Books Read 2025

A selection of 15 books from the list below, laid out on a hardwood floor.
This photo captures a small selection of the books I read in 2025, not including: books borrowed from the library, books lost in the chaos of our house, and other miscellanea.

POETRY BOOKS

  • A Sparrow’s Food by Gerry Shikatani
  • Bad Weather Mammals by Ashley-Elizabeth Best
  • Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl
  • Country Music by Zane Koss
  • Cluster by Souvankham Thammavongsa
  • Crush by Richard Siken
  • Fish Carcass by Vi Khi Nao
  • frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
  • Full Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
  • Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard
  • No Credit River by Zoe Whittall
  • Old Gods by Conor Kerr
  • Personals by Ian Williams
  • Psychosis in the Produce Department by Laurel Ann Bogen
  • Scientific Marvel by Chimemwe Undi
  • Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor
  • Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral
  • This Would Is a World by Billy Ray Belcourt
  • Troubled by R.M. Vaughan
  • Unwashed by Daniel Maluka
  • Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green

POETRY CHAPBOOKS

  • : condition report by rob mclennan
  • Abdication Speech by Artie Gold & George Bowering
  • A Blue Room by Conal Smiley
  • A Further Introduction to Bingo by Jason Heroux & Dag T. Straumsvag
  • Brief Joy in a Northern City by Brian Purdy
  • Canzoni d’Amore by Marc di Saverio
  • Citronella by Loch Baillie
  • Day Song by Sharon Thesen
  • Die Workbook by Neil Surkan
  • Each Mouthful Dripping by Ian Fitzgerald
  • Enter the Hyperreal by Mahaila Smith
  • failed (after)lives by Ryanne Kap
  • five from hem by Annick MacAskill
  • footnotes after Lorca by Carlos A. Pittella
  • Gnomics by Dale Tracy
  • I Can Make It All Up to You by Jacob Alvarado
  • If I Have Known Beauty: Elegies for Phyllis Webb by Lorraine Gabe
  • In the Third Person Reluctant by brandy ryan
  • In the Warm Shallows of What Remains by Andrea Scott
  • Kneeling in Our Name by Conyer Clayton
  • Microchimaera by Jeremy Luke Hill
  • Necropolisborough by Ayaz Pirani
  • Permutations by Paula Turcotte
  • Sky Every Day by Cameron Anstee
  • Spectral Arcs by ryan fitzpatrick
  • The Literary Cow Festival by M.A.C. Farrant
  • Through the Window by Joanne Epp
  • Ubi Sunt by Jacqueline Bell
  • Vertebrata by Monty Reid

NOVELS, NOVELLAS & SHORT FICTION

  • A Song for Wildcats by Caitlin Galway
  • Bad Land by Corinna Chong
  • Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
  • Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
  • House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
  • Inside by Alix Ohlin
  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • Strange Pictures by Uketsu
  • The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
  • The False Queen’s Archive by Terri Favro
  • The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight
  • The Queen by Nick Cutter
  • The Ruins by Scott Smith
  • The Suicides by Antonia di Benedetto
  • The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
  • Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (anthology, no editor named)
  • Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS, ART BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

  • Black Hole by Charles Burns
  • Black Maria by Chas Addams
  • Exit by Thomas Ott
  • Fangs by Sarah Andersen
  • Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
  • Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker & Sean Philips
  • In Bloom by Michael W. Conrad & John J. Pearson
  • My Dog’s Brain by Stephen Huneck
  • Spirit City by Aaron Leighton
  • The House that Jack Built, illustrated & arranged by Molly B. Thomson
  • The Yattering & Jack by Clive Barker, adapted by Steve Niles, illustrated by John Bolton
  • Winners by Anna Ehrlemark

NONFICTION & COOKBOOKS

  • A Truce that is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
  • Homestyle Vegan by Amber St. Peter
  • Molly by Blake Butler
  • Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont
  • Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
  • The Veggie Chinese Takeout Cookbook by Kwoklyn Wan
  • The Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings