2025
These are the books I’ve read or listened to in 2025.
The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun, by Catherine Coldstream
The Girl who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
The Magician’s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis
Ride On, by Faith Erin Hicks
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth, by Jennifer Banks
Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness, by Nobuo Suzuki
Cher: The Memoir, Part One, by Cher
American Apartheid, by Nancy Denton & Douglas Massey
The Final Curtain, by Keigo Higashino
A Sense of Where You Are, by John McPhee
The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie
Angela Davis: An Autobiography, by Angela Davis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Bell in the Lake, by Lars Mytting
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, by Lucy Jones
Glass Bricks, by Louella Lester
The Lost Fairy Tales, by Anna James
The Meaning of Mariah Carey, by Mariah Carey & Michaela Angela Davis
The Full Moon Coffee Shop, by Mai Mochizuki
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness, by Jane Lazarre
The Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives, by Christopher Harding
After Annie, by Anna Quindlen
Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta
The Murder of Mr. Ma, by SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee
Happy Town, by Greg van Eekhout
A Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers
A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun, by Sister Monica Clare
Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks
Ice Cream: A Global History, by Laura B. Weiss
Covered with Night: A Story of Indigenous Justice in Early America, by Nicole Eustace
The Change, by Kristen Miller
Futbolista, by Jonny Garza Villa
The Fortune Men, by Nadifa Mohamed
Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby
Apartment Women, by Gu Byeong-mo
Warriors: Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter
Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35, by Randi Storch
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
The Predators’ Ball, by Connie Bruck
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
How to Draw a Secret, by Cindy Chang
Claire McCardell: The Designer who Set Women Free, by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Sociopath, A Memoir, by Patric Gagne
Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
Hoops, by Matt Tavares
My Best Friend’s Wife, by Dina Santorelli
The Midnight Feast, by Lucy Foley
Last House, by Jessica Shattuck
Nomads: The Wanderers who Shaped Our World, by Anthony Sattin
Goodbye to All That, by Robert Graves
Find Me, by Alafair Burke
The Friendship War, by Andrew Clements
The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930, by Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Maigret Hesitates, by Georges Simenon
The Return of Ellie Black, by Emiko Jean
The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
Stay True, by Hua Hsu
Confessions of a Video Vixen, by Karrine Steffans
Girlfriends, by Emily Zhou
Who’s That Girl? by Eve Cooper
Maigret is Afraid, by Georges Simenon
The Wife, by Alafair Burke
One Boat, by Jonathan Buckley
The Thirteen Culprits, by Georges Simenon
Woodswoman, by Anne LaBastille
The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, by Neil Price
Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
The Hot Beat, by Robert Silverberg
The In Crowd, by Charlotte Vassell
Beasts of a Little Land, by Juhea Kim
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, by William D. Cohan
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage, by Heather Sweeney
Confessions of a Yakuza, by Junichi Saga
10 Marchfield Square, by Nicola Whyte
Black and Female, by Tsitsi Dangarembga
After the Dance, by Edwidge Danticat
How to Do the Work, by Nicole LePera
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Cocktail Waitress, by James M. Cain
Under Occupation, by Alan Furst
Hadriana in All My Dreams, by René Depestre
My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's, by Sandeep Jauhar
Instead of a Letter, by Diana Athill
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
The Cat at the Wall, by Deborah Ellis
Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
Between Two Strangers, by Kate White
Waiting, by Ha Jin
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon
Last updated December 31, 2025