Every book I read in 2025 and what I thought of it
Frankenstein (Mary Shelly) - I enjoyed it
Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) - I enjoyed it
Dracula (Bram Stoker) - I enjoyed it but the ending was too long
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote) - uniquely enjoyable
Moby Dick (Herman Melville) - I fell in love with the narrator
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) - favourite book of all time
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John le Carré) - I would have enjoyed it more had I not read the count of monte cristo before it (still good though)
A Nasty Business/A Meek One/White Nights (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - the first was very funny, the second was rather strange, and the third was a masterpiece. This little collection got me hooked on Dostoyevsky and looking forward to reading more
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) - her talent for writing horrible people is unparalleled. It’s truly devastating that she only wrote one book
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) - it was very good, but I can’t call it one of my favourite Shakespeare plays
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - disappointing is all I can say for Crime and Punishment. I’d have to read it again to form a proper opinion, but this makes two Russian authors who have disappointed me with the conclusions to the stories of their characters called Sonya (the other is Tolstoy)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) - almost my favourite book of all time (3rd place)
Les Misérable (Victor Hugo) - favourite book of all time
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) - I found it quite unique
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare) - you gotta love homosexuality
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare) - my favourite of his plays, though the ending is fucking dogshit lol (I still love it though)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Eiko Kadono) - a very charming little book
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) - I would consider this a strong contender for the best book of all time, but while it is one of my favourites, I would not put it in my top five
Heidi (Johanna Spyri) - another very charming children’s book, and one I found very funny (the cats)
Ulysses (James Joyce) - Another one I need to read again (though I did enjoy it), as I didn’t really understand most of it, but you’ve gotta love femdom and female vulgarity in your 1922 modernist classic
Metamorphoses (Ovid) - my favourite epic poem and strangely one of my favourite authors. I’m going to read Heroides soon
Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë) - enjoyable on its own, but I think having read her second novel before and being able to see how she evolved as an author really elevated my reading experience
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) - a fucking banger. My god, the French don’t miss
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata) - an interesting read certainly, but the ending was absolutely one of those ‘I don’t know how to end this so here you go’ endings. Good nonetheless
The Epic of Gilgamesh (?) - crazy how the oldest surviving piece of human literature is about legacy and death. Also crazy how good it is (Gilgamesh x Enkidu for life)
The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers) - the damn thing forced me to like it so it could sucker punch all the happiness out of me. Read if you want to be sad
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) - reading this while half asleep really adds to it. I enjoyed it
The Odyssey (Homer) - again I was forced to like a book by the book itself, but this time I was given a happy ending instead, kind of. I still don’t like Odysseus
Books I started but did not finish for various reasons
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Nutcracker (E.T.A Hoffmann)
I just burnt myself out, that’s why I didn’t finish them
Book I’ve read this year I think everyone should read
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
And any Shakespeare play you might even remotely be interested in
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