2025 Reading Log
2025 books...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Sad Grownups by Amy Stuber
Green Frog by Gina Chung (read ~1/2–3/4, but counting it)
The Lazarus Man by Richard Price
The Nothing by Lauren Davis (blurbed)
Survival Tips by Miriam Gershow
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
2008: A Novel by Susan McCarty (blurbed)
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance by Diana Oropeza
Catapult by Emily Fridlund
2025 short stories…
“Sad Grownups” by Amy Stuber
“All That Apply” by Miriam Gershow
“Vicious Circle” by Thomas McGuane
“The Third Thing That Killed My Father,” “Popular Mechanics,” “Everything Stuck to Him,” “One More Thing” by Raymond Carver
“Gimme Shelter” by Emily Fridlund
“Bot” by Kevin Maloney
“In the Village of Elmsta” by Jensen Beach
“Thank You” & “Dinner Date” by Amelia Gray
“This History of Sound” by Ben Shattuck
“More Fun in the New World” by Amy Stuber
“The Game,” “Wizards of the Coast,” “Edward Abbey Walks Into a Bar,” “Corvids and Their Allies,” & “Dick Cheney Is Not My Father” by Amy Stuber
“Ghosts,” “Our Female Geniuses,” & “The Last Summer” by Amy Stuber
“Mantis” & “The Sound of Water” by Gina Chung
“Edwin Chase of Nantucket” by Ben Shattuck
“Carker” by Miriam Gershow
“The Silver Clip” by Ben Shattuck
“Graft” by Ben Shattuck
“Gling Gling Gling” by Bud Smith
“Violets” by Bud Smith
“The Story Hearer” by Grace Paley (O. Henry ‘84)
“Tundra Duck” by Ben Shattuck
“Congratulations, Baby” by Miriam Gershow
“Lock Jaw” by Emily Fridlund
“Survival Tips: Toddler Birthday Party” & “Big Home” by Miriam Gershow
“Harp” by Rita Bullwinkel
“The Wind” by Lauren Groff
“Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace
“The Remember” by Aimee Bender
“August in the Forest” by Ben Shattuck
“The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea” by Sheila Heti
“The Journal of Thomas Thurber” by Ben Shattuck
“Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain” by Danielle Evans
“Line of Communication,” “Don’t Leave Me,” “Pipelines Are Pipes,” & “ Book of Adornments” by Miriam Gershow
“The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier” by Anna Vangala Jones
“Radiolab: Singularities” by Ben Shattuck
“The Auk” by Ben Shattuck
“Phylum” by Rita Bullwinkel
“The Sequence” by Brian Evenson
“Banking” by Alex Higley
“My Friend Pinocchio” by David Rabe
“The Children of New Eden” by Ben Shattuck
“The Shared Patio” by Miranda July
“Introduction to The Dietzens: Search for Eternity In the North American Wilderness” & “Origin Stories” by Ben Shattuck
“The Swim Team” by Miranda July
“The Cabin” by Brian Evenson
“Kino” by Jensen Beach
“The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill
“Keening” & “Bingo” by Josh Denslow
“Time Difference” by Emily Fridlund
“Watcher of the Skies” by Sam Thielman
“Office Hours” by Ling Ma
“Lake Arcturus Lodge” by Emily Fridlund
“The Rider” by Brian Evenson
“Silence” by Josh Denslow
“Childish Literature” by Alejandro Zambra
“Old House” by Emily Fridlund
“Kueka Lake” by Joseph O’Neill
“The Juniper Tree” by Lorrie Moore
“Black Tongue” by Rita Bullwinkel
“Dance in America” by Lorrie Moore
“Jennifer Zambra” by Alejandro Zambra
“The Man on the Stairs” by Miranda July