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20 Books I Loved in 2025 & Think You Should Read in 2026

I read 195 books in 2025. More books than ever, since I began tracking, and part of that increase is continuing to cut down on other types of entertainment. Some of it was being better at DNF’ing books (35!) that didn’t work for me.

Queer books and romances remain the strongest genres, especially in their crossovers. I challenged myself to read (or DNF) at least 90 books that I’d acquired by or earlier than December 31, 2024. I beat that goal at 140. But I did get 142 new-to-me books last year, and this year, I’m going to read 98, which is that 142 minus how many of those 2025 books I read last year.

I paired a lot of my physical or ebook reading with borrowing library audiobooks. It meant I could continue the journey while cooking, gardening, doing chores, and going on walks. (Though I am also a huge podcast listener.)

50 books (a little less than 25%) of the books I read I rated 5/5 stars. Continue reading “20 Books I Loved in 2025 & Think You Should Read in 2026”

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The Trans Rights Readathon Is Upon Us!

Book covers of the books I'm reading for the trans rights readathon

The Trans Rights Readathon launches this Friday! This decentralized readathon helps raise money for great trans causes while reading books by trans authors.

This year, I’ve pledged to read 8 books and aim to raise $4,000 for the Lavender Rights Project!

Please donate to help me reach this goal!

Thanks to generous donations, we’ve raised $695 so far.

You can boost this TikTok, Mastodon, BlueSky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and follow my reading updates on TikTok, Goodreads, and Storygraph.

I’ll be reading:

  • Bad Boy by Elliot Wake
  • Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
  • Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
  • Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
  • Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
  • Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
  • The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman
  • The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

By donating, you’ll help trans people in need connect legal services, economic justice needs, and housing. The Lavender Rights Project is a wonderful nonprofit created for and by trans people. They serve the Puget Sound Area and do some legal work nationally. One of their current major efforts (in collaboration with Chief Seattle Club and King County) is building a 35-unit building providing permanent supportive housing for QT2BIPOC in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

The Readathon provides a source of joy and celebration, which as a nonbinary trans masculine person, let’s have more joy, please! It’s a chance to uplift trans authors and provide material support to trans people. Let’s drown out the hate and keep on dancing.