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READING 2025
Attached is a list of the books I read so far
in 2025. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books
of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country
and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the
complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
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January
1 Philip Dick 7 We can Remember it for You Wholesale
AMERICAN 20th 1 SCFI 1
2 Pearl Buck 4 *****The Good Earth AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 1
3 Samantha Harvey 1 Orbital AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL? 2
4 Deborah Levy 1 The Man Who Saw Everything BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 3
5 Steven Levy 1 Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
AMERICAN 21st 1 HISTORY 1
February
6 Douglas Coupland 3 Microserfs AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 4
7 Richard Powers 14 *****Playground AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 5
8 Walter Isaacson 1 Steve Jobs AMERICAN 21st 4 BIO 1
9 Gloria Lembo 1 The Complete Beginner's Guide to AI AMERICAN 21st
1 TECH 1
10 Neal Stephenson 16 Polostan AMERICAN 21st NOVEL 6
11 Alexander McCall Smith 25 The Joy and Light Bus Company
BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 7
March
12 Alexander McCall Smith 26 A Song of Comfortable Chairs
BOTSWANA 21st 2 NOVEL8
13 Alexander McCall Smith 27 From a Far and Lovely Country
BOTSWANA 21st 3 NOVEL 9
14 Alexander McCall Smith 28 The Great Hippopotamus Hotel BOTSWANA
21st 4 NOVEL 10
15 Pearl Buck 5 Sons AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 11
16 Pear Buck 6 A House Divided AMERICAN 20th 4 NOVEL 12
17 Janet Skeslien Charles 3 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade AMERICAN
21st 2 NOVEL 13
April
18 Douglas Hofstadter 3 *****I Am a Strange Loop AMERICAN 21st 3
SCIENCE 1
19 M.C. Escher 1 The Graphic Work DUTCH 20th 1 ART 1
20 Antoine de Saint-Exupery Il Piccolo Principe [in Italian]
French 20th 1 NOVEL 14
21 Anne Carson 1 Norma Jeane Baker of Troy AMERICAN 21st 4
PLAY 1
May
22 Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest [second time] AMERICAN
20th 5 NOVEL 15
23 Richard Feynman 3 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
AMERICAN 20th 6 SCIENCE 2
24 Tracy Chevalier 6 ***** The Glassmaker AMERICAN 21st 5
NOVEL 16
25 Derek Walcott 1 ***** Omeros ST. LUCIA 1 POETRY 1
June
26 Philip Roth 10 The Humbline AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 17
27 Evelyn Waugh 1 Brideshead Revisited BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 18
28 Fyodor Dostoyevsky [second time] The Brothers Karamazov
RUSSIAN 19th 1 NOVEL 19
July
29 Eric Cline 1 1177 BC, the Year Civilization Collapsed AMERICAN
21st 6 HISTORY 1
30 Geraldine Brooks 1 *****March AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 20
31 Christopher Ehret 1 Ancient Africa: a Global History to 300 CE
AMERICAN 21st 8 HISTORY 2
32 Geraldine Brooks 2 ***Year of Wonders AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 21
33 Graldine Brooks 3 The Secret Chord AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL
22
34 Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa [second time]
AMERICAN 20th 7 NOVEL 23
August
35 Patrick Ness 1 The Knife of Never Letting Go AMERICAN 21st 11
NOVEL 24
36 Ursula Le Guin 17 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 25
37 Ursula Hegi 1 Sacred Time AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 26
38 Ursula Le Guin 18 The Lathe of Heaven AMERICAN 21st 14
NOVEL 27
39 Ursula Le Buin 10 The Dispossessed AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL
28
40 Geraldine Brooks 4 People of the Book AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 29
September
41 Emily Hauser 1 Penelope's Bones BRITISH 21st 1 CRITICISM 1
42 David Graeber 1 The Dawn of Everything BRITISH 21st 2 SCIENCE 1
43 Kent Haruf 1 Plainsong AMERICAN 20th 9 NOVEL 30
44 A. W. Stallings Frieze Frame AMERICAN 21st 17 HISTORY 1
45 David Wroblewski 1 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle AMERICAN 21st 19
NOVEL 31
46 Geraldine Brooks 5 Horse AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 32
47 Anne McCaffrey 5 Dragonflight AMERICAN 20th 10 NOVEL 33
48 George Saunders 1 Lincoln in the Bardo AMERICAN 21st 18 NOVEL
34
October
49 Herman Melville 9 The Confidence Man AMERICAN 19th 1 NOVEL 25
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