A new running list.
Edit: After I became a co-editor at PodCastle, I quickly realized that it was a bit untenable for me to record all of the short stories I read, given that so much of PodCastle slush is reprints, including re-reading for editing/narration purposes. This list is no longer accurate, but there’s lots of great stuff to check out. To keep up with my book list, follow me on Goodreads.
Books
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Soul of the World, David Mealing
And I Darken, Keirsten White
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller
The Product Book, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Sins of Empire, Brian McClellan
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Deep Work, Cal Newport
One Piece Vol. 1: Romance Dawn, Eiichiro Oda
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine, Derren Brown
Bored and Brilliant, Manoush Zomorodi
Fence, C.S. Pacat
Grey Sister, Mark Lawrence
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz
Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
Stories
“City of Salt,” Arkady Martine, Strange Horizons
“Meet me in Iram,” Sofia Samatar, Lightspeed
“Fifty Years in the Virtuous City,” Leo Mandel, Strange Horizons
“Poems Written While,” Natalia Theodoridou, Uncanny
“Burrowing Machines,” Sara Saab, The Dark Magazine
“What It Sounds Like When You Fall,” Natalia Theodoridou, Nightmare
“Building Girls,” Randa Jarrar, MAKE Literary Magazine
“Among the Silvering Herd,” A.M. Dellamonica, Tor.com
“Dying Lessons,” Troy L. Wiggins, PodCastle
“Salt and Cement and Other Denials,” Sara Saab, Lackington’s
“Do Not Look Back, My Lion,” Alix E. Harrow, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“How to Swallow the Moon,” Isabel Yap, Uncanny
“Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep,” Nibedita Sen, Nightmare
“The Blanched Bones, The Tyrant Wind,” Karen Osborne, Fireside Magazine
“A Shoal of Lovers Leads me Home,” Ama Josephine Budge, Anathema Magazine
“Strange Waters,” Samantha Mills, Strange Horizons
“How Bees Fly,” Simone Heller, Clarkesworld
“The Sound of His Voice Like the Colour of Salt,” L Chan, The Dark Magazine
“The Wiley,” Sara Saab, The Dark Magazine
“The Court Magician,” Sarah Pinsker, PodCastle
“ZeroS,” Pete Watts, Infinity Wars (ed. Jonathan Strahan)
“A Salt and Sterling Tongue,” Emma Osborne, Uncanny Magazine
“It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog,” Maria Haskins, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
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