If you want to skip to the good part, here’s my favorites, via Cyn’s Workshop.
- Salt Houses by Hala Alya (1/1/19)
- Fox 8 by George Saunders (1/1/19)
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (1/3/19)
- Elevation by Stephen King (1/4/19)
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (1/7/19)
- Crota by Owl Goingback (1/15/19)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (1/18/19)
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer (1/24/19)
- Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones (1/26/19)
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1/28/19)
- True Grit by Charles Portis (1/31/19)
- One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (2/2/19)
- We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix (2/8/19)
- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadwi (2/10/19)
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (2/22/19)
- The Haunted Girl by Lisa M. Bradley (2/23/19)
- Womanish by Kim McLarin (2/24/19)
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (2/28/19)
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (3/4/19)
- Classic Vampire Short Stories (3/7/19)
- Dead Man’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale (3/15/19)
- The Other by Thomas Tyron (3/18/19)
- Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss (3/19/19)
- After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (3/22/19)
- Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (3/24/19)
- Wild Embers by Nikita Gill (4/1/19)
- Renegade Women in Film & TV by Elizabeth Weitzmam (4/1/19)
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King (4/3/19)
- The Witch Doesn’t Burn in this One by Amanda Lovelace (4/11/19)
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (4/16/19)
- A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (4/21/19)
- Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett (5/5/19)
- The Troop by Nick Cutter (5/14/19)
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (5/18/19)
- A Body to Die For by Shannon Iwanski (5/20/19)
- The Fourth Wall: Season 2 by Mac Boyle (5/24/19)
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (5/24/19)
- Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones (5/25/19)
- Dark and Dangerous Things by M.A. Chiapetta, Donna A. Leahey, Margaret Perdue, and L.A. Smith (5/29/19)
- The Good House by Tananarive Due (6/10/19)
- Treading the Uneven Road by Lorna Brown (6/17/19)
- The White Book by Han Kang (6/18/19)
- Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias (6/21/19)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney (6/25/19)
- Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (7/1/19)
- Sorry We’re Closed edited by Donna A. Leahey (7/2/19)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosselini (7/11/19)
- Best American Short Stories 2018 edited by Roxane Gay (7/20/19)
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (7/21/19)
- Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov (7/21/19)
- There There by Tommy Orange (7/28/19)
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (7/30/19)
- Dark Dreamers on Writing by Stanley Wiater (8/1/19)
- Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (8/7/19)
- Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez (8/8/19)
- Our Wandering by L.M. Brown (8/9/19)
- Blood Born by Renee Lake (8/14/19) – reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and Other Stories by Richard Matheson (8/19/19)
- An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (8/21/19)
- Redeployment by Phil Klay (8/22/19)
- Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolaño (8/28/19)
- Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror compiled by Neil Christopher (9/5/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop
- Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode (9/9/19)
- The Grip of It by Jac Jemc (9/13/19)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (9/13/19)
- The Apartment by S.L. Grey (9/19/19)
- Dark and Dangerous Things II by M.A. Chiapetta, Donna A. Leahey, Margaret Perdue, and L.A. Smith (9/20/19)
- Road Work by Stephen King (9/24/19)
- When the Sirens Have Faded edited by Ryan C. Bradley (9/30/19) (still unreleased)
- Orange World by Karen Russell (10/3/19)
- Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter of Terror (10/6/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop
- Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (10/9/19)
- The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson (10/11/19)
- The Institute by Stephen King (10/16/19)
- Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman (10/21/19)
- Black Forest by Valérie Mréjen (10/21/19) review at Cyn’s Workshop
- We Are Where the Nightmares Go by C. Robert Cargill (10/28/19)
- The Essence of Camphor by Naiyer Massud (11/3/19)
- The Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri (11/7/19)
- Larose by Louise Erdrich (11/22/19)
- The Fourth Wall Season 2 by Mac Boyle (11/27/19)
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (12/7/19)
- The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos (12/7/19)
- Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon (12/19/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop
- My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due (12/20/19)
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (12/22/19)
- People Still Live in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess (12/25/19)
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (12/27/19)
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