#anyway. hope to finish more novels in febuary!!

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january 2025 reads

i saw some people on my dash list out what they read in a month so i Stole That Idea and i am Copying Them because i love to Sort Things!!!

Fiction

Bunny —Mona Awad

“This is How You Fail to Ghost Him” —Victoria McCurdy

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” —Ursula K. Le Guin

“Taylor Swift” —Hugh Behm-Steinberg

“Sticks” —George Saunders

“Popular Mechanics” —Raymond Carver

“Puppy” —George Saunders

"Tally" —Noy Holland

“The Story of Art” —Katie Burgess

“Twister” —Michael Harper

started Severance by Ling Ma, read half of it in one sitting, skimmed the other half so i know all the spoilers but i want to actually read it and absorb it so. i will do that. uh eventually

Poetry

“No Backsies” —Chiara Di Lello

“The Aliens Watch the Mother Dream” —Kristina Erny

“The Marriage is Survived by Both a Husband and a Wife” —Danielle Garland

“I plant runner beans on the eighth floor” —Meghan Kemp-Gee

“Strangers at a Bar in Chicago” —Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

“Destiny is Destiny” —Ivy Raff

“A Quiet Passing [I]” and “A Quiet Passing [II]” —Konstantin N. Rega

“For All Mankind” —Shana Ross

“On (Still Not) Coming Out” —Kate Stoltzfus

“Lower New York” —George Cabot Lodge

“Acquainted with the Night” —Robert Frost

“In a Railroad Station” and “In a Subway Station” —Sara Teasdale

“Chicago,” “Halsted Street Car,” “Crayon,” “Clean Curtains,” “Speed Bug,” “Hats,” “People Who Must,” “The Eastland,” and “Skyscraper” —Carl Sandburg

“Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands” —Felix

Non-fiction

“TKWLI” —Caleigh Cassidy

“Waves” —S Graham

“Roadkill” —Lauren Saxon

“Last Summer Home” —Jennifer Steil

“Modernity—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” —Marshall Berman (from All That is Solid Melts Into Air)