In 2025 I read 68 books (that I logged), theoretically totaling 17,352 pages. However, I never read indexes and I don’t read end notes if they’re simply source citations, plus I pulled the page counts from the book listings on StoryGraph, so that’s almost certainly not accurate.
Categories are fuzzy and overlap (graphic books usually being fiction, some anthologies containing both fiction and poetry, etc.), but I can roughly group my 2025 reading as:
- 17 nonfiction books
- 38 fiction books
- 19 poetry books
- 7 graphic works
I could further break it down by LGBTQIA+ books, horror books, etc., but I won’t. (Except that I’ll probably make a post about the horror books on my horror blog.)
The books are listed below roughly in the order in which I read them.
- Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, by Pedro Iniguez
- My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, by Alfred Habegger
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino, trans. William Weaver
- Horror: A Literary History, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
- Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli
- You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón
- African Poetry, edited by Ulli Beier
- The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Eve L. Ewing
- The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, by Michael Waters
- The Old Ambassador and Other Poems, by Wayne Courtois
- Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, by Junji Ito, trans. Jocelyne Allen
- Supernatural Detectives 4, by Jessica Douglas Kerruish and Ella M Scrymsour
- Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit
- In the Black/In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss, edited by Gloria Vando and Anika Paris (NOTE: a poem of mine is in this book!)
- Pogo’s Body Politic, by Walt Kelly
- Women in Praise of the Sacred, edited by Jane Hirschfield
- Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, by Octavio Paz
- We Remember Ourselves, by Mary Silwance
- The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due
- Familiar, by Jeremy C. Shipp
- How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, by Maria Ressa
- Utopians in Love, by Bob Sykora
- The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Sad, by Adam Gnade
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones
- Raw, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
- A Different Beat: Writing by Women of the Beat Generation, edited by Richard Peabody
- Flowers of Mold, by Ha Seong-nan, trans. Janet Hong
- Be Gay, Do Comics, edited by Matt Bors, Matt Lubchansky, Sarah Mirk and Eleri Harris
- The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell
- The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
- Monstrilio, by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- The Deviant Vol. 1, by Joshua Hixson, James Tynion IV
- The Black Fantastic: Twenty Contemporary Afrofuturist Tales, edited by andré m. carrington
- The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall, edited by Stephanie Burt
- Writing and Lectures 1909-1945, by Gertrude Stein, edited by Patricia Meyerowitz
- Paprika, by Yasutaka Tsutsui, trans. Andrew Driver
- Antifa Splatterpunk, edited by Eric Raglin
- From the Belly, by Emmett Nahil
- William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World, by Philip Hoare
- Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo
- The City of Mist, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, trans. Lucia Graves and Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Siege of Burning Grass, by Premee Mohamed
- The Queer Art of Failure, by Jack Halberstam
- Moonflow, by Bitter Karella (NOTE: I published a flash fiction by this author in my now defunct horror zine, tiny frights!)
- The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington
- Imagination: A Manifesto, by Ruha Benjamin
- Tono Monogatari, by Shigeru Mizuki, trans. Zack Davisson
- Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, by Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo, ed. Robert Bly
- No Trouble at All, edited by Alexis DuBon and Eric Raglin
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds
- Strange Stones, by Edward Lee and Mary Sangiovanni
- The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw
- Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women, by Sadie Hartmann
- Mourning Jewelry, by Stephanie M. Wytovich
- It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel, by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink
- Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford
- Seven Legendary Monsters, by Clara Elena Garcia
- Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead
- Fifty-Four Prose Poems / Pebble 11, by various
- Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, edited by Kate Harrad
- Vivia, by Tanith Lee
- All Your Friends are Here, by M. Shaw
- Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain
- The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, by Sarah McCammon
- Capitalism: A Horror Story, by Jon Greenaway
- Tomie, by Junji Ito, trans. Naomi Kokubo
- Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, by CAConrad