Here’s what I’m reading this year:
2025 Books
Skippy Dies: Paul Murray
Jesus’ Son: Denis Johnson
Men Without Women: Ernest Hemingway
The House on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros
The Beach: Alex Garland
The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom
Things: Francis Ponge
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books: Georges Perec
The Kingdom: Emmanuel Carrere
Sketches from a Hunter’s Album: Ivan Turgenev
Every Man For Himself And God Against All: Werner Herzog
Morning and Evening: Jon Fosse
Portrait of a Man: Georges Perec
The Argonauts: Maggie Nelson
My Life As A Russian Novel: Emmanuel Carrere
Storm Still: Peter Handke
Serious Noticing: James Wood
A Confession: Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks: Leo Tolstoy
The Only Good Indians: Stephen Graham Jones
Like Love: Maggie Nelson
Antwerp: Roberto Bolano
Holy the Firm: Annie Dillard
Oh, to Be a Painter!: Virginia Woolf
Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert
The Employees: Olga Ravn
The Factory: Hiroko Oyamada