We asked Tourniquet Review contributors and Tourniquet Pod guests which books they enjoyed reading in 2019. Here they are.
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Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (Ecco, 2017). John Ashbery
Trouble in Mind (Knopf, 2005). Lucie Brock-Broido
Earth (The Song Cave, 2019). Hannah Brooks-Motl
The Little Seagull Handbook w Exercises, 3E (Norton, 2017). Richard Bullock, Michal Brody, & Francine Weinberg
Little Magazine, World Form (Columbia, 2019). Eric Bulson
The Lucky Ones (Harper Perennial, 2004). Rachel Cusk
Outline Trilogy (Macmillan, 2014—18). Rachel Cusk
The Problem of the Many (Wave, 2019). Timothy Donnelly
Ducks, Newburyport (Biblioasis, 2019). Lucy Ellmann
7 Types of Ambiguity (New Directions, [1930fe]1966). William Empson
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood (Harper Perennial, 2010). Louise Erdrich
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin, 2016). Abolqasem Ferdowsi/ translated by Dick Davis
Family Lexicon (NYRB, 2017). Natalia Ginzburg/translated by Jenny McPhee
Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art (David Zwirner Books, 2019). Michael Glover
The Lieutenant (GA, 2009). Kate Greenville
All My Cats (New Directions, 2019). Bohumil Hrabal/translated by Paul Wilson
The Princess Casamassima (Penguin, [1886fe] 1991). Henry James
Bad Writing (MIT, 2019). Travis Jeppesen
Good Will Come From the Sea (Penguin, 2019). Christos Ikonomou/translated by Karen Emmerich
Revolution in Time: Clocks & the Making of the Modern World (Harvard, 1983). David S. Landes
The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures & World Revolution (Columbia, 2015). Steven S. Lee
The Dispossessed (Harper Voyager, 1994). Ursula K. Le Guin
Where Reasons End (Random House, 2019). Yiyun Li
An Anthology of Classical Urdu Love Lyrics (Oxford University Press, 1972) Compiled and translated by D. J. Matthews & C. Shackle
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Tachyon, [1974fe]2017). Patricia A. McKillip
Experience In Groups (Wave, 2018). Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Dark Emu (Magabala, 2014). Bruce Pascoe
Chicago Review: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago (62.4, 2019). Edited by Andrew Peart, Eric Powell & Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz
Fear of Description (Penguin, 2019). Daniel Poppick
Conversations with Friends (Penguin, 2018). Sally Rooney
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings, 1988—2018 (Abrams, 2019). Peter Schjeldahl
Genji Days (Kodansha, 1977). Edward Seidensticker
An Obedient Father (Norton, 2019). Akhil Sharma
The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019). Brandon Shimoda
Waste (BlazeVOX, 2019). Emily Toder
Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay & Other Necessities (John Hopkins, 2019). John Warner
The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov & the Risks of Fiction (Princeton, 1998). Michael Wood