2025 Readings - Janet's List

 Janet has been unofficially recording her 2025 readings as well, although I suspect she misplaced a sheet because she definitely reads more than I do. Remember, this all started because a little over a year ago we read an alarming article on how little Americans actually read. As of 2023, if I'm remembering correctly, 46% of Americans didn't read even one book in that year - and the far end of the spectrum was the 11% who read twenty or more. Oddly, it was the only 11% who read twenty plus that bothered me more (although that plus can expand to a pretty huge number, obviously). This led to us thinking about recording our books just to see where we would fall on that spectrum, and I'm guessing around a hundred books read in a year falls into the .1% Super Nerd No Social Life category.

1) Hernan Diaz, Trust; 2) Stephen McCauley, True Enough; 3) Ann Patchett, Run; 4) Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth; 5) Donna Leon, Falling in Love; 6) Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth; 7) Donna Leon, Earthly Remains; 8) Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed; 9) Mary Gordon, The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas; 10) Mary Gordon, The Love of My Youth; 11) Elena Ferrante, Troubling Love; 12) Mary Gordon, Men and Angels; 13) Mary Gordon, The Stories of Mary Gordon; 14) Chimimanda Ngochi Adichie, The Things Around Your Neck; 15) Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don't Tell; 16) Chimimanda Ngochi Adichie, Dream Count; 17) Donna Leon, The Temptation of Forgiveness; 18) Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water; 19) Phillip Holland, Hemlock; 20) Andrea Camilleri, The Terracotta Dog; 21) Ollie Richards, Short Stories in Italian; 22) Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief; 23) Diane Zinna, The All-Night Sun; 24) Gail Godwin, Getting to Know Death; 25) Blake Bailey, Cheever; 26) Tara Westover, Educated; 27) Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Long Island Compromise; 28) Brian Gecko, You Must Go On; 29) Courtney Maum, Before and After the Book Deal; 30) Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, The Uses of Photography; 31) Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleischman is in Trouble; 32) Will Buxton, Grand Prix; 33) Jimmy Carter, The Virtues of Aging; 34) Jimmy Carter, Palestine; 35) Brian Klaas, Fluke; 36) Noam Chomsky, Anarchy; 37) Robert Kaplan, Wasteland; 38) Dan Siegel, The Neurobiology of We; 39) Mary Ruefle, Selected Poems; 40) Mary Ruefle, The Books; 41) Alison Bechdel, Spent; 42) Mattheson & Allepuz, One Light; 43) Michelle Knudsen, Luigi the Spider; 44) Tom Grimes, Mentor: A Memoir; 45) Robert Dana (ed.), A Community of Writers; 46) Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans; 47) Olga Ravn, The Employees; 48) John McNally, After the Workshop; 49) Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence; 50) Tim Bascom, Climbing Lessons; 51) Francine Prose, 1974; 52) David O. Dowling, A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers Workshop; 53) Olson & Schaeffer (eds.), We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love & Literature at the Iowa Writers Workshop; 54) Lili Anolik, Didion & Babitz; 55) Emily Adrian, Seduction Theory; 56) Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future; 57) O'Brien & Abdelhadi, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072; 58) Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me; 59) Francine Prose, Sicilian Odyssey; 60) Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies; 61) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; 62) The Norton Critical Edition of the Great Gatsby; 63) Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy's; 64) Leanne Shapton, Guest Book: Ghost Stories; 65) Leanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry; 66) Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?; 67) Leanna Shapton, Was She Pretty?; 68) Amanda Lima, CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil; 69) Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On; 70) Sheila Liming, The Great Gatsby at 100; 71) Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet; 72) Chogyam Trunpa Rinpoche, Spiritual Warriorship; 73) Lindsey Hunter, Hot Springs Drive; 74) Lily King, Writers & Lovers; 75) Julavitz & Heti, Women in Clothes; 76) Leonard Sciasia, The Day of the Owl; 77) Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind; 78) Matt Madden, 99 Ways to Tell a Story; 79) Susan Orlean, Joyride; 80) Susan Orlean, Saturday Night; 81) Emily Prado, Funeral for Flaca; 82) Lindsey Hunter, Don't Kiss Me; 83) Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son is Given; 84) Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief; 85) Donna Leon, Trace Elements; 86) Donna Leon, Transient Desires; 87) Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a Machine; 88) Tracy Kidder, A Truckful of Money; 89) Donna Leon, Give Until Others; 90) Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap; 91) Donna Leon, A Refiner's Fire; 92) Susan Orlean, My Kind of Place; 93) Tracy Kidder, Old Friends.