The Books I Read in 2025
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2025, so far..
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Landscapes by Christine Lai
How to Go Mad Without Losing your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Agatha Christa: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
There’s Always this Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Craft in the Real Work: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
Once Smitten, Twice Shy by Chloe Liese
Over the Influence by Joanna “JoJo” Levesque
The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson
No One is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Lakeysha Hallmon
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
The Daydreams by Laura Hankin
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison
Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan
A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker
The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O’Neill
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
I’ll Have What He’s Having by Adie Khorram
Rosarita by Anita Desai
Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot
There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.
The Class Castle by Jeannette Walls
Creative Question by Questlove
Master of Me by Keke Palmer
Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
The Folklore of Forever by Sarah Hoyle
The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily Bender, Alex Hanna
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and What it Matters by Tom Nichols
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz