Books Read in 2025

Everything I read in 2025. I only posted monthly reviews in 2025, apart from maybe one separate review (of The Eights by Joanna Miller, posted in April) so while each book has a link, almost every book's link for a particular month leads to the same monthly wrap-up. 

January:

1. Second Best - David Foenkinos

2. Angry Weather - Friederike Otto

3. Peace is Every Breath - Thich Nhat Hanh

4. Twelve Moons - Mary Oliver

5. Cat + Gamer, Volume 5 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

6. Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea - Ashley Herring Blake

7. How the Penguins Saved Veronica - Hazel Prior

8. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (ebook read via Hoopla)

9. Saplings - Noel Streatfeild

10. Charles & Ray: Designers at Play - James Yang

11. McSweeney's #75, Ed. by Eggers, Yeh, and Horowitz

12. The Rainfall Market - You Yeong-Gwang

13. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay 

14. Ties - Domenico Starnone

15. Walter Anderson for Children - the Mississippi State Historical Museum

February:

16. Fobbit - David Abrams 

17. Too Bright to See - Kyle Lukoff

18. Vintage Hughes - Langston Hughes

19. Dataclysm - Christian Rudder

20. Queen of the Falls - Chris Van Allsburg

21. Key Lime Sky - Al Hess (ebook, purchased)

22. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - Judy Blume

23. Tory Heaven - Marghanita Laski

24. Severance - Ling Ma

25. Cat + Gamer, Volume 6 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

26. Taste - Stanley Tucci

27. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

28. A Winter Book - Tove Jansson

March:

29. The Lost Library - Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass

30. Women - Chloé Caldwell (ebook read via Hoopla)

31. The Ghost Cat - Alex Howard

32. Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa

33. McSweeney's #70, ed. by Boyle, Eggers, and Yeh

34. A House in the Country - Jocelyn Playfair

35. McSweeney's #77, ed. by Eggers and Yeh 

36. Mare's War - Tanita S. Davis

37. Deenie - Judy Blume

38. My Jasper June - Laurel Snyder 

39. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 11 - Kousuke Oono

40. Lake Life - David James Poissant

April:

41. Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life - Thomas Moore

42. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 7 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

43. Whose Boat is This Boat? - The Staff of the Late Show, Stephen Colbert, Andrew Boneta, and John Henry

44. The Eights - Joanna Miller

45. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories - Kate Atkinson

46. Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge

47. Becoming Dr. Q - Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

48. Modern Poetry - Diane Suess

49. The Wartime Book Club - Kate Thompson

50. Wilfred and Eileen - Jonathan Smith

51. This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

May:

52. The Ice Monster - David Walliams

53. Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams 

54. Idle Grounds - Krystelle Bamford

55. The Best of Reader's Digest: Timeless Favorites

56. Dust - Dusti Bowling

57. Hedy's Journey - Michelle Bisson and El Primo Ramón

58. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico

59. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooks

60. Room on the Sea - André Aciman

61. The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

June:

62. A Thousand Mornings - Mary Oliver

63. Blubber - Judy Blume

64. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

65. When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

66. Cats on Catnip - Andrew Marttila (ebook read via Hoopla)

67. Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship - Victor Appleton, II

68. Indian Country - Gwendolen Cates

69. The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen and Blair Lent

70. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit

71. The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong

72. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas, adapted by Cerys Matthews, Illus. by Kate Evans

73. Letters from Rapunzel - Sarah Lewis Holmes

74. The Full Moon Coffee Shop - Mai Mochizuki

July: 

75. Wonder - E. J. Palacio

76. Generation X - Douglas Coupland

77. The Great Unexpected - Sharon Creech

78. Bluets - Maggie Nelson

79. Thieves' Dozen - Donald E. Westlake

80. Eight of Swords - David Skibbins

81. Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume

82. Count - Melvin Burgess (ebook read via Hoopla)

83. Musical Tables: Poems - Billy Collins

84. High Wages - Dorothy Whipple

85. Walking Words - Eduardo Galeano

86. Take Me With You - Andrea Gibson

87. A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice - Rebecca Connolly

88. Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill

August:

