A fun year for reading, with a good mix of the genres I enjoy. I only count the books I read cover-to-cover and were I to count everything I read for work in which I jump around or read only 3/4s, we’d have a much longer list. I read a lot more poetry this year, which was a balm because, 2025. I also focused on women writers, for the most part. Some of the books I read this year were re-reads, because I do enjoy revisiting a book to and experiencing how it hits me differently when I am in a different context and a changed reader. Also, re-reading great books is just plain enjoyable.
Standouts in Non-Fiction: Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert, Not Funny by Jena Friedman, Careless People (which you should absolutely enjoy read to you by the author in audio book form, Want Me, which I just finished.
Favorite Fiction: Exit Lane, a romance book that I blazed through in a day because I was rooting for those characters so hard, Buddha in the Attic, which came out years ago but is a must-read in the age of ICE raids and people getting disappeared off the street.
| 1 | Source Code | Bill Gates |
| 2 | What To Do When You Get Dumped | Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman |
| 3 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney |
| 4 | Deep Cuts | Hollie Brickley |
| 5 | A Love Letter to A Garden | Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay |
| 6 | Girl on Girl | Sophie Gilbert |
| 7 | Not Funny | Jena Friedman |
| 8 | All Night Pharmacy | Ruth Madievsky |
| 9 | Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age | Amanda Hess |
| 10 | Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| 11 | Careless People | Sarah Wynn Williams |
| 12 | Alls Fair in Love and Pickleball | Kate Spencer |
| 13 | Super Communicators | Charles Duhigg |
| 14 | A Little Daylight Left | Sarah Kay |
| 15 | Colored Television | Danzy Senna |
| 16 | No Fault | Haley Mlotek |
| 17 | Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka |
| 18 | Audition | Katie Kitamura |
| 19 | Tom Lake | Anne Patchett |
| 20 | Wanting | Claire Jia |
| 21 | Slip | Mallary Tenore |
| 22 | And Yet | Kate Baer |
| 23 | Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis | Giri Nathan |
| 24 | Gwyneth: A Biography | Amy Odell |
| 25 | Meditations for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman |
| 26 | Carrie Soto is Back | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| 27 | How About Now | Kate Baer |
| 28 | Maggie, or A Man and a Woman Walk Into A Bar | Katie Yee |
| 29 | Motherhood | Sheila Hetl |
| 30 | Nonviolent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg |
| 31 | Exit Lane | Erika Veurink |
| 32 | The Dry Season | Melissa Febos |
| 33 | Want Me | Tracy Clark Flory |
I have a long To Be Read list on my nightstand and on the Kindle but I’m always interested in learning about what you loved and recommend, so please do share.