Books I've Read in 2025
The complete list, continually updated.
Published January 1, 2025
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To start out strong, I'm immediately sharing my book list for the year, including books I'm partway through (noted accordingly.)
Nowadays, I use The Storygraph as my preferred reading tracker, but I still love having the full list on the blog too for reference. Check the review archive and books category page to explore each read more in-depth; I'm still in the process of building out more reviews and transferring hundreds over from my old site. And, of course, book club with me about my 2024 reads.
* = in progress
reviewed & linked
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins by Helena De Bres
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
- The Incurable Romantic and Other Tales of Madness and Desire by Frank Tallis
- The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Dr. Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas*
- Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky*
- The Portable Emerson (edited by Carl Bode with Malcolm Cowley)*
- It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn*
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse*
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman*
- The Way of the Hermit by Ken Smith*
