Book Lists 2025 Book • Page 2

Updated at the middle of the year. Been a year of mostly mid and misses. Bolded are my favorites.

 

What I’ve read so far this year:

1. The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism - Torkil Lauesen
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
3. Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance Since the Cold War - Edited by Grey Anderson
4. The Stalin Era - Anna Louise Strong
5. Vassal State: How America Runs Britain - Angus Hanton
6. The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton
7. The East Is Still Red - Carlos Martinez
8. China’s Revolution and the Quest for A Socialist Future - Ken Hammond
9. China and the World - Ken Hammond
10. Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life - Alexander V. Pantsov
11. Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom - Norman Finkelstein
12. Iran: Between Two Revolutions - Ervand Abrahamian
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Don't think I'm going to read 50+ again this year here's what I've read so far:

1. Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield
2. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3. Golden Son by Pierce Brown
4. Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
6. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
7. Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen
8. Buther’s Crossing by John Williams
9. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
10. Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski
11. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr
12. Morning Star by Pierce Brown
13. Brother Bronte by Fernando A. Flores
14. The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
15. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
16. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
17. Beartooth by Callan Wink
18. The Antidote by Karen Russell
19. Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir by Mark Hoppus
20. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
21. Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
22. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
23. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
24. Heartwood by Amity Gaige
25. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
26. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
27. Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place by Scott McClanahan
28. King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
29. Supersonic: The Complete, Authorized, and Uncut Interviews
30. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
31. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
32. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
33. Departure 37 by Scott Carson
34. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
35. Affliction by Russell Banks
36. So Far Gone by Jess Walter
37. Hot Wax by M.L. Rio
38. Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates

Currently reading:
The Keep by Jennifer Egan

Up next / books I have checked out from the library:
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The North Water by Ian McGuire
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer