What did you read in 2025?

It's that time again. 2025 still has a couple of days to go, but I'm ready to share my list to get things started. There's no rush if you prefer to wait until January to post your list. For reference, here's a ink to last year's thread: What did you read in 2024?

BTW, if the reading you want to highlight isn't strictly in the form of books that's perfectly fine. List anything that was important to your 'reading life'.

Books I read in 2025 - in the order I finished them (** indicates a re-read):

Odyssey, Homer (trans: Emily Wilson)
An Academic Question, Barbara Pym
Breakout, Richard Stark
The Pigeon Tunnel, John Le Carre (memoir)
Earthings, Sayaka Murata
Hill, Jean Giono
Storm of Steel, Ernst Jünger
The Unknown Masterpiece, Honore de Balzac (2 short works, NYRB)
A Murder of Quality, John Le Carre
**Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
**The Outfit, Richard Stark (accidental re-read!)
Travels with Epicurus: In Search of a Fulfilled Life, Daniel Klein (meh)
Turtle Diary, Russell Hoban
The Juniper Tree, Barbara Comyns
The Confidential Agent, Graham Greene
The Death of Woman Wang, Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese history)
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight, (trans: Bernard O'Donoghue)
Sleeping Beauty, Ross MacDonald
Solo Faces, James Salter
Skeletons in the Closet, Jean-Patrick Manchette
Oranges, John McPhee (a book about oranges)
The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
In the Wake of the Plague, Norman Cantor
The Man with the Getaway Face, Richard Stark
**The Dalkey Archive, Flann O'Brien
Epitaph for a Spy, Eric Ambler
**The Guide, R.K. Narayan
**The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America, Tim Flannery
1968: The Year that Rocked the World, Mark Kurlansky
Letters From Iceland, WH Auden & Louis MacNiece
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
Maigret Sets a Trap, by Georges Simenon
Find a Victim, Ross MacDonald
Double Indemnity, James M. Cain
Rome in Crisis, Plutarch (8 Roman 'Lives' in Penguin Classics)
The Rare Coin Score, Richard Stark
**Prater Violet, Christopher Isherwood
The Wide Wide Sea, Hampton Sides (Capt. Cook's last voyage)
City of Illusions, Ursula K. LeGuin
Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett, Georges Simenon
**A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolsky
**Classics Revisited, Kenneth Rexroth (short critical essays)
Maigret and the Pickpocket, Georges Simenon
The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
Short Stories, Anton Chekhov (trans: P&V, a collection of 30 stories)
Maigret and The Calame Report, Georges Simenon
One Man's West, David Lavender
The Clockmaker, Georges Simenon (non-Maigret novel)
**The Nutmeg of Consolation, Patrick O'Brien
The Big Knockover, Dashiell Hammett (short stories)
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
Sanshiro, Natsume Soseki
The Owl and the Nightingale, trans: Armitage (anon. medieval poem)
The Amateur Emigrant, Robert Louis Stevenson
Three Revenge Tragedies, (by Tourneur, Webster, Middleton)
Sun City, Tove Jansson
Six Records of a Floating Life, Shen Fu
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte
The Blue Hammer, Ross MacDonald
Four Travel Diaries & Selected Haiku, Basho (Trans: Hamill)
The Sweet Dove Died, Barabara Pym
Mani, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Maurice LeBlanc (short stories)
The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Patrick Manchette

Odds and Sods:

I read about half the sections in: A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

Notable Fails/Rejections:

What Maisie Knew, Henry James
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
D-Day, Anthony Beevor

Comments: I found myself less attracted to lengthy or difficult books and for the second year in a row I read at least a dozen crime/thriller genre novels. I'm reading less often for the information I can derive or for the pleasure of an author's command of their craft and more for simple entertainment and the pleasure of an assured narrative voice.

It's hard to pick out a favorite from the list, but in scanning the titles I find myself drawn to two: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight because the O'Donoghue translation opened up the poem for me as others in the past had not, and to Prater Violet for its compact perfection in the telling.

Dangerous Visions, Various

The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Great Arc, John Keay
You Dreamed of Empires, Alvaro Enrigue
The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei
Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann
Fire and Ice, Mary Renault
** A Fire upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
The Many Coloured Land, Julian May
Gifts, Ursula Le Guin
Voices, Ursula Le Guin
Powers, Ursula Le Guin
** The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin
Death on Gokumon Island, Seishi Yokomizo
Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
The Golden Torc, Julian May
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allen Poe
** A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula Le Guin
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
Time of the Child, Niall Williams
Proud Man, Katharine Burdekin
Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
Definitely Maybe, The Strugatsky Brothers
** The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Wilding, Ian McDonald
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
The Steam Driven Boy, John Sladek
When The Cranes Fly South, Lisa Ridzén
Leviathan Wakes, James A Corey
Mortal Engines, Stanislaw Lem
On the Calculation of Volume vol. 1, Solvej Balle
The Trees, Percival Everett
On the Calculation of Volume vol. II, Solvej Balle
Fragments from My Diary, Maxim Gorky
** Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear
A Perfect Golden Circle, Benjamin Myers
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Diego Garcia, Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams
Confidence, Henry James
The Last Novel, David Markson
The Wild Girls, Ursula Le Guin
Summer, Edith Wharton
Ascension, Nicholas Binge
The Descent of Man, Edith Wharton
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah, Benjamin Zephaniah
The Abyss: two novellas, Kate Wilhelm
House of Day, House of Night, Olga Tokarczuk
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

The usual raggle-taggle mix, ** = re-read. The only DNFs I can recall are The Doomed City by the Strugatsky brothers and The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

Perelman, The Trouble with Genius
Gallagher, Kaboom
Stein, Edie
McKenzie, Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction
Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Panchenko, The Inevitable
Mermin, Why Quark Rhymes with Pork
Wang and Ji, The Living Record Of Scientific History
Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
Breckenridge, You Are Here
Vaughan, The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico
Harman and Kulkarni, Reliable Reasoning
Strongman, Metal Box
Kempe, The Best of All Possible Worlds
Jesurun, A Media Trilogy
Breckenridge, This Young Girl Passing
Minami, 1972
White, The Contemporaries
Lehrer-Graiwer, Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece
Witt, The Thinking Machine
Dewey, Beyond Maximus
Golding, The Inheritors
Grimstrup, The Ant Mill
Bekenstein, Of Gravity, Black Holes, and Information
McLeish, Soft Matter: A Very Short Introduction
Delany, Heavenly Breakfast
Toumi, Madah-Sartre
Sturgeon, More Than Human
Marlowe, How to Stop Time
Khorsandi and Webre, Endo Laboratories
Watson, Factory Made
Bacigalupo, Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
Collini, Common Writing
Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read
Glazer, Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction
Lehman, Signs of the Times
Wohl, As It Turns Out
Adlam, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Tapley, Blue Bell Knoll
Hoban, Fremder
Baltz, Texts
Garland, Ingram Marshall
Lippincott, Large Scale
Berrigan, The Sonnets
Rafelski, Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks
Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Denison, Asmara
Enslin, Ranger (Volume I)
Stillwell, Reverse Mathematics
Nevala-Lee, Collisions
White, Fission, Fusion and Spies
Marletto, The Science of Can and Can't
Gauss, Inventories and Transformations
Trefethen, Index Cards
van Laer, Cat

That's a lotta Maigret Aimless!

I will come back to this thread on Thursday.

Y'all read A LOT, huh? I am 1 book away from 2 a month, although there have been a few i've got 100ish pages into and given up that don't make my list. Keeping a list has been fun to encourage myself to read more and recently I got rid of my TV, which I think is helping too.

Adam Phillips, On Giving Up
Meiko Kawakami, Heaven
Joan Didion, The White Album
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Henry James, Washington Square
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
Nina Bawden, Walking Naked
Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
Amy Liptrot, The Outrun
Leif Randt, Allegro Pastel
Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection
Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings
Miranda July, All Fours
Anon, Drop the Rock
Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
Anais Nin, Delta of Venus
Otto English, Fake History
Stewart Home, Fascist Yoga
John M Barry, The Great Influenza
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

The only DNFs I can recall are The Doomed City by the Strugatsky brothers

Aw, I loved this book and it made me read a bunch of other Strugatskys last year and this, all of which were fun but none of which are as good.

Anyway, I probably read the fewest books this year since I've been keeping track, but one a month is my personal minimum to feel ok as a person (I still don't know where some of you find the time). Mostly pretty light reading incl. genre stuff and music books, a couple proper novels.

Jaki Leibezeit - The Life, Theory and Practice of a Master Drummer (ed. Jono Podmoore)
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky - Hard to Be a God
Stanislaw Lem - Fiasco
Zach Williams - Beautiful Days
Stanislaw Lem - The Investigation
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky - Monday Starts On Saturday
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky - The Tale of the Troika
Ben Lerner - The Topeka School
Ashley Kahn - The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Kate Folk - Sky Daddy
Greg Egan - Axiomatic
Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
Billy Hart & Ethan Iverson - Oceans of Time

In progress:
Bruce Swanwick - Tales from Old Earth
Lydia Davis - Collected Stories
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (never actually read AC, inspired by Wake Up Dead Man of course)

stephen kotkin - stalin vol 1
stephen kotkin - magnetic mountain
sheila fitzpatrick - on stalin’s team
sam tanenhaus - whittaker chambers
rick perlstein - nixonland
gordon kerr - a short history of the vietnam war
odd arne westad - the cold war a global history
kevin peraino - a force so swift
philip roth - the ghostwriter

roger ebert - a kiss is still a kiss
roger ebert - 2 weeks in the midday sun
louis ck - ingram
irwin winkler - a life in movies
james franco - palo alto
wally lamb - i know this much is true
benjamin taylor - here we are: my friendship w philip roth
dave eggars - heroes of the frontier
john updike - widows of eastwick
richard powers - bewilderment
tony tulathimutte - rejection
joyce carol oates - missing mom
joyce carol oates - hazards of time travel
joyce carol oates - man without a shadow
joyce carol oates - book of american martyrs
rich cohen - murder in the dollhouse
ted conover - cheap land colorado

best were rejection and the wally lamb

mentioned upthread, the topeka school was a DNF, as was the newest patricia lockwood book

That's a lotta Maigret Aimless!

