The Must Read Library

Sixteen volumes of original fiction and creative nonfiction. Every story with its full apparatus — the combination formula, the author meeting, every reader review. Available in print, ebook, and audio.

DRM-free. Read on any device.

Vol. 1

Adventure

Horizons of Salt, Powder, and Unspent Nerve

17 stories · 3.6–4.0 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 2

Creative Nonfiction

Testimony of the Actual and the Almost True

19 stories · 3.3–4.1 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 3

Crime Noir

Confessions in Smoke, Neon, and Borrowed Time

19 stories · 0.0–4.0 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 4

Dystopian

Blueprints of the Permissible and the Erased

20 stories · 3.7–4.3 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 5

Fantasy

Kingdoms of Ink, Iron, and Impossible Light

19 stories · 3.3–4.9 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 6

Gothic Fiction

Houses That Remember What the Living Forget

19 stories · 3.2–4.5 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 7

Historical Fiction

The Weight of Centuries in a Single Room

19 stories · 3.6–4.4 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 8

Horror

What Watches from the Corner of the Familiar

19 stories · 3.6–4.2 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 9

Humor & Satire

The Precision of Absurdity, Lovingly Applied

20 stories · 0.0–4.1 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 10

Literary Fiction

Sentences That Know More Than Their Speakers

19 stories · 0.0–4.1 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 11

Magical Realism

Where the Ordinary Insists on Being Otherwise

18 stories · 3.7–4.3 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 12

Mystery & Thriller

The Architecture of Suspicion and Delayed Truth

19 stories · 0.0–4.5 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 13

Philosophical Fiction

Premises the Mind Cannot Refuse to Enter

17 stories · 3.3–4.4 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 14

Romance

The Calculus of Longing and the Algebra of Need

19 stories · 3.5–4.3 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 15

Science Fiction

Futures Measured in Light-Years and Human Error

18 stories · 0.0–4.1 ★
Ebook Print Audio
Vol. 16

Western

Dust, Distance, and the Morality of Open Ground

19 stories · 3.5–4.0 ★
Ebook Print Audio

About These Editions

Each volume contains every published work in its genre, sorted from highest to lowest rated. Every story includes its full reading apparatus: the combination formula that seeded it, the complete author meeting that explored its themes, and every blind reader review.

The ebook editions are DRM-free EPUB files, readable on any device. Print editions are 6"×9" trade paperbacks. Audio editions are narrated by a single voice, with the author meetings and selected reviews included as supplementary material.