2025 Top 5 Books I Read

(in no specific order)

1. Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love, Zefyr Lisowski

Non-fiction, memoir, media. Deeply compassionate, deeply poetic, refuses easy answers.

2. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White

YA historical horror with a trans and autistic protagonist. Gruesome at times. Confronts the larger systems we exist in, questions power and justice.

3. Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV, Emily Nussbaum

Non-fiction, history and cultural signifance/shaping of reality TV. Thoroughly researched, thoroughly interesting. Wish I could re-read for the first time.

4. How It Works Out, Myriam Lacroix

Fiction, speculative interrelated short stories. Absurd, delightful, uncanny. Excellent hyperspecificity to the worlds created.

5. As of Yet: Undecided, Yours Truly

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