What I’m Reading: 2025

  1. Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, by Michael J. Benton, illustrated by Bob Nicholls. See the companion website Dinosaur feathers and colour for an accessible synopsis of the science behind recent advances in dinosaur paleontology.
  2. ★ New Adventures in Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan. This post is partly inspired by Strahan’s own Consumed in 2025 list.
  3. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.
  4. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #4, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.
  5. The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks.
  6. The Profitable Artist, published by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
  7. Playing with Pop-ups, by Helen Hiebert. Packed with inspiration for papercraft mail art!
  8. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist, by Jane Rosenberg.
  9. ★ The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams.
  10. The Mercy of Gods, by James S. A. Corey
  11. ★ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers
  12. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon, by Julie Phillips
  13. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #49, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
  14. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers
  15. Never Say You Can’t Survive, by Charlie Jane Anders
  16. Where the Axe is Buried, by Ray Nayler
  17. Twelve Trees, by Daniel Lewis
  18. Blacks on John Brown, edited by Benjamin Quarles
  19. ★ Alpha 6, edited by Robert Silverberg
  20. The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
  21. The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth

Comics

I read a variety of comics on Hoopla via the library. Listed here are some series I’ve completed or kept up to date with:

Posted on Sunday, January 12th, 2025. Tags: .

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