The WLT staff has compiled a brand new list of book recommendations for our annual round of staff picks. Check out our WLT bookshop for new literary suggestions from your friendly WLT staff every month: https://bookshop.org/shop/WLT
Recommended by WLT Executive Director Becka Oliver:
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Recommended by WLT Program Director Sam Babiak:
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
More than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
Recommended by WLT Member Services / Digital Content Manager Evan Parks:
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Devil House by John Darnielle
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV with Alcaro Martinez Bueno and Jordie Bellaire
Recommended by WLT Office Coordinator Austen Schreib:
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Recommended by WLT Social Media and Marketing Intern Emma Conatser:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Read one of our recommendations? Leave a comment and tell us what you thought! And if you’re ever looking for more reading material, don’t forget to check out the WLT Bookshop for craft and business of writing book recommendations from WLT instructors or more monthly picks to keep up with what the WLT staff is reading.
