Here is a list of what I read in 2025. You can read about my Top 10 Best reads of the year on my Substack.

1. All the Men I Never Married – Kim Moore
2. Mutual Aid – Dean Spade
3. Us – Zaffar Kunial
4. Perfection – Vincenzo Latronico
5. On Community – Casey Plett
6. Querelle of Roberval – Kev Lambert
7. The Sunflower Boys – Sam Wachman
8. Inland – Gerald Murnane
9. Get Closer – Ryan Van Winkle
10. Some Things I Do Not Know – Arthur Allen
11. Marxist Literary Criticism Today – Barbara Foley
12. Sea & Fog – Etel Adnan
13. The Beautiful Summer – Cesare Pavase
14. Swole – Michael Andor Brodeur
15. Conjuros y cantos – Sara Torres
16. Uneasy Listening – Anouchka Grose & Robert Brewer Young
17. Terry Dactyl – Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
18. The Trees – Percival Everett
19. The Company of Owls – Polly Atkin
20. A Glance Away – John Edgar Wideman
21. Winter Hours – Mary Oliver
22. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) – Solvej Balle
23. Apparitions – Nat Raha
24. Crossing – Sabrin Hasbun
25. Archive of Unknown Universes – Ruben Reyes Jr.
26. Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
27. Pricks in the Tapestry – Jameson Fitzpatrick
28. Muckle Flugga – Michael Pedersen
29. Untold Night and Day – Bae Suah
30. Elastic – Johanne Bille
31. Jean – Madeleine Dunnigan
32. Halfway Home – Paul Monette
33. Proust – Edmund White
34. Big Chief – Jon Hickey
35. The Vortex – José Eustasio Rivera
36. Deeping It – Adèle Oliver
37. Oasis – Charles Lang
38. Body Work – Melissa Febos
39. No One Will Know You Tomorrow – Najwan Darwish
40. 1985 – Dominic Hoey
41. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
42. Slum Boy – Juano Diaz
43. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Keiran Goddard
44. Cupid, Grown – Adam Panichi 
45. Somewhere, Looking – Amber Rollinson
46. Foreign Fruit – Katie Goh
47. How to Leave the World – Marouane Bakhti
48. How Does Change Happen? – Sam Gonçalves.
49. In the Hollow of the Wave  – Nina Mingya Powles
50. The South – Tash Aw
51. Our Evenings – Alan Hollinghurst
52. Orpheus – Don Patterson
53. Fierce Salvage – Edited by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson
54. James – Percival Everett
55. Machine Readable Me – Zara Rahman
56. A Language of Limbs – Dylin Hardcastle
57. Open, Heaven – Seán Hewitt
58. Saraswati – Gurnaik Johal
59. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) – Solvej Balle
60. I Remember – Joe Brainard
61. Stag Dance – Torrey Peters
62. Going to Meet the Man – James Baldwin
63. The Muslim Cowboy – Bruce Omar Yates
64. Dislocations – Sylvia Molloy
65. Let Us (or the Invocation of Smoke) – Shehzar Doja
66. Sweet Bone Girl – Esme Allman
67. Milk Teeth – Jessica Andrews
68. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley 
69. The Last Dat Before Exile – Selin Bucak
70. Little Ruins – Manni Coe
71. Querelle de Best – Jean Genet
72. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – ZZ Packer
73. The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
74. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
75. These Mortal Bodies – Elspeth Wilson
76. Solemates – Adam Zmith
77. The House of Impossible Beauties – Joseph Cassara
78. Revolutionary Desires – Xuanlin Tham
79. The Happy Couple – Naoise Dolan
80. Love in Exile – Shon Faye
81. Death Takes Me – Cristina Rivera Garza
82. Time Cleaves Itself – Jeda Pearl
83. The Echoes of Us – Emma Steele
84. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility – Isabel Waidner
85. Strange Beach – Oluwaseun Olayiwola
86. Polkadot Wounds – Anthony Vahni Capildeo
87. No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
88. The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
89. Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
90. Intermezzo – Sally Rooney
91. The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
92. Alligator Tears – Edgar Gomez
93. A Lover’s Discourse – Xiaolu Guo
94. Gifted – Suzumi Suzuki
95. Prisoner of Love – Jean Genet
96. Hotel de Dream – Edmund White
97. Small Island – Andrea Levy
98. The Forgery – Ave Barrera
99. Queer – William S. Burroughs
100. My Lives – Edmund White