Books Read in 2025

You can read my Mid-Year Book Review here!

Here’s a list of the books I read in 2025.

Secret Pizza Party, Adam Rubin
Grumpy Monkey, Suzanne Lang
Who Pooped on Me?, David Cunliffe
Rice from Heaven, Tina M. Cho
See You Later, Alligator, Sally Hopgood
How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow, Monica Sweeney
Dragons Love Tacos, Adam Rubin
Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, Adam Rubin
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, Florentyna Leow
The Proposal, Bae Myung-hoon (Stella Kim)
Misery, Stephen King
Your Utopia, Bora Chung (Anton Hur)
The House Before Falling into the Sea, Ann Suk Wang
The Haunted Mask: The Graphic Novel, Maddi Gonzalez
The Rainfall Market, You Yeong-Gwang (Slin Jung)
Peppa Goes to Seoul, Seung Hyeon Yu
The Name Jar, Yangsook Choi
Alley, Junji Ito
Red Sword, Bora Chung (Anton Hur)
Stinky Is My Kimchi!, M.K. Lee
The Dinosaur Who Discovered Hamburgers, Adisan Books
How to Catch a Dinosaur, Adam Wallace
Toward Eternity, Anton Hur
Forty-Nine Days, Sonam Tsomo Chashutsang
Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide, Mae Bunseng Taing (James Taing)
A Thousand Blues, Seon-ran Cheon (Chi-Young Kim)
Counterattacks at Thirty, Won-Pyung Sohn (Sean Lin Halbert)
Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories, Bora Chung (Anton Hur)
A Friend for Dragon, Dav Pilkey
The Enormous Crocodile, Roald Dahl
Get L-Ready with me: how to Femme & Butch, Azin Lim
The Employees, Olga Ravn
A Short Stay in Hell, Steven L. Peck
Alien Gods, Suhyeon Lee (Anton Hur)
Strange Pictures, Uketsu (Jim Rion)
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, Tomihiko Morimi (Emily Balistrieri)
Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq (Deepa Bhasthi)
One Hundred Shadows, Jungeun Hwang (Jung Yewon)
Wafers, Ha Seong-nan (Janet Hong)
The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim
Indeterminate Inflorescence, Lee Seong-bok (Anton Hur)
My Date with a Light Bulb, Vera Valentine

My Mid-Year Review was pretty much a year-end review as well, as I didn’t have much time to read in the latter part of the year thanks to job hunting.

My top book of the year was Bora Chung’s Your Utopia, which remains the book I recommend to everyone. My biggest disappointment was Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, even though there were some amazing stories in that collection.

In the new year, I’d like to continue reading Korean Literature, re-read Moby Dick, and start a new reading challenge similar to the one I had in 2024 of re-reading all of the original 62 Goosebumps books.

Does anyone have any book recommendations for me? Leave them in the comments!