Fiction Reading List (January - December 2025)
It's a new year .... so time for the my reading-list recap for 2025. The majority of this cycle's books were Del Rey SF/F novels from the 1980s. (The special surprise was Clifford D. Simak's Mastodonia , which is by far my favorite by him.) I read a few other period-relevant texts, such as Tad Williams's first novel, but yeah, given my deep immersion in researching Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey, that was my wheelhouse last year. Otherwise, my non-project related reading was relatively sparse. I read one long nonfiction book, A Civil Action , for my Law & Literature class that was cancelled. I read a few books for the ENGL 380: Literary Analysis class that replaced it. And I finally did Percival Everett's novel Erasure, and although some might find this sacrilegious, it's still true: the movie was better. FINAL STATS : Altogether, I read 9175 pages (or 31 books) this semester. So, that's about the same as my total from last year . As per usual, except for...