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Well, more or less. I lost the notebook I used from January through mid-July, which is so frustrating, because I put everything in my notebooks: sermon notes, journal entries, weekly schedules and to-do lists, lists of books I want to read and have read. However, the sermons can be recreated from audio (thank you, Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, for recording and posting your services), old to-do lists are unimportant, and as for journal entries, when do I ever reread them? I did manage to recreate a lot of my books-read list by looking up what I borrowed from the library, though, so here they are: most of the books I read in 2025. NF = nonfiction.

Old Babes in the Wood, Margaret Atwood

System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries), Martha Wells

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret, Benjamin Stevenson

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

Uprooted, Naomi Novik

See No Stranger: A Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie Kaur (NF)

A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn

The Author’s Guide to Murder, Beatriz Williams

Noor, Nnedi Okorafor

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer (NF)

The Kaigu Preservation Society, John Scalzi

One Way Witch, Nnedi Okorafor

On Looking, Alexandra Horowitz (NF)

Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (reread)

Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz

Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green (NF)

What It Is, Lynda Barry (NF)

James, Percival Everett

The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood

Kills Well with Others, Deanna Raybourn

My Murder, Katie Williams

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (reread)

Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott (NF)

All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki

Everyone Is Lying to You, Jo Piazza

The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey

If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim

Asta’s Book, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

Grasshopper, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

A Dark-Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell; reread)

The Face of Trespass, Ruth Rendell

Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens

The Time of Five Pumpkins, Alexander McCall Smith

The Rose Field, Philip Pullman

The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan

The Impossible Fortune, Richard Osman

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu

Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward

Love Marriage, Monica Ali

And Then There Were None, Martha Noyes (NF).

Forty-eight books, three of which were rereads. I won’t try to rate them or summarize them or even start my favorites, but I’m happy to say more about any of them if someone asks.

What’s a book you read this year that stuck with you?