*READ* BOOK READING INVENTORY 2025
I read 64 books this year (21 of which were released in the US in 2025). I did listen to 1 of those 64—Terry Real’s Fierce Intimacy—but that’s because it’s only available as an audio book. I don’t like play the audio book game due to my anal retentive lifelong project in which I pull quotes from every book I read, which doesn’t work so well aurally. I still don’t know if/what I plan to do with my commonplace book, which right now consists of long Google documents from A-Z. At worst, I plan to leave it behind for my children when I kick this realm’s bucket, but beyond that, it’s become such an ingrained personal routine that I can’t imagine a life in which I consume words any other way. There were lots of great reads this year, and while I would love to include some form of commentary—maybe I’ll get to that in a subsequent post—in the interest of actually posting this list, I’m going to keep it simple for now: book title, author, year of release, date finished, *if it’s a re-read.
MT’S READING INVENTORY 2025
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday, 1968 (1/5)
The Winner, Teddy Wayne, 2023 (1/12)
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami, 2023 (translation: Philip Gabriel, 2024) (1/21)
Model Home, Rivers Solomon, 2024 (1/25)
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff, 2023 (2/2)
Run Werewolf Run, Onur Tukel, *2025 Release* (2/6)
Orbital, Samantha Harvey, 2023 (2/6)
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken, 2008 (2/9)
Bowlaway, Elizabeth McCracken, 2019 (2/16)
Colored Television, Danzy Senna, 2024 (2/19)
Guide Me Home, Attica Locke, 2024 (2/23)
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Elizabeth McCracken, 2014 (2/28)
Mr. Texas, Lawrence Wright, 2023 (3/5)
The Messenger, Charles Wright, 1963 (3/9)
Brooklyn Motto, Alex R. Johnson, *2025 Release* (3/14)
Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler, 1993 (3/22)
The Wig, Charles Wright, 1966 (3/26)
Mŷ Documents, Kevin Nguyen, *2025 Release* (4/4)
The Human Scale, Lawrence Wright, *2025 Release* (4/13)
The Ones That Got Away: Stories, Stephen Graham Jones, 2010 (4/21)
Brother Brontë, Ferndando Flores, *2025 Release* (5/1)
Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About, Charles Wright, 1972 (5/6)
American Short Fiction: Volume 28, Issue 81, Spring ‘25, Fernando Flores (editor), *2025 Release* (5/9)
Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner, 2024 (5/22)
Himself, Jess Kidd, 2016 (5/27)
Sad Tiger, Neige Sinno (translation: Natasha Lehrer), *2025 US Release* (2023) (6/2)
The Antidote, Karen Russell, *2025 Release* (6/13)
We Do Not Part, Han Kang (translation: E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris) *2025 Release* (6/17)
Exit Zero: Stories, Marie-Helene Bertino, *2025 Release* (6/21)
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed, 2021 (6/27)
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, Miranda July, 2007 (6/30)
Fierce Intimacy: Standing Up To One Another With Love *AUDIO BOOK*, Terry Real, 2018 (7/7)
How to Dodge a Cannonball, Dennard Dayle, *2025 Release* (7/13)
How To Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy, 2020 (7/15)
Heaven, Mieko Kawakami (translation: Sam Bett and David Boyd), 2021 US Release (2009) (7/19)
Star Island, Carl Hiaasen, 2010 (7/25)
Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch, 2006 (7/27) *Re-Read*
The Overstory, Richard Powers, 2018 (8/13)
Hunchback, Saou Ichikawa (translation: Polly Barton), *2025 US Release (2023) (8/15)
Audition, Katie Kitamura, *2025 Release* (8/17)
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami, *2025 Release* (8/23)
Dwelling, Emily Hunt Kivel, *2025 Release* (8/28)
Sakina’s Kiss, Vivek Shangbag (translation: Srinath Perur), *2025 US Release* (2021/2023) (8/31)
Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story, Eric Davis with Ralph Wiley, 2000 (9/12)
Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan, 2004 (9/23)
King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby, *2025 Release* (9/29)
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015 (10/13)
The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead, 1999 (10/20)
Shopgirl, Steve Martin, 2000 (10/21)
Zulus, Percival Everette, 1999 (10/26)
Black Light: Stories, Kimberly King Parsons, 2019 (10/31)
The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan, Jimmy McDonough, 2001 (11/7)
Niketown, Vern, 2013 (11/11)
Worm on a Hook, Vern, 2020 (11/15)
Dominion, Addie E. Citchens, *2025 Release* (11/18)
The Search for Joseph Tully, William H. Hallahan, 1974 (11/22)
Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood, *2025 US Release* (2023) (11/25)
Angel Down, Daniel Kraus, *2025 Release* (11/28)
This Weightless World, Adam Soto, 2021 (12/1)
Fat City, Leonard Gardner, 1969 (12/6)
Seduction Theory, Emily Adrian, *2025 Release* (12/12)
From a Low and Quiet Sea, Donal Ryan, 2018 (12/16)
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West, Inspirations for Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY, Edited By Jake Perlin, 2023 (12/20)
Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone, 1974 (12/30)