The 100 Books of 2025
My goal every year is to read 100 or more books. I crossed the finish line this year with 104 books. I often will choose the top books, which I also did this year, but made it a little easier by breaking it up into fiction and non-fiction. Top Ten Fiction of 2025 The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman Spiderlight - Adrian Tchaikovsky Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books - Kirsten Miller James - Percival Everett Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk Babel - R.F. Kuang Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein Aftertaste - Daria Lavelle Circe - Madeline Miller The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip Top Ten Non-Fiction of 2025 Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker By the Fire We Carry - Rebecca Nagle Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken Illumination in the Flatwoods - Joe Hutto The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk Custodians of Wonder - Eliot Stein Cabin - Patrick Hutchison Vagina Obscura - Rachel E. Gross Ev...
