Read in 2025

Welcome to my log page for 2025’s reads. Books for which I have written a review are linked--just click the title.

January:

1. Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff 
Fiction - 32 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 32 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

2. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann
Nonfiction - 14 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 46 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

3. I'm Sorry For My Loss by Rebecca Little and Colleen Long
Nonfiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 57 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

4. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Nonfiction - 19 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 76 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

5. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo by Clea Koff
Nonfiction - 9.5 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 85.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

6. The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde
Fiction - 15 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 100.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎  

7. Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny
Nonfiction - 17 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 117.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

8. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Fiction - 9 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 126.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

9. Sula by Toni Morrison
Fiction - 6 hrs (Cumulative: 0 pages - 132.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

10. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
Fiction - 256 pgs (Cumulative: 256 pages - 132.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Valliant
Nonfiction - 14 hrs (Cumulative: 256 pages - 146.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

February:

12. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction - 17 hrs (Cumulative: 256 pages - 163.5 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

13. When Maidens Mourn (Sebastian St. Cyr #7) by C.S. Harris
Fiction - 10.5 hrs (Cumulative: 256 pages - 174 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

14. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 256 pages - 185 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

15. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Fiction - 416 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 185 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

16. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Fiction - 24 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 209 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

17. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Fiction - 16 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 225 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

18. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De Leon
Nonfiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 235 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

19. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush
Nonfiction - 12 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 247 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

20. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
Nonfiction - 6 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 253 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

March: 

21. Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1) by Robin Hobb
Fiction - 17 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 270 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

22. That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres
Nonfiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 278 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

23. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre 
Nonfiction - 13 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 291 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

24. The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge
Nonfiction - 9 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 300 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

25. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 311 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

26. James by Percival Everett
Fiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 319 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

27. The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Fiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 327 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

28. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Fiction - 9 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 336 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

April:

29. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde #3) by Heather Fawcett
Fiction - 12 hrs (Cumulative: 672 pages - 348 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

30. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias
Nonfiction - 448 pgs (Cumulative: 1,120 pages - 348 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

31. Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy #2) by Robin Hobb
Fiction - 29 hrs (Cumulative: 1,120 pages - 377 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

32. The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Nonfiction - 16 hrs (Cumulative: 1,120 pages - 393 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

33. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Fiction - 15 hrs (Cumulative: 1,120 pages - 408 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

34. War by Bob Woodward
Nonfiction - 12 hrs (Cumulative: 1,120 pages - 420 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

35. Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy by Ali Velshi
Nonfiction - 304 pgs (Cumulative: 1,424 pages - 420 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

36. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
Nonfiction - 17 hrs (Cumulative: 1,424 pages - 437 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

37. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) by Robin Hobb
Fiction - 38 hrs (Cumulative: 1,424 pages - 475 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

May:

38. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Nonfiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 1,424 pages - 483 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

39. Tide, Feather, Snow by Miranda Weiss
Nonfiction - 288 pgs (Cumulative: 1,712 pages - 483 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

40. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs
Nonfiction - 304 pgs (Cumulative: 2,016 pages - 483 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

41. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen R. Bown
Nonfiction - 16 hrs (Cumulative: 2,016 pages - 499 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

42. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Fiction - 9 hrs (Cumulative: 2,016 pages - 508 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

43. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers
Nonfiction - 304 pgs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 508 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

44. Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren 
Nonfiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 518 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

45. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez
Nonfiction - 12 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 530 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

June:

46. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Fiction - 15 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 545 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

47. The Lilac People by Milo Todd
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 556 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

48. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Fiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 564 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

49. The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Fiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 574 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎

50. The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
Fiction - 15 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 589 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

51. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 600 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

52. In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Nonfiction - 16 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 616 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

53. A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
Fiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 626 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎

54. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction - 7 hrs (Cumulative: 2,320 pages - 633 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

55. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Fiction - 176 pages (Cumulative: 2,496 pages - 633 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

July:

56. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
Nonfiction - 160 pgs (Cumulative: 2,656 pages - 633 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

57. We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Fiction - 8 hrs (Cumulative: 2,656 pages - 641 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ 

58. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Nonfiction - 209 pgs (Cumulative: 2,865 pages - 641 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

59. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 2,865 pages - 652 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

60. Sisters of the Ice by R. Bruce MacDonald
Nonfiction - 160 pgs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 652 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

61. When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter
Nonfiction - 13 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 665 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

62. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Fiction - 14 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 679 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

63. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Fiction - 13 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 692 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

64. The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road by E. Hanks
Nonfiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 702 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

65. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 713 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

66. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction - 7 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 720 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

August:

67. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Fiction - 10 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 730 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

68. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Fiction - 15 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 745 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

69. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Nonfiction - 5 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 750 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

70. In the Woods by Tana French
Fiction - 20 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 770 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

71. What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris
Fiction - 11 hrs (Cumulative: 3,025 pages - 781 hours) ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎ ⭐︎

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