What I am reading

Here is a list of what I am reading and have read so far in 2025:

  1. On Community – Casey Plett
  2. Querelle of Roberval – Kev Lambert
  3. The Sunflower Boys – Sam Wachman
  4. Inland – Gerald Murnane
  5. Get Closer – Ryan Van Winkle
  6. Some Things I Do Not Know – Arthur Allen
  7. Marxist Literary Criticism Today – Barbara Foley
  8. Sea & Fog – Etel Adnan
  9. The Beautiful Summer – Cesare Pavase
  10. Swole – Michael Andor Brodeur
  11. Conjuros y cantos – Sara Torres
  12. Uneasy Listening – Anouchka Grose & Robert Brewer Young
  13. Terry Dactyl – Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  14. The Trees – Percival Everett
  15. The Company of Owls – Polly Atkin
  16. A Glance Away – John Edgar Wideman
  17. Winter Hours – Mary Oliver
  18. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) – Solvej Balle
  19. Apparitions – Nat Raha
  20. Crossing – Sabrin Hasbun
  21. Archive of Unknown Universes – Ruben Reyes Jr.
  22. Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
  23. Pricks in the Tapestry – Jameson Fitzpatrick
  24. Muckle Flugga – Michael Pedersen
  25. Untold Night and Day – Bae Suah
  26. Elastic – Johanne Bille
  27. Jean – Madeleine Dunnigan
  28. Halfway Home – Paul Monette
  29. Proust – Edmund White
  30. Big Chief – Jon Hickey
  31. The Vortex – José Eustasio Rivera
  32. Deeping It – Adèle Oliver
  33. Oasis – Charles Lang
  34. Body Work – Melissa Febos
  35. No One Will Know You Tomorrow – Najwan Darwish
  36. 1985 – Dominic Hoey
  37. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  38. Slum Boy – Juano Diaz
  39. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Keiran Goddard
  40. Cupid, Grown – Adam Panichi 
  41. Somewhere, Looking – Amber Rollinson
  42. Foreign Fruit – Katie Goh
  43. How to Leave the World – Marouane Bakhti
  44. How Does Change Happen? – Sam Gonçalves.
  45. In the Hollow of the Wave  – Nina Mingya Powles
  46. The South – Tash Aw
  47. Our Evenings – Alan Hollinghurst
  48. Orpheus – Don Patterson
  49. Fierce Salvage – Edited by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson
  50. James – Percival Everett
  51. Machine Readable Me – Zara Rahman
  52. A Language of Limbs – Dylin Hardcastle
  53. Open, Heaven – Seán Hewitt
  54. Saraswati – Gurnaik Johal
  55. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) – Solvej Balle
  56. I Remember – Joe Brainard
  57. Stag Dance – Torrey Peters
  58. Going to Meet the Man – James Baldwin
  59. The Muslim Cowboy – Bruce Omar Yates
  60. Dislocations – Sylvia Molloy
  61. Let Us (or the Invocation of Smoke) – Shehzar Doja
  62. Sweet Bone Girl – Esme Allman
  63. Milk Teeth – Jessica Andrews
  64. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley 
  65. The Last Dat Before Exile – Selin Bucak
  66. Little Ruins – Manni Coe
  67. Querelle de Best – Jean Genet
  68. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – ZZ Packer
  69. The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
  70. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  71. These Mortal Bodies – Elspeth Wilson
  72. Solemates – Adam Zmith
  73. The House of Impossible Beauties – Joseph Cassara
  74. Revolutionary Desires – Xuanlin Tham
  75. The Happy Couple – Naoise Dolan
  76. Love in Exile – Shon Faye
  77. Death Takes Me – Cristina Rivera Garza
  78. Time Cleaves Itself – Jeda Pearl
  79. The Echoes of Us – Emma Steele
  80. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility – Isabel Waidner
  81. Strange Beach – Oluwaseun Olayiwola
  82. Polkadot Wounds – Anthony Vahni Capildeo
  83. No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
  84. The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
  85. Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
  86. Intermezzo – Sally Rooney
  87. The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
  88. Alligator Tears – Edgar Gomez
  89. A Lover’s Discourse – Xiaolu Guo
  90. Gifted – Suzumi Suzuki
  91. Prisoner of Love – Jean Genet
  92. Hotel de Dream – Edmund White
  93. Small Island – Andrea Levy
  94. The Forgery – Ave Barrera
  95. Queer – William S. Burroughs
  96. My Lives – Edmund White

You can also review my 2024 reading list here.