Below is my “book” reading list for 2014. Not included in this list are the periodicals I read: The New Yorker, Poetry, and various awesome literary journals. By my rough estimation (counting texts below and periodicals), I easily read over 2,000 poems and somewhere close to 400 short stories. I, therefore, count 2014 as a successful reading year.
The Garbage Eater: Poems by Brett Foster
The Russian Dreambook of Color & Flight by Gina Ochsner
Selected Poems by Joan Colby
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry
How to Read a Poem by Tania Runyan
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing by Kate McLoughlin, ed.
The Eyes The Window by Marci Rae Johnson
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country by Daniel Bowman, Jr.
Simple Weight by Tania Runyan
Second Sky by Tania Runyan
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
Hapax by A.E. Stallings
Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples by Francis Chan
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most-Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
What Learning Leaves by Taylor Mali
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson
I Am the Beggar of the World by Eliza Griswold
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
The Neumiller Stories by Larry Woiwode
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Running for Mortals by John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield
Words for Readers and Writers by Larry Woiwode
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
What I Think I Did by Larry Woiwode
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer
A Trip Through Downer, Minnesota by Gretchen Johnson
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Even Tide by Larry Woiwode
A Step From Death by Larry Woiwode
Silent Passengers by Larry Woiwode
Light Upon Light by Sarah Arthur, ed.
The Kite Runner (Graphic Novel) by Khalid Hosseni
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
My Life as a Foreign Country by Brian Turner
Words Made Fresh: Essays on Literature and Culture by Larry Woiwode
Poppa John by Larry Woiwode
The Small Books of Bach by David Wright
A Liturgy for Stones by David Wright
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
Building Great Sentences by Brooks Landon
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