Books on my TOREAD list for 2025

  1. 📘 Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry Epic Western of love, loss, and legacy. Heart-forward and unforgettable. (Reading before your birthday)

  2. 📕 Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman A war novel that wrestles with power, morality, and humanity on a massive scale. (Reading before your birthday)

  3. 📗 In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust A layered meditation on memory, identity, and the passing of time. (Reading from August to December)

  4. 📜 The Odyssey – Homer The foundational epic — about return, transformation, and endurance.

  5. 🌅 East of Eden – John Steinbeck A generational saga about good and evil, with one of the most moving themes on free will.

  6. 🌀 2666 – Roberto Bolaño A modern labyrinth of evil, literature, and violence in a postmodern noir package.

  7. 🧠 Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace Addiction, irony, and meaning in the age of overthinking — a maximalist brainbreaker.

  8. 🎭 The Copenhagen Trilogy – Tove Ditlevsen Memoir-trilogy of girlhood, ambition, and addiction — searingly honest and poetic.

  9. 🔥 The Hour of the Star or Agua Viva – Clarice Lispector Interior, mystical, radical. For when you want feeling without plot, and fire without explanation.