Just four, spread across a full year. I read the same number of Parker novels by Richard Stark, but the Maigret titles jump out. The Maigret are all bunched together because they are short mass market paperbacks that are well adapted to my summer camping and backpacking trips.

Sergio Pitol - Taming the Divine Heron
Ray Padgett - Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members
Herman Melville - Billy Budd
Philip Freeman - Miles Runs the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Dennis McNally - A Long Strange Trip
Roberto Bolaño - Amulet
Rob Young - Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

james kaplan - 3 shades of blue
hermann hesse - rosshalde
mishima - the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
mishima - life for sale
adele smith simmons - modern mauritius
richard b. allen - slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial mauritius
dickens - little dorrit
richard yates - the easter parade
richard yates - revolutionary road
keith houston - shady characters
shirley jackson - the haunting of hill house
sam selvon - the lonely londoners
joyce carol oates - american appetites

i managed to hold myself to a book a month as i have for the previous few years, which i'm happy about, but i can also feel i'm ready to bulk up my reading list in the coming year. i think it would be nice to get through closer to 20 books in the coming year

Stanislaw Lem - The Investigation

how was this? i have a mm paperback i found in a little free library in my room at the moment, have been meaning to get to it

Not one of my favorite Lems, I like it better in concept. I don't regret reading it as part of my Lem deep dive though.

up a bit in numbers, but some were graphic novels and the polidori was only a few dozen pages

2025.01 A Moment of War - Laurie Lee
2025.02 The Phoenician Virgins (trans Buckley) - Euripides
2025.03 Hippolytus (trans Buckley) - Euripides
2025.04 The Bacchae (trans Buckley) - Euripides
2025.05 The Heraclidae (trans Buckley) - Euripides
2025.06 (RE) Rubicon Beach - Steve Erickson
2025.07 Amnesiascope - Steve Erickson
2025.08 (RE) Days Between Stations - Steve Erickson
2025.09 Arc D’X - Steve Erickson
2025.10 (RE) Tours of the Black Clock - Steve Erickson
2025.11 Z01 L’Assomoir - Emile Zola
2025.12 Z02 Nana - Emile Zola
2025.13 B04 Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
2025.14 (RE) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1 - Moore / O’Neill
2025.15 (RE) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2 - Moore / O’Neill
2025.16 (RE) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3 - Moore / O’Neill
2025.17 McB20 Doll - Ed McBain
2025.18 McB21 80 Million Eyes - Ed McBain
2025.19 McB22 Fuzz - Ed McBain
2025.20 McB23 Shotgun - Ed McBain
2025.21 McB25 Hail Hail The Gang's All Here - Ed McBain
2025.22 McB32 Long Time No See - Ed McBain
2025.23 K04: Death On Gokumon Island - Seishi Yokomizo
2025.24 (RE) Against A Dark Background (1993) - Iain M Banks
2025.25 (RE) Ronin - Frank Miller
2025.26 Odyssey (trans Rieu / Rieu / Jones) - Homer
2025.27 The Voyage Home - Pat Barker
2025.28 (RE) The Penelopiad - Margaret Attwood
2025.29 B05 The Small House At Allington - Anthony Trollope
2025.30 The Mabinogion (trans Gantz) - Traditional
2025.31 The Tain (trans Carson) - Traditional
2025.32 The Prose Edda (trans Byock) - Snorri Sturlsen
2025.33 The Vampyre - John Polidori
2025.34 Carmilla - J Sheridan Le Fanu
2025.35 The Wine-Dark Sea - Robert Aickman
2025.36 (RE) Penguin Book Of Ghost Stories - Various
2025.37 Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
2025.38 The Five - Halley Rubenhold
2025.39 The Bell - Iris Murdoch
2025.40 B06 Last Chronicle Of Barset - Anthony Trollope

(forgive the numbers, this is straight out of my spreadsheet)

Penguin Ghost Stories was about 33% rereads

favourites? zola, mcbain probably. it did feel like a lot of this year was just reading the next book or two in the various reading projects i have.

(one actual real book - Ronin)

(oh, some of the mcbains were paper also - there's a clutch in the middle that aren't available as ebooks in the uk)

alvaro enrigue - you dreamed of empires
tony tulathimutte - rejection
tony tulathimutte - private citizens
philip k. dick - ubik
philip k. dick - the three stigmata of palmer eldritch
lev grossman - the bright sword
denis johnson - train dreams
denis johnson - jesus' son
hampton sides - the wide wide sea
jackie ess - darryl
patrick radden keefe - say nothing
nick hunt - red smoking mirror
antonia hodgson - the raven scholar
percival everett - james
philip pullman - the rose field

