top 10 books of 2025
my favorite books of the year! 🍾 1. The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer (2019) 2. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (2024) 3. Paradise by Toni Morrison (1997) 4. On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle (books 1/2 trans. Barbara J. Haveland, book 3 trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russel) (2020-) 5. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, from Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters (2025) 6. The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf (1979) 7. Hotel World by Ali Smith (2001) 8. Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee) (1963) 9. The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (1896) 10. Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm (trans. Saskia Vogel) (2020) socials: insta: @sdelphis tiktok: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: https://bibliosophie.substack.com
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