Here’s my 2025 reading list! It’s longer than I thought it would be, since I didn’t read much in the spring, summer, or even fall, it seemed. Summer is normally a big reading time for me, but my literacy energy this summer was mostly spent in writing. Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of my reading was that this was the year that I became obsessed with Moa Martinson. There are other treasures here as well…

1. Farm-Raised Kids by Katie Kulla
2. The Blue Fox by Sjón
3. Paris: A Memoir by Paris Hilton
4. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Dear Girls by Ali Wong
7. Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
8. Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
9. Atomic Habits by James Clear
10. My Mother Gets Married by Moa Martinson
11. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
12. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
13. There There by Tommy Orange
14. I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
15. Women by Chloe Caldwell
16. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
17. In Pieces by Sally Field
18. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
19. Through the Children’s Gate by Adam Gopnik
20. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
21. Women and Appletrees by Moa Martinson
22. I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
23. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
24. The Best American Short Stories 2024
25. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
26. Women We Buried, Women We Burned by Rachel Louise Snyder
27. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
28. The Goodbye Kit by Daneen Bergland
29. Spiral Staircase: A Meditation on Alchemy by Alyssa Spungen
30. The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom
31. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter
32. Audition by Katie Kitamura
33. If You’re Seeing This It’s Meant for You by Leigh Stein
34. Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
35. The Deep Places by Ross Douthat
36. Mindset by Carol Dweck
37. Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis (et al)
38. The Forever Colony by Victor Villanueva
39. Rosarita by Anita Desai
40. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
41. If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die by Lee Tilghman
42. The Siren’s Call by Chris Hayes
43. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
44. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai
45. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
46. The Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman
47. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh