2025 Nightstand Collective Booklist

Running list of the books featured on Nightstand Portraits this year:

Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s Wanda, by Anna Backman Rogers

Bread and Roses, by Patti Smith

Woolgathering, by Patti Smith

Devotion, by Patti Smith

Prayer is Good Medicine, by Dr. Larry Dossey

When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino

Eternal Echoes, by John O’Donohue

Parade, by Rachel Cusk

The Worst Witch, by Gillian Murphy

The Worst Witch At Sea, by Gillian Murphy

A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch, by Gillian Murphy

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, by Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver

2021 Nightstand Collective Book List

A Cat, A Man and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthy

Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman

Art And Laughter, by Sheri Klein

Blood Child, by Octavia Butler

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Everybody: A Book About Freedom, by Olivia Laing

Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings

 Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafir

Ill Feelings, by Alice Hattrick

I’m Fine And Other Lies…, by Whitney Cummings

In Our Mad And Furious City, by Guy Gunarante

Life, I Swear, by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo

Mind of My Mind, by Octavia Butler

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Edited by Nisi Shawl

The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Lost Ones - Samuel Beckett

The Star and The Shamrock, by Jean Grainger

The Utopia Of Rules, by David Graeber

Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics, by Monica Furlong

2019 Nightstand Collective Book List

A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness, by Marlena Graves

A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley 

Adventures in Criticism, by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister, by Edith Blumhofer

Captive State, by George Monbiot

Collected Poems, by Theodore Roethke

Complete Poems, by Basil Bunting

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, by Joseph Frank

Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, by Hee-Jin Kim

From Marx to Gramsci, by Paul Le Blanc

I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, by Michelle McNamara

Into the Silent Land: The Practice of Contemplation, Marin Laird

Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George Marsden

Money, by Martin Amis

New Left Review, Jan-Feb 2005

New Left Review Nov-Dec 2006

Saint Therese of Lisieux, Kathryn Harrison

Selected Poems, by Thom Gunn

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure, by John Goldthorpe

The Art of the Advocate, Richard Du Cann

The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe

The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training, by John Daido Loori

The Sea and Poison, Shusaku Endo

Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, by Stephen and Ondrea Levine

Why? Looking at God, Evil and Personal Suffering, by Sharon Dirckx