2025 Book List
January
1. Hebrew Bible
2. Republic, Plato
3. Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms, Rosemary Tonks
4. No Room at the Morgue, Jean-Patrick Manchette
5. Technopoly, Neil Postman
6. The Macdermots of Ballycloran, Anthony Trollope
7. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Northrop Frye
8. The Green Helmet and Other Poems, WB Yeats
February
9. Selected Amazon Reviews, Kevin Killian
10. An Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Julia Annas
March
11. Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby
12. The Two Faces of January, Patricia Highsmith
13. King John, William Shakespeare
14. The Fire and the Sun, Iris Murdoch
15. A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
16. Superbloom, Nicholas Carr
17. Dissemination, Jacques Derrida
18. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Diane Seuss
April
19. Some Do Not…, Ford Maddox Ford
20. Maigret Hesitates, Georges Simenon 21. The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare
May
22. Versed, Rae Armantrout
23. The Coming of the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre
24. The House on Marshland, Louise Glück
25. The Schirmer Inheritance, Eric Ambler
26. History of the French Revolution, Jules Michelet
27. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
28. The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), WB Yeats
29. I and Thou, Martin Buber
30. Exhibit, RO Kwon
31. The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy
32. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson
June
33. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller Jr
34. A Cold Spring, Elizabeth Bishop
35. The Girl Who Was Plugged In, James Tiptree Jr
36. Judgment on Deltchev, Eric Ambler
37. Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire
38. A Short History of the French Revolution, Albert Soboul
39. Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment, Robert Pfaller
July
40. Postmodern Social Theory, George Ritzer
41. The Transparency of Evil, Jean Baudrillard
42. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, EL Konigsburg
43. Audition, Katie Kitamura
44. My Face for the World to See, Alfred Hayes
45. The Wild Iris, Louise Glück
46. Tristano, Nanni Balestrini
47. Language Machines, Leif Weatherby
48. Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, Ryan H. Walsh
49. A Burnt-Out Case, Graham Greene
August
50. The Tempest, William Shakespeare
51. Valentino, Natalia Ginzberg
52. Maigret at the Crossroads, Georges Simenon
53. Crush, Richard Siken
54. Cane, Jean Toomer
55. Prejudices: A Selection, HL Mencken
56. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
57. Maigret and the Wine Merchant, Georges Simenon
58. Sagittarius, Natalia Ginzburg
59. The Perfect Crime, Jean Baudrillard
60. The N–– of the Narcissus, Joseph Conrad
61. Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
62. A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells
September
63. The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
64. Shakespeare’s Last Plays, EMW Tillyard
65. A Kind of Anger, Eric Ambler
66. The Tennis Court Oath, John Ashbury
67. Death in the Clouds, Agatha Christie
68. Love’s Labor’s Lost, William Shakespeare
69. Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, Ian Hacking
70. Time Out of Joint, Philip K Dick
71. How to Do Things With Words, JL Austin
72. Firstborn, Louise Glück
October
73. Mythocracy, Yves Citton
74. Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop
75. Meditations in an Emergency, Frank O’Hara
76. In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B Hughes
77. A Damsel in Distress, PG Wodehouse
78. The AI Con, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
79. Malina, Ingeborg Bachmann
80. According to Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge
81. Toward a Philosophy of Photography, Vilém Flusser
82. Summer, Edith Wharton
83. The Duinio Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke
November
84. Lady Yesterday, Loren D Estleman
85. Into the Universe of Technical Images, Vilém Flusser
86. The Day of the Owl, Leonardo Sciascia
87. Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
88. Does Writing Have a Future, Vilém Flusser
89. Airless Spaces, Shulamith Firestone
90. Maigret and the Nahour Case, Georges Simenon
91. The YouTube Apparatus, Kevin Munger
92. The Rubber Band, Rex Stout
93. Seven Types of Ambiguity, William Empson
94. Something Fresh, PG Wodehouse
95. The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche
December
96. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
97. Cards on the Table, Agatha Christie
98. Nietzsche and Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze
99. My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
100. Murder Fantastical, Patricia Moyes
101. The Getaway, Jim Thompson
102. Leave It to Psmith, PG Wodehouse

















