2025 READING LIST

Updated as of December 5, 2025
Titles in bold are books I’m currently reading
You can check out my 2024 reading list here

FICTION

Aoki, Ryka: Light from Uncommon Stars
Baldwin, James: If Beale Street Could Talk
Butler, Octavia E.: Parable of the Talents
Balle, Solvej: On The Calculation of Volume I
Balle, Solvej: On The Calculation of Volume II
Balle, Solvej: On the Calculation of Volume III
Chacour, Éric: What I Know About You
Coover, Robert: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J Henry Waugh, Prop.
Crewe, Lesley: The Spirit of Scatarie
Diaz, Hernan: Trust
Didion, Joan: Play It As It Lays
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
Evans, Virginia: The Correspondent
Greenwell, Garth: Cleanness
Greenwell, Garth: Small Rain
Greenwell, Garth: What Belongs To You
Han, Kang: Human Acts
Harvey, Samantha: Orbital
Hewitt, Seán: Open, Heaven
Hollinghurst, Alan: The Swimming-Pool Library
Kawakami, Mieko: Heaven
Kingsolver, Barbara: Demon Copperhead
Keegan, Claire: Small Things Like These
Kerr, Conor: Prairie Edge
Kuang, R. F.: Yellowface
Liew, Jamie Chai Yun: Dandelion
Lispector, Clarice: The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector, Clarice: The Hour of the Star
Lennon, Ferdia: Glorious Exploits
Lynch, Paul: Prophet Song
Ma, Ling: Severance
Mason, Daniel: North Woods
Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
Peters, Amanda: The Berry Pickers
Robbins, Tom: Jitterbug Perfume
Rooney, Sally: Normal People
Rulfo, Juan: Pedro Páramo
Saadi, Ziyad: Three Parties
Shafak, Elif: The Island of Missing Trees
Szalay, David: Flesh
Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Children of Time
Tóibín, Colm: The Blackwater Lightship
Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit
van der Wouden, Yael: The Safekeep
Voltaire: Candide
Washington, Bryan: Palaver
Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
Whitehead, Colson: The Nickel Boys
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
Yuzuki, Asako: Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

SHORT FICTION

Alexis, André: Other Worlds
Belcourt, Billy-Ray: Coexistence
Bhat, Shashi: Death By a Thousand Cuts
Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles
Carver, Raymond: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Chiang, Ted: Stories of Your Life and Others
Christopher, Neil (editor): Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
Ee, Deric (editor): KL Noir: Magic
Jones, Thom: The Pugilist At Rest
Lahiri, Jhumpa: Interpreter of Maladies
Mansfield, Katherine: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Miller, Sam J.: Boys, Beasts & Men
Munro, Alice: Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro, Alice: Lives of Girls and Women
Munro, Alice: Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You
Munro, Alice: The Moons of Jupiter
Munro, Alice: Who Do You Think You Are?
O’Connor, Flannery: The Complete Stories
Russell, Karen: Orange World and Other Stories
Sigurðardóttir, Ásta: Nothing To Be Rescued
Tulathimutte, Tony: Rejection
Tiptree Jr., James: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Welty, Eudora: The Golden Apples
Xue, Can: Vertical Motion

NONFICTION

Abdelmahmoud, Elamin (editor): Elbows Up!: Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance
Didion, Joan: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Didion, Joan: The White Album
Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking
Kincaid, Jamaica: A Small Place
King, Stephen: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Verghese, Abraham: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

POETRY

Cavafy, Constantine P.: The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition
Czaga, Kayla: Midway
Kingsolver, Barbara: Another America
Mitchell, Larry: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Sax, Sam: Pig
Sax, Sam: Madness
Ondaatje, Michael: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Williams, Oscar (editor): Immortal Poems of the English Language