2016

• Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
• Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
• Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in America Without a Trace by Susanne Burner
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by Tiqqun
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
• So Sad Today by Melissa Border
• The White Album by Joan Didion
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
• A Happy Man by Hansjörg Schertenleib
• Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin
• Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
• Shopgirl by Steve Martin
• The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
• Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
• Where I Was From by Joan Didion
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• All About Love by bell hooks
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
• Action by Amy Rose Spiegel
• Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and Politics by Metahaven
• Where Art Belongs by Chris Kraus
• Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Joan Didion
• Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
• Navel Gazing by Michael Ian Black
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus
• Tenth of December by George Saunders
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• Everybody Talks About the Weather by Ulrike Marie Meinhof
• I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
• Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
• Little Birds by Anaïs Nin

2017

• The Lover by Marguerite Duras
• Writing by Marguerite Duras
• Even Though I Don't Miss You by Chelsea Martin
• Mickey by Chelsea Martin
• Inferno by Eileen Myles
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
• Devotion (Why I Write) by Patti Smith
• Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
• Only Lovers Left Alive by Dave Wallis
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
• Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
• Break It Down by Lydia Davis
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
• Crucial Conversations by May Sarton
• Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
• Sex & Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
• Legs Get Led Astray by Chloe Caldwell
• Caca Dolce by Chelsea Martin
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
• Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
• Speedboat by Renata Adler
• Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
• The Last Novel by David Markson
• Surveys by Natasha Stagg
• 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
• The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
• Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
• L.A.WOMAN by Eve Babitz
• Selected Tweets by Tao Lin
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• Dead is Better: Legalize Crime by Alissa Bennett
• Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lord
• The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
• The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
• How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
• The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
• South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion
• The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney
• My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
• I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
• History and Women, Culture and Faith by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
• Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Thomas Buckley
• Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror by Christine Delphy
• Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• M Train by Patti Smith
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag

2018

• Directed by Desire by June Jordan
• Black Swans by Eve Babitz
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
• Conversations with Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
• On Photography by Susan Sontag
• Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
• Terrific Mother by Lorie Moore
• The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
• Dark Days by James Baldwin
• My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by Kazuo Ishiguro
• New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
• A Spy In The House Of Love by Anaïs Nin
• Not Me by Eileen Myles
• Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz
• Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman
• Tigers Are Better Looking by Jean Rhys
• The Complete Stories by Leonora Carrington
• The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• E! Entertainment by Kate Durbin
• Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
• Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• The Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise
• How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
• Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
• The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette
• A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
• The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Believe Me by Eddie Izzard
• A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
• Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel
• Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
• Selected Poems by Denise Riley
• Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems by Jeni Olin
• Someone's Dead Already by Tongo Eisen-Martin
• Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson
• Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
• Sappho: A New Translation by Mary Barnard
• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• The Living Method by Sara Nicholson
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
• The Thorn by David Larsen
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• Cool for You by Eileen Myles
• Motherhood by Sheila Heti
• Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
• Wildlives by Sarah Jean Alexander
• The Coral Sea by Patti Smith
• Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• Taipei by Tao Lin
• The Teeth of the Comb by Osama Alomar
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• True Stories by Sophie Calle
• Woolgathering by Patti Smith
• Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
• Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

2019

• Against Creativity by Oli Mould
• New Dark Age by James Bridle
• Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
• Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
• Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
• Future Histories by Lizzie O'Shea
• Diaries by Eva Hesse
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
• Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
• Weekends with O'Keeffe by C.S. Merrill
• Modern Love by Constance DeJong
• What Is a Designer by Norman Potter
• The Politics of Design by Ruben Pater
• The Responsible Object by Marjanne Van Helvert
• Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
• The Internet Does Not Exist by E-Flux Journal
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Kudos by Rachel Cusk
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
• The Collected Stories by Colette
• Portraits by John Berger
• Artful by Ali Smith
• O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno
• Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
• How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal
• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
• Essayism by Brian Dillon
• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
• The Collected Stories by Lorie Moore
• Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
• Liveblog by Megan Boyle
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

2020

• Heroines by Kate Zambreno
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
• My Sister, My Spouse by Heinz Frederick Peters
• Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
• I Knew A Phoenix by May Sarton
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark
• Women in Clothes by Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, and Sheila Heti
• How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
• The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras
• How Art Can Be Thought by Allan deSouza
• Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
• Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
• Feelings are Facts by Yvonne Rainer
• Coventry by Rachel Cusk
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
• I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive by Zora Neale Hurston
• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
• My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Dream Work by Mary Oliver
• Tickets for a Prayer Wheel by Annie Dillard
• Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics by Mary Warnock
• The Coming Insurrection by Comité invisible
• Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
• Overcoming the Problematics of Art by Yves Klein
• The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
• This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
• Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
• Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
• Janfamily: Plans for Other Days by Janfamily
• The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
• Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
• Breathing: Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

2021

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
• Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
• An Old Woman and Her Cat by Doris Lessing
• Living with Contradictions by Lynne Tillman
• Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
• After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
• Other Flowers by James Schuyler
• The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
• Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley
• While Standing in Line for Death by CAConrad
• The Importance of Being Iceland by Eileen Myles
• If You Are Unable to Help Just Say So by Jennifer Williams
• The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Blue in Chicago by Bette Howland
• No Evil Star by Anne Sexton
• The Walk by Robert Walser
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Bread and Water by Eileen Myles
• Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
• Quartet by Jean Rhys
• Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous

2022

• Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
• Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
• Bold Ventures by Charlotte Van den Broeck
• To The River by Olivia Laing
• Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
• Women, Art and Society: A Tribute to Virginia Woolf by Judy Chicago
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
• Alone With Others by Stephen Batchelor
• Second Place by Rachel Cusk

2023

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
• Saving Time by Jenny Odell

2024

• Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
• Autumn by Ali Smith
• Along the Road by Aldous Huxley
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
• Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again by Danny Licht
• Plant and Planet by Anthony Huxley

2025

• The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus
• The Five Senses by Francisco González Crussí
• Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
• The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk
• Parade by Rachel Cusk
• Frost in May by Antonia White
• Education of a Gardener by Russell Page
• A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
• Tree Trails in Prospect Park by George Kalmbacher
• Prospect Park Handbook by Clay Lancaster
• Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
• A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes
• Take to the Trees by Marguerite Holloway
• Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels
• The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
• Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Itō
• On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
• Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
• The Art of Solitude by Stephen Batchelor
• The Tao of Fully Feeling by Pete Walker
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
• Winter by Ali Smith
• Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher
• The Tao of Wu by The RZA
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

2026

• The View from Mary's Farm by Edie Clark
• Dog Days by Emily Labarge
• Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
• An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini
• The White Dress by Nathalie Léger
• Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
• Exposition by Nathalie Léger
• The Book by Mary Ruefle
• Indelicacy by Amina Cain
• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog
• Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
• Writing as Practice: Peripheral Continuity edited by Michi Jigarjian and Libby Pratt
• Mrs. Steven's Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
• The Single Hound by May Sarton
• The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux
• As We Are Now by May Sarton
• Bus Poems by Mary R Rudge
• Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
• The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
• Index Cards by Moyra Davey
• The Years by Annie Ernaux
• Reading the Landscape by May Theilgaard Watts
• Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
• Autotheory by Lauren Fournier
• May Sarton by Agnes Sibley
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
• The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
• I Confess by Moyra Davey
• Upstream by Mary Oliver
• My Private Property by Mary Ruefle
• Daybook by Anne Truitt
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
• All of it Singing by Linda Gregg
• Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick