2025 Book Superlatives
(Most of the) books I read this year:
Novels
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Yr Dead by sam sax
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
All Fours by Miranda July
Poetry
Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
Fox Woman Get Out! by India Lena Gonzalez
Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Kaan and her Sisters by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews
Pig by sam sax
Dead Dad Club by Julian Shendelman
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar
Contact Tracing by Lisa Cheby
The Present by Emily Kendal Frey
Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto
The Essential June Jordan
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, Edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi
Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
48kg by Batool Abu Akleen
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
Personal Memoir
The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza
Slayers, Every One of Us by Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home by Hala Alyan
Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide by Wasim Said
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience by Plestia Alaqad
Essays
Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
The Land is Holy by noam keim
Poppy State by Myriam Gurba
Political nonfiction (for lack of a better term)
Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Genocide Bad by Sim Kern
Perfect Victims by Mohammed El Kurd
Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis
Book Superlatives
And if you are a Goodreads person, here are the stats from my 2025 reading challenge:
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