2025 Reading List

  1. “Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change” (2023) by Ben Austen
  2. “The Fire Next Time” (1963) by James Baldwin
  3. “Wild Houses” (2024) by Colin Barrett
  4. “Good Rich People” (2022) by Eliza Jane Brazier
  5. “Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science” (2024) Benjamin Breen
  6. “More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” (2023) by Meredith Broussard
  7. “Between Two Fires” (2012) by Christopher Buehlman
  8. “Here in Avalon” (2024) by Tara Isabella Burton
  9. “Kindred” (1979) by Octavia Butler
  10. “The Tower” (2024) by Flora Carr
  11. “Rough Trade” (2024) by Katrina Carrasco
  12. “Playing With Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World” (2024) by Kelly Clancy
  13. “Ring Shout” (2020) by P. Djèlí Clark
  14. “Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness” (2022) by Laura Coates
  15. “Sunrise On the Reaping” (2025) by Suzanne Collins
  16. “The Lighthouse Witches” (2021) by C.J. Cooke
  17. “Saint Death’s Daughter” (2022) by C.S.E. Cooney
  18. “Hey, Zoey” (2024) by Sarah Crossan
  19. “The Adversary” (2023) by Michael Crummey
  20. “The Violence” (2022) by Delilah S. Dawson
  21. “Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company” (2024) by Alice Driver
  22. “You Dreamed of Empires” (2024) by Alvaro Enrigue
  23. “Woman of Light” (2022) by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
  24. “Daisy Darker” (2022) by Alice Feeney
  25. “Dirtbag, Massachusetts” (2022) by Isaac Fitzgerald
  26. “Sharp Objects” (2006) by Gillian Flynn
  27. “Treacle Walker” (2021) by Alan Garner
  28. “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials” (2023) by Marion Gibson
  29. “I Who Have Never Known Men” (1995) by Jacqueline Harpman
  30. “Just Like Mother” (2022) by Anne Heltzel
  31. “Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs” (2024) by Benjamin Herold
  32. “This Wretched Valley” (2024) by Jenny Kiefer
  33. “Under the Poppy” (2010) by Kathe Koja
  34. “The Devil’s Dictionary” (2021) by Steven Kotler
  35. “The Museum of Other People” (2023) by Adam Kuper
  36. “Shutter Island” (2003) by Dennis Lehane
  37. “The Road from Belhaven” (2024) by Margot Livesey
  38. “Blood of Hercules” (2024) by Jasmine Mas
  39. “Sisters of the Lost Nation” (2023) by Nick Medina
  40. “Blackfish City” (2018) by Sam J. Miller
  41. “Traces of Enayat” (2019) by Iman Mirsal
  42. “Woman of Interest” (2024) by Tracy O’Neill
  43. “Where the Crawdads Sing” (2018) by Delia Owens
  44. “The Rich People Have Gone Away” (2024) by Regina Porter
  45. “I Am Not Who You Think I Am” (2021) by Eric Rickstad
  46. “Graveyard Shift” (2024) by M.L. Rio
  47. “Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth” (2024) by Ingrid Robeyns
  48. “We Cast a Shadow” (2019) by Maurice Carlos Ruffins
  49. “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” (2025) by Victoria Schwab
  50. “Happy-Go-Lucky” (2022) by David Sedaris
  51. “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War” (2024) by James Shapiro
  52. “Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022” (2024) by Zachary Small
  53. “Cahokia Jazz” (2024) by Francis Spufford
  54. “Class War: A Literary History” (2024) by Mark Steven
  55. “Whiskey Tender” (2024) by Deborah Jackson Taffa
  56. “Fire Exit” (2024) by Morgan Talty
  57. “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom on 70’s New York” (2024) by Guy Trebay
  58. “Harvest Home” (1973) by Thomas Tryon
  59. “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” (2015) by Anna Tsing
  60. “The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (2017) by Michael W. Twitty
  61. “Little Eve” (2018) by Catriona Ward
  62. “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” (2024) by Michael Waters
  63. Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order” (2024) by Yuan Yang
  64. “Butter” (2017) by Asako Yuzuki
  65. “Clean” (2024) by Alia Trabucco Zerán
  66. “Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror” (2011) by Jason Zinoman

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