currently working through china mieville's october, but won't finish before 2026

* rereading
+ audio book

Allingham, Police at the Funeral *
Arendt, The Human Condition * +
Ashe, Moths
Barton, The Bible: The Basics (2nd ed.)
Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism
Becquer, Romantic Legends of Spain
Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps
Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
Blackburn, The Gaunt Woman
Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Bonett, Not in the Script
Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642
Brennan, When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Brown, The Mind Thing
Brown, What Mad Universe
Carr, The Burning Court *
Carter, The Sadeian Woman
Case, Wolf Tracks
Chettle, The Tragedy of Hoffman
Christie, At Bertram’s Hotel
Collins (ed.), More Ghosts and Marvels
Corman, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
Cowan, A Social History of American Technology
Crawford, Uncanny Tales *
Crispin, Holy Disorders
Crispin, Love Lies Bleeding
Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly
Crofts, Mystery in the Channel
Crofts, Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
Curti, Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980
Dallach, Neu Klang
Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
Davis, Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America
Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America
Doyle, The Valley of Fear *
Dumas, The Thousand and One Ghosts
Dunsany, Lovecraft’s Favorite Tales
Edwards, The Life of Crime
Fogazarro, The Woman (Malombra)
Ford, Joseph Conrad
Franklin, Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard
Freeman, The D’Arblay Mystery
Freeman, The Eye of Osiris
Gardner, The D.A. Calls It Murder
Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
Hitchens, Sleep with Scandal
Hitchens, Sleep with Strangers
Hudson, The Purple Land
Innes, Death at the President’s Lodging
Innes, Hamlet, Revenge!
Innes, Lament for a Maker
Innes, Stop Press
Innes, The Man from the Sea
Jacques, Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
Jaspers, Philosophy of Existence
Kerruish, The Undying Monster
Kinsley (ed.), The Oxford Book of Ballads
Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
Leggett, A First Zen Reader
Leggett, Zen and the Ways *
Lewis, Murder Among Friends
Lewis, The Birthday Murder
Lovecraft, Selected Fiction *
Luther-Smith, Blood & Black Lace
Marsh, Artists in Crime *
Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman *
Marsh, Death at the Bar *
Marsh, Death in a White Tie *
Marsh, Death of a Fool *
Marsh, Final Curtain *
Marsh, Overture to Death *
Marsh, Scales of Justice *
Marsh, Singing in the Shrouds *
Marston, Antonio’s Revenge
Mason, The House of the Arrow
Masters, High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Meinhold, The Amber Witch
Michelet, Satanism and Witchcraft
Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy
Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found, A History in Seven Cities

Narmore, More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts
Norton (ed.), Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764–1840
Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
Queen, The Siamese Twins Mystery
Ray, Circles of Dread
Riddell, The Uninhabited House
Rigby, Euro Gothic
Rohmer, Brood of the Witch-Queen
Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Rulfo, Pedro Paramo
Schelly, James Warren: Empire of Monsters
Server, Danger is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulps, 1896-1953
Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)
Stanfield, Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions
Stanfield, Pin-Ups 1972
Stoker, Dracula *
Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind *+
Tohill & Tombs, Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies, 1956-1984
Wallace, The Clue of the New Pin
Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Wallace, The Man Who Knew
Wallace, The Melody of Death
Wallace, The Secret House
Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Webster, The White Devil
Wood, On the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream Denis Diderot
Amerika: The Missing Person Franz Kafka
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits Friedrich Nietzsche
Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Blue of Noon Georges Bataille
What Is Philosophy? Gilles Deleuze + y Félix Guattari
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Giorgio Agamben
Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson
Ulysses James Joyce
Morning and Evening Jon Fosse
Trilogy Jon Fosse
Min kamp 6 (Min kamp, #6) Karl Ove Knausgaard
Hunger Knut Hamsun
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist Liz Pelly
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Being and Time Martin Heidegger
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction Michel Foucault
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A Country Doctor's Notebook Mikhail Bulgakov
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Norbert Wiener
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Peter Handke
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1) Robert A. Caro
Molloy Samuel Beckett
Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard
Vineland Thomas Pynchon
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
The Orthodox Church Timothy Ware
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence Will Hodgkinson
Carpenter's Gothic William Gaddis

somehow this turned out to be a year of reading mostly edgar wallace crime/detective/thriller fiction...

