Friends, find below the 2025 BRIC Booklist — 35 suggested books sourced by the great minds at BRIC Arts Media for you to give, receive, or enjoy over the holidays. Even better, these titles are available at some of our favorite local bookstores: BEM | books & more, The Center for Fiction, Greenlight Bookstore, McNally Jackson Books, and The North Star Books & Bar. Because we love supporting local businesses as much as we do promoting culture and ideas.
We hope you’ll also remember to donate to BRIC this season. People across New York City and far beyond count on BRIC for exceptional classes, content, and culture. We hope we can count on you — to help us amplify arts, media, and education in 2026. Happy reading, and happy giving!
The 2025 BRIC Booklist
- The Adversary, by Michael Crummey
- All Fours: A Novel, by Miranda July
- Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu (translated by Carmen Maria Machado)
- Colored Television, by Danzy Senna
- Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner
- The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018, by A. S. Hamrah
- First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, by Bee Wilson
- The Fraud, by Zadie Smith
- Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
- Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin
- Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo
- Good Dirt, by Charmaine Wilkerson
- Good Night, Sleep Tight, by Brian Evenson
- If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- King of Ashes, by S.A. Crosby
- Lazarus Man, by Richard Price
- Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy, by Bridgett M. Davis
- Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar
- Masters of Atlantis, by Charles Portis
- Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz Pelly
- Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The Road to Tender Hearts, by Annie Hartnett
- Soccer in Sun and Shadow, by Eduardo Galeano
- Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg
- Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, by Lyndal Roper
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, by Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann
- We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy, by Kliph Nesteroff
- Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking, by Mehdi Hasan
- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue