Books Read in 2025

Home, sweet home.

Below are the books I've read this year.  An asterisk indicates that it was an audiobook.  

• Christmas: A Biography (Judith Flanders)
• Tenth of December (George Saunders)
• Secret Life: An Adaptation of the Story By Jeff VanderMeer (Theo Ellsworth)
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Christopher Moore)
• All Aboard (Carolyn Bracken & Doris Stuart)
• Strange Weather (Joe Hill)*
• The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World (Matt Kracht)
• Shakespeare for Squirrels (Christopher Moore)*
• To Gaze Upon Their Loveliness: Poems (Cara Chamberlain)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)*
• True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries (Kathy Barco &Valerie Nye)
• A Dirty Job (Christopher Moore)*
• Getting Along in German: The Essential Phrase Book for Travelers (Mario Pei)
• Crank (Ellen Hopkins)
• The Dreamcatcher in the Wry (Tiffany Midge)
• The Bat House: A Montana Memoir (Michael B Riley)
• Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness (Arnold "Smoke" Elser & Eva-Maria Maggi)
• Looking for Alaska (John Green)
• The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)
• All Boys Aren't Blue (George M. Johnson)
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Michael Pollan)*
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)*
• Birding for Boomers: And Everyone Else Brave Enough to Embrace the World's Most Rewarding and Frustrating Activity (Sneed B. Collard III)
• MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood)
• Secondhand Souls (Christopher Moore)*
• The Book Censor's Library (Bothayna Al-Essa)
• Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)*
• Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix (Gabe Cole Novoa)
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Scott Adams)
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun (Christopher Moore)*
• Becoming Little Shell: Returning Home to the Landless Indians of Montana (Chris La Tray)*
• Elk Love: A Montana Memoir (Lynne Spriggs O'Connor)
• Fourteen Days (Margaret Atwood)*
• Pigs (Johanna Stoberock)
• Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman)