So, here’s my 2025 longform reading list. Books I actually finished are in bold. Not as many, percentage-wise, as last year, but I exposed myself to a lot of different stuff. And I’m still plugging away!
- BITTERSWEET by Susan Cain
- GUILT & GINATAAN by Mia P. Manansala
- LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
- READING THE WAVES by Lidia Yuknavitch
- SPRING, SUMMER, ASTEROID, BIRD by Henry Lien
- NONWHITE AND WOMAN: 131 MICRO ESSAYS ON BEING IN THE WORLD by Darien Hsu Gee & Carla Crujido (eds.)
- THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER by Lidia Yuknavitch
- PRANKSTERS VS. AUTOCRATS by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen
- LOVE AND INDUSTRY by Sonya Huber
- DEAD NOTE by Victor Manibo
- AUTOCORRECT by Etgar Keret
- THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY by Suleika Jaouad
- THE ASK by Sam Lipsyte
- THE BOOK OF JOAN by Lidia Yuknavitch
- THE STORY CURE by Dinty W. Moore
- A CATALOG OF STORMS by Fran Wilde
- WHIMSY: A LITERARY DOOM AND GLOOM ANTIDOTE by Naomi Daniluk (ed.)
- UNRELIABLE NARRATOR by Aparna Nancherla
- POWER: WHY SOME PEOPLE HAVE IT AND OTHERS DON’T by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- SOME PEOPLE NEED KILLING by Patricia Evangelista
- WEIRDSCAPES: AN OTHERWORLDLY ANTHOLOGY by Kyle Thompson (ed.)
- UNCERTAIN SONS by Thomas Ha
- DEATH BY DUMPLING by Vivien Chien
- CATCHING THE BIG FISH by David Lynch
- THE SUBJECT STEVE by Sam Lipsyte
- FRIDAY BLACK by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyan
- NEXT OF KIN: A MEMOIR by Gabrielle Hamilton
- JOYRIDE: A MEMOIR by Susan Orlean
- THE ANTHONY BOURDAIN READER: NEW, CLASSIC, AND RESDISCOVERED WRITING by Kimberly Witherspoon (ed.)
Looks like I’m going to start 2026 a little behind the 8-ball. And that doesn’t even include the stack I got for Christmas that I have yet to crack open!