Best books I’ve read 2025

Maybe my gayest year of reading.

Review: Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough

Myth-making for a fiction of a nation.

Review: Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Become undisciplined.

Review: After The Siren by Darcy Green

A romantasy to aspire to.

Review: Woo Woo by Ella Baxter

What’s worse for an artist than a looming exhibition opening?

Review: Querelle Of Roberval by Kevin Lambert (translated by Donald Winkler)

A call to arms.

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

Review: Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate (translated by Kalau Almony)

The agony of adolescence.

Review: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes)

Millennial ennui.

Review: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

A game of truth and fiction.