50+ Books in 2025!

I officially did it! 52+ books in a year:

Strongmen, Ruth Ben Ghiat 

Far From The Tree, Robin Benway

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis 

Nuclear War, Anne Jacobsen 

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 

The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt 

Shattered, James Patterson and James O. Born

Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami 

All Fours, Miranda July 

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Stout 

American Kingpin, Nick Bilton 

Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar 

The Metabolism Plan, Lyn-Genet Recitas 

Breathe, James Nestor 

Modern Poetry, Diane Seuss 

Careless People:  A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, Sarah Wynn-Williams

Heartwood, Amity Gaige

White Tiger, Aravind Adiga 

Outline, Rachel Cusk 

My Stroke of Insights, Jill Bolte Taylor 

10:04, Ben Lerner

The Vegetarian, Han Kang 

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 

The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex 

Ghost of the British Museum, Noah Angell 

Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz 

The Usual Desire to Kill, Camilla Barnes 

H Is For Hawk, Helen Macdonald

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman 

What Kind Of Paradise, Janelle Brown 

Abundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

There’s Nothing Like This, Kevin Evers 

First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park, Aaron B. Johnson

The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

Your Brain on Art; How the Arts Transform Us, Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen 

Adventures in Sand Dunes, Aaron B. Johnson 

Adventures in the Grand Canyon, Aaron B. Johnson 

Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer,  Iris Jamahl Dunkle  

Die With Zero, Bill Perkins

Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor

Adventures in Zion,  Aaron B. Johnson

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, Marian Zapata

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl 

Butter, Asako Yuzuki 

Bright Young Women, Jessica Knoll

Maggie: Or a Man Walks into a Bar, Katie Yee

The Colony, Annika Norlin

The Maid, Nita Prose  

How To Dodge a Cannonball, Dennard Dayle

And 3 Bonus Books, read out loud to the kids during the year: 

Order of the Phoenix, J.K Rowling 

Half Blood Prince, J.K Rowling  

The Deathly Hallows, J.K Rowling