updated: 1/11/26

Q1

1. the monk of mokha – dave eggers
2. flapdoodle: pure nonsense from american folklore – alvin schwartz
3. 101 great american poems – the american poetry and literacy project
4. howl’s moving castle – diana wynne jones
5. what I talk about when I talk about running – haruki murakami
6. skew issue 2: black dreams, futures, and mutual support
7. garfield tips the scales – jim davis
8. the hidden life of trees – peter wohlleben
9. I who have never known men – jacqueline harpman
10. midwinter day – bernadette mayer
11. daring greatly – brene brown
12. tom lake – ann patchett
13. an immense world – ed yong

Q2

1. the round house – louise erdrich
2. taking the arrow out of the heart – alice walker
3. auguste rodin: sculptures and drawings – gilles neret
4. the maytrees – annie dillard
5. afterglow: climate fiction for future ancestors
6. small-boat sailing – jack london
7. stirring the mud – barbara hurd

Q3

1. moby-dick – herman melville
2. one day, everyone will have always been against this – omar el akkad
3. beloved – toni morrison
4. when women were birds – terry tempest williams
5. the summer book – tove jansson
6. think little – wendell berry
7. no-no boy – john okada
8. little shrew – akiko miyakoshi

Q4

1. niehls lyhne – jens peter jacobsen
2. the stream & the sapphire – denise levertov
3. the double – fyodor dostoyevsky
4. norwegian wood – haruki murakami