Twenty Stories Book Vault

Twenty books a month...

        ...here are our past selections

2023

NOVEMBER 2023

• The New Animals by Pip Adam

• Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis

• Cross-Stitch by Jazmina Barrera (translated by Christina MacSweeny)

• Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

• The Last Language by Jennifer du Bois (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Aster of Ceremonies by JJJJJerome Ellis

• Pedro and Marques Take Stock: a Picaresque Novel by Jose Faléro (translated by Julia Sanches)

• Forgetting by Frederika Amalia Finkelstein (translated by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson)

• Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

• A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson

• Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter

• Pay As You Go by Eskor David Johnson

• Ascent of the Mothers by Noelle Kocot

• The Liberators by E. J. Koh

• Rotten Evidence by Ahmed Naji (translated by Katharine Halls)

• House Gone Quiet by Kelsey Norris

• Nefando by Mónica Ojeda (translated by Sarah Booker)

• The Delivery by Margarita García Robayo (translated by Megan McDowell)

• Master by Simon Shieh

• How to Say Babylon: a Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

OCTOBER 2023

SEPTEMBER 2023

• Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon

• All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

• The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century by Josh Cook

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri

• Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

• Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

• The Devil of the Provinces by Juan Cádenas (translated by Lizzie Davis)

• The Future by Catherine LeRoux (translated by Susan Ouriou)

• I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

• I Love Information by Courtney Bush

• I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

• LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO by Cleo Qian

• A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (translated by Mark Hutchinson)

• The Lights by Ben Lerner

• Lojman by Ebru Ojen (translated by Aji Aron and Selin Gökçesu)

• Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley

• Unearthing: a Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

• Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

AUGUST 2023

• Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

• Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney

• Dark Days: Fugitive Essays by Roger Reeves

• Down with the Poor! by Shumona Sinha

• Elsewhere by Yan Ge

• Fit for the Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined edited by Jenn Northington and S. Zainab Williams

• Hangman by Maya Binyam

• The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos by Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya

• Ice: Poems by David Keplinger

• Kindness Separates Night from Day by Marija Dejanović (translated by Vesna Maric)

• The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao

• Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse

• A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle)

• Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

• So To Speak by Terrance Hayes

• This Brutal House by Niven Govinden

• The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein

• We Are Light by Gerda Blees (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Witness by Jamel Brinkley

• You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore)

JULY 2023

• Call Up the Waters by Amber Caron

• Dreaming the Mountain by Tue Sy

• The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman by Molly Lynch

• Fresh Dirt from the Grave by Giovanna Rivero (translated by Isabel Adey)

• I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

• I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes

• In Light-Years There’s No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life by Marjolijn van Heemstra (translated by Jonathan Reeder)

• A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs

• Loot by Tania James (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Lost On Me by Veronica Raimo (translated by Leah Janeczko)

• Milk Tongue by Irene Mathieu

• Mrs. S by K. Patrick

• Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

• Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)

• Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

• Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

• Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg (translated by Gini Alhadeff)

• Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton

• Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists by Rebecca Bengal

• That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu

JUNE 2023

• The Animal In the Room by Meghan Kemp-Gee

• At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

• Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

• Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz

• Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü

• Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana

• Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova

• Freedom House by KB Brookins

• The Ghosts of Other Immigrants by Maija Mäkinen

• The Great American Everything by Scott Gloden

• Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

• Hyperphantasia by Sara Deniz Akant

• Island City by Laura Adamczyk

• The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling

• Meet Me Tonight In Atlantic City by Jane Wong

• Not Too Late: Changing The Climate Story From Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

• Open Throat by Henry Hoke (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda

