Selected 2025 Reading:

Fiction Novels/Novellas

• Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us by Joseph Andras
• On the Clock by Claire Baglin
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• In a Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
• Our Long Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForest
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne
• Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
• The All of It by Jeannette Haien
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Sift by Alissa Hattman 
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Liberators by E.J. Koh
• The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey 
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie 
• Ancillary Mercy by Anne Leckie
• Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
• A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson 
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson 
• Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson 
• The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
• Isle of Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson
• Coram House by Bailey Seybolt
• The Cliffs by J Courtney Sullivan
• The Emissary by Yoko Tawada
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

Short Stories

• Green Frog: Stories by Gina Chung
• She and Her Cat: Stories by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa

Graphic Novels/Graphic Nonfiction/Graphic Memoirs

• A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
• Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle 
• Hostage by Guy Delisle
• The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco
• The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Art

• Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics and Mass Politics edited by Russ Davidson
• Art of the Literary Poster by Allison Rudnick
• Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton

Poetry

• American Wake by Kerrin McCadden 
• The End of Childhood by Wayne Miller
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Loss and Its Antonym by Alison Prine
• Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss 

Nonfiction

• A Horse at Night: on Writing by Amina Cain
• 50 Ways to Protect Book Stores by Danny Caine
• The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
• Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• The Eighth Moon by Jennifer Kabat
• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy
• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
• The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
• Motherhood and its Ghosts by Iman Mersal
• Cultish by Amanda Montell
• Opacities by Sofia Samatar