My updated 2025 top 20
Due – Reformatory
Williams – Stoner
Martel – Life of Pi
Clarke – Piranesi
McGee – Erin's Diary
Peck – A Short Stay in Hel
Craig – Curse of Medusa
Bostwick – Troublesome Women
Becker – In the Family Way
Backman – My Friends
McConaughey – Greenlights
Alcott – Little Women
Morgenstern – Night Circus
Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
Backman – Anxious People
Blume – Margaret
Smith – Labyrinth
Grohl – Storyteller
Akbar – Martyr
Casati – Clytemnestra
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I Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Book of Doors – Gareth Brown
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
Timeline – Michael Crichton
I who have never known men – harpman
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (not finished yet, but among the best I’ve ever read).
Thud! – Terry Pratchett
The Rose Field – Philip Pullman
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Dinner at the Night Library – Hika Harada
Circe – Madeline Miller!
The entire Dungeon Crawler Carl series
If they come in the morning: voices of resistance
Feminism and marxismen – Dorothy Ballan
Amarican Indian stories – zitkala sa
Gun love – Jennifer Clemmet
The notebooks of malte laurids brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
Franny and zooey – J.D salinger
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Danielewski was the best book of the year.
I also enjoyed Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket.
I enjoyed some other 2025 releases but those are the ones that stood out.
*The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer.
*Black Sunday: When Weather Claimed the U.S. Fifth Air Force* by Michael John Claringbould.
*The Sand Creek Massacre* by Stan Hoig.
*The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877*, edited by R. Eli Paul.
*The Soldiers’ Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966* by Terry Burstall.
*Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin* by Timothy Snyder. (Still reading).
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls – Grady Hendrix
There, There by Tommy Orange
I read several Megan Miranda thrillers that I enjoyed, my favourite was probably Daughter of Mine
The Guest by Emma Cline
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Butchers Crossing- John Williams
How the Word is Passed- Clint Smith
Homegrown- Jeffrey Toobin
Chickenhawk- Robert Mason
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
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