Books I've Read: Q3 2025
In the order I turned the last page and closed the book, here’s a list of the books I finished reading in the third quarter of 2025:
Eldorado Drive, by Megan Abbott
Flood, by Andrew Vachss
True Grit, by Charles Portis
The Compound, by Aisling Rawle
Circular Motion, by Alex Foster
Deadly Animals, Marie Tierney
Rainbow Black, by Maggie Thrash
No Gods, No Monsters, by Cadwell Turnbull
Conclave, by Robert Harris
A Short Stay in Hell, by Steven L. Peck
The Bulgarian Training Manual, by Ruth Bonapace
Dark Neon & Dirt, by Thomas Trang
The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
River East, River West, by Aube Rey Lescure
Have You Eaten?, by Sarah Gailey
The Test, by Sylvain Neuvel
The Usual Desire to Kill, by Camilla Barnes
Rosewater, by Tade Thompson
Sky Daddy, by Kate Folk
The Deepest Fake, by Daniel Kalla
The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, by Walter Mosley
One Yellow Eye, by Leigh Radford
Good Material, by Dolly Alderton
Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver
Dwelling, by Emily Hunt Kivel
Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. LeGuin
This is the Year You Write Your Novel, by Walter Mosley
Elements of Fiction, by Walter Mosley
Out, by Natsuo Kirino
Monstres en Cavale, by Cloé Mehdi (French language edition)
Where I End, by Sophie White
Awakened, by Laura Elliott
We Like It Cherry, by Jacy Morris
The Paradox Hotel, by Rob Hart
House of Idyll, by Delilah S. Dawson
Coffin Moon, by Keith Rosson
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine
Crooks, by Lou Berney
The Shining, by Stephen King
It All Felt Impossible, by Tom McAllister
They Never Learn, by Layne Fargo
The Forest for the Trees, by Betsy Lerner
I bold the books that particularly stood out to me and lingered long after the last page, though I really enjoyed many of the titles I didn’t bold. Ask away if you want to talk through whether you should read one of these titles, bolded and unbolded. And if you’ve read one of these and want to discuss, I’m always game for that.
At the start of the year, I published a list of the best books I read in 2024. Via that list, you can find my lists of my favorite books each year for all the years I’ve published a list.
To check out what I read in 2025’s previous quarters, you’ll find the links to the lists below:
Happy reading!