ac doyle - the strand illustrated sherlock holmes
ew hornung - the collected raffles
various - sexton blake wins
'sapper' - bulldog drummond
edgar wallace - the four just men
edgar wallace - eve's island
edgar wallace - the clue of the twisted candle
edgar wallace - the man who knew
edgar wallace - the face in the night
edgar wallace - the secret house
edgar wallace - the square emerald
edgar wallace - the green archer
edgar wallace - the frightened lady
edgar wallace - the three just men
f tennyson jesse - a pin to see the peepshow
syvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggot
rebecca west - the return of the soldier
elizabeth bowen - the house in paris
gladys mitchell - when last i died
gladys mitchell - fault in the structure
margery allingham - black plumes
nicholas blake - head of a traveller
nicholas blake - the private wound
graham greene - the tenth man
michael innes - the paper thunderbolt
michael innes - a night of errors
michael innes - the open house
cyril hare - an english murder
cyril hare - that yew tree's shade
cyril hare - tenant for death
edgar wallace - the lonely house mystery
pg wodehouse - love among the chickens
pg wodehouse - meet mr mulliner
pg wodehouse - the clicking of cuthbert
pg wodehouse - the heart of a goof
pg wodehouse - the man with two left feet
agatha christie - parker pyne investigates
agatha christie - death on the nile
agatha christie - evil under the sun
agatha christie - the hollow
agatha christie - the man in the brown suit
edgar wallace - the man who bought london
edgar wallace - flat 2
edgar wallace - the avenger
edgar wallace - red aces
edgar wallace - the double
edgar wallace - the joker
edgar wallace - again the three
various - women sleuths
various - police procedurals
raymond chandler - farewell, my lovely
raymond chandler - the high window
raymond chandler - the lady in the lake
raymond chandler - the long goodbye
geoffrey household - rogue male
guy boothby - dr nikola, master criminal
various - the rivals of sherlock holmes vol. 2
edgar wallace - the reporter
edgar wallace - on the spot
earl derr biggers - the house without a key
earl derr biggers - the chinese parrot
earl derr biggers - behind that curtain
earl derr biggers - the black camel
earl derr biggers - keeper of the keys
josephine tey - the man in the queue
josephine tey - to love and be wise
josephine tey - the daughter of time
ivy compton burnett - a family and a fortune
henry james - in the cage & other stories
herman melville - great short works of
dh lawrence - studies in classic american literature
leslie fiedler - love and death in the american novel
leslie fiedler - waiting for the end
edgar wallace - the squeaker
edgar wallace - again the ringer
edgar wallace - the mixer
edgar wallace - the terrible people
edgar wallace - the terror
various - fifty famous detectives of fiction
agatha christie - the seven dials mystery
agatha christie - the sittaford mystery
agatha christie - taken at the flood
agatha christie - mrs mcginty's dead
agatha christie - hickory dickory dock
agatha christie - after the funeral
agatha christie - cat among the pigeons
gertrude stein - blood on the dining-room floor
gertrude stein - everybody's autobiography
edgar wallace - the flying squad
barry gifford - no daylight in that face
various - best detective stories
various - english detective stories
various - great british detectives
mr james - collected ghost stories
j sheridan le fanu - madam crowl's ghost & other stories

Freeman Wills Croft - The 12:30 from Croydon -- one of the first inverted mysteries (like Columbo)
S.S. Van Dine - The Canary Murder Case -- terrible
John Carr - The Ten Teacups, The Black Spectacles, Till Death Do Us Part
Akimitsu Takagi - The Noh Mask Murder (1949)
Tetsuya Ayukawa -The Black Swan Mystery (1959)
Yukito Ayatsuji - The Decagon House Murders, The Mill House Murders, The Labyrinth House Murders (1987-1988)
Keigo Higashino - Malice
Uketsu - Strange Pictures, Strange Houses
Amal El-Mohtar - This is how you lose the time war
Stuart Turton - The Last Murder at the End of the World
Peter Lamont - The Secret History of Magic
David Baron - The Martians
Stefan Fatsis - Unabridged

That's it for 2025.

Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere - Jan Morris
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces - Seth Harp
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Roberto Bolano
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence - Zeinab Badawi
Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man - Denis Johnson
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Trafalgar - Angalica Gorodischer
The Burnt Orange Heresy - Charles Willeford
Firework - Eugene Marten
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - David Graeber
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land - Thomas Asbridge
The Employees - Olga Ravn
Outerbridge Reach - Robert Stone
Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte
Warren Oates: A Wild Life - Susan Compo
A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place - Harry Crews
All Gates Open: The Biography of Can - Rob Young
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith - John F. Szwed
Uncanny and Improbable Events - Amitav Ghosh
James - Percival Everett
Orbital - Samantha Harvey

My 2025 reading:

