Kristin Kreuk Instagram – So. I have more than five books I loved in 2025. But these were my favorites. “The Memory Police” was a bookclub read as well as a reread. And (maybe it was my lack of expectation or the place I am at in my life or the fact that we were analyzing and reading deeply) I loved it so much more than I did after my first read. An exploration of power, control, resistance, memory as related to self and collective identity, and the disintegration of those identities. “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” was a gorgeous and gory novel by Stephen Graham Jones that, for me, was a great vampire novel rich with depth and complexity.
The others were non-fiction. This was a big year for memoir reading. And Annie Ernaux’s “The Years” was perfect for me and encapsulated how I feel time folds and skips. Sophie Gilbert’s “Girl on Girl” was the book I recommended the most. Brilliant and so very true to my own experiences both as a woman who came of age through the nineties and early aughts and as a young actress facing much of what she details. And Sue Prideaux’s “Wild Thing” is a well researched and fascinating account of Gauguin’s life and career.
I told Heath I would break this into multiple posts. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I find creating these posts to be challenging. So! One post. Hahaha. And I’ll add some runners up. Because it’s so hard to pick. The excerpts are from various books. Let me know if you want to know! | Posted on 13/Jan/2026 21:35:46
