Books I Read In 2025

It's the year's end! I'm concluding these last 365 days with a list of books I've read. Found some new authors I never knew existed, tried new books. Was a delight.

Contemporary

• Table For One by Emma Gannon

Fantasy

• A Marvellous Light by Freya Markse
• A Power Unbound by Freya Markse
• A Restless Truth by Freya Markse
• A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson
• Breeze Spells And Bridgegrooms by Sarah Wallace And S. O. Callahan
• Cleaning Spells Before Courtship by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan
• Dear Bartleby by Sarah Wallace
• Devil Of The Deep By Falencia Jean-Francois
• Fire Spells Between Friends by Sarah Wallace And S. O. Callahan
• Letters To Half-Moon Street by Sarah Wallace
• Light Carries On by Ray Nadine
• One Good Turn by Sarah Wallace
• Protection Spells for Press Buildings by Sarah Wallace
• Shade Spells With Strangers by Sarah Wallace And S. O. Callahan
• Swordcrossed by Freya Markse
• The Education Of Pip by Sarah Wallace
• The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
• The Glamour Spell Of Rose Talbot by Sarah Wallace
• The Spellmaster Of Tutting-On-Cress by Sarah Wallace
• The Viscount Says Yes by Sarah Wallace
• The Wrath Of The Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
• Unbury The Bones by Coyote JM Edwards

Mystery

• The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers by Jesse Q. Suantano

Non-Fiction

• A Biography Of Loneliness by Fay Bound Alberti
• A Giant Leap by Robert Wachter
• A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas
• Algospeak by Adam Alexsic
• Amateurs by Joanna Walsh
• Blood In The Machine by Brian Merchant
• Boyslut by Zachary Zane
• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
• Crystal’s Curiosity Cabinet by David Crystal
• Cue The Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
• Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
• Disability Intimacy by Alice Wong
• Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
• Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
• Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
• Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• History’s Strangest Deaths by Riley Knight
• Hopeless Aromantic by Samantha Rendle
• How The World Eats by Julian Baggini
• How To Decide by Annie Duke
• How We Love by Clementine Ford
• I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
• Intangience by Ernie Ross
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
• Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns
• Losing It by Sophia Smith Galer
• Meditations For Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• Mental Immunity by Andy Norman
• Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer
• More Than Words by John Warner
• Night Magic by Leigh Ann Henion
• No Silly Questions by Zara Seidler & Sam Koslowski
• Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
• Playing The Short Game by Douglas Smith
• Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown
• Popular by Mitch Prinstein
• Revisionaries by Kristopher Jansma
• Slither by Stephen S. Hall
• Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog
• Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
• Take Pride by Jessica Tracy
• Technology & Barbarism by Michel Nieva
• The 5 Types Of Wealth by Sahil Bloom
• The AI Con by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
• The Anthology Of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson
• The Art Of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• The Fun Finance Formula by Queenie Tan
• The Geek Way by Andrew McAfee
• The Joy Of Missing Out by Svend Brinkman
• The Means Of Prediction by Maximilian Kasy
• The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
• The Siren’s Call by Chris Hayes
• The Wealth Money Can’t Buy by Robin Sharma
• Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• This Is Strategy by Seth Godin
• This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
• Total Reset by Sinéad Brady
• Truth by Hector Macdonald
• Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
• Uncharted Territory by Chris Dalla Riva
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• What Sheep Think About the Weather by Amelia Thomas
• Why Are We Yelling by Buster Benson
• Wordslut by Amanda Montell
• You Didn’t Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney
• You Will Find Your People by Lane Moore

Romance

• A Thief In The Night by KJ Charles
• Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell
• Copper Script by KJ Charles
• Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
• Gay The Pray Away by Natalie Naudus
• Grand Slam Romance by Emma Oosterhous And Ollie Hicks
• I Shall Never Fall In Love by Hari Conner
• In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill
• In The Middle Of A Better World by Grant Chemidlin
• Mr Nice Spy by Tiana Smith
• My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wisner
• Out Of Character by Annabeth Albert
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston
• The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
• The Earl Meets His Match by TJ Alexander
• The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky
• The Gentle Art Of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles
• The Love Lyric by Kristina Forrest
• The Nobleman's Guide To Seducing A Scoundrel by KJ Charles
• The Runaway Duchess by Joanna Lowell
• The Secret Lives Of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
• Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur
• When Love Gives You Lemons by Steven Salvatore
• Written In The Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
• You Had Me At Happy Hour by Timothy Janovsky

Science Fiction

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Mimicking Of Known Successes by Malka Older
• Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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