As the sun sets on the old year, I’m back once again with the annual list of everything I read in 2025, a usual mix of fiction, non-fiction, graphic, and all the genres. My tbr pile continues to grow unabated, so hopefully I’ll get through a fair whack of them in 2026, but we’ll see. Without further ado, let’s get straight into it, and I’ll post my favourite reads of the year at the end.

• Marvels – Kurt Busiek
• Great Expectations – Kathy Acker
• The Outfit – Richard Stark
• On Writing And Failure – Stephen Marche
• My Loose Thread – Dennis Cooper
• The Essential Marilyn Monroe – Milton H. Greene
• Guide – William Eggleston
• Portraits – William Eggleston
• The Sons Of El Topo – Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Elric Of Melniboné And Other Stories – Michael Moorcock
• Stalking The Atomic City – Markiyan Kamysh
• Box 88 – Charles Cumming
• Remainders Of The Day – Shaun Bythell
• Kill Or Be Killed Omnibus – Ed Brubaker
• Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman
• Fassbinder: Thousands Of Mirrors – Ian Penman
• Xenos – Dan Abnett
• Knockemstiff – Donald Ray Pollock
• The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• The Guards – Ken Bruen
• Between The Salt And The Ash – Jack Morris-Campbell
• Tell Me I’m Worthless – Alison Rumfitt
• She’s Always Hungry – Eliza Clark
• The Devils – Joe Abercrombie
• Saga Volume 11 – Brian K. Vaughan
• Saga Volume 12 – Brian K. Vaughan
• New Millennium Boyz – Alex Kazemi
• Exterminate! Regenerate! – John Higgs
• Ulysses – James Joyce
• (Don’t) Call Mum – Matt Wesolowski
• Jesus Christ Kinski – Ben Myers
• Way Of The Blade AEW Edition – Phil Schneider
• To Die In California – Newton Thornburg
• Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black – Cookie Mueller
• Thunder Point – Jack Higgins
• All Systems Red – Martha Wells
• True Crime – Samantha Kolesnik
• The Táin – tr. Ciaran Carson
• Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
• The Hackman Blues – Ken Bruen
• Camp Damascus – Chuck Tingle
• Foster – Claire Keegan
• Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells
• The Cold Cold Ground – Adrian McKinty
• Reacher – Lee Child
• Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
• House Of Bone And Rain – Gabino Iglesias
• Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson
• Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay
• Feeding The Monster – Anna Bogutskaya
• Where Monsters Lie: Cull-De-Sac – Kyle Starks
• The Drifting Classroom: Omnibus One – Kazuo Umezz
• Spectators – Brian K. Vaughan
• Hyperion – Dan Simmons
• The Mourner – Richard Stark
• Gotham Central Omnibus – Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka
• The Chimes – Charles Dickens
• The Cricket On The Hearth – Charles Dickens
• Zona – Geoff Dyer

Before revealing my top reads of the year, I’d like to give an honourable mention to Ken Bruen, who I first read shortly after his unfortunate passing this year. After reading The Guards, he promptly became a go-to author, and I’ve snapped up anything I was able to find by him. I went to Dublin shortly after reading him for the first time and returned with a few of his titles in the suitcase after a successful visit to Chapters bookstore.

So, I’m sure by now you’re excited to learn my top reads of the year. In no order they are: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty, and Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Tune back in twelve months to see what excitement I get up to reading-wise in 2026.