Twenty Favorite Graywolf Press Books
(alphabetically by author, in four categories, with no more than one book per writer, and written in response to this list by John Warner)
Stories
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti
Suicide Woods by Benjamin Percy
Novels
Cataract City by Craig Davidson
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda
Children of God by Lars Petter Sveen
Poetry
Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey
Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland
Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon
The Darkening Trapeze by Larry Levis
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Nonfiction
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
— November 24, 2021