Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Reading List 2025

Reading List 2025

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Fiction Books

She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means by John Scalzi
The Dispatcher: Travel By Bullet by John Scalzi
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break by Cassandra Khaw, Critical Role
Magma by Thora Hjorleifsdottir - Translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich
Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang
Lifers by Jeff Somers
The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder by Kiri Callaghan
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Yellowface by RF Kuang
Katabasis by RF Kuang
The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi 
Catseye by Andre Norton
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Babel: or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang
Wayward Gods by Devon Monk
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

Short Fiction

 A G*ddamned Christmas Miracle: A Novela  by Sparkle Hayter
Galatea: A Short Story by Medline Miller
The Employees: a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken)
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi
The Martian: Lost Sols by Andy Weir
Against All Odds by RF Kuang
A Naturalist on Hoth  Hank Green
Making Space by RF Kuang

Gaming

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Fischer, Margulies, & Mosenfelder
Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide by Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Monster Manual by Wizards of the Coast
Daggerheart: Core Rulebook by Critical Role
One Shot Dungeon 
Palace Gardens: Steeped In Legacy: A Tea-Inspired Adventure For 5th Edition by The Gilded Teafling
The Second Slice by Kathleen De Vere & Sam Schultz
Sirens: Battle of the Bards 
Welcome to Night Vale RPG 
Beadle & Grimm's Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies, Vol. 1 

Poetry/Collections/Papers/Essays/Scripts/Children's Books/Cookbooks/Misc

London Assurance by Dion Boucicault, revised by Richard Bean
Hay Fever by Noel Coward
Special Counsel Report by Jack Smith
Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural by Keisuke Nishimoto (Adapter), William Scott Wilson (Translator)
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, introduced by Donna Haraway

Non-Fiction/Biography/History/Science

The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story by John Keel
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain by Charles Cross
Mars by Seti Institute
Pearl Jam's Vs. by Clint Brownlee

Graphic Novels/TPB

Sekirei: Volume 1 by Sakurako Gokurakuin
Der Katzenprinz & Other Zemnian Tales by Liam O'Brien & Charlie (Newt) Borovsky
Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons: The Rise of Hellfire by Jody Houser, Eric Campbell & Diego Galindo
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Biquis Evely, & Matheus Lopes

Re-reads

Thieves' World: Book 1 Edited by Robert Lynn Aspirin & Lynn Abbey