Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Knowles’ A Separate Peace | 2016 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 2 | Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five | 2016 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 3 | Stephen King’s The Body | 2016 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 4 | Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves | 2017 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 5 | F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby | 2017 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 6 | Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show | 2017 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 7 | George Saunders’ Pastoralia | 2018 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 8 | Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 2018 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 9 | William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life | 2019 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 10 | Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano | 2019 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 11 | Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory | 2021 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 12 | James Baldwin’s Another Country | 2021 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 13 | Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood | 2021 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 14 | Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway | 2022 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 15 | Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life | 2022 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 16 | Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost | 2023 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 17 | Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children | 2023 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
| 18 | Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels | 2024 | Brian B.K. Evenson | Buy |
The Bookmarked series invites authors to write extended essays about the books that have most influenced their own writing. Brian Evenson’s contribution to the series provides insight into the literary sources that inform his horror and experimental fiction.
For readers who want to understand what shaped Evenson as a writer, this entry in the Bookmarked series offers a direct line from his influences to his own work.