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!
Jane Austen - Lady Susan
Shirley Hazzard - The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
Ramón del Valle-Inclán - Tyrant Banderas
Colm Tóibín - On James Baldwin
B.H. Fairchild - Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
Edmund Wilson - Apologies to the Iroquois
Robert Hilburn - Johnny Cash: A Life
Hajo Holborn - The Political Collapse of Europe
Ira Katznelson - Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Carrie Courogen -Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Victor Ray - On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
H.W. Brands - America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
*A.R. Ammons - Garbage
Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
Michael Finkel - The Art Thief
Jeffrey Toobin - The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy
James Klise - I'll Take Everything You Have
Friedrich Reck - Diary of a Man in Despair
Edmund White - The Humble Lovers
Robert Stone - Children of Light
David Levithan - Ryan and Avery
Katherine Bucknell - Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito
Jean-Patrick Manchette - Fatale
The Uncollected Mavis Gallant
Isaac Deutscher - The Prophet Unbound
François Furet - The Passing of an Illusion : The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Bill Konigsberg - Openly Straight
Harlan Lebo - Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey
Bill Konigsberg - Honestly Ben
James Baldwin - Go Tell It On the Mountain
Bill Konigsberg - The Music of What Happens
Timothy B. Snyder - On Tyranny
Louis Simpson - Riverside Drive
Katie Kitamura - Intimacies
Simon James Green - Boy Like Me
Douglas A. Martin - Outline of My Lover: A Novel
Adam Plunkett - Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry
Bill Konigsberg - Destination Unknown
Christopher Isherwood - The World and the Evening
John Broderick - The Pilgrimage
Marilynne Robinson - Reading Genesis
Patrick McGilligan - Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham
W. David Marx - Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Nick White - How to Survive a Summer
Michelle Adams - The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Tove Jansson- Sun City
Judith Butler - Who's Afraid of Gender?
David Piestrusza - Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
Paul Hazard - The European Mind, 1680-1715: The Critical Years
John Le Carré - The Little Drummer Girl
Jonathan D. Spence - Mao
Elizabeth Taylor - Palladia
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa - The Last Tsar
* Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon - Vineland
Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People
Chuck Klosterman - The Nineties
Graham Greene - The Human Factor
Samantha Harvey - Orbital
James Ivory - Solid Ivory
Peter Ames Carlin - Sonic Boom
Catherine Grace Katz - Daughters of Yalta
Steacy Easton - White Limozeen
Robert Pearce - Attlee's Labour Governments: 1945-1951
Karen Powell - Fifteen Wild Decembers
Michael Cunningham - Day
* Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower
Barbara Comyns - The Vet's Daughter
Craig Unger - Den of Secrets
David Sheff - Yoko: A Biography
Ian Leslie - John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
John Banville - The Drowned
John Banville - The Lock-Up
Susan E. Gunter - Alice in Jamesland
Dana Gioia - Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life
Graeme Thomson - Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush
David Roll - Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged From Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World
Mark Polizzotti - Why Surrealism Matters
Jeff Weiss - Waiting For Britney Spears
Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
Christopher Isherwood - Prater Violet
Darryl Pinckney - Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy
Percival Everett - Watershed
Sheila Fitzpatrick - On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
* Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaiden's Tale
Percival Everett - Wounded
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaiden's Tale
Brandon Taylor - The Late Americans
Alex Jeffery - Donna Summer: Once Upon a Time (33 1/3)
Alan Helms - Young Man from the Provinces
Viet Thanh Nguyen - To Save and To Destroy: Writing As an Other
Terry Golway - Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
Brandon Taylor - Real Life
William Trevor - Fools of Fortune
Joe Westmoreland - Tramps Like Us
Sam Tanenhaus - Buckley; The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Jane Gardam - Old Filth
David A. Shafer - The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism
Yōko Ogawa - The Diving Pool
Clay Risen - Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
Ivy Compton-Burnett - Pastors and Masters
Ivy Compton-Burnett - More Women Than Men
Jonathan Mahler - The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
Louis Bayard - The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
* Thomas Mann - Confessions of Felix Krull
Gary Indiana - Rent Boy
Georges Simenon - Maigret's Failure
Ben Burgis - Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Wrong
John Gregory Dunne - Vegas
* Toni Morrison - The Song of Solomon
William Hoagland - The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
Stanley Elkin - The Making of Ashenden
Ben Shattuck - The History of Sound
John M. Barry - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic
Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater
Adam Jentleson - Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Nella Larsen - Quicksand
Nicholas Boggs - Baldwin: A Love Story
Garth Greenwell - Small Rain
Matalia Ginzberg - Voices in the Evening
Rebecca West - Radio Treason
* Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Raymond Williams - Border Country
Adam Kirsch - Benjamin Disraeli
Vincenzo Latronico - Perfection
James Baldwin - Blues for Mister Charlie
Joseph Roth - Flight Without End
David Newsome - The Victorian World Picture: Perceptions and Introspections in an Age of Change
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Kenneth Martin - Aubade
Paul R. Ziegler - Palmerston
Edward Said - The World, the Text, and the Critic
Raymond Durgnat - A Mirror for England: British Movies From Austerity to Affluence
Barbara Pym - The Sweet Dove Died
* D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Robert Glück - Jack the Modernist
Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight
Elizabeth Strout - Olive, Again
Stanley Elkin - Mrs. Ted Bliss
Peter Ames Carlin - The Name of This Band is R.E.M.
* Edward Said - Reflections on Exile
Kenneth Martin - Aubade
T.S. Eliot - After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Mask
Edward Said - The Question of Palestine
Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North
Ian Wade - 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
Emeric Pressburger - The Glass Speaks
Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
* John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash
Kenneth W. Warren - Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism
Michael Kimmage - The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-communism
H.W. Brands - The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
William Dean Howells - Annie Kilburn
Sybille Bedford - A Favourite of the Gods
Mavis Gallant - A Fairly Good Time
Susan Fast - Michael Jackson's Dangerous
Susan Cheever - When Men Wore Hats
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
Jill Lepore - We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Edith Wharton - Twilight Sleep

> Emeric Pressburger - The Glass Speaks

the glass pearls?

A-Z list. as many of you know, quite a few of these were YA books due to study/genre investigation, but many were also just regular old books. i didn't include failures, but there were a few.

