Books Read 2025

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For whatever reason, I read less this past year than in previous years. So here are the books I read, in the order I read them. I've marked them as F (fiction) or NF (nonfiction).


1. Unrest - Gwen Tuinman (F)
2. Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan (F)
3. The Trapp Family Singers - Maria von Trapp (NF)
4. A LivelyMidwinter Murder - Katy Watson (F)
5. Shipwrecked Souls - Barbara Fradkin
6. The Butterfly Kid - Chester Anderson (F) - Greenwich Village Trilogy #1
7. The Unicorn Girl - Michael Kurland (F) - GV Trilogy #2
8. The Probability Pad - T.A. Waters (F) - GV Trilogy #3
9. On Community - Casey Plett (NF)
10. Library Girl - Polly Horvath (F)
11. And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott (F)
12. The Berlin Apartment - Bryn Turnbull (F)
13. The Compassionate Imagination: How the arts are central to a functioning democracy (NF) Max Wyman
14. The Librarian Spy - Madeline Martin (F)
15. The Adversary - Michael Crummey (F)
16. The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom - Nasser Abu Srour (NF)
17. Bonheur d'Occasion - Gabrielle Roy (F)
18. Agatha Christie's Marple - Mark Aldridge (NF)
19. How to Age Disgracefully - Clare Pooley (F)
20. Olivetti - Allie Millington (F)
21. Enchantress of Numbers: A novel of Ada Lovelace - Jennifer Chiaverini (F/NF)
22. Don't Fall Off The Rocking Horse - Lawrence Freiman (NF)
23. Found in a Bookshop - Stephanie Butland (F)
24. Letter to my Transgender Daughter - Carolyn Hays (NF)
25. And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, The Writing Life - Helen Humphreys (NF)
26. The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie - Julie Antopol Hirsch (NF)
27. The Underground Library - Jennifer Ryan (F)
28. Fashion Conscious: Change the World with a Change of Clothes - Sarah Klymkiw & Kim Hankinson (NF)
29. Bibliophobia: a memoir - Sarah Chihaya (NF)
30. Whose truth is it anyway? [TNQ #174 special issue on climate change - various authors (both F & NF)]
31. The Cat Who Saved The Library - Sosuke Natsukawa (F)
32. Jennie's Boy - Wayne Johnston (NF)
33. To Place A Rabbit - Madhur Anand (F)
34. The Schubert Treatment: A story of music and healing - Claire Oppert (NF)
35. Trans Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle SF stories of transgender & non binary adventurers (F)
36. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards: Memoir - Jessica Waite (NF)
37. Suppose We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht: v.1 of Antifa Journal (various authors) (F)
38. Yoko - David Sheff (NF)
39. Nine Lives: The autobiography of Erica Rutherford (NF)
40. She's A Lamb! - Meredith Hambrock (F)
41. On Book Banning: How the new censorship consensus trivializes art ... - Ira Wells (NF)
42. The Café With No Name - Robert Seethaler, translated by Katy Derbyshire (F)
43. The Cat Who Saved Books - Sosuke Natsukama (F)
44. A Natural History of Transition: Stories - Callum Angus (F)
45. The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Timothy Schaffert (F)
46. Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard (F/NF)
47. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula Leguin, intro. by Donna Haraway (NF)
48. Who Lies in Wait - Brenda Chapman (F)
49. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil (F)
50. Death on the Island - Eliza Reid (F)
51. Journey into the Past - Stefan Zweig (F)
52. A Moment of True Feeling -Peter Handke (F)
53. The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke (F)
54. English for Fun - Ruth Kletzander & Andrew Williams(NF)
55. Your Sound of Music Keepsake - Stefan Herzl & Bernhard Helminger (8th ed., 2020) (NF)
56. Memories Before and After The Sound of Music - Agathe von Trapp (NF)
57. My Parents- Hervé Guibert (F)
58. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre - Niigaan Sinclair (NF)
59. Bruce Fanjoy's Apple Crumble: How one man defeated a would-be Prime Minister - Brigitte Pellerin (NF)
60. Die Singende Familie aus Salzburg - Margret Springl; Illust. Regine Orel; intro: Johannes von Trapp (F/NF)
61. The Baker Street Letters - Michael Robertson (F)
62. The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, deep cuts & my soundtrack to queer joy - Pete Crighton (NF)
63. The Book Club for Troublesome Women - Marie Bostwick (F)
64. Memoirs of a Bookshop Girl - Heather E. Thomson (NF)
65. True North Rising - Whit Fraser (NF)
66. A Fatal Truth - Faith Martin (F)
67. Bookish - Matthew Sweet (adapted from TV series created by Mark Gatiss) (F)
68. The Big Brown Suitcase: A Woman's Journey to Freedom - Marvin Kolahdooz (NF)
69. My Bert has Alzheimer's: Caregiving is living for two - Paula de Ronde (NF)
70. Murder at the Christmas Emporium - Andreina Cordani (F)
71. The Black Wolf - Louise Penny (F)
72. A Maigret Christmas and other stories - Georges Simenon (F)
73. A Capital Mystery [short stories] - Crime Writers of Canada (eds. Bernadette Cox & Mike Martin) (F)
74. No New Land - M.G. Vassanji (F)
75. Displaced in Gaza: stories from the Gaza genocide (various) (NF)
76. The Christmas Stocking Murders - Denzil Meyrick (F)
77. A Season for Spies: A Lane Winslow prequel - Iona Whishaw (F)
78. Lost Time - Winona Kent (F)
79. A New Blueprint for Government: Reshaping power, the PMO & the Public Service - Kevin G.Lynch & James R.Mitchell (NF)
80. Kafka Americana - Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz (F)
81. Mr. & Mrs. Willmott Investigate - Margaret Holbrook (F)

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Holy shit that's impressive!