There are still a bunch of 2016 book releases I want to catch up with and read. Here’s the complete list:

Poetry

Blues Triumphant by Jonterri Gadson (Yes Yes)

 

 

Demimonde by Kierstin Bridger (Lithic)

 

 

burn book by Felix Bernstein (Nightboat)

 

 

Ghosty Boo by Kate Litterer (A Minor)

 

 

Whosoever Has Let the Minotaur Enter Them by Emily Carr (McSweeney’s)

 

 

Take this Stallion by Anaïs Duplan (BAP)

 

 

The Bees Make Money in the Lion by Lo Kwa Mei-en (CSU Poetry Center)

 

 

Last Sext by Melissa Broder (Tin House)

 

 

Becoming Lyla Dore by Teri Youmans Grimm (Red Hen)

 

 

In the Volcano’s Mouth by Miriam Bird Greenberg (University of Pittsburgh)

 

 

Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit by Susan Swartout (Brick Mantel)

 

 

Becoming the Virgin by Taylor Jacob Pate (Action)

 

 

Killer by Kimmy Walters (Bottlecap)

 

 

There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (CCM)

 

 

Fiction

We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson (Scribner)

 

 

Damascus House by Corrina Wycoff (Spuytin Duyvil)

 

 

A Kiss for a Dead Film Star by Karen M. Vaughn (Brain Mill)

 

 

Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes (Feminist)

 

 

Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet (Coffee House)

 

 

The Tennessee Highway Death Chant by Keegan Jennings Goodman (Featherproof)

 

 

Girls on Film by Kathryn Kulpa (Paper Nautilus)

 

 

The Kissing Booth Girl by A.C. Wise (Lethe)

 

 

Snowed by Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)

 

 

Shit Luck by Tiffany Scandal (Eraserhead)

 

 

Nonfiction

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Casey Ryan Kelly (Rutgers University)

 

 

Paul Thomas Anderson by George Toles (University of Illinois)

 

 

Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave by Elena Lahr-Vivaz (University of Arizona)

 

 

Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy (Graywolf)

 

 

After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theater by Matt Lambros (Jonglez)

 

 

 

Have you read any of these? Which books from last year are you still hoping to read?