the books I read in 2025

The books I read in 2025 are listed here, in chronological reading order. The date may not be the original date of publishing and may represent the copy I happened to read.

• Demon copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
• Architect, verb: the new language of building, by Reinier de Graaf (2023)
• The city we became, by N.K. Jemisin (2020) - thanks to Daniel who recommended this one; quite a fantasy and very New Yorky
• The wisdom of donkeys: finding tranquility in a chaotic world, by Andy Merrifield (2008)
• Family meal, by Bryan Washington (2023)
• Plagued by fire: the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Paul Hendrickson (2019) - it occasionally made me furious
• Peaces: a novel, by Helen Oyeyemi (2021)
• The marriage portrait, by Maggie O'Farrell (2022) - from Renaissance Florence ...
• The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner (2018) - ... to 21st century California (the Mars Room is a bar)
• Saint Sebastian's abyss, by Mark Haber (2022)
• I left it on the mountain: a memoir, by Kevin Sessums (2015)
• Let the record show: a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, by Sarah Schulman (2021)
• Tramps like us, by Joe Westmoreland (2001, new edition 2025 with introduction by Eileen Myles)
• The midnight library, by Matt Haig (2020)
• Dead end: suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism, by Benjamin Ross (2014)
• One last stop, by Casey McQuiston (2021) - another very New Yorky book, plenty of subway
• The world in a selfie: an inquiry into the tourist age, by Marco D'Eramo (2017)
• Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett (2023)
• The march, by E.L. Doctorow (2005)
• The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)
• The fraud, by Zadie Smith (2023)
• Love junkie, by Robert Plunket (1992, new edition 2024)

Twenty-two books again this year. It's rather weird that it's been 22 books the last couple-three years, usually split about evenly between fiction and nonfiction. This year was a bit lopsided, with fourteen fiction and eight nonfiction.

For a visual compilation of my year's reading, Goodreads provides some statistics with pictures of the covers linked to the description and whatnot. Let the record show was the longest book I read and also the highest rated. It is important and interesting and well-written.

Goodreads is part of the Amazon empire but I recommend buying your books from an independent bookstore or at Bookshop or, gosh, maybe reading a library copy.