in 2024 i read a lot, in 2025 i barely read 3 books.
if interested the 3 books i read were : the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald , wuthering heights by emily brontë and the idiot by dostoevsky (1/3 read)
some of my favs from 2024: the secret history by donna tartt, lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura, tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow by gabrielle zevin, warcross by marie lu
by TopCryptographer94
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I enjoyed Remarkably Bright Creatures.
My Friends, Fredrik Backman
So many more too!
Try Shark Heart A Love Story by Emily Habeck – it was different and pretty cool
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Some of my favorites from 2025:
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
11/22/63 by Stephen King.
One of my favorites was We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker. He is an excellent writer/storyteller.
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I would first recommend that you finish The Idiot. It’d be a shame to give up on such a great piece.
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
If you like Marie Lu, I highly recommend her new book, Red City.
For the Secret History – I’d recommend anything by Tana French except the Witch Elm. (I didn’t read these in 2025).
And then finally, since you have genre breadth, The Raven Scholar was easily my favorite book of 2025.
I hope one of these works for you!
100 years of solitude
Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson
Demon Copperhead
11/22/63
Vanity Fair
Jane Eyre
I like big books and I cannot lie.
Project Hail Mary and Alchemised!
I keep promoting this book but I loved it so much. With Light by Susan Fletcher. It’s beautifully written and gives a bit of history at the same time.
Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, Metamorphosis
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Seascraper (2025) by Benjamin Wood
My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
Plainsong (1999) by Kent Haruf
Fiction: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. It’s about not giving in to dystopia, grief, and the power of community and the written word.
Nonfiction: More Everything Forever by Adam Becker. Ever wonder why the rich tech bros who are into AI also talk about everything like there’s a knowable, quantifiable value attached to it and have weird ideas about life extension, space colonization, and turning the universe into a computer? Could it be that actively deriding thousands of years of human wisdom about ethics and mortality has left them terrified, inchoate man-children?
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Read it before you see the Ryan Gosling movie coming out this year.