89. Perry Mason: The Case of the Rolling Bones - Erle Stanley Gardner

90. Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane

91. Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul

92. And Then, BOOM! - Lisa Fipps

93. Catwings Return - Ursula K. Le Guin (#2 of the Catwings series)

94. The Answer is No - Fredrik Backman (ebook)

95. William, an Englishman - Cicely Hamilton

96. Well Done - Barbara Morrow

97. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

98. The Fall of Kelvin Walker - Alasdair Gray

99. Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin (First in the Catwings series)

100. Catwings Return - Ursula Le Guin (reread of #2 in the Catwings series)

101. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin (#3 in the Catwings series)

102. Jane on Her Own - Ursula K. Le Guin (#4 in the Catwings series)

103. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

104. The Faceless Adversary - Frances and Richard Lockridge

September:

105. Postcard Poems - Jeanne Griggs

106. Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger

107. Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child - Thich Nhat Hanh

108. One for Sorrow - Mary Downing Hahn (ebook/Hoopla)

109. The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

110. Galápagos - Kurt Vonnegut

111. The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships #1) by Scott Reintgen

112. The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose #1) by Janet Evanovich

113. The Day the World Stopped Turning - Michael Morpurgo

October:

114. There Was a Party for Langston - Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarratt Pumphrey (audiobook/Hoopla)

115. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe - Steve Sheinkin

116. Alfred Hitchcock's Stories NOT for the Nervous, ed. by Hitchcock

117. Separation of Church and Hate - John Fugelsang

118. The Magic Fish - Trung Le Nguyen

119. Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Cat - Sara Swan Miller and True Kelley

120. The Fox in the Library - Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer

121. There's a Ghost in this House - Oliver Jeffers

122. Letters from the Lighthouse - Emma Carroll

123. Alone - Megan E. Freeman

124. Mr. Willowby's Head Over Heels Christmas - Robert Barry

125. Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household

126. Away - Megan E. Freeman

127. Jenny and the Cat Club - Esther Averill

128. Lifeboat 12 - Susan Hood

129. The Complete Flying Officer X Stories - H. E. Bates

November:

130. Hurricane Girl - Marcy Dermansky

131. Ghost Town - Richard W. Jennings

132. I Love You, Michael Collins - Lauren Baratz-Logsted

133. Look Both Ways - Jason Reynolds

134. Repairing the Heartbreak of Pet Loss Grief - C. Jeffrey

135. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering - Thich Nhat Hanh

136. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans

137. After Kenyon - Jeanne Griggs

138. On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood - Irmgard A. Hunt

139. The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani

140. Despised and Rejected - Rose Allatini

141. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

142. The Copper Treasure - Melvin Burgess

December:

143. Jane Goodall - Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Beatrice Cerocchi

144. Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words - Viola Ford Fletcher

145. The School for Cats - Esther Averill

146. Ollie's Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow

147. The Story of the Snow Children - Sibylle von Olfers

148. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

149. A Pirate's Night Before Christmas - Philip Yates and Sebastià Serra Bonilla

150. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg

151. The 12 Days of Christmas: A Pop-Up Celebration - Robert Sabuda

152. The Little Reindeer - Nicola Killen

153. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Suess

154. The Christmas Owl - G. Sterer, E. Kalish, and R. Kaulitzki

155. The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore and A. J. Caparo

156. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote and Beth Peck

157. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree - Robert Barry

158. The Truth Pixie - Matt Haig and Chris Mould

159. The Night War - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

160. A Lot Like Christmas - Connie Willis

161. The Snowman - Raymond Briggs

162. Journey into Christmas and Other Stories - Bess Streeter Aldrich 

163. Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman, ed. by Karen Karbiener, illus. by Kate Evans

164. When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke

165. The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us About Life, Love, and Identity - Greg Garrett

166. The Madness Vase: Poems - Andrea Gibson (ebook/Hoopla)

167. The Wall - Marlen Haushofer

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