Books I Read in 2025

BCB = Book Club Book
DNF = Did Not Finish (generally very rare and only when I detest something!)

• Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
• The Abundance: Narrative essays old and new, Annie Dillard
• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple
• Blackfish City, Sam J Miller - BCB
• The Book of Kells, R. A. MacAvoy - BCB
• Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino - BCB - HATED THIS BOOK
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer
• The Celtic Druids' Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts, John Robert King
• Chaos on CatNet (A CatNet Novel Book 2), Naomi Kritzer
• Coyote Hills, Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman
• Dead in the Frame (Pentecost and Parker #5), Stephen Spotswood
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
• Diaspora, Greg Egan - BCB
• A Drop of Corruption (An Ana and Din Mystery; Shadow of the Leviathan), Robert Jackson Bennett
• Everything Will Swallow You, Tom Cox
• The Expendable Man, Dorothy B Hughes
• Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky #2), Rebecca Roanhorse - BCB
• Flatland: A romance of many dimensions, Edwin Abbott
• Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6), Martha Wells
• Hammered (Iron Druid Chronicles #3), Kevin Hearne
• Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles #2), Kevin Hearne
• Home by Nightfall (Charles Lenox Mysteries #9), Charles Finch
• How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, Maria A Ressa
• In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B Hughes
• James, Percival Everett
• Little, Big, John Crowley - BCB
• A Little Yellow Dog (An Easy Rawlins Mystery), Walter Mosley
• Mayhem and Solace: The Dark War, Caleb Birch
• The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War #1), James S. A. Corey
• Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky #3), Rebecca Roanhorse - BCB
• Night Watch (audiobook), Terry Pratchett
• Once There Was, Kiyash Monsef
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm #1), Kacen Callender - BCB
• The Rachel Incident, Caroline O'Donoghue
• Raising Hare: A Memoir, Chloe Dalton
• Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries series), Martha Wells
• Rememberings, Sinéad O’Connor
• Rule 34, Charles Stross
• Sandwich, Catherine Newman
• Saturn’s Children, Charles Stross
• Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, 7), John Scalzi
• Since We Fell, Dennis Lehane
• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the terror of death, Irvin Yalom
• Stone and Sky (Rivers of London series), Ben Aaronovitch
• The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
• Tricked (Iron Druid Chronicles #4), Kevin Hearne
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna
• Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
• The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills - BCB
• Witch King, Martha Wells - DNF
• You Were Never Really Here, Jonathan Ames