2025 Master List

Somehow it is 2025, and this will be my tenth year of maintaining this book blog. I truly do not know how the time has passed, but that's the nature of the game, I guess. 

Last year I read the fewest books since 2017, when I somehow only managed to read 12 books all year. I would like to do better than that this year, and better than the 26 I read in 2024, although I do have a good sense of why I didn't have a ton of time or focus for reading. Last year I watched many many movies, and a fair amount of television, and also I got distracted by events of the world, for better or for worse. And this year I would like to at least try to find the pleasure in reading again, and in building out a TBR pile that makes me excited and doesn't make me feel burdened. I think I have a good handle on that right now, but we'll see. As is my standard, I have more books to start this year than I did at the beginning of 2024, but let's see how I can do. I'd like to read more books I love this year, which probably means I need to be more ruthless about giving up on a book when I know it won't be one I love. I would also like to reread more books this year as well. Here's hoping. 

2025 list is below!

1. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
2. The Jolliest Bunch
3. Make the Season Bright
4. The Nightmare Before Kissmas
5. The Stolen Heir
6. The Prisoner's Throne
7. The Christmas Swap
8. It's a Fabulous Life
9. Say Nothing 
10. The Space Between Worlds
11. Winter's Orbit
12. The Unspoken Name
13. The Duke Who Didn't
14. The Marquis Who Mustn't
15. Prophet
16. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
17. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
18. Orbital
19. Time and Tide
20. Most Ardently
21. A World Worth Saving
22. A Sorceress Comes to Call
23. Manhunt
24. A Shore Thing
25. The Power Broker
26. Pictures at a Revolution
27. Station Eleven
28. The Paris Apartment
29. Five Points
30. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
31. Truthwitch
32. Eve of Darkness
33. The Vagina Bible
34. Redshirts
35. Tooth and Claw
36. The Scottish Boy
37. Spellbound
38. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
39. The Tiger's Daughter
40. Unravel the Dark
41. Harrow the Ninth
42. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
43. The Office of Historical Corrections
44. Fellow Travelers
45. Empress of the East
46. New Spring
47. Autonomous
48. Witchmark
49. The Necessary Beggar
50. Mama's Boy
51. The National Team
52. The King's Man
53. The Emperor's Blades
54. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
55. A Darker Shade of Magic
56. The Black Company
57. Impossible Owls
58. Good and Mad
59. All the Birds in the Sky
60. A Shadow in Summer
61. The Quantum Thief
62. The City of Brass
63. Niccolo Rising
64. A Natural
65. The Power
66. Freed by Flame and Storm
67. Vinegar Girl
68. Hagseed
69. Red Sea Under Red Sky
70. The Priory of the Orange Tree
71. Gardens of the Moon
72. The Grace of Kings
73. The Infinite Noise
74. Sunshine
75. Just Like You
76. Empires of the Word
77. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
78. The Blind Dragon
79. Health at Every Size 
80. Remix 
81. The Story of England
82. Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction
83. The Letters of Noel Coward
84. Demoting Vishnu 
85. Yes Please
86. Supergods
87. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 
88. Kushiel's Dart
89. Jane, Unlimited
90. Das Reboot
91. Invincible
92. The Song of Achilles
93. Down Girl
94. At Swim, Two Boys
95. Swordspoint
96. Three Parts Dead
97. Here, There be Dragons
98. "More"
99. The Warrior Heir
100. Funny Girl
101. I Capture the Castle
102. A Discovery of Witches
103. The Magicians
104. The Steerswoman's Road
105. The Moor's Last Sigh 
106. The Starless Sea
107. Trickster's Choice
108. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
109. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
110. The Hands of the Emperor
111. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
112. Cloud Atlas
113. All the Feels
114. My Body
115. From Football to Soccer
116. River-Horse
117. Mo Dao Zu Shi
118. All the Seas of the World
119. Big Friendship
120. Why We Swim
121. Mike Nichols: A Life
122. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
123. Last Night of the Telegraph Club
124. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
125. A Desolation Called Peace
126. Middlegame
127. Hither, Page
128. Press Reset
129. A History of What Comes Next
130. Light From Uncommon Stars
131. The Alloy of Law
132. Stargazy Pie
133. Bee Sting Cake
134. Flying Solo
135. Babel
136. Spoiler Alert
137. The Wager
138. A Restless Truth
139. A Power Unbound
140. Bitter Medicine
141. Dark Heir
142. Ninth House
143. Hell Bent
144. The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
145. Empire of the Steppes
146. The Bell in the Fog
147. Killers of the Flower Moon
148. Witch King
149. Down the Nile
150. Better Than Before
151. Brideshead Revisited
152. Under the Mistletoe with You
153. The Leftovers
154. David Bowie Made Me Gay