* Abdi Nazemian- The Chandler Legacies 
* Adam Silvera- History is All You Left Me
* Adam Silvera- More Happy Than Not
* Adam Silvera- They Both Die at the End
* Adib Khorram- Darius the Great is Not Okay
* Alan Hollinghurst- Our Evenings
* Alfred Starr Hamilton- 10 Poems
* Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff- Illuminae (Book 1)
* André Aciman- Call Me By Your Name
* Anne Portugal- Quisite Moment
* Barbara Payton- I Am Not Ashamed
* Bart Yates- Leave Myself Behind
* Becky Albertalli- Simon vs. the Homo-Sapiens Agenda
* Ben Fergusson- An Honest Man
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz- Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
* Beverly Dahlen- A Reading (1-7)
* Beverly Dahlen- A Reading (8-10)
* Bill Konigsberg- Destination Unknown
* Bill Konigsberg- Honestly Ben
* Bill Konigsberg- Openly Straight
* Bill Konigsberg- The Music of What Happens
* Brian Malloy- The Year of Ice
* Camille Roy- The Rosy Medallions
* Caroline B. Cooney- The Face on the Milk Carton
* Celia Pérez- The First Rule of Punk
* David Levithan- Answers in the Pages
* David Levithan- Boy Meets Boy
* David Levithan- Two Boys Kissing
* Denton Welch- In Youth is Pleasure
* Dodie Bellamy and Bob Harrison- Broken English
* Douglas A. Martin- Outline of My Lover
* Édouard Louis- History of Violence
* Édouard Louis- The End of Eddy
* Emmanual Hocquard- Conditions of Light (trans. Jean-Jacques Poucel)
* Etel Adnan- Time
* Eva Baltasar- Boulder (trans. Julia Sanches)
* Faye Kicknosway- She Wears Him Fancy in Her Night Braid
* Fritz Peters- Finistère
* Henri Bosco- The Child and the River (trans. Joyce Zonana)
* James Hanley- Boy
* Jean-Claude Lebenszteyn- Pissing Figures: 1280- 2014
* Jean Daive- A Woman With Several Lives (trans. Norma Cole)
* Jean Genet- The Criminal Child
* Jenkin Benson- Are we rocking with this?
* Jennifer Soong- My Earliest Person
* John Donovan- I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip.
* John Wieners- Asylum Poems
* Jonny Garza Villa- Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
* Joseph Bruchac- Peace Maker
* Joseph Torchia- The Kryptonite Kid
* K. Ancrum- Icarus
* Katherine Duckworth- Slow Violence
* Keith Hale- Cody
* Ken Bluford- Skip Tracing
* Kenneth Martin- Aubade
* Kenneth Oppel- Inkling
* Kevin Davies- Market Discipline
* Kit Robinson- Counter Meditation
* Lee Williams- After Nirvana
* Liz Waldner- Play
* Lois Lowry- The Giver
* Mark Francis Johnson- 51 Fauns
* Martin Wells- What They Always Tell Us
* Matthew Stadler- Allan Stein
* Michael Cart- Young Adult Literature
* Michael Leali- The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
* Miri Karraker & Caroline Rayner- Dawn Noon Dusk Midnight
* Nancy Garden- Annie on My Mind
* Nick Burd- The Vast Fields of Ordinary
* Nick White- How to Survive a Summer
* Nicola Yoon- Everything, Everything
* Nora Fulton- Cuckoo’s Low Reel
* Norma Cole- Alibi Lullaby
* Norma Cole- My Bird Book
* Osamu Dazai- No One Knows
* Patrick Ness- Different for Boys
* Patrick Ness- More Than This
* Patrick Ness- Release
* Paul Baker- Outrageous!
* Philippe Besson- Lie With Me
* Phil Stamper- Afterglow
* Phil Stamper- Golden Boys
* Pierre Clémenti- A Few Personal Messages
* Pier Vittorio Tondelli- Separate Rooms
* Rafi Mittlefeldt- It Looks Like This
* Remigiusz Ryziński- Foucault in Warsaw
* Robert Cormier- The Chocolate War
* Robert Glück- Elements*
* Robert Glück- Jack the Modernist*
* Robert Musil- The Confusions of Young Törless
* Rob Halpern- Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World
* S.E. Hinton- The Outsiders*
* Sanford Friedman- Totempole
* Seàn Hewitt- All Down Darkness Wide
* Sebastian Castillo- Fresh, Green Life
* Serena Solin- The Stay Behind
* Shaun David Hutchinson- Brave Face: A Memoir
* Shaun David Hutchinson- The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
* Shaun David Hutchinson- We Are the Ants
* Simon James Green- Boy Like Me
* Steve Orth- Inflatable Ball
* Tanya Boteju- Bruised
* Tomasz Jedrowski- Swimming in the Dark
* Tom Crewe- The New Life
* Torrey Peters- Stag Dance
* Uzodinma Iweala- Speak No Evil
* William S. Burroughs- Cobble Stone Gardens
* Zan de Parry- Cop an Emulator

That's 109 books, altogether. A few were re-reads!

You all are an inspiration to me. Who says reading is dead.

> Emeric Pressburger - The Glass Speaks

the glass pearls?

― koogs

Yes, thanks!

how did you like deutscher, afred?

can't be arsed to try & list everything but a few of the best ones were -
 
"come along with me" - shirley jackson

"sing to it" - amy hempel

"creation lake" - rachel kushner

"the first person" - ali smith

"the psychopath test" - jon ronson

"you can't win" - jack black (read that before, prob'ly read it again too)

"narrow rooms" - james purdy

"the tennis handsome" - barry hannah

"the history man" - malcolm bradbury

"evening in paradise" - lucia berlin

"harlem shuffle" - colson whitehead

"the queen's caprice" - jean echenoz

"ray" - barry hannah 

"paying for it" - chester brown

"your fault" - andrew cowan

"after leaving mr mackenzie" - jean rhys

others i forget so maybe they weren't that great i dunno

worst - i read 2 books by lionel shriver, i disliked them more & more the further i progressed (but still finished them)

