What are You Reading in February?
Can you believe we’re already a month into 2025? Somehow, it’s true. Which means that if you’re keeping on track to complete the 2025 Read Harder Challenge, you should have two tasks done by now. Are you ahead or behind that pace so far? There’s still plenty of time to catch up!
I want to hear all the updates: which tasks have you completed so far? How was your January reading—did you start the year off strong? What did you read? And what’s on your February TBR?
I’ll go first. Here’s what I’ve been reading in January and what’s on my TBR for next month.
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So far in 2025, I finished the last couple volumes of the Delicious in Dungeon manga series and was finally able to start the anime…and then fell off of it in the first episode. Oh well, I had a great time reading the manga!
The first novel I read was, appropriately, One’s Company by Ashley Hutson, which definitely fits with task #4: Read a book about obsession. It’s about a woman who wins the lottery and uses that money to try to build a replica of the set of the entire show Three’s Company to live within it, alternating between living as each character. It’s a strange, sad, thought-provoking read.
Then I picked up a couple of queer graphic novels I really enjoyed: Soft by Jane Mai, which is a retelling of Carmilla, and I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner, which is a Jane Austen mashup with trans and queer characters.
I also read a beautifully written and harrowing memoir, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch. I highlighted so many passages. I have to read her first memoir, The Chronology of Water, now.
Next up was The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories edited by André M. Carrington, which had such an interesting variety of speculative fiction stories, some of which I will not be able to get out of my mind, including N. K. Jemisin’s “The Ones Who Stay and Fight,” which is a response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. This also checks off task #1: Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author.
Right now, I’m listening to the audiobook of The Knowing by Tanya Talaga, which is about the history of Canada as told through the story of her family, especially the ongoing effects of residential schools on generations of Indigenous people.
In print, I’m reading The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, a sci-fi story about traveling between alternate universes that was a Book Riot favourite when it first came out, and somehow I’m only getting around to it now. I’m loving it so far, and I’m itching to finish it.
That’s it for me! What did you read in January, and what’s on your February TBR? Let’s chat in the comments!
Check out all the previous 2025 Read Harder posts here.
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