Books I Read in 2025
- Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz; audiobook, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner)
- The Famous Magician (Cesar Aira; translated by Chris Andrews)
- Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (William Styron)
- A Muzzle for Witches (Dubravka Ugrešić; translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac)
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Cesar Aira; translated by Chris Andrews)
- Hag's Nook (John Dickson Carr)
- A Woman's Story (Annie Ernaux; translated by Tanya Leslie)
- Moonflower Murders (Anthony Horowitz; audiobook, read by Lesley Manville and Allan Corduner)
- I Remain in Darkness (Annie Ernaux; translated by Tanya Leslie)
- One Writer's Beginnings (Eudora Welty)
- What I Ate in One Year: And Related Thoughts (Stanley Tucci; audiobook, read by Stanley Tucci)
- Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
- Water, Water: Poems (Billy Collins)
- Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells)
- The Red House Mystery (A.A. Milne)
- Mickey 7 (Edward Ashton)
- *The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die (April Henry)
- Written Lives: Essays (Javier Marias; translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (Nina Sankovitch)
- American Inmate: The Album (Justin Rovillos Monson)
- *84, Charing Cross Road (Helen Hanff)
- Dogfight at the Pentagon: Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column (ed. Barry Newman)
- Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry (Donald Hall)
- Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood (Maryse Conde; translated by Richard Philcox)
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Suskind; translated by John E. Woods)
- Romeo & Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare (William Shakespeare; edited by John Crowther)
- Come Closer and Listen: New Poems (Charles Simic)
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
- Pure Innocent Fun: Essays (Ira Madison III)
- Strange, Dark, and Mysterious: The Graphic Stories (MrBallen; illustrated by Andrea Mutti)
- Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Sarah Manguso)
- When We Cease to Understand the World (Benjamín Labatut; Adrian Nathan West, trans.)
- The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World (A.J. Baime)
- The Life of Chuck: A Novella (Stephen King)
- Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Gordon H. Chang)
- A Different Drummer (William Melvin Kelley)
- Half an Inch of Water: Stories (Percival Everett)
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hampton Sides)
- Marble Hall Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
- The Comedy of Errors: No Fear Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (David McCullough)
- Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Agatha Christie; audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser)
- Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief (Joy Harjo; art by Dana Tiger)
- The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Candice Millard; audiobook, abridged, read by Paul Michael)
- The Homesman (Glendon Swarthout)
- The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
- Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books (Nick Hornby)\
- *A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson; audiobook, abridged, narrated by Bill Bryson)
- Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Alberto Manguel)
- Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship (Dana A. Williams)
- *At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bill Bryson; audiobook, unabridged, narrated by Bill Bryson)
- The Girl I Used To Be (April Henry)
- For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball (Bud Selig; audiobook, read by Arthur Morey)
- Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery (Marcus Rediker, Michelle Markel, and Sarah Bachman)
- Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million (Mark Bowden; audiobook, narrated by Mark Bowden)
- These Possible Lives: Essays (Fleur Jaeggy; translated by Minna Zallman Proctor)
- Lawn Boy (Gary Paulsen)
- History Matters (David McCullough)
- An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Doris Kearns Goodwin; audiobook, read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with Bryan Cranston)
- Physics for Cats (Tom Gauld)
- The River Has Roots (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books (Helene Hanff)
- Painters of the 20th Century Painting In Their Studios (Edel Cassidy; illustrations by Max Dalton)
- Puzzleheart (Jenn Reese)
- Big Tree (Brian Selznick)
- World of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly (Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan)
- The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo (Drew Weing)
- She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, The Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales (Skip Hollandsworth)
- Shadow Ticket (Thomas Pynchon)
* - denotes a reread
