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Saturday, January 10, 2026

My Year in Books - 2025!

Goodreads – My Year in Books - 2025 

According to Goodreads, I read a total of 107 books in 2025.  My goal was cautiously 52 books (one per week).  Here are the details --  

107 books read / 33,676 pages read

Shortest book – The High Line – 32 pages

Longest book – The Poet by Michael Connelly – 597 pages

Average book length – 323 pages

Most shelved – Lessons in chemistry – 3,327,395 people shelved it

Least shelved – Lessons from a one-room schoolteacher – 1 person shelved it (me!!)

My average book rating – 4.2

My first review of the year – What I ate in one year by Stanley Tucci

My last review of the year – The curious charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick


MY 2025 BOOKS

 What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci  Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi  The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina GartenThe Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey La Paella by Louise Pickford Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusItalian American Forever by Alex GuarnaschelliThe Bookshop by Evan Friss My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Sworn to Silence by Linda  Castillo I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel Sandwich by Catherine Newman Martha by Martha Stewart The King Arthur Baking School by King Arthur Baking Company The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Sun-Kissed Cooking by Brooke Williamson How to Read a Book by Monica Wood Spook Street by Mick Herron Entombed by Linda Fairstein Food for Thought by Alton Brown True Gretch by Gretchen Whitmer Mostly What God Does by Savannah Guthrie The Chef Next Door by Amanda Freitag Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn The Long Way Home by Louise Penny Simply Ancient Grains by Maria Speck The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths That Sounds So Good by Carla Lalli Music The Poet by Michael    Connelly Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray Grains for Every Season by Joshua McFadden How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon  The Women by Kristin Hannah The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie  Woods Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh Grow Low Maintenance by D.K. PublishingSweet Farm! by Molly Yeh Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Hunting Time by Jeffery Deaver The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama Bowls by America's Test Kitchen The Ford Homes by L. Glenn O’Kray Lucky Guy by Nora Ephron The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan The House of Cross by James  Patterson Bread Illustrated by America's Test Kitchen  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Circe by Madeline Miller Before Fairlane by L. Glenn O’Kray The High Line by Julie Knutson Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Coded Justice by Stacey Abrams An Autobiography of a One-Room School Teacher by E. Lucile Webster Book Nooks by Vanessa Dina  Healthy, My Way by My Nguyen

Nightshade by Michael    Connelly Gardens of the High Line by Piet Oudolf The Henry Ford OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK by Beckon Books The Art Thief by Michael Finkel Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes Mastering the Art of French Eating by Ann Mah Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin  Walker The NEAT Method Organizing Recipe Book by Ashley   Murphy The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens  My Mexican Kitchen by Eva Longoria The Happiness Files by Arthur C. Brooks Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook by Martha Stewart Fridge Love by Kristen Hong The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie  South of Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson Pull Up A Chair by Tiffani Thiessen The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren WilligLondon Rules by Mick Herron There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib  The Proving Ground by Michael    Connelly The Likeness by Tana French Boat Baby by Vicky Nguyen The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by David Rosenfelt The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton How to Cocktail by America's Test Kitchen Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick 

 

My Year in Books - 2025!

Goodreads – My Year in Books - 2025   According to Goodreads, I read a total of 107 books in 2025.  My goal was cautiously 52 books (one per...