My list of fiction books from 2025: what to read next?

I’m posting my list of books I’ve read this year. I’m not sure what to read next. I like historical fiction, nonfiction books, memoirs (particularly from settling the American West), time travel books, and historical-ish books with light mystical elements (the book Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield comes to mind as an example for this).

I really liked the books I read by Sandra Dallas and Stephanie Dray, but I’ve read through all I can get my hands on at the library by them.

• The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (I’m really disappointed that I’ve been unable to get the rest of the trilogy)

• Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax

• The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout

• Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus

• The Food Babe Way by Vani Hari

• Anything for Billy by Larry McMurty

• Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

• Them Before Us by Katy Faust

• My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray

• The Importance of Being Little

• Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray

• George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade

• Family Unfriendly by Tim Carney

• Alice’s Tulips by Sandra Dallas

• Lilly of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

• Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

• Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

• The Fixer by Josh Young

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

• Pompeii by Kate Quinn

• America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray

• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

• Born Lucky by Leland Vittert

• Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

• ‘Tis by Frank McCourt