2025 Reads

1. New York Sketches, by E.B. White*

2. Orbital, by Samantha Harvey 

3. Heartbreak is the National Anthem, by Rob Sheffield*

4. Keanu Reeves is not in Love with You, by Becky Holmes

5. Crossroads of Twilight, by Robert Jordan

6. Wandering Stars, by Sholem Aleichem

7. Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino

8. Acts of Desperation, by Megan Nolan

9. Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, by Melanie Brooks 

10. The Chronology of Water, by Lidia Yuknavitch*

11. "I Remain in Darkness" by Annie Ernaux* 

12. The Extinction of Irena Reyn, by Jennifer Croft

13. Negotiating with the Dead, by Margaret Atwood 

14. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick

15. Tokyo Year Zero, by David Peace 

16. Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg****

17. Knife of Dreams, by Robert Jordan 

18. The Dry Heart, by Natalia Ginzburg

19. Tough Titties, by Laura Belgray 

20. Little Weirds, by Jenny Slate

21. Burning Lights, by Bella Chagall 

22. Love Like the Falling Petals, by Keisuke Uyama

23. Motherhood, by Sheila Heti *

24. Gentle Writing Advice, by Chuck Wendig 

25. The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

26. The Briefcase, by Hiromi Kawakami*

27. Fly Me to the Moon Vol.1, by Kenjiro Hata 

28. Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan, by Patrick Macias 

29. Haiku Harvest, translated by Peter Beilensen and Harry Behn*

30. Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck

31. Writing Haiku, by Bruce Ross *

32. Your Presence is Mandatory, by Sasha Vasilyuk

33. The Man Who Could Move Clouds, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras 

34.  Here After,  by  Amy Lin

35.  Body Work, by Melissa Febos

36. The Towers of Midnight, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 

37. The Wedding Party, by Jasmine Guillory 

38. Confessions of a Yakuza, by Junichi Saga 

39. The Nakano Thrift Shop, by Hiromi Kawakami 

40. Lublin, by Manya Wilkinson*

41. O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker 

42. You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity, by Brian Gresko 

43. Heating and Cooling, by Beth Ann Fennelly 

44. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 

45. My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante*

46. Monsieur Pain, by Roberto Bolano 

47. How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers, by Wislawa Szymborska

48. Jane Austen at Home, by Lucy Worsley* 

49. The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin*

50. Burning Lights, by Bella Chagall

51. Love Like the Falling Petals, by Keisuke Hata 



 

 

 

 

 

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