Books Read 2025

1. “Outsider” — Brett Popplewell  (January)
   
2. “Nirlitt” — Juliana Léveille-Trudel  (January)
   
3. “Eyes Wide Open” — Frederic Raphael  (January)
   
4. “Moly” — Thom Gunn  (February, 2025)
   
5. “Jack Straw’s Castle” — Thom Gunn  (January)
   
6. “The Death Notebooks” — Anne Sexton  (February)
   
7. “The Sun Also Rises” — Ernest Hemingway  (February)
   
8. “Just Kids” — Patti Smith  (February)
   
9. “Queer” — William Burroughs  (February)
   
10. “The Last Canadian” — William C. Heine  (February)
    
11. “Perfection” — Vincenzo Latronico  (February)
    
12. “Apropos of Nothing” — Woody Allen  (February)
    
13. “Roman Poems” — Pier Pablo Pasolini  (February)
    
14. “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light’ — Ivan Klíma  (March)
    
15. “Slowness” — Milan Kundera  (March)
    
16. “The Book of Laughter & Forgetting” — Milan Kundera  (April)
    
17. “A Kidnapped West” — Milan Kundera  (April)
    
18. “The Graduate” — Charles Webb  (April)
    
19. “The Loves of My Life” — Edmund White  (April)
    
20. “And Then She Fell” — Alicia Elliott  (April)
    
21. “Hearrational” — Oli Davis  (April)
    
22. “Othello” — William Shakespeare  (April)
    
23. “The Melancholia of Class” — Cynthia Cruz  (April)
    
24. “The Second Part of King Henry IV” — William Shakespeare  (May)
    
25. “All The Devils Are Here” — David Seabrook  (May)
    
26. “Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv” — Andrey Kurkov  (May)
    
27. “The Fine Wisdom & Perfect Teachings …” — Mark Edmundson  (May)
    
28. “Capitalist Realism” — Mark Fisher  (May)
    
29. “The Gift” — David Flusfeder  (May)
    
30. “The Merry Wives of Windsor” — William Shakespeare  (May)
    
31. “The Tragedy of King Richard III” — William Shakespeare  (May)
    
32. “The disappearance of rituals” — Byung-Chul Han  (June)
    
33. “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” — William Shakespeare  (June)
    
34. “A Guide To The Good Life” — William B. Irvine  (June)
    
35. “How To Be A Stoic” — Massimo Pigliucci  (June)
    
36. “City of Night” — John Rechy  (June)
    
37. “Working The Aisles” — Robert Appelbaum  (June)
    
38. “The Door” — Magda Szabó  (June)
    
39. “Easy Meat” — Rachel Trezise  (June)
    
40. “Girl, Woman, Other” — Bernardine Evaristo  (July)
    
41. “Mustang Man” — Louis L’Amour  (July)
    
42. “Vita contemplativa” — Byung-Chul Han  (July)
    
43. “Buzzard Point” — Caleb Rand  (August)
    
44. “Seascraper” — Benjamin Wood  (August)
    
45. “The Humbling” — Philip Roth  (August) (again)
    
46. “In The Name of the Father” — Balla  (August)
    
47. “Behind God’s Back” — Zsigmond Móricz  (August)
    
48. “The Brothers” — Asko Sahlberg  (September)  (again)
    
49. “Study for Obedience” — Sarah Bernstein  (September)
    
50. “Change” — Édouard Louis  (September)
    
51. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” — Milan Kundera  (September)
    
52. “Why Write?” — Mark Edmundson  (September)  (again)
    
53. “Infrared” - Nancy Huston  (September)
    
54. “The Shining” — Stephen King  (October)
    
55. “Ghost Dogs” — Andre Dubus III  (October)
    
56. “Why Teach?” — Mark Edmundson  (October)  (again)
    
57. “Separate Flights” — Andre Dubus  (October)  (again)
    
58. “Settling The Score” — Mike Redmond  (November)
    
59. “No Country for Old Men” — Cormac McCarthy  (November)
    
60. “A Film by Spencer Ludwig” — David Flusfeder  (November)
    
61. “The Touch Team” — Ray Lilly  (November)
    
62. “Blade: The Colorado Virgins” — Matt Chisholm  (December)
    
63. “Presidio” — Randy Kennedy  (December)
    
64. “Ulysses” — James Joyce  (December)
    
65. “A Christmas Carol” — Charles Dickens  (December) (again)
    
66. “Just One More Thing” — Peter Falk  (December)
    
67. “Teacher Man” — Frank McCourt  (December)
    
    ​Books in bold were particularly good.