reading list 2025

Old School by Tobias Wolff

White Noise by Don Delilo

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

Emergency by Kathleen Alcott

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness by Jai Chakrabarti

On Writing by Stephen King

Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian