What I’m Reading: 2025

Bold titles are still in progress. If I was really book blogging, I’d write more about the starred titles. (See here for my list from 2024.)

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.
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.
22. Osama, by Lavie Tidhar.
23. Nebula Award Showcase 60, edited by Stephen Kotowych.
24. ★ The Jerry Rescue, by Angela Murphy.
25. ★ Liberation Day, by George Saunders.
26. Las batallas en el desierto, de José Emilio Pacheco.
27. Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds.
28. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #2, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.
29. There is No Antimemetics Division (v1), by Sam Hughes.
30. None So Blind, by Joe Haldeman.
31. The Devil in a Forest, by Gene Wolfe.
32. The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi.
33. Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak.
34. Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
35. How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.
36. The Adventures of Alyx, by Joanna Russ.
37. Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art, by Vincent Di Fate.
38. ★ Nadar, by Nigel Gosling.
39. The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders.
40. ★ Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #50, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.
41. ★ The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, by Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett)
42. ★ Kraken, by China Miéville

Comics

I read comics on Hoopla via the library. Here are graphic novels I’ve read and series I’ve kept up with so far this year. This set is somewhat subjective as I sample many series.

• Paper Girls: The Complete Story (Image Comics), written by Brian K. Vaughan with art by Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, and Jared K. Fletcher.
• Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics), written by Jim Zub with art by Rob De La Torre, Doug Braithwaite, and Danica Brine.
• The Savage Sword of Conan (Titan Comics), by various writers and artists.
• The Witcher (Dark Horse Comics), by various writers and artists.
• ★ The Eternaut (Hora Cero 1957—1959/Fantagraphics 2015), by Héctor Germán Oesterheld with art by Francisco Solano López, translated by Erica Mena and Martin Hadis
• ★ Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the US, by Caitlin Cass.
• Blue Book (Dark Horse Comics), written by James Tynion IV with art by Michael Avon Oeming.
• The Hunger and the Dusk, written by G. Willow Wilson with art by Chris Wildgoose.

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