• Things I Didn't Do with This Body by Amanda Gunn

• Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva

MAY 2023

• Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart

• Berlin by Bea Setton

• Body Horror: Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore

• The Book of Eve by Carmen Boulloso

• Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe

• Cousins by Aurora Venturini

• The East Indian by Brinda Charry

• The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark

• First Blood by Amélie Nothomb

• Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

• Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero

• In Vitro: On Longing & Transformation by Isabel Zapata

• Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

• Places Like These by Lauren Carter

• 回 / Return by Emily Lee Luan

• Slows: Twice by T. Liem

• Still Falling by Jennifer Grotz

• Stories From The Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

• A Working Life by Eileen Myles

APRIL 2023

• Ballast by Quentin Baker

• Bariloche by Andres Neuman

• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

• The Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer

• Dog on Fire by Terese Svoboda

• Flux by Jinwoo Chong

• The Illiterate by Ágota Kristóf

• The Insatiable Volt Sisters by Rachel Eve Moulton

• The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

• Losing Music by John Cotter

• Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia

• Rose Quartz by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

• Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kweku Abimbola

• The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Apapanah

• Ten Planets: Stories by Yuri Herrera

• This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

• Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny

• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

MARCH 2023

• Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi

• Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc

• Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras

• Two Sherpas by Sebastián Daniell Martínez

• Sweetlust by Asja Bakić

• The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra

• The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai

• The Gospel of Orla by Eoghan Walls

• Sisters by Daisy Johnson (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Evil Flowers by Gunnhild Øyehaug

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez

• Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories edited by Thomas, Flick, Dufrense

• From From by Monica Youn

• Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

• Black Observatory by Christopher Brean Murray

• Door by Ann Lauterbach

• Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

• Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross

• Letters to a Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro

• A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars edited by Erin Sharkey

FEBRUARY 2023

• Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

• Abyss by Pilar Quintana

• Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli

• Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

• The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

• It's the End of the World, My Love by Alla Gorbunova

• The Employees by Olga Ravn

• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier

• A New Race of Men from Heaven by Chaitali Sen

• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• The Devastation of Silence by Joâo Reis

• Anon by Sophia Terazawa

• Village by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs

• Kissing Other People or the House of Fame by Kay Gabriel

• Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates

• Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir by Iliana Regan

• The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir by Davon Loeb

• Wolfish by Erica Berry

• Black Women Writers at Work by edited by Claudia Tate

JANUARY 2023

• We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (BOOK CLUB PICK)

• Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

• Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks

• The Age Of Goodbyes by Li Zi Ashy

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

• How To Turn Into A Bird by Maria Jose Ferrara

• Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

• Dead Mediums by Dan Leach

• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

• Animal Life by Audur Ava Olafsdottir

• Opium and Other Stories by Geza Csath

• Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic

• Grocery Shopping With My Mother by Kevin Powell

• Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K. Iver

• Your Kingdom by Eleni Sikelianos

• Motherfield: Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings by John Lorinc

• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

• Black and Female: Essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga

• The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting by Alexander Vasudevan

2022

DECEMBER 2022

• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

• The Symmetry of Fish by Su Cho

• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Poems by Franny Choi

• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

• Angela Davis: an Autobiography by Angela Davis

• The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras

• NDA: An autofiction Anthology edited by Caitlin Forst

• Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm

• They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howry

• Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala

• Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau

• The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

• All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien

• No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

• Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy

• Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

• Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom

• Triptychs by Sandra Simonds

• Things We Found When the Water Went Down by Tegan Nia Swanson

• A Left-Handed Woman by Judith Thurman

NOVEMBER 2022

• Lech by Sara Lippmann

• Toad by Katherine Dunn

• Participation by Anna Moschovakis

• When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar

• Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva

• A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

• Seven Empty Houses by Samantha Schweblin

• Trespasses by Louis Kennedy

• Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep by Adam Soto

• The Islands by Dionne Irving

• Get 'Em Young, Treat 'Em Tough, Tell 'Em Nothing by Robin McLean

• Pacifique by Sarah L. Taggart

• Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor

• Milkweed Smithereens by Bernadette Mayer

• Bright Shade by Chelsea Harlan

• Blood Snow by Dg Nanouk Okpik

• The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela

• My Pinup by Hilton Als

• The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill

• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

OCTOBER 2022

• Sinking Bell by Bojan Louis

• I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava

• Cocoon by Zhang Yueran

• Salt Crystals by Christina Bendek

• Tell Me I'm an Artist by Chelsea Martin

• Bilbao-New York-Bilbao by Kirmen Uribe

• Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

• Habilis by Alyssa Quinn

• Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

• Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

• The Lost Century by Larissa Lai

• Blood Red by Gabrielle Ponce

• Stay True by Hua Hsu

• Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv

• When They Tell You to be Good by Prince Shakur

• This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

• The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie

• Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert

• Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

• Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe