The First Lines of Emails I've Received While Quarantining by Jessica Saltia • Questions for Ada by ljeoma Umebinyuo (Collection) • The Dead Boy is Poured Back into His Body by Logan February • The Sun Rising by John Donne • Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe (Collection)

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