175 BOOKS

Cal Flyn

Editors’ Picks: Highlights From a Year in Reading

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Cal Flyn has shared book recommendations indexed across multiple publications and interviews.

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SHELF · 01

The Living Mountain

The Water Cure

The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands

The Pleasure of Ruins

Ruins: Documents of Contemporary Art

Annihilation

Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl

The Drowned World

Blue Ticket: A Novel

Cleanness

SHELF · 02

The Mirror and the Light

Earthlings: A Novel

Weather: A novel

Death in Her Hands: A Novel

The Glass Hotel: A Novel

Detransition, Baby: A Novel

The Manningtree Witches

little scratch

Open Water

SHELF · 03

Several People Are Typing

Second Place

Lean Fall Stand

The Other Black Girl: A Novel

A River Called Time

Luster: A Novel

All Men Want to Know

Sisters: A Novel

Jack: A Novel

Starling Days: A Novel

SHELF · 04

Rainbow Milk

Exciting Times

Pew

Girl A: A Novel

Klara and the Sun: A Novel

Acts of Desperation: A Novel

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Pageboy: A Memoir

The Light Room: On Art and Care

SHELF · 05

O Brother

The Trees

The Candy House: A Novel

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Septology

Black Butterflies

Demon Copperhead

The Marriage Portrait: A Novel

Pod

Fire Rush

SHELF · 06

Trespasses

Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

The Success Myth: Letting Go of Having It All

Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Prophet Song

The Bee Sting

If I Survive You

Western Lane

SHELF · 07

This Other Eden

Study for Obedience

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

A Little History of Psychology

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Birnam Wood: A Novel

Victory City

Shy

SHELF · 08

Cursed Bread: A Novel

Greek Lessons: A Novel

To Paradise

Pure Colour: A Novel

Young Mungo

The Books of Jacob: A Novel

Our Wives Under the Sea

Lapvona

Either/Or

The Last White Man: A Novel

SHELF · 09

Afterlives

The Fraud

The Maniac

A Shining

My Work

The Glutton: A Novel

Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

The Sense of an Ending: A Novel

Dept. of Speculation

The Flick

SHELF · 10

Intermezzo

The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel

Creation Lake: A Novel

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Small Rain: A Novel

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel

The Netanyahus

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel

SHELF · 11

Liberation Day: Stories

Like Life: Stories

The Passenger

Our Share of Night: A Novel

The Furrows: An Elegy

The Guest

Biography of X

In Memoriam

Harold: A Novel

Small Worlds

SHELF · 12

Blackouts

Babel: An Arcane History

Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel

The Man Who Died Twice

Something New Under the Sun: A Novel

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

King: A Life

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

SHELF · 13

Monet: The Restless Vision

Traces of Enayat

Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

Flashlight: A Novel

The Möbius Book

The Slip: A Novel

The Fire Concerto: A Novel

Bring the House Down: A Novel

Dream Count

We Do Not Part

SHELF · 14

Good Girl: A Novel

On the Calculation of Volume: Book I

Rejection

The Safekeep: A Novel

The Land in Winter

James: A Novel

My Friends

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco

SHELF · 15

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Patriot: A Memoir

Wild Twin

Wolf Hall

Sacred Hunger

True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel

SHELF · 16

Midnight's Children

The Luminaries: A Novel

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Keepers of Truth

Vigil: A Novel

John of John

The Palm House

Hooked: A Novel of Obsession

Under Water: A Novel

The Fall

SHELF · 17

Yoga

Flesh: A Novel

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

Crudo: A Novel

This is Pleasure

Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Supper Club: A Novel

Fake Accounts: A Novel

SHELF · 18

Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Kiss Kiss

Schindler's Ark

The Narrow Road to the Deep North