Some of the books I've read were bad (poor writing, too many assumptions, too much "self-help", or just plain terrible). I've excluded them from here, to save you from the pain.
Those books were a waste of a read anyways. Here's a list of what I actually enjoyed reading.
2025
Books
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin
Multiple authors, Microcosm Publishing, Anarchists on Anarchism
Jean C. Oi, State and Peasant in Contemporary China, The Political Economy of Village Government
2024
Books
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
Roberto Bolaño, Cowboy Graves
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Stephen Crane, Compilation of Short Stories (various)
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Knut Hamson, Hunger
Barrington J. Bayley, The Fall of Chronopolis, The Last and First Days of the Chronotic Empire
Roberto Simanowski, The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
Ori and Rom Brafman, Sway, the Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Seth Godin, The Song of Significance, A New Manifesto for Teams
Various Authors (Compiled by Audrey Salkeld and Rosie Smith), One Step in the Clouds, The Sierra Club Omnibus of Mountaineering Fictions
C.L.R James, The Black Jacobins
Slavoj Zizek, Surplus Enjoyment
Poetry
Devorah Major, where river meets ocean
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco Poems
Edward Said, Songs of an Eastern Humanist, Collected Poems