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What I'm Reading
A curated monthly list


What I'm Reading: February 2026
Heart the Lover by Lily King Pathemata, or, the Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Katabasis by R.F. Kuang A Better World is Possible by Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff
Kathleen Yale
Feb 281 min read
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What I'm Reading: January 2026
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag The Entire Sky by Joe Wilkins Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Kathleen Yale
Feb 11 min read
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What I'm Reading: December 2025
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Clear by Carys Davies The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling Kickflip Boys by Neal Thompson
Kathleen Yale
Jan 11 min read
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What I'm Reading: November 2025
Raising Hare by Chole Dalton Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer Tom Lake by Ann Patchett The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Kathleen Yale
Dec 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: October 2025
Goethe's Oak: A Holocaust Story by John T. Price Ninety-nine Stories of God by Joy Williams Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless by Maria Pinto The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Kathleen Yale
Nov 3, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: September 2025
Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Kathleen Yale
Sep 30, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: August 2025
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson The White Book by Han King Thirty Below by Cassidy Randall Spent by Alison Bechdel
Kathleen Yale
Sep 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: July 2025
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Easy Beauty by Chole Cooper Jones
Kathleen Yale
Aug 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: June 2025
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriguez The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Accidental Czar by Andrew Weiss, illustrated by Box Brown Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray
Kathleen Yale
Jul 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: May 2025
The Way Around by Nick Triolo The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Kathleen Yale
Jun 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: April 2025
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Holler by Denali Sai Nalamalapu Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
Kathleen Yale
May 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: March 2025
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Autoportrait by Jesse Ball
Kathleen Yale
Mar 31, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: February 2025
The Other Side by Lacy Johnson all about love by bell hooks The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin One Wild Word Away by Geffrey Davis The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Kathleen Yale
Mar 1, 20251 min read
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What I'm Reading: January 2025
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
Kathleen Yale
Feb 1, 20251 min read
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