What I Read in 2025

JANUARY

The Great Mistake                 Jonathan Lee

Rilke's Book of Hours                     Rainer Maria Rilke

The Puppets of Spelhorst                  Kate DiCamillo

Rising Ground                        Philip Marsden

 

FEBRUARY

Myself and the World:

     A Biography of William Faulkner        Robert W. Hamblin

The Year of Magical Thinking           Joan Didion

Macbeth                                   Jo Nesbo

 

MARCH

Less                                  Andrew Sean Greer

 

APRIL

 

 

MAY

The Gospel on the Ground            Kristi McClelland

Ninth House                            Leigh Bardugo

Macbeth                     William Shakespeare

Hunts in Dreams                          Tom Drury

Midnight's Children*                        Salman Rushdie

 

JUNE

Hope in Times of Fear              Timothy Keller

The Sellout                     Paul Beatty

Hold Still                    Sally Mann

 

JULY

Devotions                 Mary Oliver

At Seventy                   May Sarton

 

AUGUST

A Doubter's Almanac               Ethan Canin

The Vietri Project              Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

Horizon                        Barry Lopez

 

SEPTEMBER

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place*          Harry Crews

The Tatami Time Machine Blues               Tomihiko Morimi

The Fortnight in September             R.C. Sherriff

 

OCTOBER

Piranesi                        Susanna Clarke

Landmarks                       Robert Macfarlane

The Old Man and the Sea*             Ernest Hemingway

 

NOVEMBER

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow          Gabrielle Zevin

A Pale View of Hills                   Kazuo Ishiguro

American Covenant                         Yuval Levin

 

DECEMBER

Out of Sheer Rage                   Geoff Dyer