books i read in 2025

Eternities still unsaid till you love me

by 麦香鸡呢

Un verano italiano

Rebecca Serle · 2022

Carta al Padre

Franz Kafka · 2013

Flying Gulls Never Land

by Hui Nan Que

Lost In The Cloud

Paskim · 2025

Vamos a morir todos

Emily Austin · 2023

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel

Grady Hendrix · 2020

“This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town. Bonus features:    • Reading group guide for book clubs    • Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant    • Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix    • And more!   Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in.    Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.

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巫哲 · 2020

Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)

Rainer Maria Rilke · 2014

The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)

Albert Camus · 2018

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros · 2019

The Temptation to Exist

E. M. Cioran · 1998

Annie John: A Novel

Jamaica Kincaid · 1997

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Shikke · 2025

藏风 [Hidden Wind]

木瓜黄

녹색전상 2

Jaxx

Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid · 2019

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>