Reading List for 2025

1. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch

2. The Venetian Vespers, Anthony Hecht

3. Turbulence, David Szalay

4. Beloved, Toni Morrison (reread)

5. Villa E, Jane Alison

6. Fruit of the Dead, Rachel Lyon

7. The Dark Half, Stephen King (reread)

8. Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

9. Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor (reread)

10. Distant Star, Roberto Bolano (reread)

11. Erasure, Percival Everett (reread)

12. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee (reread)

13. Old Soul, Susan Barker

14. The Future, Naomi Alderman

15. Remembering Light and Stone, Deirdre Madden

16. Theory and Practice, Michelle de Kretser

17. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Moshin Hamid (reread)

18. Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton (reread)

19. Geoff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer (reread)

20. Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico

21. Flesh, David Szalay

22. A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (reread)

23. Picture, Lillian Ross

24. Don’t Look Now, Daphne Du Maurier (reread)

25. The Names, Don DeLillo (reread)

26. Mao II, Don DeLillo (reread)

27. Reproduction, Louisa Hall

28. Set for Life, Andrew Ewell

29. Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner

30. Hunters in the Dark, Lawrence Osborne

31. The Pole, J.M. Coetzee

32. Wild Houses, Colin Barrett

33. Kala, Colin Walsh

34. Archipelago, Natalie Bakopoulos

35. Writer’s Anonymous, William Wall

36. The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden

37. Concerning the Future of Souls, Joy Williams

38. Andromeda, Therese Bohman

39. Nightwatch, Stephen King

40. Night Film, Marisha Pessl

41. The Dead Zone, Stephen King

42. Dubliners, James Joyce (reread)

43. Hangman, Maya Binyam

44. The Long Walk, Stephen King

45. A Lonely Place, Dorothy Hughes (reread)

46. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon

47. In a Cafe, Mary Lavin (reread)

48. Doctor Copernicus, John Banville

49. Biography of X, Catherine Lacey (reread)

50. Venetian Vespers, John Banville

51. After Rain, William Trevor (reread)

52. Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie

53. Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon

54. Sudden Death, Alvaro Enrique (reread)

55. Homesickness, Colin Barrett (reread)

56. The Names, Florence Knapp

57. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (reread)

58. Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud

59. A Fictional Inquiry, Daniele Del Guidice