What are you reading in 2025?

[overgeeked]

Depending on your genre, there’s a lot available online and digitally, but you’re unlikely to just stumble across it. (I can make suggestions for some genres.)

What do you recommend? Say a favorite one or two from a few common genres.

 

[overgeeked]

Hellooooo Dangerous Visions...

Last Dangerous Visions finally came out mid-to-late last year. JMS is doing a bang-up job as Harlan’s executor.

 

[Autumnal]

What do you recommend? Say a favorite one or two from a few common genres.

In science fiction and fantasy, look at themed collections by Ellen Datlow and John Joseph Adams. They are both reliably excellent; like the theme and you’re gonna like the collection. For best of the year volumes, look at the ones by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strachan. In horror, Datlow is again excellent. In mystery, look for volumes edited with the participation of Walter Mosley and/or James Ellroy. (Even if you don’t like his own writing - he’s very widely read and is enthusiastic about a lot of work very different from his.)

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Doing a quick sidestep from my planned reading with a re-read of Paul Austers New York trilogy. Still incredibly good!

 

[TiQuinn]

Hellooooo Dangerous Visions...

Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew…so good

Ohhh Anthologies! Nevermind! My mind just went straight to short story collections.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

It's been just over a year since I read Jemisin's The City We Became and The World We Make,

Man, I wanted to like these so much more than I did. "City" started so strong, premise really appealed to me, but I felt "World" just fizzled out. And I get why/how the real-world intruded on Jemisin'd writing; I definitely don't hold it against the author.

 

[prabe]

Hellooooo Dangerous Visions...

Honestly, I was thinking of a couple by David Hartwell, but yes. (That's because I haven't read Dangerous Visions.)

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished my re-read of A Hat Full of Sky. I know there are people who don't like the Tiffany Aching Discworld books, but those people are wrong. This sub-series is like a more serious take on the Witches books, with discussions about the moral imperative behind witches and care for communities and a bunch of other deep thoughts by Pratchett, leavened by hyper-violent Scot faeries.

The Tiffany Aching books, while ostensibly YA, are every bit as profound as the main Discworld series. So good!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Man, I wanted to like these so much more than I did. "City" started so strong, premise really appealed to me, but I felt "World" just fizzled out. And I get why/how the real-world intruded on Jemisin'd writing; I definitely don't hold it against the author.

I honestly felt the fizzling started towards the end of City. Amazing concept, but the exploration/execution of it wasn't really on Jemisin's normal high skill (it felt somehow bland), and it displayed a truly remarkable level of New York snobbery (which is, imho, akin to xenophobia, and should definitely be beneath her, I was a little shocked. I know New Yorkers can be insular and myopic because of it, but jesus).

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I honestly felt the fizzling started towards the end of City. Amazing concept, but the exploration/execution of it wasn't really on Jemisin's normal high skill (it felt somehow bland), and it displayed a truly remarkable level of New York snobbery (which is, imho, akin to xenophobia, and should definitely be beneath her, I was a little shocked. I know New Yorkers can be insular and myopic because of it, but jesus).

Agree about the New York snobbery. Now if it had been about Boston, I would have understood