books I've read
(2025)
(an asterisk indicates a book I especially loved)
January
*
Suggested in the Stars
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Still Life with Remorse
by Maira Kalman
*
Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
February
A Libertarian Walks into a Bear
by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Slow Dance
by Rainbow Rowell
Polysecure
by Jessica Fern
March
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
by Maurice Leblanc, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Wild Chocolate
by Rowan Jacobsen
April
*
Roman Year
by André Aciman
May
Venice
by Nick Earls
Pure Invention
by Matt Alt
June
Gotham
by Nick Earls
Gliff
by Ali Smith
Summer Solstice
by Nina MacLaughlin
Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford
July
*
Rose/House
by Arkady Martine
*
the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
The Details
by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
*
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster
August
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
*
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
*
The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue
by Karina Yan Glaser
King of a Hundred Horsemen
by Marie Étienne, translated by Marilyn Hacker
September
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Making It
by Laura Kay
*
Frostbite
by Nicola Twilley
October
*
Exophony
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways
by Charlie N. Holmberg
*
Karma Doll
by Jonathan Ames
Slade House
by David Mitchell (again)
November
Fear City
by Kim Phillips-Fein
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker
*
The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
by Karina Yan Glaser
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by Hanif Abdurraqib
*
Nymph
by Stephanie LaCava
December
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
by Charlie Jane Anders
*
The Other Girl
by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
*
The Ocean Is Everyone's But It Is Not Yours
by Dave Eggers
Archipelago of the Sun
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Older:
2024