THE PORTABLE INFINITE 20 BEST BOOKS of 2025

THE PORTABLE INFINITE 20

BEST BOOKS of 2025

Shadow Ticket 

by Thomas Pynchon

The Absence 

by Budgie

Into the Groove: The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History - The perfect stocking filler for the pop aficionado in your life

by Justin Lewis

Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine

by Kelly Loudenberg, Makiko Wholey

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

by Chris DeVille

Fever: The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever

by Margo Donohue

Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard

by Robert M. Dowling

The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman

by Taylor Lewandowski

Alibi Lullaby

by Norma Cole

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock – The Definitive Band Biography of the 1970s Avant-Garde

by Jonathan Gould

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats

by Audrey Golden

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

by Francesca Wade

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

by Jane Kamensky

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

by Nathan Kernan

Service

by John Tottenham

The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York

by Peter Trachtenberg

The Adjudicator

by Susan Daitch

To Hell with Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four

by Jon King

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí

by Michele Gerber Klein

Honorable mentions:

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: 

City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room

by Paul Karasik (Editor), Paul Auster, David Mazzucchelli (illustrator)

The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood

by Matthew Specktor

Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

by Rob King

American Dreams in Havoc Heaven

by Vanessa Matic