Cool Kids Read Books

2021

• January - Native Son / Richard Wright
• February - No Name In The Street / James Baldwin
• March - The Double Hook / Sheila Watson
• April - Under The Volcano / Malcolm Lowry
• May - A Swim In A Pond In The Rain / George Saunders
• June - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Mordecai Richler
• July - The Slynx / Tatyana Tolstaya
• August - Dune / Frank Herbert
• September - A Complicated Kindness / Miriam Toews
• October - House Of Leaves / Mark Z. Danielewski

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2020

• January - Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller
• February - A Rage In Harlem / Chester Himes
• March - Blood Child / Octavia Butler
• April - Actual Air / David Berman
• May - Blindness / José Saramago
• June - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again / David Foster Wallace
• July - Split Tooth / Tanya Tagaq
• August - Stoner / John Williams
• September - A Confederacy of Dunces / John Kennedy Toole
• October - The Troop / Nick Cutter
• November - Johnny Got His Gun / Dalton Trumbo & The Ox-Bow Incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• December - Bear / Marian Engel

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2019

• January - In Cold Blood / Truman Capote
• February - Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
• March - Pet Sematary / Stephen King
• April - The Tunnel / Ernesto Sabato
• May - The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas / Machado de Assis
• June - Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
• July - Sanshirō / Natsume Sōseki
• August - Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
• September - Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima
• October - We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Shirley Jackson
• November - Ham On Rye / Charles Bukowski
• December - Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson

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2018

• January - A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway
• February - Beloved / Toni Morrison
• March - Philip K Dick Multi-Month
• April - Breathing Lessons / Anne Tyler
• May - The White Album / Joan Didion
• June - The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America / Thomas King
• July - Fathers and Sons / Ivan Turgenev
• August - Portnoy's Complaint / Philip Roth
• September - Play It As It Lays / Joan Didion
• October - Shirley Jackson Multi-Month
• November - The Power / Naomi Alderman
• December - The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin

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2017

• January - Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
• February - Go Tell It on the Mountain / James Baldwin
• March - It Can't Happen Here / Sinclair Lewis
• April - Kurt Vonnegut Multi-Month
• May - Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie
• June - The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
• July - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers
• August - The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood
• September - Post Office / Charles Bukowski
• October - Stephen King Multi-Month
• November - Dubliners / James Joyce
• December - White Nights / Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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