“Every Book I Read in 2025” Animation
After pulling together some end of year lists for 2024, I got to thinking that there should be a more unique way to capture my year in reading in 2025. Thus, throughout the year I photographed every book I read, compiling an animated catalog that not only conveys a text-based list, but holds a trace of the actual books I held on walks or nestled in chairs, the audiobooks I tapped into on my phone and put in my ears, the library books I kept long overdue and the personal copies that returned to my shelves.
For those that would like a static list to peruse:
Parade — Rachel Cusk
Waste: A New Media Primer — Roberto Simanowski
Nuclear War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen
The Baudelaire Fractal — Lisa Robertson
The Obscene Bird of Night — José Donoso
The Weight of Things — Marianne Fritz
TOAF To After That — Renee Gladman
The Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene
Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems — Cornelius Eady
All The Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
Devotional Cinema — Nathaniel Dorsky
Season of the Swamp — Yuri Herrera
The Nick of Time — Rosmarie Waldrop
Hang Him When He Is Not There — Nicholas John Turner
The 42nd Parallel — John Dos Passos
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I — Kyle Stephan, Editor
Adversarial Design — Carl DiSalvo
Lanark — Alasdair Gray
Festival & Game of the Worlds — César Aira
Planet of Slums — Mike Davis
The Bushwhacked Piano — Thomas McGuane
Sex Goblin — Lauren Cook
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann
Indeed I Was Pleased With The World — Mary Ruefle
Us Fools — Nora Lange
Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter Strategies — Peter Wollen
Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice — Kyle Gann
Nobody’s Angel — Thomas McGuane
On Writing a Literary History of the Contemporary… — Margaret-Anne Hutton
Ten — Juan Emar
The Dark Room and Other Poems — Enrique Lihn
After Lorca — Jack Spicer
Tsing — David Albahari
Elevator in Sài Gòn — Thuân
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism — Anna Kornbluh
Carapace Dance — Natalia Toledo
The Time Machine Did It — John Swartzwelder
Elegy for Joseph Cornell — Maria Negroni
Participation — Claire Bishop, Editor
Yesterday — Juan Emar
Foreign Bodies: Poems — Kimiko Hahn
Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka — Bohumil Hrabal
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell — Charles Simic
Plastic Matter — Heather Davis
Geometric Regional Novel — Gert Jonke
Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture — Peter Wollen
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake — Breece D’J Pancake
Attila — Aliocha Coll
Culture of One — Alice Notley
The Ministry of Nostalgia — Owen Hatherley
The Shark-Infested Custard — Charles Willeford
I Appeared to the Madonna — Carmelo Bene
Boys Alive — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Lynn Hersman Leeson: Antibodies — Lynn Hersman Leeson
Lynn Hersman Leeson: Twisted — Lynn Hersman Leeson:
Salo — Gary Indiana
A Brief Alphabet of Torture — Vi Khi Nao
Red Epic — Joshua Clover
On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids — Josely Vianna Baptista
Belladonna — Daša Drndić
Changing Channels: Art and Television 1963-1987 — Tom Holert, Editor
Foreverism — Grafton Tanner
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers — Jake Skeets
Pleasure Beach — Helen Palmer
Islandia — Maria Negroni
Charles Atlas: About Time — Charles Atlas
Slumberland — Paul Beatty
Publics and Counterpublics — Michael Warner
The Week — Joanna Ruocco
Three Kinds of Motion: Kerouac, Pollock, and the Making of American Highways — Riley Hanick
Solitaire of Love — Cristina Peri Rossi
Times Square — Lou Stoumen
Groove, Bang, and Jive Around — Steve Cannon
Sound Museum — Poupeh Missaghi
Haunted Houses — Lynne Tillman
Irons In the Fire — John McPhee
Valie Export: Time and Countertime — Stella Rollig, Editor
Valie Export: Fragments of the Imagination — Roswitha Mueller
The End of Beauty — Jorie Graham
Women as Lovers — Elfriede Jelinek
Couples, Passerby — Botho Strauß
More Than Mere Light — Jason Koo
Conjugating Hindi — Ishmael Reed
Killing Stella — Marlen Haushofer
The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics after Television — Erica Levin
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum — Heinrich Böll
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity — Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Guide — William Eggleston
I Can Give You Anything But Love — Gary Indiana
The Wall — Marlen Haushofer
The Piano Teacher — Elfriede Jelinek
Motion Sickness — Lynne Tillman
Workshop of the Film Form — Marika Kuzmicz, Editor
The Atrocity Exhibition — J.G. Ballard
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard — J.G. Ballard
How t Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton — Lucille Clifton
The World Goes On — László Krasznahorkai
Unfit — Ariana Harwicz
Is This What You Were Born For? — Abigail Child
Creation Lake — Rachel Kushner
Horse Crazy — Gary Indiana
Spring and Autumn Annals — Diane di Prima
Lady Into Fox — David Garnett
The Theory and Practice of Rivers — Jim Harrison
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World — Mike Davis
Hunchback — Saou Ichikawa
Perfection — Vincenzo Latronico
Orlando — VIrginia Woolf
J R — William Gaddis
Replace Me — Amber Husain
About a Mountain — John D’Agata
Ride A Cockhorse — Raymond Kennedy
The Golden Book of Words — Bernadette Mayer
The Beggar Student — Osamu Dazai
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging — Jodi Dean
The Rest is Silence — Augusto Monterroso
History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism — Boris Groys
The Singularity — Dino Buzzati
Ultramarine — Mariette Navarro
Evil Flowers: Stories — Gunnhild Øyehaug
Birds in a Gale — Ata Nahai
An Apartment on Uranus — Paul B. Preciado
The Abolition of Work — Bob Black
Anti-Oedipus — Deleuze & Guattari