The Penguin Book Of Korean Short Stories
The Atrocity Archive, Charles Stross
O Caçador de Elefantes Invisíveis, Mia Couto *
Sodomita, Alexandre Vidal Porto
The Adventures of Amina al-Siraf, Shannon Chakraborty
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark *
A Sultry Month, Alethea Hayter *
O Barão, Branquinho da Fonseca
Novos Contos Do Gin, Mário Henrique Leiria
A Woman Like Me, Diane Abbott
La Double Vie d'Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
The Great When, Alan Moore
Our Man In Havana, Graham Greene **
The Ballad Of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark **
Canções de Protesto, Jorge Mangorinhas, Abel Soares de Rosa
Acts Of Desperation, Megan Nolan
Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception In Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema, ed: Kyle Barrowman
The Trouble With Lichen, John Wyndham *
Beast In The Shadows, Edogawa Rampo
Vou Mudar A Cozinha, Ondjaki *
The Penguin Book Of French Short Stories, Vol.1-2
Anthills Of The Savannah, Chinua Achebe **
Dr.No, Percival Everett
Entrevistas, José Mário Branco
Pompei, Robert Harris
The Bachelor Of Arts, R.K. Narayan
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zola Neale Hurston **
Failed Summer Vacation, Heuijung Hur
The List/The Drop, Mick Herron
O Talismã, Mário Zambujal **
The Secret Public, Jon Savage
Roteiro Afectivo das Palavras Perdidas, António Mega Ferreira
O Aluno de Joyce, Drago Jancar
The Dark Room, R.K. Narayan
Everything Is Tubercolosis, John Green
Ed Wood: Made In Hollywood, Will Sloan *
Eerie Tales From Old Korea
Territory Of Light, Yuko Tsushima **
Night Of The Hunter, David Grubb
The Glass Pearls, Emeric Pressburger *
The Big Gold Dream, Chester Himes
Death At The Dolphin, Ngaio Marsh
Os Periquitos Somos Nós, Alex Couto
The Siege Of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell *
Yoruba Girl Dancing, Simi Bedford **
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Silver Book, Olivia Laing

* really loved this

** reread

This year I seem to be reading a lot more slowly. I’ve managed to get through triple figures of books for the last few years so not sure what the difference is. Possibly a change in status with the library meaning I didn’t have the same pressure with deadlines to deal with. Also going down with Vertigo for stretches. I have managed to read about half as much,I think, 50+ still not to sneeze at.

Barbara Tuchman Bible and sword : how the British came to Palestine
Sara Blaffer Hrdy Mother Nature
David Toop Two Headed Doctor
Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki, Ben Edmonds MC5 An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band
Kate Thompson The Fourth Horseman
Maya Wind Towers of Ivory and Steel
Victor Klemperer Language Of The Third Reich
Jack Goody The Culture of Flowers
S. Yazhir Khirbet Khizeh
Harry Freedman Leonard Cohen : the mystical roots of genius
Christoph Dallach Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
Haim Bresheeth-Zabner An Army Like No Other
Philip Gourevitch, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda
Vassily Grossman Black Book of Russian Jewry
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo
Margarete Buber-Neumann, Under two dictators : a prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
Colin Chapman Whose Holy City?
Edward Cross The Tailor and Ansty
Ilan Pappe Israel and South Africa: the many faces of apartheid
Dylan Jones Loaded : the life (and afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
Abeer Baker Threat : Palestinian political prisoners in Israel
Rachel Shabi Not The Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab lands
James Bridle New Dark Age
Paolo Hewitt The Soul Stylists
Douglas McIntyre The Hungry Beat
Augusto Boal Hamlet and The Baker’s Son
Gideon Lowy Killing of Gaza : reports on a catastrophe
Barbara O’Connor Katherine Dunham : pioneer of black dance
Irving Zeitlin Jews : The Making of a Diaspora People
David Stannard American holocaust : the conquest of the New World
Konstantin Stanislavski Building A Character
David Rodigan Rodigan :My Life in Reggae
Will Sergeant Echoes
Mahmud Darwish Absent Presence
Noura Erakat Justice For Some
Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Wolfgang Seidel Krautrock Eruption: An Alternative History of German Underground in the ’60s and ’70s
Rachel Shabi Off-White : The Truth About Antisemitism
Howard Gardner The unschooled mind : how children think and how schools should teach
John Crechy City of Night
Vinay Trivedi How To Speak Tech
Norman Finkelstein The Holocaust Industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering
Peter Beinart Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Hanan Ashrawi This Side of Peace : a personal account
J.Sakai Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
Pat Williams King Kong : Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa’s legendary musical
Budgie The absence : memoirs of a Banshee drummer
Richard Wright American Hunger
Stephen Graham Cities Under Siege
Patrick Bateson Design for a life : how behaviour develops
Stephen Jay Gould The Book Of Life
Ian Thompson Synths, Sax and Situationists : The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
Audrey Golden Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats

still reading
John Rose Intellectual Lives Of The British Working Classes (330 pp in)
Vijay Prashad The darker nations : a people's history of the third world (140 pp in)
Camilla Townshend Fifth sun : a new history of the Aztecs